Graduate Research Office Leadership Team
The Monash Graduate Research Office is responsible for the leadership, strategic oversight, and management of all graduate research matters.
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Researcher Development
Professor Christina Twomey
Professor Twomey first joined the University in 2003 and currently holds the position of Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts. She has held several leadership positions throughout her Monash career, including Head, School of Philosophical, Historical and Indigenous Studies at the Faculty of Arts from 2017 to 2021 and Vice-President of the Academic Board from 2016 to 2017. She was Chief Research Officer at the Australian Research Council from 2023 to 2025, where she led the ARC College of Experts, strategic engagement with universities and stakeholders, and directed initiatives in research assessment and equity, diversity and inclusion.
Professor Twomey has received many awards and honours for her academic achievements. In 2016, she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She has received two NSW Premier’s History Prizes and Fellowships from the National Archives of Australia and was previously appointed as the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Distinguished Visiting Chair at the University of Copenhagen. Professor Twomey has been awarded competitive research funding from the ARC’s Discovery Projects, Future Fellowship and Linkage Project schemes. She holds a PhD (1996) and a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) from the University of Melbourne.
With her wealth of leadership experience at Monash and her extensive research networks and mentoring background, Professor Twomey is well-placed to lead and deliver strategic research talent development initiatives across the full career continuum for the University’s thriving research community in the coming years.
Academic Director, Research Training
Professor Matthew Hall
As Academic Director (Research Training), Professor Matthew Hall works alongside the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Development) to make decisions and provide guidance on a range of complex academic matters related to graduate research. Professor Hall supports the research training strategy aligned with Impact 2030, and makes a significant contribution to policy development to support excellence in research training.
Professor Hall's research focuses on management accounting and performance measurement, with a specific focus on measuring value in difficult to measure contexts, such as in mutuals and cooperatives, non-profits, and social enterprises. He has published extensively in accounting, management and business journals, is cofounder of the Mutual Value Lab and co-creator of the Mutual Value framework. A proud Monash PhD graduate, prior to returning to Australia in 2016 to join Monash, Professor Hall worked for 10 years at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Director, Graduate Research Office
Lindsay Guy
The Director, Monash Graduate Research Office is responsible for the leadership of all aspects of the University’s centralised graduate research administration services along with strategic oversight and leadership of University-wide graduate research matters including strategic planning and regulatory compliance, student and supervisor development and quality expectations and programs including the Monash PhD and Graduate Research Industry Partnerships (GRIPs).
Lindsay and her team provide administrative leadership, expert advice, oversight and insight of the higher education regulatory environment and develop and implement strategies, systems and policies that maximise the benefits of investment in graduate research and work closely with faculties to enable excellence in graduate research at Monash.
