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BA (Hist), MA, PhD Dr Gordon Briscoe, from the Marduntjara/Pitjantjatjara peoples of Central Australia, is a long-standing Indigenous activist, organiser, researcher, writer, teacher and mentor. He played a key role in inspiring ANU History Program to establish its Centre for Indigenous History and became the Centre’s inaugural Research Fellow in 2003. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to Aboriginal health, legal services and education. Dr Briscoe helped form an Aboriginal Progress Association in the late 1950s. He worked for the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs and the Aboriginal Legal Service (a body he had helped to establish) in the late 1960s. In 1972, he helped establish a health service for the growing urban Aboriginal population in Sydney. He was also a Field Officer for the Commonwealth Office of Aboriginal Affairs and a senior liaison officer in the Department of Health and Acting Director of Professor Fred Hollows National Trachoma and Eye Health Program, where he advised on cultural protocols for approaching Aboriginal communities. Dr Briscoe began his academic career in 1981, studying history and politics at ANU. He gained his PhD on Indigenous health in the RSSS History Program in 1997. His current research projects include the Sydney Harbour Trust project, the ‘Native Census, 1920-44′, an Indigenous population study, and ‘Aborigines Between The Wars: 1920-1944’.
Dr Christina Parolin researches in the field of early nineteenth century British radicalism. In 2009, she was awarded the J. G. Crawford Prize for her study, Radical Spaces, which explores the connection between architecture and space and popular radical culture in early 19th century London. During 2010-11 she held a Visiting Fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University. Christina is currently the Executive Director of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Her publications include: ‘The ‘She-Champion of Impiety’: a case study of female radicalism’ in M.T Davis and Paul. A Pickering (eds), Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform, Ashgate, 2008; ‘Let us have truth and liberty’: contesting Britishness and Otherness from the prison cell, London 1820-26’, Humanities Research, vol xiii, no.1 2006, pp.71-84; and Michael Davis, Iain McCalman, Christina Parolin (eds) Newgate in Revolution: An anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution, Continuum Press, London, 2005. Her latest publication is Radical Spaces: Venues of Popular Politics in London 1790-c.1845, ANU Press, 2010.
Porer Nombo is Local Government representative (Komiti) for the villages of Reite, Sarangama and Marpungae in Ward 16 of Mot 1 District on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea, a position he has been asked to occupy since the early 1980s. Growing up in the village in the 1950s and 60s, he never learned to read or write but was educated about plants and healing, among other things, by his elders, and is recognised as the leading local authority on kastom (effective modes of action from past and present). In 2000, he gave a presentation to the Motupore Island Seminar on Intellectual and Cultural Property in Port Moresby organised by the University of Papua New Guinea, and in 2009 he visited the UK at the request of the British Museum to assist them in their work.
Chris Yardley worked as a salesman in the computer industry for 46 years, during 1961–2005. His career, following every opportunity afforded, resulted in him living and working in five countries during this time. He has travelled extensively in some thirty countries. He has a real interest in the political and cultures of these countries and how it determines the salesman’s approach to doing business. Prior to retirement he undertook making a record of the computer industry in which he was working coming to the conclusion that it had been the front-line salesmen who had created the computer and communications explosion we have seen since the 1980s.
Post retirement he has undertaken a Master of Science Communication at the Australian National University and followed that with a science communication study leading to a PhD.
David McDonald BA, DipSocWk, MA, GradDipPoplnHlth is a social scientist with research interests including dialogue, knowledge integration and building evidence-based public policy. He has wide experience in research & evaluation, policy analysis and policy & program development, particularly in the alcohol and other drugs, criminal justice and related fields.
David is a Visiting Fellow at ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and the Director of the Canberra-based consultancy Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd. Earlier positions he has held include Senior Criminologist at the Australian Institute of Criminology, and Deputy Head of Research at the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Arif Zamhari is a lecturer in Islamic State University in Malang and Al-Hikam College in Malang. He is also active in an interfaith dialog project held by International Conference of Islamic Scholars (ICIS) in Jakarta.
