Dr Ann Hardy

Dr Ann Hardy

Coordinator, GLAMx and Digitisation Projects

University Library (History)

Career Summary

Biography

Ann is the Co-ordinator of the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab in Special Collections, Auchmuty Library, supervising Work Integrated Learning (WIL) students on placement in the GLAMx Lab (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums).  

Projects undertaken in the GLAMx Lab have a multidisciplinary focus, including :-

Ann has a strong commitment to historical and archival research of the Hunter region, collaborating with communities and cultural groups to develop new knowledge. Her key research areas are Newcastle's 'Coal River', Australian 'asylums', health history, Indigenous histories, and interested in the association between cultural heritage and well-being. Ann continues her current research interests in the association of historical research, archival sources and new digital media, collaborating with other academics to write journal articles, book chapters and present at conferences.

Research Expertise

Her doctural research titled  “. . . here is an Asylum open . . .” Constructing a Culture of Government Care in Australia 1801 – 2014 examines visual and written sources associated with the current mental health site known as the James Fletcher Hospital in Newcastle, NSW. The are area previously named Newcastle Government Domain (NGD) was the site for Government House, convict administrative centre, military barracks, then Girl's Industrial School and Reformatory and finally as a 'lunatic asylum' and later psychiatric hospital. Ann's research explores the transition of the NGD from active health care campus to heritage site tracing and exploring contemporary issues in heritage, the role of interdisciplinary non-governmental organisations in heritage advocacy and the possibility of overtly recognising the positive benefits of heritage conservation for mental well-being at this and other sites. The diverse strands of her research consider new directions that are of important for debates in the field of history, heritage, historical archaeology and the links between cultural heritage and well-being.

Teaching Expertise
Tutored Australian History (2008-2011)

Administrative Expertise
Co-ordinator of the University of Newcastle's Hunter (Living) Histories Initiative , a multi-disciplinary research and special interest group investigating history and cultural heritage of Newcastle, NSW. Members come from a variety of backgrounds including history, engineering, geology, surveying, archaeology, creative arts and education, as well as representatives from local Aboriginal community, various corporations and government departments to collaborate in research, projects and events. 

Past Projects

  •  Margaret Henry Oral History Project digitising several hundred oral histories from the Open Foundation Course (1986-1989). This project was funded by the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund. (2015)
  • Researcher and Project lead of NEWYhistory app - UON and the National Trust of Australia (NSW). 

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle
  • Bachelor of Social Work, Charles Sturt University
  • Graduate Diploma in Applied Heritage Studies, Curtin University

Keywords

  • Aboriginal Heritage
  • Audio-visual digitisation
  • Australian Asylum History
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Digital Humanities
  • Heritage & Well-being
  • Newcastle History
  • Object based learning

Professional Experience

Academic appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
1/1/2013 -  Membership - Australian Association of Archivists Australaian Association of Archivists
Australia
1/1/2011 - 31/12/2013 Director - National Trust of Australia (NSW) National Trust of Australia (NSW)
Australia
1/1/2008 - 9/10/2015 Membership - Hunter Heritage Network Hunter Heritage Network
Australia
1/1/2006 -  Membership - University of Newcastle’s Hunter Living Histories Initiative

The University of Newcastle’s Hunter (Living) Histories Initiative (previously Coal River Working Party) is a historical research group formed in 2003. https://hunterlivinghistories.com/about/meetings/

 University of Newcastle's Hunter (Living) Histories Initiative
Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle
Australia

Membership

Dates Title Organisation / Department
1/1/2022 - 24/12/2023 Member

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

(IASA) was established in 1969 in Amsterdam to function as a medium for

international co-operation between archives that preserve recorded sound

and audiovisual documents.

IASA has members from 70 countries representing a broad palette of

audiovisual archives and personal interests which are distinguished by

their focus on particular subjects and areas, eg archives for all sorts

of musical recordings, historic, literary, folkloric and ethnological

sound documents, theatre productions and oral history interviews,

bio-acoustics, environmental and medical sounds, linguistic and dialect

recordings, as well as recordings for forensic purposes.

