Staff
Management Committee
Professor Lee Astheimer, Chair
Professor Lee Astheimer has been Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Wollongong since 2006, managing research policy and development, research students and the University's submissions to the Research Quality Framework. She has had academic positions at Rutger's University, New Jersey, USA and the University of Tasmania, and has been at the University of Wollongong since 1994. Lee's research interests are focussed on comparative endocrinology and behaviour related to nutrition, reproduction and stress in vertebrates including humans. She has maintained competitive funding for her research, most recently using physiological methods to evaluate health in populations of declining Australian birds.
Professor Kathleen Chapman
Kathleen is the Director of the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre and the Coordinator of the Aboriginal Studies Honours Program. Kathleen is a descendent of the Murrawarri people of New South Wales. She has a PhD in Anthropology and has worked in higher education and research since 1985, specialising in Indigenous health research and education.
Prior to this taking up the position of Director of Woolyungah Indigenous Centre in June 2007. she worked as Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute for International Health (2003-2007). From 1995 to 2002 she held leadership positions in Indigenous health at The University of Sydney, including the position of Head of Yooroang Garang: School of Indigenous Health Studies.
She has a strong record of leadership in Indigenous health teaching. Her current research interests include injury prevention in Indigenous communities; Indigenous community development; health and social disadvantage; and Indigenous health workforce development. The focus of her present research is the development of resiliency based interventions to prevent injury among Aboriginal children and youth in NSW.
Associate Professor Paul Sharrad
Paul Sharrad is Associate Professor in English with specialisations in postcolonial literatures. He has published books on Indian writer Raja Rao and Pacific writer Albert Wendt, plus over 60 articles on a range of texts. He has edited the CRNLE Reviews Journal and New Literatures Review and is on the boards of several international journals.
Professor Diana Wood-Conroy
Professor Wood-Conroy is with the Faculty of Creative Arts. She is the Co-ordinator of the Visual Arts and Graphic Design Postgraduate area, and co-ordinates subjects in Visual Art Theory. Her area of research in archaeology is Roman fresco and textile artefacts. Her artwork is held in public and private collections both in Australia and overseas and has been shown in international and national exhibitions. She has been involved in curating exhibitions nationally and internationally and her publications on issues of contemporary textiles and visual arts, and their relationship to the past, have been extensive.
Mr Matthew Richardson - Halstead Press
Matthew Richardson is the Managing Director of Halstead Press, a Sydney-based publishing firm with a long-standing presence in the field and a reputation for quality.
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Professor Hugh Brown
Professor Brown is the Professor of Coating Technology with the University of Wollongong Steel Institute. He has published extensively in his field.
Professor Lesley Head
Professor Lesley Head teaches in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and coordinates the University's GEOQUEST Research Centre. Her research is at the intersection between cultural geography, physical geography and archaeology, focusing on long term human-environment interactions. Her books include Second Nature. The history and implications of Australia as Aboriginal landscape (Syracuse University Press, New York) and Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change (Arnold, London). Having herself received many rejection letters from publishers, she looks forward to working with authors on the other side of the fence.
Dr Irina Verenikina
Dr Irina Verenikina lectures in the Faculty of Education.
Dr Lindsey Harrison
Dr. Harrison is with the Graduate School of Public Health. Her research interests are positioning of indigenous peoples within health discourse; the power issues in alcohol and other drug treatment; the application of qualitative methods to health research. Her publications encompass all of these areas. Professor Michael Gaffikin
Professor Michael Gaffikin is an Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Commerce whose research interests are directed to alternative methodologies for accounting theory which has resulted in his interest in accounting history and theory. He is also interested in the use of computers in accounting. He has published several books and articles in leading international journals as well as presented seminars in many parts of the world.
Associate Professor Paul Sharrad
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Professor Diana Wood-Conroy
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