Council membership - Members elected by staff
Member elected by and from the professors
Professor Jean du Plessis
Position: Professor
Term of appointment: until 31 December 2013
Jean is currently a Professor of Law at Deakin University. He studied in South Africa and obtained his Doctorate in Law (LLD) in 1991. He served a 3-year term as Head of the Deakin Law School from 2000-2002 and was the President of the Corporate Law Teachers Association (CLTA) in 2007 and 2008. Jean has spent extensive time doing research in the UK and in Germany (as Alexander von Humboldt Scholar) in the areas of corporate law and corporate governance. He is the co-author of several textbooks on South African corporate law and he has published extensively in international refereed law journals in the areas of corporations law and corporate governance. He published four books as co-author since 2005.
Since 2004 Jean has been involved in the South African Corporate Law Reform Program as part of a small international reference group that assisted the South African Department of Trade and Industry with the new South African Companies Act 71 of 2008, which commenced on 1 May 2011. Jean became a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) in November 2011 and is currently teaching the units Corporate Governance, Corporate Law and Corporations Law at Deakin University.
Member elected by and from the academic staff
Mr Neville Millen
Position: Senior Lecturer
Term of appointment: until 30 June 2012
Neville has been a staff member at Deakin since 1975 and currently teaches sociology, social research methods and criminology in the school of History, Heritage and Society in the Faculty of Arts and Education. He is Unit Chair of Sociology and the Law and Social research Methods. Neville's current research interests are in the sociology of health and illness, with particular emphasis on the politicisation of illness in public health policy and chronic illness and stigma.
From 1992 until 1996 Neville was the co-director of the Faculty of Arts Centre for the Study of the Body in Society. He was Head of the School of Social Inquiry in 1993. Neville was Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Family Studies (1991), visiting lecturer at the LaTrobe University sociology department (1995) and visiting exchange professor in sociology and criminology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater USA (1998) and returned there by invitation in 2002 and 2004 for summer intensive programs where he taught sociology of Australian society. Neville helped establish an exchange link with UWW-Whitewater.
Neville has served on numerous Deakin Faculty and University committees, principally Academic Board (twice) and the former Faculty of Arts Faculty Board.
Neville was made a life member of the National Tertiary Education Union in 2006 for academic services to branch, state and national decision making bodies of the Union.
Neville is interested in art history and architecture and the decorative arts. He is an active travel writer and has been published in local and overseas papers and magazines and contributes articles to Internet travel sites and has won several awards for his articles.
Qualifications:
TPTC (Coburg), BA(Hons) (Latrobe), MSocSci (Qld)
Member elected by and from the general staff
Ms Helen Keogh
Position: Executive Officer for the School of Management and Marketing
Term of appointment: until 31 December 2013
Ms Helen Keogh is Executive Officer for the School of Management and Marketing in the Faculty of Business and Law. She has been a Deakin staff member since 1998, and has held positions in the Division of Student Administration and in the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences.
She is a member of the Association for Tertiary Education Management.
Qualifications:
BEc (Monash)
