Japan-Australia University Symposium 2015

Towards Successful Partnerships:
Learning from Experiences

24 November 2015
The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Host: Kyushu University
Co-Host: The University of Sydney

Message from the President of
Kyushu University
On behalf of Kyushu University, it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome all participants to theJapan-Australia University Symposium, “Towards Successful Partnerships: Learning from Experiences”.
This event is intended to promote and strengthen relationships between Australian and Japanese
universities. It is made possible through the cooperation and generous efforts of the University of Sydney
and the Embassy of Japan in Australia as well as many others, to all of whom acknowledgment andgratitude are due.
This event is organized also in coordination with Japan’s “Top Global University Project,” agovernment-funded undertaking, national in scope, that aims to enhance the international compatibility andcompetitiveness of the country’s higher education system and research activity.
My own institution, one of a select few, has been recognized by the Project for its achievements, andchosen accordingly for special financial support of proposed reforms to elevate further its performance andstanding as a leading global university. Kyushu University's plan--which we call “SHARE-Q”--is an
ensemble of improvements in our operations and increase in our involvements, with specific objectives toexpand international collaboration, intensify global human resource development, augment governance,and consolidate our reputation. We eagerly look forward, during the symposium, to telling you more about
what is happening with us.
Indeed, it is my hope and expectation that the Japan-Australia University Symposium will offer
excellent opportunity for all of us to get to know each other better--to learn of our respective experiences
and best practices, of our ambitions and constraints, of needs and trends, and perhaps even of our
missteps and disappointments. I trust, too, that in the process of discovery we will find out that there ismuch that we can and should be doing together, in partnership and friendship, creating and deepening theties between our countries.

Chiharu Kubo

President, Kyushu University

My best wishes for a productive, rewarding symposium.

Background and Aims of the Symposium:
The year 2014 saw Australia and Japan initiate important programs contributing to the globalization of higher education. The Australian Government instituted thegroundbreaking New Colombo Plan, which provides incentive scholarships and grants for undergraduates to study and undertake internships in the Indo-Pacificregion, promising transformative learning opportunities for thousands, and deepening ties to area nations. In parallel with that development, the Australian
Embassy in Tokyo held a symposium and roundtable focused on “strategies to increase student mobility and strengthen university partnerships.”
Japan’s notable step was to launch the Top Global University Project, a broad, government-sponsored effort to enhance the international compatibility andcompetitiveness of the country’s higher education system and research environment. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology selected
37 universities for special funding, in recognition of their achievements, potential for excellence, and proposals for improvement, identifying 13 of them, including
Kyushu University, for the highest levels of support. Kyushu University has since been engaged in implementing ambitious plans, promoting comprehensive
internationalization and institutional reform.
The heightened attention and increased allocation of resources to research collaboration, faculty and student mobility, and other varieties of transnational
engagement in both countries is no mere coincidence but rather the inevitable consequence of globalization. Indeed, many universities in Japan and Australia are
now exploring, negotiating, and putting into practice arrangements for expanded cooperation and exchange—processes the Symposium seeks to evaluate andadvance. To those ends, presentations and discussions will address aspects of education, research, and institutional governance as they may apply in answer tothe following questions:• What are the lessons learned from past experiences?
• What are the key elements for the partnerships?
• What are the gaps between the universities of Japan and Australia?
• How can we construct the successful partnerships?

Joint consideration of these and other issues, it is expected, will result in the strengthening of indispensable, mutually beneficial relations between these leading
systems of higher education and research.

