Dr Ann Hardy
Coordinator GLAMx and Digitisation Projects
University Library (History)
- Email:ann.hardy@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:0249854594
Career Summary
Biography
Ann is the co-ordinator of the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab in Special Collections, Auchmuty Library, supervising Career Ready Placement students on placement and community volunteers at the GLAMx Lab (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums).
Projects undertaken in the GLAMx Lab reflect the regions rich cultural significance and have a multidisciplinary focus, here are some of the projects :-
- NBN Television digitisation project (search tool)
- Hannan Photographic Archive
- The Store Oral History Project
- Deep Time project
Ann has a strong commitment to historical and archival research of the Hunter region, collaborating with communities and cultural groups to develop new knowledge. She supports students and volunteers interested in gaining GLAM sector skill and co-ordinates access to other GLAM professional and industry professions. Ann continues her interest in historical and archival research associated with the heritage of the Hunter Region and particularly interested in collaborating with other academics to write journal articles, book chapters and presenting 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 Showcase , 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
- Co-curator 'REWIND Hunter Region Television Retrospective' Exhibition (July-Sept 2024) Auchmuty Library
- Researcher and co-curator of the RAD Newcastle Exhibition at the Newcastle Museum (July- Sept 2017)
- 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)
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Social Work, Charles Sturt University
- Graduate Diploma in Applied Heritage Studies, Curtin University
Keywords
- Audio-visual digitisation
- Cultural Heritage
- Digital Humanities
- GLAM sector
- Health Histories
- Television Archive
- Work Integrated 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 - 24/1/2025 |
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
Nomination
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
Community Engagement Award Finalist Academic Excellence, University of Newcastle |
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 Unknown |
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 |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Chapter (6 outputs)
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| 2022 |
Hardy A, Rasmussen G, di Gravio G, 'Visualising Deep Time History in Context Using Accessible and Emergent Technologies: The GLAM Sector Experience', Springer Series on Cultural Computing 69-91 (2022)
This chapter discusses the collaborative work of the University of Newcastle's IT Services' Innovation Team (ITSIT) and the university library's Cultural... [more] This chapter discusses the collaborative work of the University of Newcastle's IT Services' Innovation Team (ITSIT) and the university library's Cultural Collections (UONCC) and the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab to create the heritage visualisation project Deep Time. The collaborative process facilitates a diversity of 'voices' around heritage in the digital age by taking a digital and information technology, and GLAM (Galleries Libraries Archives and Museums) perspective. The team creating the 3D model of firstly an Aboriginal archaeological site, and custom virtual reality (VR) software for the project and using new technology to enhance teaching and learning at the University. The case study relies strongly on Indigenous artefacts as archival and historical aspects to interpret cultural sources for application to digital formats such as VR. This chapter explores digitisation and digitalisation concepts and specific technical detail such as 3D modelling and texturing. The collaborative process also involved the wider community and work-integrated learning (WIL) students and volunteers in the GLAMx Lab. The wide approach (professionally and academically) demonstrates the use of innovative technologies and how the GLAM sector can add value to visualisations that comprise heritage digital reproductions and contextualisation.
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| 2022 |
Hardy A, Rasmussen G, Di Gravio G, 'Visualising Deep Time History in Context Using Accessible and Emergent Technologies: The GLAM Sector Experience' (2022) [B1]
This chapter discusses the collaborative work of the University of Newcastle's IT Services' Innovation Team (ITSIT) and the university library's Cultural... [more] This chapter discusses the collaborative work of the University of Newcastle's IT Services' Innovation Team (ITSIT) and the university library's Cultural Collections (UONCC) and the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab to create the heritage visualisation project Deep Time. The collaborative process facilitates a diversity of 'voices' around heritage in the digital age by taking a digital and information technology, and GLAM (Galleries Libraries Archives and Museums) perspective. The team creating the 3D model of firstly an Aboriginal archaeological site, and custom virtual reality (VR) software for the project and using new technology to enhance teaching and learning at the University. The case study relies strongly on Indigenous artefacts as archival and historical aspects to interpret cultural sources for application to digital formats such as VR. This chapter explores digitisation and digitalisation concepts and specific technical detail such as 3D modelling and texturing. The collaborative process also involved the wider community and work-integrated learning (WIL) students and volunteers in the GLAMx Lab. The wide approach (professionally and academically) demonstrates the use of innovative technologies and how the GLAM sector can add value to visualisations that comprise heritage digital reproductions and contextualisation.
