Leadership Team



Emeritus Professor Linda Williams
Coordinator

Emeritus Professor Lesley Duxbury

Dr Debbie Symons
RMIT Senior Industry Fellow

Dr Clare McCracken
Postdoc Researcher

Dr Rebecca Najdowski Researcher

Dr Pia Johnson
Researcher

Isabella Capezio
HDR representative and Doctoral Researcher

Dr Sam Leach
Researcher - alumni


Damien Rudd
Doctoral Researcher

International Associates



Professor Kate Rigby (Germany)
Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH)

Prof. Ute Hörner & Mathias Antlfinger
(Germany) Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Academy of Media Arts Cologne

Dr Rosie Ibbotson (New Zealand) University of Cantebury

Prof Michael Collier (England)
University of Sunderland

Dr David Griffiths
(England) Memory and Matter Research group, Manchester School of Art

Dr Sally Cleary (France)

Dr Tim Collins &
Dr Reiko Goto
(Scotland)

Frouke Wiarde & Dr Judith van der Elst 
(Belgium & The Netherlands) The Turbine Plays

Associate Professor Rosie McGoldrick
(England) London Metropolitan University

Professor Emerita Jillian Scott
Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK), Switzerland.




National Associates


Professor Paul James
Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

Associate Professor
Donna Houston
Macquarie University

Professor David Karoly
Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, and Leader, Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub, National Environmental Science Program, CSIRO

Professor Elizabeth Leane
Associate Dean, Research Performance
Professor of English, University of Tasmania

Dr Miranda Nieboer
Affiliated researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania

Dr Carolyn Philpott
Conservatorium of Music, School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania




Acknowledgement of Country


AEGIS acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we work. We respectfully acknowledge their Elders, past and present. We also acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across Australia and its Dreaming.