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Bill Randolph »
Bill Randolph FASSA is Professor at the University of New South Wales. At City Futures, he undertakes research specialising in housing policy, housing markets and affordability, urban renewal, and metropolitan planning policy issues. Bill has more than 40 years’ experience as a researcher of housing and urban policy issues in the academic, government, nongovernmental, and private sectors. He was the inaugural convenor of the State of Australian Cities conference series and chair of the 2003 State of Australian Cities Conference.
Wendy Steele »
Wendy Steele is Professor of Sustainability and Urban Policy and leads the Critical Urban Governance research program in the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne. Her recent books include Planning Wild Cities: Human–Nature Relationships in the Urban Age (2020), Quiet Activism: Climate Action at the Local Scale (2021), and The Sustainable Development Goals and Higher Education: A Transformative Agenda? (2021). She was a chair of the 2021 State of Australasian Cities Conference and President of the Australasian Cities Research Network.
Jack Vowles »
Jack Vowles is a Professor at Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington, has led the New Zealand Election Study since 1996, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. His research is mainly on New Zealand and comparative electoral behaviour. He is co-author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections After the Great Recession (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Murray Chisholm »
Murray Chisholm completed his PhD in History at ANU in 2019. He is a secondary school teacher, school leader and curriculum developer for the Australian Capital Territory.
Paul C.H. Albers »
Paul C.H. Albers has done extensive research in the Dubois archives, including his book Through Eugène Dubois’ Eyes, Stills of a Turbulent Life (Brill, 2010), and participated in archaeological and palaeontological excavations in the Philippines and Indonesia. His book disclosing over 2,000 letters of The correspondence of Eugène Dubois (1888–1900) is currently in press.
Alexandra A.E. van der Geer »
Alexandra A.E. van der Geer is a Researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Research Associate of Leiden University. Her main research focus is on the evolution, extinction, and biogeography of mammals on islands. Other areas of interest include introduced species, brain evolution, and ethnozoology of South Asia. Her books include Evolution of Island Mammals (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021) and Animals in Stone (Brill, 2008).
Biography Series »
The National Centre for Biography in the History Program in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University hosts the Biography Series. The National Centre was established in 2008 to extend the work of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and to serve as a focus for
Martin Gascoigne »
Martin Gascoigne was Rosalie Gascoigne’s son and shared her interest in art. He studied history with Manning Clark at The Australian National University and afterwards worked primarily in the Department of Defence on intelligence matters and relations with the United States and South-East Asia.
Deborah Bird Rose »
Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018) was an Australian-based anthropologist who worked with Indigenous Australians and an internationally renowned scholar in environmental humanities, focusing on multi-species ethnography and extinction studies. Her research analysed the entwined issues of social and ecological justice, based on long-term relationships, especially with Indigenous people in the Victoria River region and more broadly in the Northern Territory. She worked with Indigenous Australians on many land claims. This book completes her envisaged trilogy, with Hidden Histories (1991) and Dingo Makes Us Human (1992), both widely acclaimed, respectively winning the Jessie Litchfield and Stanner prizes.
Nicola Francis »
Historian Nicola ‘Niki’ Francis is a Pākehā New Zealander of English, German and Scottish origins. She has lived in the UK, Iraq, Germany, Belgium and Australia and now lives between the sea and the bush in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Prior to doing her PhD on which this biography is based, she worked for human rights and conservation NGOs, as parish minister and hospice chaplain.
Niki worked for the Australian Dictionary of Biography and contributed to it as an author, and for Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. In Canberra she was an active member of the Australian Women’s Archive Project and contributed multiple entries and essays to the online Australian Women’s Register.