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Peter Skippington »
For many years, Peter Skippington has lived and worked in some of Australia’s most remote communities. During those years he grew to love the stunning landscapes of the Australian outback and the warmth, openness and friendliness of the people who inhabit those communities. His work in remote and rural communities always concentrated on ensuring equitable access to products and services, especially equity in education and training opportunities. His work as a teacher in remote schools sought to help young students explore new opportunities and experiences and to expand their ambitions for themselves and their communities. During this time, he worked with students living and working in the most remote areas of the country through the renowned School of the Air.
Later in his career, he continued to work to improve access to educational services for people in rural and remote areas of Australia through the development of national policies and strategies, which used new technologies to deliver programs and courses to adult learners. Most recently, he has explored the role of the arts in helping communities face the contemporary economic and social challenges that threaten their very existence.
Peter Skippington is currently a Visiting Scholar with The Australian National University’s Centre for European Studies (ANUCES). He holds a Bachelor of Arts (University of Queensland), a Research Masters of Education (Queensland University of Technology) and a PhD (The Australian National University) – his thesis examined the links between the arts and community development.
Kirrily Jordan »
Kirrily Jordan is a political economist with a particular interest in all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment and economic development. Her research includes analysis of various public and private sector programs designed to improve Indigenous employment outcomes, as well as the interaction of these programs with the social security system and new forms of welfare conditionality. Kirrily began investigating the Community Development Employment Projects scheme in 2009 and is currently undertaking research on its replacement—the Community Development Program—as well as other federally funded schemes including the Vocational Training and Employment Centres and Employment Parity Initiative. She is working alongside Lisa Fowkes and Will Sanders as a lead investigator on the Australian Research Council project ‘Implementing the remote jobs and communities program: How is policy working in Indigenous communities?’
Derek Freeman »
Throughout his life, Derek Freeman was concerned with ideas whose implications he pursued with tireless vigour. He first established his reputation as a noted ethnographer, doing initial fieldwork in the early 1940s on the local polity of Sa’anapu in Western Samoa. After submitting a study of Samoa for a Diploma in Anthropology at the University of London, he went on to do important new field research on the Iban of Sarawak for his doctorate at Cambridge University. In 1954, he was appointed as Senior Fellow in Anthropology at The Australian National University producing a range of studies on the Iban and on social organisational theory. Later appointed as Professor and Head of Department and on his retirement as Emeritus Professor, Freeman remained in the Department of Anthropology throughout his career.
Derek Freeman died in Canberra on 6 July 2001 at the age of 84.
Nigel Davidson »
Nigel Davidson graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2000 with a bachelor degree in law and arts. He was admitted to legal practice in the Australian Capital Territory in 2001, and assisted with the implementation of Australia’s obligations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court while working at the Australian Attorney-General’s Department. In 2003 he commenced working for the Australian Capital Territory Department of Justice and Community Safety, assisting with the implementation of the Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT). In 2007 he moved to the Netherlands, where he provided legal assistance to judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. At the end of 2007, in Tanzania, he commenced work as a judge’s associate for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, returning to Australia in 2010 to complete his studies towards the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science from The Australian National University. He went back to the Rwanda Tribunal in 2011, working with the Prosecution Appeals section. Since April 2016, Nigel has been based in Hobart, where he has been pursuing research interests in international law as a university associate with the University of Tasmania. He has also been practising as a barrister with Michael Kirby Chambers since the end of August.
John Besemeres »
John Besemeres taught politics at Monash University, was head of Polish and later Slavonic Studies at Macquarie University, spent five years working as a translator in Belgrade and Warsaw, and served for some 30 years in several Australian Government portfolios including Prime Minister and Cabinet, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and Foreign Affairs and Trade. The author of Socialist Population Politics (M.E. Sharpe, New York, 1980), he has published extensively on Russian and East-Central European affairs.
Shelley Richardson »
Shelley Richardson was born in Canberra and raised in Christchurch. She is a graduate of the University of Canterbury and The Australian National University. She co-authored Anthony Wilding: a sporting life (Canterbury University Press, 2005).
Gloria Davies »
Gloria Davies is a literary scholar and historian of China. She is Professor of Chinese Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University and an Adjunct Director of the China in the World.
Luigi Tomba »
Luigi Tomba is a political scientist who has published widely on China’s political and social change and the urban condition. His latest book is The Government Next Door. Neighbourhood Politics in Urban China (Cornell University Press, 2014). It was awarded the prestigious Association of Asian Studies Joseph Levenson Prize for the best book on Post-1900 China in 2016. He is an Associate Director of China in the World and was the co-editor of The China Journal from 2005–2015.
Hal Kendig »
Professor Hal Kendig FASSA is a gerontologist and sociologist who serves as the Professor of Ageing and Public Policy at The Australian National University in the Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing in the Research School of Population Health. He is also Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.
Peter McDonald »
Professor Peter McDonald AM FASSA is Professor of Demography at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.