Thursday 14 November, 9.00 – 9.45am
Speakers
Professor Stephen Garton AM FAHA FRAHS FASSA FRSN
Stephen Garton became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2000, and was elected the Academy’s 20th President in November 2023.
An eminent historian, Stephen’s research expertise is in Australian history. He has also published in the fields of American and British History. His major books provide thought provoking insights into areas including the history of medicine, particularly psychiatry, social welfare, war veterans and the aftermath of war, sexuality and the history of higher education.
Stephen has also had a long career in university administration, serving as Dean of Arts, Provost and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and also as interim Vice-Chancellor, at the University of Sydney. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to tertiary education administration and to history.
Welcome from the Principal Sponsor
Professor Rebekah Brown
Rebekah Brown is the Provost and Senior Vice-President, senior Deputy to the Vice-Chancellor and leads the implementation of The Australian National University’s (ANU) academic mission, and the strategic integration of education and research activities.
Rebekah is a multi-award-winning educator, researcher and academic leader in environmental studies, specialising in urban water, sustainable development, and transdisciplinary methods. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has a background as an award-winning and practising civil engineer on mega infrastructure projects across the UK, Europe, South East Asia and Africa.
As chief investigator Rebekah has attracted a career total of $123M in external competitive research funding. She has conceived and led six large-scale research entities across Australia, Europe, South East Asia, and the Pacific as a Program Leader, Research Director, and Chief Research Officer. She was the Founding Director of the ground-breaking $70M RISE program – a multi-country health research program supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Rebekah has a breadth of ongoing governance experience, including as the recent Board Chair of the Monash European Research Foundation and Ministerial Board Representative of the Victorian Environment Protection Authority. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours) from Monash, as well as a PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of New South Wales. Rebekah was previously the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Senior Vice-President at Monash University.
Welcome from the Convenors
Professor Frank Bongiorno AM FAHA FASSA FRHistS
Frank Bongiorno is Professor of History at the Australian National University and was Head of the School of History from 2018 until 2021. He is a scholar of Australia, whose work has explored political, labour and cultural histories.
His books include studies of labour politics, of the history of sexuality, and of the 1980s. His Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia, was awarded 2023 ACT Book of the Year and the Australian Political Studies Association’s Henry Mayer Book Prize. The second edition of A Little History of the Australian Labor Party (co-authored with Nick Dyrenfurth) was published in May 2024. He is a regular contributor to Australian media.
Frank has previously held academic appointments at Griffith University, the University of New England, the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, and he has served as chair of the Literature and History Committee of the New South Wales Ministry of the Arts. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019, and is President of the Australian Historical Association and the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Professor Mark McKenna FAHA
Mark McKenna FAHA is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sydney and Honorary Professor at the National Centre of Biography at the ANU. His research has ranged across the history of Australian republicanism and monarchy, Australian biography, histories of place and Indigenous history. He is the author of several prize-winning books, including Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: An Australian History of Place (2002), winner of the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction and Book of the Year in the 2003 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards; An Eye for Eternity, The Life of Manning Clark (2011), winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prize for Non Fiction and five other national awards; From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories (2016), winner of the Australian History Prize in the 2017 NSW History Awards; and Return to Uluru (2021), winner of the 2022 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award and shortlisted for the 2022 Prime Minister’s prize for Australian History.
He has held several distinguished positions overseas at Australian Studies Centres at King’s College London (2000), the University of Copenhagen (2006) and University College, Dublin (2011). In Australia, he was an Australian Research Council QEII Fellow in History at the Australian National University (2000-2005) and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2012-2015).
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During the Symposium
ARDC: HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons
14-15 November 2024, 9.00am-5.00pm
In 2020 the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (HASS & IRDC) was announced as a first step toward developing a more comprehensive digital HASS and Indigenous research capability. Led by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC),it aims to create the founding blocks of a national research infrastructure that serves key domains in HASS and Indigenous research and reaches out both to communities where the data originates and research communities who work with data.
Earlier in 2024 we undertook an extensive codesign process to continue work on our existing focus areas and to expand the commons to include new partnerships, with the aim of delivering long term, enduring national digital research infrastructure to support HASS and Indigenous researchers in Australia. Mary Filsell, ARDC Data Consultant, is available throughout the Symposium to provide more information about the ARDC, including an update on the status of the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Indigenous Research Data Commons a year on from the $25 million grant from the Australian Government’s 2023 National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Funding Round.
Mary Filsell, Data Consultant, ARDC
Backed by over 20 years supporting and promoting research across HASS and STEM, Mary is passionate about connecting researchers with competitive advantage through data and driving excellence in their creation, analysis and retention of high-quality data assets. She supports universities and partners in SA, WA and NT as well as the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons.
Expertise: FAIR, GLAM, HASS, research data management, research, outreach and engagement.
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/maryfilsell, Email: mary.filsell@ardc.edu.au