Program
10:00 - 10:45 Opening

Opening address
Chiharu Kubo (Professor, President, Kyushu University)
Guest speeches• Timothy Beresford (Executive Director, Tourism, Investment, Education and Programmes Group, Australian Trade Commission)• Satoshi Shinki (Director, Office for University Chartering, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan)• Anne Baly (Group Manager, International Group, Department of Education and Training)• Yoshihide Miwa (First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in Australia)• Alex Cooke (Acting General Manager of the Science Policy Branch, Science and Commercialisation Policy Division, Department ofIndustry, Innovation and Science)

10:45 - 12:00 Keynote Speeches• Challenges and Prospects: Recent Developments in Australia-Japan University Exchange
Toshiko Ellis (Professor, The University of Tokyo)• Smarter Engagement: A Bolder, Evidence-Based Approach to Japan-Australia University Partnerships
Veronica Taylor (Professor, Dean, College of Asia Pacific, Australian National University)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
12:45 - 13:30 Poster Presentation Core Time by Top Global Universities
13:30 - 15:30 Concurrent Breakout Sessions

1. Governance

2. Education

3. Research

Chair: Takeshi Hirose

Chair: Hajime Nishitani

Chair: Beverley Anne
Yamamoto (Osaka University)

Developmental Challenges inJapan-Australia Higher Education
Engagement

From Conversation to
Collaboration: Building Strategic
Institutional Partnerships

Mutual Efforts to Launch the Branchof Institute of Mathematics for
Industry in La Trobe University

Jeremy Breaden

Fiona Docherty

Masato Wakayama

University Governance in Japan:
Current Situation and Issues in
Kyoto University

Double-Bachelor’s Degree
Collaboration between Australia
and Japan: Things to be
Considered and Overcome

Case Study of University-Industry
R&D between Australia and Japan(University of Tsukuba)(Monash University)

Tetsuo Sawaragi(Kyoto University)(Hiroshima University)(The University of New South Wales)

Tsutomu Kanayama(Ritsumeikan University)

University Governance in Australia

Philippa Pattison(The University of Sydney)

MOOC as a Tool for International
Collaborative Teaching:an Experience from JMOOC‘Global Social Archaeology’(Kyushu University)

Kazuhiro Nogita(The University of Queensland)

A Personal Reflection into
Japan-Australia Engineering
Research Collaborative
Frameworks

Jaime Valls Miro

(The University of Technology, Sydney)

Koji Mizoguchi(Kyushu University)

15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 Floor Discussion• General Chair: Reiko Aoki (Executive Vice President, International Affairs, Kyushu University)• Symposium Organizer: Kazuo Ogata (Senior Vice President, Top Global University Project, Kyushu University)

17:30 - 17:40 Closing• Philippa Pattison (Deputy Vice Chancellor, Education, The University of Sydney)

18:00 - 19:30 Reception

Keynote speeches
1. Challenges and Prospects: Recent Developments in Australia-Japan
University Exchange

Toshiko Ellis

Professor, The University of Tokyo
Toshiko Ellis has been teaching at the University of Tokyo since 1992 and offers courses in comparative literature,
Japanese poetry, translation studies and others. From 1986 to 1992 she taught Japanese literature and culture atMonash University, where she received her Ph.D. She has been involved in running the student exchange programat the College of Arts and Sciences for the past twenty years and is currently Deputy Director of UTokyo’s
International Centre.

2. Smarter Engagement: A Bolder, Evidence-Based Approach toJapan-Australia University Partnerships

Veronica Taylor

Professor, Dean, College of Asia & the Pacific,
Australian National University
Veronica L. Taylor is Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University (ANU) and an
ANU Public Policy Fellow. She was previously Professor of Law and Director of the Regulatory Institutions Network(RegNet) at ANU and Dan Fenno Henderson Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Asian Law Center at the
University of Washington in Seattle.
Professor Taylor began her academic career as a specialist in commercial law and regulation in Japan and Asia,
before becoming a scholar practitioner in law and development in 15 countries. Her particular interest is theprofessional actors who shape policy and regulatory systems. Her current work is largely empirical and ranges fromhigher education regulation to the development of rule of law in fragile and conflict-affected settings such as
Myanmar, the Southern Philippines and Afghanistan.

General Chair
Reiko Aoki

Executive Vice President (International Affairs), Kyushu University
Reiko Aoki is Executive Vice President (International Affairs, Gender Equality, Intellectual Property) of Kyushu
University. She is also Faculty Fellow of Research Institute for Economics, Trade and Industry (RIETI) and Memberof Science Council of Japan. She was Executive Member of Council for Science and Technology Policy 2009-2014.
Her research interests include economics of patents, patent pools, standards, innovation, intergenerational
political economy and sustainability. She received her PhD (economics) and MS (statistics) from Stanford
University and has held positions at the Ohio State University, SUNY Stony Brook, and University of Auckland.

