Steven Schwartz AM (/ʃwɔːrts/ SHWORTS; born 5 November 1946) is an American and Australian academic and, until late 2012, the vice chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
[1] Over these years, Schwartz's research spanned clinical psychology, psychiatry, public health and medical decision making.
He published over 100 articles in scientific journals, and 13 books including Medical Judgement and Decision Making (with Timothy Griffin), Childhood Psychopathology (with James Johnson, two editions), Pavlov’s Heirs and a well-known textbook on abnormal psychology, Abnormal Psychology, A Developmental Approach.
He was a visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and he won the Brain Research Award of the British Red Cross Society.
[citation needed] He served on the editorial boards of many scientific journals and was a fellow of many learned societies[which?].
His experience as head and then president gave him an interest in administration which he followed by moving back to Perth to take up the position of executive dean in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Australia.
To provide a permanent endowment for the University, he undertook a $100 million land development program, which included a housing estate, obtained ISO9000 quality approval for administrative functions, outsourced non-core business operations such as catering, won the WA Premier's Award for public sector management in 2000, the Prime Minister's National Employer of the Year in 2000, the Telstra National Employer of the Year 2000 and 2002, the Prime Minister's Teaching Award 1998 and began a mentoring program for women.
As a part of the repositioning of the university, the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences[2][3][4] was closed and the staff that didn't leave were redeployed (and one accepted voluntary redundancy).
Despite the depleted staff base, Geography was still deemed strong enough to be returned in the 2008 RAE when it received an average score of 2.15 out of a possible 5.
[5] Schwartz's changes were supposed to produce increased research output and RAE ratings, bolstering the economic viability of the university.
Similar to the experience at Murdoch, cutbacks led to staff action,[6] including picketing and paid ads on Google.
Bemoaning the expense of defending the cases, he referred to the two as having made "unwarranted demands for money" and described their claims as "unfounded", "unmeritorious" and "futile".
[30] Schwartz is the chairman of the [Australian-American Fulbright Commission and a member of the advisory boards of the Asia Society, the Global Foundation and the Centre for Independent Studies, an Australasian libertarian thinktank "actively engaged in supporting a free enterprise economy and a free society under limited government where individuals can prosper and fully develop their talents".