Chief Investigators - Monash University
Partner Investigator - Public Record Office Victoria
Partner Organisations - External Websites
Partner Organisation Representatives
Researchers
Research Student
Past Team Members
Jason is the Chief Executive Officer of the Koorie Heritage Trust Inc.
Shannon is a Koorie woman from Mildura, who is currently the postgraduate student attached to the Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 'Trust and Technology: Building an archival system for Indigenous oral memory' investigating Australian Indigenous oral testimonies and archives. Shannon's PhD research through Monash University is titled 'Narrative Creation and Koorie Victoria'. Prior to returning to study Shannon worked for nine years at the Koorie Heritage Trust Inc., an Aboriginal cultural centre in Victoria.
Simon is the Acting Manager of the Koorie Records Unit of the Public Record Office Victoria, the Executive Officer for the Koorie Records Taskforce, and the Victorian state representative of the Australian Society of Archivists, Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group (ASA IISIG).
Justine is the the Director and Keeper of the Public Records, Public Record Office Victoria and the Partner Investigator on the T&T project.
Sharon is currently working for the Koorie Records Unit at the Public Records Office Victoria. Previously Sharon worked for the Koorie Heritage Trust Inc for over five years, as part of the Koorie Family History Service, a Stolen Generations service established in 2001 out of recommendations from the 1997 "Bringing Them Home Report", and as the cultural development coordinator of the Koorie Heritage Archive Project, a digital keeping place of Victorian Koorie cultural heritage materials. Both Projects aimed to: strengthen inpiduals and communities through knowledge and pride in who they are and where they come from; and to strengthen identity and culture by making available at a community level, family, cultural and historical materials relevant to Koorie people. In 2005 Sharon was part of the Trust and Technology Project as the Koorie Heritage Trust Inc. representative on the Project Team, and in 2006 the KHT allowed Sharon to come over to Monash to work on Stage Two of the T&T Project.
Carol was a Research Officer in, then Coordinator of, the Research Coordination Unit at the School of Information Management and Systems during the time of her involvement in the project. Carol assisted with the administrative side of the project, including assistance with submission of the original grant application, setup of the Advisory Committee, and provision of a secretariat service for all meetings associated with the project.
Associate Professor Graeme Johanson
Associate Professor Graeme Johanson is Director of the Centre for Community Networking Research (CCNR) and a Senior Research Fellow in Information and Telecommunications Needs Research (ITNR). Many different types of communities have co-operated with him to achieve shared research outcomes. All of these projects involved critical implementation of a range of information and communications technologies. His experience of the management of research projects of all sizes is extensive.
For further information, please see the CCNR website.
Professor Sue McKemmish, is Chair of Archival Systems, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Information Technology, and Director of the Centre for Organisational & Social Informatics (COSI) and the Records Continuum Research Group (RCRG). Her relevant archival research has focused on developing archival description and metadata standards for managing and accessing quality information and archival resources online. She has also made a major contribution to the development of records continuum theory which provides the conceptual frame of reference for Australian recordkeeping metadata and archival description and accessresearch.
For further information, please see the RCRG website.
Fiona Ross has worked in a range of recordkeeping and information management roles over the last fifteen years, including positions at the Public Record Office Victoria, Victoria Police, the University of Melbourne and Monash University. She was a Research Fellow on the Trust and Technology Project in 2004 and 2005, investigating the outcomes of the user needs study and their implications for archival systems and frameworks, and returned from 2007 to 2008 to write-up the final report for the T&T Project.
Professor Lynette Russell Professor holds the Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University and is Director of the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies (CAIS) and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Arts. She has published widely in the areas of Aboriginal History, archaeological-theory, post-colonialism and representations of race.
For further information, please see the CAIS website.
Diane Singh B.A., was born in the Murray River town of Echuca, Victoria, and is a member of the Yorta Yorta/ Wemba Wemba communities from Victoria and New South Wales, but has lived in Melbourne since the late 1950s. Diane is currently working as the Community Liaison Officer at the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, (CAIS), Clayton.
For further information, please see the CAIS website.