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Katrina Grant is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the Australian National University (ANU), affiliated with the Centre for Digital Humanities Research and the Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions (ICEDS). Her research bridges art history, digital technologies, and cultural heritage. Key focuses include Early Modern Italian gardens, theatre architecture, and the application of digital mapping to art historical analysis. She leads projects like Digital Cartographies of the Roman Campagna (integrating historical maps with modern GIS) and GLAM Search Engines and AI (addressing algorithmic bias in cultural heritage databases). Her recent monograph Landscape in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture (2022) examines intersections between operatic performance and landscape design. Collaborative work includes projects with ANU's College of Engineering on AI-driven GLAM search tools and pedagogical innovations in digital humanities education. Grant co-founded the Art History Network and serves on the executive of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). Her research extends to digital humanities pedagogy, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration and public engagement. Current initiatives explore bias mitigation in cultural institution search systems and educational strategies for critical digital literacy in cultural heritage contexts.

• Digital Art History
• Digital Mapping
• Digitisation of Cultural Collections
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Professional Overview Clint Bracknell is a Professor at the Conservatorium of Music, University of Western Australia. As a Noongar song-maker, composer, and researcher, he specializes in connections between song, language, and landscapes. His work focuses on improving Indigenous community access to intangible cultural heritage. Bracknell serves as Chair of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Council and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Research Focus Bracknell's interdisciplinary research spans applied linguistics, ethnomusicology, ecomusicology, popular music studies, Australian studies, and Indigenous studies. He leads projects including the Mayakeniny Noongar performance resource website development and has co-translated world-first Indigenous language works in film and theatre. His creative output includes music releases under the name Maatakitj. Publications & Scholarly Work His recent publications focus on Indigenous music revitalization, cultural heritage preservation, and the intersection of performance and language. Bracknell's work demonstrates consistent themes of cultural documentation, language reclamation strategies, and innovative approaches to sustaining intangible heritage through digital platforms and performance practices. Awards & Recognition 2021 Research Engagement Award, Edith Cowan University 2020 Barrett Award for Australian Studies 2021 Best Composition, Performing Arts WA Awards 2017 Wingara Mura Excellence Award, University of Sydney 2016 Robert Street Prize for outstanding PhD thesis Projects & Leadership Bracknell leads significant research initiatives including ARC-funded projects: 'Recirculating Indigenous traveling songs' and 'Making social cohesion ecocentric through Indigenous language and song'. He also contributes to 'Life After Digitisation', an initiative preserving Western Australia's vulnerable cultural collections.

• Ethnomusicology
• Indigenous Studies
• Linguistics
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Professor Helena Grehan is Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Edith Cowan University. Since joining WAAPA in February 2024, she brings more than two decades of leadership in theatre and performance studies, ethics, and digital cultural heritage. Education Doctor of Philosophy (Theatre Studies), Murdoch University, 1999 Research Interests Professor Grehan’s scholarship interrogates how contemporary performance, installation and digital arts negotiate ethics and responsibility . Through critical frameworks spanning climate disaster preparedness, post-digitisation futures for vulnerable HASS collections, and the politics of spectatorship, her work connects creative practice with urgent societal challenges. Recent projects explore how extreme weather events reshape artistic practice and how digital technologies can safeguard—and re-imagine—cultural heritage. Publications & Trends Across 2021–2024, Grehan’s output has clustered around four inter-related themes: climate futures, cyber-physical aesthetics, listening ethics, and activist dramaturgy. Book chapters and journal articles repeatedly deploy performative methodologies to examine how art mediates ecological crisis, political refusal, and community resilience, signalling a scholarly trajectory that merges critical theory with applied creative research. Awards & Recognition Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2023) Australasian Drama Studies Association Joanne Tompkins Prize for Editing (2021) Murdoch University Vice Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished and Sustained Achievement in Research (2019) Marlis Thiersch Research Award (2011) Rob Jordan Book Prize (2010) Murdoch University Vice Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2008) Doctoral Supervision & Grants Grehan has successfully supervised over 20 HDR candidates to completion and currently leads three doctoral projects as principal supervisor, alongside one as associate supervisor. She is Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage project Life after Digitisation: Future-proofing WA's Vulnerable Cultural Heritage (AUD $1.13 M, 2022–2027), collaborating across performing arts, information science and climate humanities. Labs & Teams At WAAPA she anchors a growing research cluster on Performance, Climate & Digital Futures , convening interdisciplinary teams across performance, design, screen, and digital humanities to prototype new models of creative practice and cultural preservation.

• Performance Studies
• Theatre Studies
• Ethics and Responsibility in Contemporary Art
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