Gosh…it’s been awhile since I’ve updated my website, but it’s not for want of activities!

In 2020 I was honoured to join Andrea Gaynor, Carla Pascoe-Leahy, Daniel May and Yves Rees in preparing a ‘Working Paper on Sustainable History’. We were writing as the smoke of the horrific 2019/20 bushfires cleared and on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, and sought to join a growing conversation about how academic historians (and other academics) can help to address the climate and biodiversity crises in their professional practices. Subsequently, at the 2021 AGM of the Australian Historical Association, Carla Pascoe-Leahy successfully proposed a Sustainability motion:

That the Australian Historical Association recognises that the world confronts a climate emergency, and that historians have a responsibility in these times of environmental crisis to consider how their working lives might become more sustainable.
The Australian Historian Association commits itself to appraising how sustainability can be incorporated into the work of the organisation, including its investment portfolio. It commits to advocating for sustainability by encouraging history departments, universities, journals, publishers, conferences and funding bodies to move to more environmentally responsible models.

Please follow the link here to join us and add your endorsement!