Symposium Organizer
Kazuo Ogata

Senior Vice President (Top Global University Project),
Kyushu University
Kazuo Ogata is a professor in the Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kyushu University. He has been involved invarious international development projects of higher agricultural education in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, andVietnam. From 2009 to 2014, he held the position of Executive Adviser to the President of the University,
conducting the Global 30 initiative.
Presently, he is in charge of the Top Global University Project in Kyushu University, a project covering
comprehensive reforms in the field of research, education, and governance, as well as strategic reputation
management.

Governance
University governance as such is unlikely to be an object of inter-university partnerships, yet its relevance cannot possibly be ignored or taken for granted. It
constitutes an important basis on which successful partnerships in research and education can be built.
The present session, made up of three presentations and a panel discussion, will begin with a presentation by Monash’s Jeremy Breaden, who has considerable
experience in both Japanese and Australian HEIs. Dr. Breaden will uncover some governance differences in two countries, and discuss how they might be related todifferences in approaches and methods of international engagement.
Speaking on behalf of Japanese universities, Prof. Tetsuo Sawaragi, a former assistant to Executive Vice President for Research and International Affairs at
Kyoto University, will bring his extensive experience to bear on the occasion, and share some typical episodes about on-going governance reforms in Kyoto,
having explained at the outset why university governance is such a hot issue in Japan.
Prof. Philippa Pattison, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sydney, representing the Australian side, will cover topics including a brief history of
University governance in Australia, recent changes and trends in University governance in Australia, leadership and decision-making styles in Australian
universities, and university-government relations in Australia. She will focus particularly on issues relevant to the broader theme of the symposium.
In the last part of the session, we hope, with the three different perspectives offered earlier, to engage in dialogue with a wider audience, and explore further
constructive ways and means for international partnership-building.
The session will be facilitated by Prof. Takeshi Hirose of the University of Tsukuba.

Chair

Takeshi Hirose

Professor, Deputy Director(International Strategy) Office of
Global Initiatives,
University of Tsukuba

Philippa Pattison AO

Professor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor(Education), The University of Sydney

Educated at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, Professor Hirose is a moral andpolitical philosopher by training. He has, however, made his professional
career as an administrator with a specialty in international education. He
designed and managed a range of study abroad programmes for HEIs
both in Japan and the US. He currently works at the University ofTsukuba, a recipient of the high profile Top Global University grant, andis heavily involved with its on-going effort to become a truly‘trans-border’ institution as is laid out in its application.

Professor Philippa (Pip) Pattison was appointed
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the
University of Sydney in June 2014.
As Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), Professor
Pattison is responsible for the University’s strategy and vision forteaching and learning and students’ educational experience. She
oversees institution-wide development of better support for student
learning, including the University’s approach to curriculum renewal, newthinking in pedagogy, learning and teaching analytics, e-learning andquality assurance for learning and teaching.
The primary focus of Professor Pattison’s research is the development
and application of mathematical and statistical models for social
networks and network processes.
Professor Pattison was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social
Sciences in Australia in 1995.

Tetsuo Sawaragi

Jeremy Breaden

Tetsuo Sawaragi is a professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineeringand Science in Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Engineering. He
held the position of assistant to the executive vice-president for researchand international affairs of Kyoto University from 2009 to 2014. He holds
the concurrent posts of deputy director of the Organization for the
Promotion of International Relations (OPIR) and of director of theInternational Center of Kyoto University. He was a member of the Central
Education Council (CYUKYOSHIN) of MEXT of Japanese Government.

Jeremy Breaden lectures in Japanese Studies at Monash University,
Australia. His research interests include globalisation and social
institutions in contemporary Japan, and intercultural mediation inbusiness settings. He is the author of The Organisational Dynamics ofUniversity Reform in Japan: International Inside Out (2013) and co-editorof Internationalising Japan: Discourse and Practice (2014). He has also
worked as an internationalisation consultant for a number of higher
education clients in Japan and Australia.

