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Dr

Sharon Huebner

Research Fellow
information science & library science
science & technology
koori histories
technology
applied ethics
cultural heritage photographs
archival descriptions
noongar
koori
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Dr

Sharon Huebner

 
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Dr

Sharon Huebner

 

Dr Sharon Huebner is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Indigenous Studies Unit and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre. She holds a PhD from Monash University, Melbourne Australia.

Sharon has worked with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families for the past two decades, protecting and preserving intergenerational rights to cultural heritage, including the digital return of material culture from archives, libraries and museums. She has been the recipient of a Creative Fellowship at the State Library Victoria (2014) and the Hugh Williamson Fellowship at the University of Melbourne Archives (2015). The fellowships supported script development and co-production of the short film, No–Longer a Wandering Spirit – Imaginaries of Bessy Flowers (2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1dAynpp9R4

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 7 most recent scholarly works by Sharon Huebner.

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Between Policy and Practice: Archival Descriptions, Digital Returns and a Place for Coalescing Narratives

Sharon Huebner, Stella Marr

Journal article  |  2019  |  Archives and Manuscripts

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‘It’s a resting place, where our spirits go’: Bringing back lost ancestor memories to Western Australia’s Great Southern – Noongar boodja

Sharon Huebner, Ezzard Flowers

Journal article  |  2016  |  Journal of Arts & Communities

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No longer a Wandering Spirit: imaginaries of Bessy Flowers

Sharon Huebner

Recorded or Rendered Work - Film, Video  |  2016

Digital Video narrated by Ezzard Flowers

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When Magnets Collide: Digital Preservation and Access of At-Risk Audiovisual Archives in a Remote Aboriginal Community

L Ormond-Parker, M Langton, S Huebner, J Coleman, C Pearson, R Sloggett, R Nordlinger, K Smith, K Clarke

Report  |  2016

Audiovisual materials have been produced and stored by remote Indigenous media and cultural organisations in Australia for over th..

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Nidjuuk, Niih, Kaatitjin – Look, Listen, Learn: Noongar and Koories interpreting the silences of a colonial archive

Sharon Huebner

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2016

This thesis repositions a story held in a colonial archive for more than 150 years in the lives today of Western Australia Noongar..

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A digital community project for the recuperation, activation and emergence of Victorian Koorie knowledge, culture and identity

Sharon Huebner

Book Chapter  |  2013

In 2003 I participated in the production of a digital community project for Victorian Koorie communities. The team of Indigenous a..

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Koorie Culture and Technology: A digital archive project for Victorian Koorie communities

Sharon Huebner

Journal article  |  2007  |  Archives and Manuscripts

The ability to meld Koori culture and technology relies on a relationship of trust with community members and a willingness to lis..

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Heritage
Library and Information Studies
Other Information and Computing Sciences

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Aboriginal voices in the afterlife of photographs

Sharon Huebner

November 28, 2016

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2015

Hugh Williamson Fellowship

University of Melbourne
2014

Creative Fellow

State Library Victoria
2015

University of Melbourne Archives Hugh Williamson Fellowship

2014

State Library Victoria Creative Fellowship

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Research Fellow

Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health

Casual

Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health

Research Assistant

Culture And Communication

Marketing Communications Manager

Historical And Philosophical Studies

Committee Member

Moreland City Council Reconciliation Working Group

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Monash University

Bachelor of Arts Media Arts

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology