Heritage and Reconciliation
This project will re-conceptualise heritage from a standpoint of reconciliation. In doing so, it will generate new understandings about how heritage and its management can contribute to…
Skulls for the Tsar: Indigenous human remains in Russian collections
Dr Hilary Howes’ current research project ‘Skulls for the Tsar’ aims to produce the first detailed investigation of the acquisition of Indigenous human remains from Australia, New Zealand and the…
Kimberley Aboriginal Caring for Culture Project
The Kimberley Aboriginal Caring for Culture Project is part of the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre’s (KALACC’s) effort to improve resource distribution, foster a collaborative approach…
Scaffolding Co-Design in the College of Engineering and Computer Science
This research is investigating what practices, processes and skills are involved in enabling and sustaining collaborative creativity (co-creativity) and CoDesign within the College of Engineering and…
The Vanuatu Cultural Centre’s (VKS) Fieldworker Network
“Everyone knows. Everything’s changing – language is changing, lifestyles are changing, ideas of respect are changing…” Numaline Mahana – Fieldworker, Tanna. “The Vanuatu Cultural Centre is a custom…
Cultural heritage and the mediation of identity, memory and historical narratives
The aim of this work was to document the way museum exhibitions and heritage sites are used to construct and negotiate social and cultural values and meanings. It is accepted that museum and heritage…
Making Migrant Heritage
The rationale for Dr Alexandra Dellios' current research project 'Making Migrant Heritage' grew out of a concern that too little scholarly attention had been paid to how ‘subaltern’ publics,…