Staff Awards, Grants and Prizes- Faculty staff

 

Congratulations to our Faculty recipients of Awards:

Congratulations to CHRG member Associate Professor Tiffany Shellam is leading a new ARC Linkage Project: ‘Entangled Knowledges: Kaartdijin, Science and History in the Robert Neill collection’.  ARC Linkage project (2020 Round 2)

This project aims to reverse the trajectories of Menang Nyungar knowledge imbedded in a historical fish collection, returning language, stories, and fishing practices to the Menang community. By working in a cross-sector, collaborative and Indigenous-governed team our research will enrich and re-frame the understanding of this collection in the National Museum of Scotland and Natural History Museum, London, unearth Indigenous taxonomic practices, produce new histories of biocultural collections, and develop the ‘kaartdijin model’ for participatory cross-cultural and cross-sector collaborations. Workshops on Country will produce content for a digital reassembling of the collection to be used by museum partners, ensuring wide cross-sector and community engagement with project outcomes.

The project will be governed by the Albany Heritage Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation and partnering with National Museums Scotland; Natural History Museum, London; National Museum of Australia; Western Australian Museum; The University of Western Australia; and the City of Albany.

 Lead investigator: Associate Professor Tiffany Shellam, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Education.

Other investigators: Professor Alistair Paterson and Dr Shino Konishi (both from University of Western Australia); Miss Shona Coyne (Albany Heritage Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation); Dr Glenn Moore and Dr Ross Chadwick (both from Western Australian Museum); Dr Alison Clark (Natural History Museum London); Dr Ian Coates (National Museum of Australia); Dr Andrew Kitchener (National Museums Scotland).

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2021 Alfred Deakin Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships

Congratulations to the researchers successful in the latest round of Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.

The two-year Fellowships are awarded to excellent early career researchers, who are within four years of completing their PhDs, wish to excel in their chosen research field, and whose research projects align with Deakin’s research strategy.

Faculty of Arts and Education

• Dr Jason Gibson will undertake research within the Alfred Deakin Institute (ADI); ‘Return and Re-entanglement: The Decolonial Affordances of Indigenous Cultural Heritage Collections’, supervised by Professor Andrea Witcomb.
• Dr N.A.J (Nico) Taylor will undertake research within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; ‘Australia’s Nuclear Archive: “Marking” nuclear fuel cycle as future cultural and environmental heritage’, supervised by Alfred Deakin Professor David Lowe.