Chris Aulich is a Professor of Public Administration at the ANZSOG Institute for Governance at the University of Canberra. He joined the University after a decade in the ACT and Commonwealth public services. Since then he has worked extensively on tracing Australia’s policies of privatisation from Hawke-Keating through to John Howard’s government and has published extensively in academic journals, professional magazines and books on issues relating to both local government and to privatisation.
Chris has jointly edited four books, three of which mapped the main developments in the Howard and Rudd government periods. He has held visiting positions at St Andrews University and the University of Hong Kong and has extensive experience teaching courses in public administration in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Malaysia and Bhutan.
Professor Mark Evans is the Director for the ANZSOG Institute for Governance. This role draws on Mark’s considerable international experience in supporting and training senior civil servants and in evaluating public policy programs. The emphasis of his work at ANZSOG will be fourfold: the provision of the ACT with strategic training and research support; the delivery of an Executive MPA module in designing public policies; the development of short courses in conflict transformation; and, in the medium-term the development of an international MPA program.
Before taking this role, Mark was Head of the Department of Politics and Director of York MPA and professional training programs at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Between 1998 and 2009 Mark played the central strategic role in the development of the department’s graduate school and the creation of three successful interdisciplinary research centres – York MPA and professional training programmes, Politics, Economics and Philosophy and Post-war Reconstruction and Development.
Mark has also played an international role in supporting good administrative practices in public administration in developed and developing contexts as well as the reconstruction of public administration in war-torn societies. He has delivered training and managed evaluation projects on the behest of the World Bank, United Nations agencies, the European Union, the Consortium of Humanitarian Affairs in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the British Council and the West Asia and North Africa Forum, as well as government departments such as: the UK’s Cabinet Office and departments for International Development, Work and Pensions, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; China’s National School of Administration and Social and Economic Reform Commission and others.
His recent books include: Constitution-making and the Labour Party (2005); Post-war Reconstruction and Policy Transfer (2009); New Directions in the Study of Policy Transfer (2009) and Understanding Competition States (2009) and has been the editor of the international journal Policy Studies since 2005.
Christine Winter is Research Fellow, Race and Ethnicity in the Global South (REGS) at Sydney University, Visiting Fellow at the College of the Asia Pacific, Australian National University, and Associate Senior Fellow, HPRC, University of Queensland.
Her transnational historical research connects the Pacific with Europe and Australasia. She has published widely on National Socialism in Oceania, transnational politics of humanitarianism during WWII, and Germans in the Pacific. Most recently she has published a monograph on the politics of the Neuendettelsauer Mission at the End of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third Reich (Looking after One’s Own, Peter Lang Verlag 2012), and co-edited a volume on Australasian social scientists and the impact WWII had on their scholarship and disciplines (Scholars at War, ANU E-Press, 2012). She is presently working on a project on the legacies of the German colonial empire in the Global South: German Mixed-Race Diasporas in Southern Hemisphere Mandated Territories: Scientific theories, politics and identity transformation.
Christine studied Theology and Comparative Religion in Germany, and received her PhD in history from ANU in 2005. In 2010 she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Queensland. Most recently, in 2012 she was International Visiting Fellow, Research Group Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin.
Seumas Miller is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre) at Charles Sturt University (Canberra) and the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology (The Hague). He is the foundation director of CAPPE (2000-2007), Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU 1994-9 and Professor of Philosophy at The Australian National University (2003-11). He is the author or co-author of over 150 academic articles and 15 books, including Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators (Blackwell, 2014), Security and Privacy (lead author John Kleinig) (ANU Press, 2012), Moral Foundations of Social Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Terrorism and Counter-terrorism: Ethics and Liberal Democracy (Blackwell, 2009), Corruption and Anti-corruption (Prentice Hall, 2005), Ethical Issues in Policing (Ashgate, 2005), and Social Action: A Teleological Account (Cambridge University Press, 2001).