Stephen Parker (academic)

Stephen John Parker AO is a legal academic and university administrator who became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra in 2007.

Education

Parker was born in the north of England. He graduated from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a Bachelor of Laws. He went on to obtain a PhD from the University of Wales.

Law

He practised law in the UK before moving to Australia in 1988.

Professor Parker is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Barrister-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Queensland and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Academic life

He first worked as an academic at University College, Cardiff.

Between 1988 and 1994, he was Senior Lecturer and Reader in law at the Australian National University. He was then Professor of Law at Griffith University.

In 1999, he was appointed Dean of Monash University Law School, a position he held until 2003. He then became Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Monash University.

He became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra in 2007. In September 2015, Parker announced that he would retire from the University of Canberra in July 2016, having served nine years (two terms) in the position.