At the end of August 2020 my contract with Curtin University will expire, with the pandemic and budget issues, unless I take up a little sessional teaching (and possibly adjunct research as CI on existing Australian Research Council grants) I will sever connection with Curtin. Faculty policy has made it near impossible to take up management or other roles here by contract researchers.

I have a short-term invited and funded visiting scientist (professor) position at the University of Padova (Padua) Italy, via host Professor Andrea Giordano, but due to current Australian border closure, this may have to be online or postponed.

I have two books to edit or submit and some journal articles and 4 PhD students to transfer (plus some very promising research grant applications), but otherwise will be seeking a more robust appointment. Sadly, with the Australian government annoucements on the funding of humanities degrees, this may have to be overseas.

Thanks to all those helpful colleagues I have met while here over the last seven years. I’d also like to thank University of Western Australia and Australian National University for offering me the following:

• Honorary Research Professor, Centre of Digital Humanities Research (CDHR), Australian National University
• Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, FABLE, University of Western Australia