Professor Kate Darian-SmithFASSA Kate Darian-Smith is President, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She is Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne, where she previously held Chairs in History and in Cultural Heritage; and was Executive Dean and Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Tasmania (2017-24). With a distinguished international reputation for research in…
Professor Andy PitmanAO FAA Andy Pitman, AO, FAA is a Professor in climate science at the University of New South Wales. He is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. He has 35 years’ experience, and broad interests extending across climate modeling, climate change, and climate extremes. Andy has been a…
Emeritus Professor John W PatrickFAA John W Patrick FAA, Emeritus Professor in Plant Science, University of Newcastle With his research group, Professor Patrick has discovered mechanisms regulating the transport and distribution of organic carbon compounds throughout the plant body that form the building blocks for their growth. Genetically manipulating some of these mechanisms has been…
Professor Timothy RowseFASSA Historian, retired, who has been researching Australian Indigenous Affairs policy and history since the early 1980s Professor Tim Rowse is a Fellow of both Humanities and Social Sciences academies and continues his academic work with honorary appointments at Western Sydney University and the Australian National University. [August 2021] Contributed to: Acknowledging the…
Professor Lynette Russell AMFASSA FAHA Professor Lynette Russell AM is an award-winning historian and Indigenous studies scholar. She is currently a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow at Monash University. She is also the Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Biodiversity and Heritage, and Director of the Monash Indigenous Centre. She has…
Professor Steven ChownFAA Steven L. Chown is Professor of Biological Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and Director of Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future, an Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative. His research mainly concerns biodiversity variation through space and time, and the conservation implications of environmental change, including the means to mitigate it. He co-developed…
Professor Rosemary RayfuseFASSA Professor Rayfuse (LLB Queen’s; LLM Cambridge; PhD Utrecht; LLD h.c. Lund, FASSA) is Emerita Scientia Professor in international law at UNSW Law and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Member of the Joint Group of…
Mr Craig RitchieFAHA Craig Ritchie is a Dhunghutti man and is the Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Craig’s career spans senior roles include work heading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander higher education, university access and participation for people from low-SES backgrounds and international student mobility.…
International Women’s Day 8 March 2021 “Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” ACOLA celebrates International Women’s Day as a global day of recognising the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of all women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. In recognition of this year’s…
Professor Holger Regenbrecht Professor Holger Regenbrecht is a computer scientist and Professor at the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand His work spans theory, concepts, techniques, technologies, and applications. Holger’s research interests include human-computer interaction, applied computer science and information technology, presence and telepresence, ubiquitous, immersive, and collaborative augmented reality,…