Emeritus ProfessorWilliam Logan

Professor William (Bill) Logan is a geographer specialising as both scholar
and practitioner in the field of heritage studies. This interest in cultural
heritage conservation grew out of his involvement in the inner Melbourne
resident action movement in the early 1970s and has expanded to cover
teaching, research and consulting on heritage issues, mainly in Australia and
Asia. He completed a doctorate at Monash University in 1981 in the field of
urban geography with a thesis focused on the housing, planning and heritage
conservation in inner Melbourne. This was published as The Gentrification of
Inner Melbourne: A Political Geography of Inner City Housing by the University
of Queensland Press in 1985. He taught in the Department of Geography at the
University of Melbourne in 1965-7 and 1971-3. He has held numerous senior
administrative positions, including Dean, in the higher education sector since
1971 and has been a professor since 1992. At Deakin University he was Research
Director in the Faculty of Arts 1993-98. Professor Logan held an Alfred Deakin
Professorship in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences until his
retirement at the end of 2012. He is now an Emeritus Professor of the
university and maintains his research and publishing activity. He has been a
consultant to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID,
Australian Heritage Commission and Department of the Environment and Heritage,
and the Victorian Department of Infrastructure, and he was a member of the
Heritage Council of Victoria (2008-2014) and AusHeritage including Board
Member, 1998-9). He is a member and past-president (1999-2002) of Australia
ICOMOS, the national committee of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments
and Sites), based in Paris. He has represented ICOMOS at international
meetings in Japan and Korea and has drafted State of Conservation reports
technical reviews on World Heritage sites in Macao, Jordan, Korea, Laos,
Spain, etc. Since 1986 he has been an International Expert for the UNESCO
Division of Cultural Heritage in Paris, where his work has mainly been related
to UNESCO's campaigns to safeguard World Heritage sites in Bangladesh, China,
Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. He has also acted for the UNESCO
World Heritage Centre at expert meetings in Vietnam, China, Germany, Indonesia
and Korea and contributed to its 'State of the World Heritage' Report (2005).
In 2011 he was invited to speak to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on human
rights aspects of heritage conservation and co-edited a special issue of the
International Journal of Heritage Studies on this topic (v. 18, no. 3, May
2012; republished in book form Routledge 2015). He co-edits the 'Key Issues in
Cultural Heritage' series for Routledge, was co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell
Companion to Heritage Studies (2016) and is a member of the International
Journal of Heritage Studies editorial board. His current research interests
and publications relate to cultural heritage and sustainable development;
human rights and heritage; and the politics of World Heritage.

Research Groups
Association of Critical Heritage Studies