ProfessorGaye Sculthorpe

(she/her)

Professor, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Professor, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 924 45909 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • BOARD MEMBERSHIP
    Trustee, National Gallery of Victoria
    1 Feb 2024
  • BOARD MEMBERSHIP
    Board Member, Menzies Australia Institute, King's College London
    1 Jan 2023
  • BOARD MEMBERSHIP
    Member, International Cultural Property Society
    1 Jan 2018
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Museums Victoria Research Committee
    24 Mar 2025 - 3 Mar 2028
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Member, Aboriginal Advisory Council, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
    1 Jan 2023
  • AFFILIATION
    ICOM
  • AFFILIATION
    Museum Ethnographers Group UK
  • AFFILIATION
    Museums Australia
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2022 Global Impact Award, Global Australians Awards
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2017 ANU Indigenous Alumnus of the Year
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Keynote speaker, 'Return: Reconnecting objects and collections iwth people and places', ANU and Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga, June 2023 ('Finding your Ancestors' objects in Britain')
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Keynote speaker, AIATSIS Summit, Perth, June 2023 ('Aboriginal museum collections in a changing world: where to from here?')
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Invited speaker, Belonging Series, Chau Chau Wing Museum, August 2022 ('Being Collected: Aboriginal Objects in the British Museum')
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Keynote speaker, AMAGA Annual Conference, Perth, June 2022 ('Listening locally, acting globally: reflections from London')
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Deputy President, International Cultural Property Society