 International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)
United Kingdom
1/1/2016 - 1/1/2017 Membership- The Australian Historical Association The Australian Historical Association
Australia

Professional appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
23/8/2019 -  Membership - Community and Culture Advisory Committee City of Newcastle
Australia
1/1/2018 - 29/12/2019 Membership - Heritage Working Party City of Newcastle
Australia

Awards

Recipient

Year Award
2017 University of Newcastle 2017 Work Integrated Learning Staff Member of the Year
University of Newcastle
2015 Academic Division Award for Collaboration Excellence
University of Newcastle, Academic Division - Newcastle
2014 2014 Newcastle Volunteer Service Award - University of Newcastles Coal River Working Party
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Research Award

Year Award
2010 Newcastle Council Prize for Historical Research
Unknown
2010 Hunter Bonafide Award from Hunter Heritage Network
Unknown

Teaching

Code Course Role Duration
HIST1010 Foundations of Australian Society
Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle 		Tutor 1/3/2008 - 9/11/2011
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Chapter (4 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2022 Hardy A, Rasmussen G, Di Gravio G, 'Visualising Deep Time History in Context Using Accessible and Emergent Technologies: The GLAM Sector Experience', Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science, Springer International, Cham, Switzerland (2022) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-77028-0
2020 Hardy A, Di Gravio G, 'Engaging tertiary students with university archival collections and digitisation processes', Technology, Change and the Academic Library Case Studies, Trends and Reflections, Chandos Publishing, United Kingdom 131-142 (2020)
DOI 10.1016/C2018-0-05078-1
2015 Hardy AV, di Gravio G, 'Nobbys Whibayganba: Saving the giant kangaroo', Radical Newcastle, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney 24-31 (2015) [B1]
2011 Hardy AV, 'Treasure Trove at the Government Domain', Wood, Brick & Stone : The Making of the Hunter, Catchfire Press, Dangar, NSW 226-232 (2011)
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Journal article (5 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2018 Di Gravio G, Hardy A, 'GLAMx Lab Living Histories Digitisation Lab engaging tertiary students with university archival collections', Archives and Manuscripts, 46 1-8 (2018) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/01576895.2018.1467272
Citations Scopus - 3
2017 Hardy AV, Cushing N, 'A Sensory History of the Newcastle Asylum for Imbeciles and Idiots, 1871-1900', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 19 139-160 (2017) [C1]
Co-authors Nancy Cushing
2015 Hardy AV, 'Australian Coal Mining industry (1797- 1820s): beginnings, history and the vanished industrial heritage of early Newcastle.', Australian Engineering Heritage Journal, 1-8 (2015)
2014 Hardy AV, Eklund E, 'Multidisciplinary Approach to University - Community Engagement', The Australasian Journal of University-Community Engagement, vol. 9 77-99 (2014)
2009 Hardy AV, 'Attending madness: At work in the Australian colonial asylum', Labour History, - 244-245 (2009) [C3]
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Conference (13 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2019 Hardy A, 'Survey: Users of the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisaion Lab at the University of Newcastle, Australia.', Adelaide, South Australia (2019)
2018 Hardy AV, Di Gravio G, '20th INTERNATIONAL ROCK ART CONGRESS IFRAO 2018', Rock Art as a Contextual Archive: Respecting Cultural and Spiritual Dimensions within a Comprehensive Scientific Approach, VALCAMONICA Darfo Boario Terme (BS) Italia (2018)
2017 Hardy AV, di Gravio G, Martin C, Rigby R, Davidson T, 'Newcastle Time Machine A multidisciplinary approach to digital cultural heritage', Newcastle Time Machine A multidisciplinary approach to digital cultural heritage, Brisbane, QLD (2017)
2017 Hardy A, 'Controversy, scandal & the entangled lives of girls at the Newcastle Industrial School (1867-1871)', Newcastle, New South Wales (2017)
2017 Hardy AV, 'Controversy, scandal & the entangled lives of girls at the Newcastle Industrial School (1867-1871) Newcastle, NSW.', Controversy, scandal & the entangled lives of girls at the Newcastle Industrial School (1867-1871) Newcastle, NSW., Newcastle, NSW (2017)
2016 Hardy A, 'Healthy Cultures: Healthy Communities - A multi-disciplinary approach to heritage and well-being', Healthy Cultures: Healthy Communities - A multi-disciplinary approach to heritage and well-being, Griffith University, Queensland (2016)
2016 Hardy AV, di Gravio G, 'Talking Rings of contemporary archives, speaking history and social sound platforms', http://www.archivists.org.au/learning-publications/speakers/speaker-abstracts, Parramatta- NSW (2016)
2015 Hardy AV, di Gravio G, Robertson B, 'Indigenising the City: Embodying Aboriginal knowledge and wisdom into planning frameworks to create sustainable cities of the future', http://spacesandflows.com/, Chicago, USA (2015) [O1]
2015 Hardy AV, 'Australian Coal Mining industry (1797- 1820s): beginnings, history and the vanished industrial heritage of early Newcastle', From the Past to the Future: 18th Australian Engineering Heritage Conference 2015, Newcastle, NSW (2015) [E1]
2015 Hardy AV, 'Islands of the Insane Our Records, Perceptions and the Lost Voices from the Asylum', Hobart, Tasmania (2015) [E3]
2015 Hardy AV, di Gravio G, 'Turning the Smell of an Oily Rag into the Perfumed Garden of Memory', Hobart, Tasmania (2015) [E3]
2014 Hardy AV, 'Shared Heritage Care- Multi-disciplinary Approach in Cultural Heritage', http://www.umass.edu/chs/news/conference2014.html, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA (2014) [E3]
2009 Hardy AV, 'Official Lunacy Policy and Frontier reality in Colonial New South Wales- Who was admitted to the Newcastle Asylum for Imbeciles?', ., University of Western Australia, Perth WA (2009) [E3]
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Creative Work (12 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2019 Hardy A, The Store Oral History Project, Livinghistories@uon, University of Newcastle (2019)
2017 Hardy AV, Shaw G, RAD Newcastle Exhibition - Newcastle & the Hunter through a Radical Lens, Newcastle Museum, NSW (2017)
2012 Hardy AV, Hardy V, Art of Ideas - National Trust Exhibition, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle (2012)
2012 Hardy AV, Henry M, National Trust Innovation and Invention in the Hunter Forum, Newcastle City Hall (2012)
2011 Hardy AV, Hardy V, Amazing Stories - National Trust Exhibition, John Paynter Gallery,Newcastle (2011)
2010 Hardy AV, Henry M, Macquarie Years- National Trust Forum with three distinguished speakers Dr Grace Karskens, Mr Robin Walsh & Ms Lisa Slade, Newcastle City Hall (2010)
2010 Hardy AV, Hardy V, The Making of a Nation - National Trust Exhibition, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, http://nationaltrust-hunternewcastleregion.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/making-of-our-nation-art-exhibition.html (2010)
2009 Hardy AV, Hardy V, Interpretations - Our Place in Space-Under the Southern Cross National Trust Exhibition, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle (2009)
2009 Hardy AV, di Gravio G, Hardy V, Hale C, Milgate E, Azzi S, Breath of Life -Back to the City Project, Obelisk Hill, Newcastle, Sydney (2009)
2008 Hardy AV, di Gravio G, Newcastle On the Edge - Panoramic Visions of Newcastle on the Coquun - Hunter River, Maritime Centre, Newcastle (2008)
2008 Hardy AV, Breath of Life, Potts Point (2008)
2008 Hardy AV, Hardy V, Our Place - National Trust Exhibition, John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle (2008)
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Other (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2015 Hardy AV, 'Newcastle's Way Forward Radical change, or cultural uniqueness', Winter Edition May - July 2015 ( pp.4-5): The National Trust of Australia (New South Wales) (2015) [O1]