Professor, Kyoto University

Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies,
Monash University

Education
This session will focus on different approach to the collaboration between Australian and Japanese universities, and challenges which naturally accompany those
operations. Successful and enduring partnership in the area of education will also lead to the strategic research partnerships as well.
The first speaker is Mrs Fiona Docherty, Pro-Vice Chancellor (International) at UNSW Australia, who will focus on UNSW Australia’s emerging partnership with
Kyushu University established initially through the highly successful ‘English Plus’ program offered through UNSW Institute of Languages. The flagship ELICOS program
led to closer institutional ties with exciting new opportunities currently being explored to deepen research collaboration across a number of priority areas.
She will also provide a case-study on UNSW’s most successful international partnership with China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The second speaker is Professor Tsutomu Kanayama, Executive Director, Ritsumeikan University, who will discuss about the collaboration in the form of a double
bachelor’s degree program.
The presentation deals with:(1) overall situation of Japan’s global higher education policy including a double degree and joint degree programs.
(2) Ritsumeikan-Australian National University double bachelor’s degree program.
(3) issues to be considered and overcome in the process of cooperative works to build the joint educational system, and(4) expecting outcomes toward the higher education in the more accelerating globalized world.
The final speaker is Professor Koji Mizoguchi at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, specialized in ‘Social Archaeology, who will illustrate
how some ‘constitutive characteristics’ of MOOC can be usefully utilized for enhancing the effectiveness of international collaborative teaching. The JMOOC course‘Global Social Archaeology’, which with Professor Claire Smith of Flinders University, Australia, was offered in English, with a sophisticated bilingual subtitling function.
It is strongly suggested, with an extremely high finishing rate (c. 27 percent), that a MOOC produced by an international team of professors can be used as a highly
effective tool as a flip teaching material.
This session will be facilitated by Professor Hajime Nishitani, Hiroshima University.

Chair

Hajime Nishitani

Vice President (International),
Professor of Law Hiroshima University

Hajime Nishitani finished his doctoral course in Public International Law
at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, together with master’s degrees from
Auckland University (with distinction) and Amsterdam University. He wasalso Fulbright visiting professor at Harvard Law School and UC Berkeley
Law School. He specialises in International Law and International
Organizational Law. He is also the author of “Cases and Materials ofInternational Law”, a 500 pages book with 2,000 cases and other legal
documents. He currently holds a position of Vice President, International,
and in charge of Top Global University Project at Hiroshima University.

Tsutomu Kanayama

Executive Director, Division of Global
Planning and Partnership
Professor, College of Social Sciences,
Graduate School of Sociology
Ritsumeikan University

Tsutomu Kanayama is a professor of international communication at
Ritsumeikan University. With his experience of working as a journalist
and television broadcaster, he is engaged in research intelecommunication and social change caused by the development of themedia technology. He received a Ph.D. in mass communications from
Ohio University. He works vigorously to involve students in international
projects that inspire them to have a broader perspective andunderstanding of comparative media studies.

Fiona Docherty

Pro-Vice Chancellor (International),
The University of New South Wales

Fiona Docherty is Pro-Vice Chancellor (International) at UNSW Australia
and is responsible for taking forward the university’s global strategy
focused on: creating impact through international education; developing
enabling partnerships in support of the university’s goals; and supporting
disadvantaged communities overseas through teaching and researchlinks.

Koji Mizoguchi

Professor, Faculty of Social andCultural Studies, Kyushu University

Koji Mizoguchi is a Professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural
Studies, Kyushu University, specialized in ‘Social Archaeology’, whichinvestigates in an integrated manner how society worked in the past andhow archaeology affects/is affected by contemporary society. His books
include ‘Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan’ (Cambridge
University Press, 2006), and ‘Archaeology of Japan: from the earliest Rice
Farming Villages to the Rise of the State’ (Cambridge University Press,2013). With Professor Claire Smith of Flinders University, Australia, Koji
offered the first MOOC from Kyushu University, ‘Global Social
Archaeology’ (JMOOC) in 2014. He is currently the president of theWorld Archaeological Congress.

Research
This session focuses on the possibilities and challenges of strategic research collaborations between Australia and Japan, both university-to-university, andindustry-to-university. In keeping with the overall aims of this symposium, we focus particularly on those aspects of research collaboration that proved difficult or
demanding as a way of learning from past experiences.
The first speaker is Professor Masato Wakayama, Executive Vice President of Kyushu University, who will focus on university-university collaboration.
Professor Wakayama will talk about the successful launching of an Australian branch of the Kyushu University Institute of Mathematics for Industry (IMI) at La
Trobe University in March of this year. He will cover the background that led to the launching of a branch of the IMI at La Trobe University. Professor Wakayama
will highlight areas of difference that emerged in terms of understandings that needed to be addressed.
The second speaker is Dr. Kazuhiro Nogita, Associate Professor and Director of the Nihon Superior Centre for the Manufacture of Electronic Materials (NSCMEM), School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering, University of Queensland. Dr Nogita will focus on university-industry collaboration. He offers as a casestudy a four-way research collaboration involving two universities and two industry partners. Dr Nogita’s presentation will demonstrate how an industry-university
research collaboration between Australia and Japan resulted in the expedited development of new materials.
The final speaker is Dr Jaime Valls Miro, who will focus on international collaborative research projects involving researchers from Australia and Japan. Dr Mirocurrently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Centre for Autonomous Systems at the University of Technology Sydney. His presentation focuses on
various international collaborative avenues taken to establish a bi-lateral researcher-to-researcher fabric conducive of cooperative research between Japanese andAustralian institutions. Dr Miro will offer his own analysis of what worked and what did not.
This session will be chaired by Professor Beverley Yamamoto, Osaka University.

Chair

Beverley
Anne Yamamoto

Professor and Director of the Human
Sciences Undergraduate Degree
Program, Deputy Director ofInternational College
Graduate School of Human Sciences,
Osaka University

Beverley Yamamoto received a PhD in East Asian Studies from the
University of Sheffield in 2000. Her disciplinary fields are educationalsociology, clinical sociology, and Japanese Studies. Her current researchinterests focus on the internationalization of higher education, healthpromotion in educational settings, and patient advocacy.
Beverley is Director of one of two English medium undergraduate
programs that grew out of the Global 30 initiative. She was responsible
for overall vision, curriculum development and implementation.

Kazuhiro Nogita

Associate Professor and Director,
Nihon Superior Centre for the Manufactureof Electronic Materials (NS CMEM),
School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering,
The University of Queensland

Kazuhiro Nogita was awarded a PhD from Kyushu University in 1997 andhas subsequently worked on a variety of research projects, including thedevelopment of materials for alternative power industries andenvironmentally friendly applications. He migrated to Australia in 1999
after accepting a position at the University of Queensland, where hebecame the founding director of the Nihon Superior Centre for the
Manufacture of Electronic Materials (NS CMEM) within the School of
Mechanical & Mining Engineering in July 2012.

Masato Wakayama
Executive Vice President,
Kyushu University

Masato Wakayama is a mathematician,the founding director of the Institute of Mathematics for Industry(2011–2014) and was the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics andGraduate School of Mathematics in Kyushu University from 2006 to
2010. He is currently an Executive Vice President of Kyushu University incharge of Research and Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration.
He is also the chairperson of Commission on Mathematics Innovation in
the Japanese government and of Asia Pacific Consortium of Mathematics
for Industry.

Jaime Valls Miro

Associate Professor,
The University of Technology, Sydney

Jaime Valls Miro (Valencia, Spain, 1969)
received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. in Computer Science (Systems
Engineering) from the Valencia Polytechnic University (Spain), in 1990
and 1993 respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Middlesex University,
London (UK) in 1998. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with theCentre for Autonomous Systems at the University of Technology Sydney(UTS). His areas of interest span understanding and modelling sensor
behaviours for perception and action, computational Intelligence inhuman-robot interaction with a special focus on “Assistive Robotics”,
and mapping and planning in unstructured environments.

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