Staff Development and Exchange

IARU Staff Development and Exchange is an informal program to provide greater professional and personal development for IARU colleagues performing administrative functions.  Staff will benefit from spending time at another university where there is significant opportunity to share with and to learn from counterparts.

Staff from IARU members who seek to learn from partner institutions and build a network of international peers can join this Exchange.  Current examples of staff development and exchanges have included:

• co-location whereby an IARU member hosts a staff from another university who will also continue to work for his/her home university;
• exchange whereby a staff from an IARU member takes a role at another university for a year; and
• visiting staff (or sabbatical) whereby a staff from an IARU member visits another university while on paid leave from his/her home job.

Staff Development and Exchanges expands and deepens staff members' knowledge about each others' universities and strengthens the Alliance.  Such interchanges should be self driven and initiated by interested staff members themselves.  Rather than formalizing the forms and types of programs, the Alliance will continue to encourage staff to take ownership of their own development.

IARU faculty and researchers can also apply for Faculty Exchange to establish networks and become involved in the ongoing IARU research initiatives or co-teach a Global Education Initiative module.

For more information and assistance to contact IARU partner institutions, please write to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your updated CV.

Online Mentoring Program

An online mentoring program by ANU called META: Mutual, Encouragement, Trust & Action, was set up to facilitate and offer support for mentoring relationships - whether newly formed, or existing - for staff who widely distributed and time poor.  ANU has extended the use of this program to IARU members' staff and faculty.  For further enquiries, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .