Governance

UWA Publishing (UWAP) acknowledges the Whadjuk Noongar people as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which UWAP operates. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend our respect to all First Nations people. We recognise First Nations people as the original story tellers and are committed to championing their stories in the books we publish.

UWA Publishing's activities are overseen by the UWA Publishing Board.

UWA Publishing Board

Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Chair

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth is the Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia. His books include Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt (UWAP, 2017) and Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia (MUP, 2001). Tony convened the 2019 Association for the Studies of Australian Literature (ASAL) Conference Perth and is the Director of the Westerly Centre, which publishes Westerly Magazine.

Amanda Davies

Professor Amanda Davies is Head of UWA’s School of Social Sciences and a lecturer and researcher in human geography. With a disciplinary background in geography, Professor Davies’ research focuses on examining Australia's population growth, distribution and patterns of demographic change. Her work also focuses on exploring the social, economic and environmental issues related to rural re-population.

Professor Davies is an applied researcher, working closely with industry and government partners to deliver timely and relevant information to inform policy.

James Arvanitakis

Professor James Arvanitakis (Ph.D) is the Director of the Forrest Research Foundation and an award-winning educator, cultural researcher, and media commentator. James is a Fulbright alumnus, having spent 12 months at the University of Wyoming. In 2021, he was appointed the inaugural Patron of Diversity Arts Australia and founded Respectful Disagreements, a brave spaces project. A sociologist and cultural researcher, he has authored several books and has over 100 published articles.

Kate Hislop

Kate Hislop is the Dean and Head of the UWA School of Design, and a registered architect in Western Australia. Kate has more than 20 years of experience in education and research in architecture, with particular interests in the intersections of architectural history with visual culture as well as contemporary design thinking and practice. While an academic at UWA she has maintained strong involvement with the architectural profession at state and national levels. She was the first female editor of the long-running journal 'The Architect' (WA), has participated in architecture award juries and been a regular examiner of candidates presenting for the Australian Practice Examination (APE). She is currently the Chair of the National Advisory Panel to the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia. In 2021 she received the Architects Board Award (WA) for service to the profession.

Lucy Montgomery

Lucy Montgomery is Professor of Knowledge Innovation at Curtin University, where she leads the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative. Her research focuses on the ways in which open knowledge is transforming landscapes of knowledge production, sharing and use. She has been involved in the open access scholarly book space since 2012 and is Research Director of COARD: a not-for-profit consultancy specialising in open access books.

Sarah Collins

Assoc. Prof. Sarah Collins FAHA has published widely on the relationship between music and literary aesthetics and broader intellectual and political currents in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and Durham University, and has received competitive national grants from funding bodies in the UK and Australia. She has been reviews editor for the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (Cambridge UP) and is currently co-editor of Music & Letters (Oxford UP). She has also edited and co-edited numerous collections and special issues.

Shino Konishi

Shino Konishi joined both the UWA Discipline of History in the School of Humanities and the School of Indigenous Studies in January 2014. Her research interests largely concern histories of cross-cultural encounters in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Australia, the history of European, particularly French, exploration in Australia and the Pacific, European and colonial representations of Aboriginal people and gender relations, Indigenous biography and emotions. Shino is of Aboriginal descent and identifies with the Yawuru people of Broome, Western Australia.