Presentation (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2017 Hardy A, Hardy AV, ''A little volcano slumbered - Union of Australian Women - Newcastle Branch for International Women s Day - 'Empower a Women -Empower a Nation ', (2017)

Report (2 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2009 Hardy AV, 'Coal River (Mulubinba) Cultural Landscape', University of Newcastle's Coal River Working Party (2009)
2008 Hardy AV, 'Newcastle Government House & Domain', University of Newcastle's Coal River Working Party (2008)

Thesis / Dissertation (2 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2014 Hardy AV, '. . . here is an Asylum open . . .' Constructing a Culture of Government Care in Australia 1801 2014, University of Newcastle (2014)
2006 Hardy AV, Government House, Newcastle, New South Wales: A description of the Government House site from an analysis of historical maps and artworks from 1804 to 1885., Curtin University of Technology, WA (2006)
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News

A woman and a man engaged in a conversation

News • 1 Mar 2023

Papers of Newcastle Aboriginal activist to see the light of day: Stan Masterson Collection

Newcastle is well-known for its energetic trade unionism dating back to the 1870s, more obscure is their support for Indigenous activists fighting injustice, but all this is about to change with the digitising of the papers of the late Stan Masterson through the University of Newcastle’s Special Collections Services.

The Newcastle & Suburban Co-Coperative Society Ltd at its Charlton (now Hunter Street West) premises, [1914]

News • 27 Sep 2019

Community stories keep the memory of iconic ‘The Store’ alive

Memories and stories from members of the Newcastle community of the iconic co-operative ‘The Store’ have been captured and digitised by the University of Newcastle in an oral history project.

Dr Greg Blyton with VR headset

News • 12 Apr 2019

Virtual reality unearths ancient Indigenous artefacts

Modern technology is providing a glimpse into the world’s oldest surviving culture, with 3D digital scanning and virtual reality re-creating a 6,500-year-old archaeological site in Newcastle, Australia.

Dr Ann Hardy

Position

Coordinator, GLAMx and Digitisation Projects
Hunter (Living) Histories Initiative
University Library
Academic Division

Focus area

History

Contact Details

Email ann.hardy@newcastle.edu.au
Phone (02) 4985 4594
Mobile 0438509139
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Office

Room Cultural Collections L329
Building Auchmuty Library
Location Callaghan
University Drive
Callaghan, NSW 2308
Australia
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