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Robert Gregson has published over 140 papers mostly in experimental applied and mathematical psychology, including statistics, cybernetics and psychophysics. He has published six books, has written a chapter for a handbook on psychophysiology, and sits on several editorial boards for international journals. His research interests include mathematical psychology, nonlinear dynamics, and psychophysics.
Dennis Hart is a senior lecturer in the School of Business and Information Management at The Australian National University. Since leaving the Royal Australian Navy and becoming an academic in 1992, he has published his research work in national and international journals and conferences as well as co-edited the first volume of Proceedings in this series of Information System Foundations workshops.
Keith Houghton is Professor of Business Administration at The Australian National University within the Crawford School, the University’s public policy school housed in the nation’s capital. For eight years Professor Houghton served as Dean of the University’s College of Business and Economics and its antecedent bodies. He has been one of two independent reviewers of the Australian audit practice of the accounting firm KPMG prior to the formal oversight by Australia’s corporate regulator ASIC.
He is also a former member of the Australian Centre of Audit and Assurance Research (ANCAAR) and a former member of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AUASB) in Australia.
Ron Huisken joined the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University in 2001, after nearly twenty years working in the Australian government departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Defence, and Prime Minister and Cabinet. His research interests include US security policies, multilateral security processes in East Asia, alliance management and non-proliferation. Dr Huisken has authored numerous works, including a number of working and Canberra papers published by the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
Professor Anna Haebich is a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University in Perth Western Australia. She is known for her creative interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to research. Her distinguished publication record includes award winning books, exhibitions and videos and academic works and online contributions. Her career brings together university teaching and research, centre directorship, museum curatorship, visual arts practice, work with Indigenous communities, and creative writing.
Anna’s meticulous research is dedicated to achieving social justice and humanitarian goals through social action, creativity and knowledge creation. Her research interests include histories of Indigenous peoples, immigration, the body, the environment, visual arts, museums, representations of the past, biography and crime and gender. Her latest research project is to document the history of Aboriginal performance and performers in Western Australia.
Recent positions include Research Intensive Professor at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland, inaugural Historian in Residence at the State Library of Queensland and inaugural Director of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas. Anna is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences. She is a Vice President of the Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and member of the Research Committee of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Luke Hambly is the Program Manager for the Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI), housed by the Crawford School in the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU. He has been with CDI since 2005 and prior to this, Luke worked within the discipline of Anthropology at ANU, including as research assistant to the Anthropology Department in the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies (RSPAS), and as the inaugural course Coordinator of the Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD) in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 2004 Luke was awarded a Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development at ANU.
Luke was employed at AusAID between 1998 and 2000 working in a variety of areas within the agency, including the PNG branch, where in 2000 he was given the opportunity to work for 3 months with the Bougainville Peace Monitoring Group as a civilian monitor on the island of Buka. In 1999 he spent 3 months in Alice Springs working with the NT Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority assisting in the registration of sacred sites within the Northern Territory of Australia.
After graduating with a PhD in neurophysiology in 1954, Professor Adrian Horridge, was a Scientific Officer in the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, U.K., and a Research Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge, with a Fellowship from the Commissioners for Exhibition of 1851. From 1956-69 he was Lecturer in Zoology then Director, Gatty Marine Laboratory, St Andrews University, Scotland.
As part of the collaboration with Professor Bullock to write a large compendium on the nervous systems of the invertebrates, there followed three visits to the USA; 1959-60 as a Visiting Associate Professor at University of California, and Fellow, Center for Advanced Study Stanford, California. In 1965, he was a Visiting Professor, Yale. From 1955-69, there were numerous lecture tours, including twice to Russia, and periods of work in marine laboratories, especially Plymouth, Millport, Naples, Port Royal (Jamaica), Friday Harbor (British Columbia), Ghardaga (Red Sea) Heron Island and Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef). In 1969 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and in the same year became the 4th founding Professor of the Research School of Biological Sciences in The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and in 1973, Fellow, Australian Academy of Science, and Visiting Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford. In 1975 he was Chief Scientist on the U.S. Research Ship Alpha Helix, in the Moluccas, with a base camp at the island of Banda. This led to the writing of several books and monographs on traditional Indonesian boat building. From 1976-77, he was Visiting Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, and from 1987 onwards the Executive Director, Centre for Visual Sciences at ANU. Numerous lecture tours abroad including twice to India, Germany and China. He retired at the end of 1992, and from 1993-94 was again Visiting Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, U.K. He is at present an Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow in ANU.
Janet Hunt is a Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University where she teaches Australian Indigenous Development and conducts research on governance and engagement, community development, the socio-economic benefits of Aboriginal involvement in natural resource management in NSW, and the work of international NGOs with Indigenous communities in Australia. She previously managed the Indigenous Community Governance Project 2004-2008, an ARC Linkage Project with Reconciliation Australia. She has been a member of the Central Land Council’s Community Development Reference group since 2007. Her background is in education and international development and she has lectured in International and Community Development at RMIT and Deakin Universities. She was Executive Director of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, the peak body of international development NGOs, from 1995-2000 and prior to that was Executive Director of the International Women’s Development Agency. She has served on a number of Ministerial Advisory Committees.
Katie has worked as a digital media project officer at the CCR/RSH since 2001. She has worked on a number of research projects including an ARC linkage project Indigenous knowledge and Western science pedagogy: a comparative approach and an ARC E-Research project i-Dig: Developing a prototype multi-institutional search engine for Australian Indigenous collections. Katie currently advises on digital media and film projects and teaches in the Masters of Visual Culture Research. She has previously lectured in Computer Graphic Design at La Salle College, Beijing and tutored in Visual Communications at the University of SA, Adelaide.
After working as a sociologist in Britain, Barry Hindess joined the Australian National University in 1987, later moving to ANU’s Research School of Social Sciences, where he learned to pass as a political scientist and developed his interest in the politics of corruption and anti-corruption. He is now an Emeritus Professor in ANU’s School of Politics and International Relations. Like many senior academics he has publications he prefers to forget, but he is happy to recall Discourses of Power: from Hobbes to Foucault, Governing Australia (with Mitchell Dean), Corruption and Democracy in Australia, Us and them: elites and anti-elitism in Australia (with Marian Sawer) and Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption: the new integrity warriors (with Luis de Sousa and Peter Larmour).