Dr Dino Willox is Director, Student Enrichment and Success at The University of Queensland, and a Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE. They are responsible for developing and coordinating the strategic direction, framework and services that assist students to succeed in whatever path they choose. Working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders, Dino’s work spans professional, academic, curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular spaces, taking a multidimensional strategic approach to employability.
Dino is passionate about developing students’ self-reflective practice, enabling them to unlock and articulate the value of their lived experiences. Dino applies a strengths-based approach to empowering all students to achieve their full potential and succeed in their future careers. As an UQ Ally Executive Champion, Dino encourages colleagues to ensure that diversity, inclusion and intersectionality are recognised as vital for creativity and innovation.
Dino is Chair of the Queensland Widening Participation Consortium, a unique eight university collaboration with the Queensland Government that empowers students from underrepresented cohorts to realise tertiary education aspirations, and Co-Chair of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Group for Universitas 21 (U21) a global network of world-leading, research-intensive universities across six continents.
Prior to moving to Australia Dino was the Faculty Manager of Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, and Head of Student Records and Postgraduate Registrar at Cardiff University. They were also a Board Member of Hockey Queensland and spent over a decade representing Wales, Great Britain, and Australia as a field hockey umpire in tournaments worldwide. Dino’s pronouns are they / them.