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* Please note all bios are dated January 2020 or before.
Professor Joseph M. Siracusa: President
Joseph is Professor of Human Security and International Diplomacy in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. Born and raised in Chicago, he studied at the University of Denver and the University of Vienna and received his PhD from the University of Colorado (Boulder). He is internationally known for his writings on the history of nuclear weapons, diplomacy, and global security. He is also a frequent political affairs commentator in the Australian media, including ABC Radio and Television. He has worked at Merrill Lynch, in Boston and New York, the University of Queensland (Brisbane), and for three years served as a visiting fellow in the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University (Brisbane) where he specialized in issues related to nuclear non-proliferation and counter-terrorism.
Professor Heather Zwicker
Heather is Executive Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland. She moved to UQ in October 2018 from the University of Alberta, where she held positions as Vice-Dean of Arts (2011-14) and Vice-Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (2015-2018). Under her direction, the University of Alberta became the first in Canada with a Professional Development requirement for Master’s and PhD students. She also co-founded BRiC, the Banff Research in Culture residency, in which advanced graduate students, postdocs, and junior professors in the humanities work alongside visual artists and curators at the world-renowned Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. In 2017, she spearheaded the designation of “Research at the Intersections of Gender” as one of three pan-university Signature Areas for the University of Alberta. A cultural studies researcher, Heather brings postcolonial and feminist theories to bear on problems such as stereotypes, universities, classrooms, and cities. Key areas of exploration have included nation (especially Northern Ireland), stereotype (in particular, pre-9/11 stereotypes of Irish terrorists), the local (with an emphasis on Edmonton writing), public intellectualism (pursued through graduate seminars designed for non-academic tracks, and through writing for larger audiences), gender, and digital humanities. She holds a PhD from Stanford University (1993) and is the winner of several awards, including a 3M National Teaching Fellowship.
Christie Anthoney
Christie is the Executive Officer of Festivals Adelaide, the peak body for 10 of Adelaide’s major arts and cultural festivals including the Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Fringe, WOMADelaide, Cabaret Festival, South Australian Living Artists Festival, Feast Festival, Guitar Festival, Oz Asia and Adelaide Film Festival. Previously, Christie was the inaugural Creative Director for TAFE SA’s Adelaide College of the Arts, a multi-arts training facility in the heart of Adelaide and has spent over a decade in cultural festivals in Europe. She works in the areas of social and economic benefit and the measurable value of the arts to communities across the world. She is committed to the advancement of the arts and social sciences as the bedrock of successful societies.
Professor Tim Dunne
Tim is the Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations (IR) at The University of Queensland. His most recent appointment has been Research Director at UQ’s Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect where he led a successful application to AusAID for core centre funding (2012-1015). He joined UQ in 2010 from the University of Exeter where he was Professor of International Relations, and successively Head of Politics, Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Dean of the College of Social Sciences. He is internationally recognised for his work on human rights protection and foreign policy-making in a changing world order. He has written and co-edited ten books, including Human Rights in World Politics (1999), Worlds in Collision (2002), International Relations Theories (2007), and Terror in our Time (2012) co-authored with Ken Booth, and Liberal World Orders (2013). In addition to traditional academic publications, he is a regular contributor to the media as well as policy forums inside government and the non-governmental sector.
Associate Professor Katie Hughes
Katie is the President of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA). Holding qualifications from universities in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, she has been working in the tertiary sector for twenty five years in a variety of roles. Her disciplinary background is within the Social Sciences (broadly Gender Studies, Education and Sociology) and she has published widely in the area, particularly, of education and social disadvantage.
Professor Michele Simons
Michele is Professor and Dean of Education, University of Western Sydney. She has previously held a number of leadership positions at the University of South Australia, including Dean of Education from 2007-2010. Prior to entering the University as an Academic, Michele worked in the non-government sector in community-based organisations providing family services and supporting training and development initiatives for workers. She has made a significant contribution to scholarship in the fields of teacher education and vocational education and training in Australia. Her work has included the management of large national projects awarded from a number of government and industry sources, including Category 1 funds from the ARC and the NVETRE research grant programs. Michele is widely published, having produced over 100 publications across her career to date. She has been a member of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) since its inception and is currently the President of AVETRA. She is the current Treasurer for the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE).
Professor Jason Jacobs
Jason is the Head of the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. He has an international reputation as a historian of television drama, its institutions, technology and aesthetics. He has taught film and television studies at the University of East Anglia, the University of Warwick, and Griffith University. His first book, The Intimate Screen (Oxford University Press, 2000) is a pioneering study of early television drama; his second book Body Trauma TV (British Film Institute, 2003) explores the aesthetics of the hospital drama in relation to the contemporary cultural imagination. More recently he published Deadwood (Palgrave Macmillan/British Film Institute, 2012), as part of the BFI TV Classics series. He is currently working on an Australian Research Council funded project called ‘The Persistence of Television: How the Medium Adapts to Survive in the Digital World’ and is writing a book on David Milch, the author of Deadwood (Manchester University Press), and another about film noir called Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives (SUNY).
Sarah Blatchford
Sarah is the Regional Director of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Australasia. She graduated from the University of Exeter with Combined Honours in French and German in 1989 and began her career as Nuclear Business Analyst with the UK Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) under its prestigious graduate management training program. She entered into academic publishing when she joined Blackwell Scientific Publications in Oxford in 1993 to undertake marketing of the company’s scientific, technical and medical textbook program. When she joined Taylor & Francis in Melbourne 2003, the company published 25 journals edited from Australasia; this has now built to a publishing program of 90 ANZ journals, each providing an important forum for the publication of research in its respective field. She is Convenor of the Scholarly & Journals Committee (SJC) of the APA, holds a seat on the Board of Directors of the Australian Publishers Association, and brings extensive experience of the business & industry and academic & research sectors through her career spanning twenty-five years.
Associate Professor Jo Lindsay
Jo is a sociologist in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. As past President of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), she has a long-term connection with the association. At Monash, Jo leads the Research Impact Portfolio in the School of Social Sciences and is on the executive of Monash Infrastructure Institute. Her research focuses on the sociology of families, consumption and the environment. Her books include Consuming Families: Buying, making, producing family life in the 21st century (2013) with JaneMaree Maher and Families, Relationships and Intimate life (2014) with Deborah Dempsey.
Dr Eliza Goddard
Eliza is a Research Fellow within the Ethics, Policy and Public Engagement theme of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) at the University of New South Wales. Eliza is an applied philosopher and her research focuses on the social and ethical implications of emerging health care technologies. As the Executive Officer of the Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP), she has contributed to research on women’s underrepresentation in philosophy in Australia and was a Chief Investigator on the ‘Forward Thinking: Learning and Teaching Philosophy in Australia’ project, funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
Professor Terry Flew
Terry is Professor of Media and Communications and Assistant Dean (Research) in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology. He is a Chief Investigator with the Digital Media Research Centre, and is the author of 11 books (three edited), 54 book chapters, 85 refereed academic journal articles, 15 reports and research monographs, and has been an editor of 13 special issues/themed sections of academic journals and refereed conference proceedings. His work has been translated into Chinese, Arabic, Polish and Turkish. He has been involved with projects that have received $4.2 million in Australian Research Council and other research funding.
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