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Open Research Newcastle | ||||||
| 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 131-142 (2020)
In 2016, the University of Newcastle (UON) (Australia) Auchmuty Library established the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab to provide for placements for students i... [more] In 2016, the University of Newcastle (UON) (Australia) Auchmuty Library established the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab to provide for placements for students in the UON's Work Integrated Learning programmes. The lab provides a unique opportunity in the tertiary teaching and learning sphere for students to engage in practical education and learn the technical know-how to be able to transform any physical format into a digital object, and access to the entire gamut of GLAM professions across conservation and preservation, archival science, librarianship, digitisation, metadata and data management, curatorial work, three-dimensional (3D) scanning, virtual reality technologies and digital heritage skills. The two case studies discussed are quite specialised digitisation projects: the first is the Deep Time project requiring 3D scanning technology; and second the audio-visual digitisation of the NBN Television archive. Digital projects are curated and shared with a global audience on the UON Library's Cultural Collections digital platform 'Livinghistories@UON'.
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| 2020 |
Hardy A, Di Gravio G, 'Engaging tertiary students with university archival collections and digitisation processes', 131-142 (2020)
In 2016, the University of Newcastle (UON) (Australia) Auchmuty Library established the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab to provide for placements for students i... [more] In 2016, the University of Newcastle (UON) (Australia) Auchmuty Library established the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab to provide for placements for students in the UON's Work Integrated Learning programmes. The lab provides a unique opportunity in the tertiary teaching and learning sphere for students to engage in practical education and learn the technical know-how to be able to transform any physical format into a digital object, and access to the entire gamut of GLAM professions across conservation and preservation, archival science, librarianship, digitisation, metadata and data management, curatorial work, three-dimensional (3D) scanning, virtual reality technologies and digital heritage skills. The two case studies discussed are quite specialised digitisation projects: the first is the Deep Time project requiring 3D scanning technology; and second the audio-visual digitisation of the NBN Television archive. Digital projects are curated and shared with a global audience on the UON Library's Cultural Collections digital platform 'Livinghistories@UON'.
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| 2015 | Hardy AV, di Gravio G, 'Nobbys Whibayganba: Saving the giant kangaroo', Radical Newcastle, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney 24-31 (2015) [B1] | Open Research Newcastle | ||||||
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Conference (14 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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| 2019 | Hardy A, 'Survey: Users of the GLAMx Living Histories Digitisation Lab at the University of Newcastle, 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 (2018) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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] | Open Research Newcastle | |
| 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] | ||
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Creative Work (12 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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| 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) | ||
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Journal article (6 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | |||||
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| 2024 |
Hardy A, ''The Store' Oral History Project', History of Retailing and Consumption, 10 209-224 (2024) [C1]
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| 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]
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Open Research Newcastle | ||||||
| 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]
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Open Research Newcastle | ||||||
| 2009 | Hardy AV, 'Attending madness: At work in the Australian colonial asylum', Labour History, - 244-245 (2009) [C3] | Open Research Newcastle | ||||||
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Other (1 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2014 | Hardy AV, ''. . . here is an Asylum open . . .' Constructing a Culture of Government Care in Australia 1801 – 2014' (2014) | Open Research Newcastle | |
| 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) |
News
![The Newcastle & Suburban Co-Coperative Society Ltd at its Charlton (now Hunter Street West) premises, [1914]](https://www.newcastle.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0011/562709/varieties/sidebar_cal_thumb.jpg "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.
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
Resources Division
Focus area
History
Contact Details
| ann.hardy@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Phone | 0249854594 |
| Mobile | 0438509139 |
| Links |
Personal Blogs YouTube |
Office
| Room | L329 |
|---|---|
| Building | Auchmuty Library |
| Location | Callaghan Campus University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |