Convocation members elected to Senate
As Convocation forms the electorate for the University, all members of Convocation are eligible to be nominated for positions on the UWA Senate and to vote in elections for these positions. The UWA Senate currently comprises 17 members of which 2 are directly elected by members of Convocation for a three year term.
Those members of Senate elected by members of Convocation are currently as follows:
Dr David Griffiths
Elected Member of Senate (2024 - 2027)
Deputy Warden (2022-2025)
Council Member (2019-2022)
Dr David Griffiths B. Ec (Hons, UWA) M.Ec (ANU), D.Ec (Hon, UWA)?is Deputy Warden of Convocation and has been elected to UWA Senate ( 2024 to 2027) as a Convocation representative.
He has worked across a range of business sectors in senior executive positions and as a director and a chair of ASX listed, unlisted companies and arts organizations.
Dr Griffiths was a government nominated member of UWA Senate from 1996 to 2008 and in that capacity he served in a number of roles including Chair of the Strategic Resources Committee and Pro-Chancellor. He served on the board UWA's Perth Festival and is a Foundation member of the University Club.
Dr Griffiths? has a long term commitment to UWA and is particularly interested in the strategic direction and performance of the University and in strengthening and developing the relationship between the University and its alumni.
Emeritus Professor Cheryl Praeger
Elected Member of Senate (2025 - 2028)
Cheryl Praeger AC, FAA, DPhil (Oxon), DSc is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at UWA where she taught mathematics and supervised more than 30 PhD students over her forty-year career.
She has published her research in more than 450 journal articles and six monographs, and was the first pure mathematician awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship (2007-12), the first Western Australian to receive the Prime Minister's Prize for Science (2019), and the 2015 inductee into the WA Science Hall of Fame.? Since retiring from the UWA staff end 2016, she continues her research as a Senior Honorary Research Fellow.
Cheryl was the first woman to become professor of mathematics at UWA (in 1983), and over her career she served as Head of Department (1992-94) and inaugural Dean, Postgraduate Research Studies (1996-98). She chaired numerous university committees from the Library Committee (1989-90), Board of Postgraduate Research Studies (1996-98) and the Promotions and Tenure Committee (1999-2004).?
She is the only Western Australian to serve as Foreign Secretary of the Australian Academy of Science (2014-18) and is currently on the National Science and Technology Council.
Having served on UWA Senate twenty years ago as an elected staff representative, she has a new perspective as a retired graduate member of Convocation. She greatly values the opportunity to serve again on UWA Senate, seeking to achieve the UWA mission of "creating the next generation of global leaders through experience-rich education and world-leading, trustworthy research".