RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
Dr Ingrid Cox:
Breathing Can Sometimes Be A Burden: Exploring the Dual Threat of Interstitial Lung Disease and Lung Cancer Dr Ingrid Cox is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physician and Health Economist at Menzies Institute for Medical Research, UTAS. Ingrid’s current research matches her passion for health equity and equality and aims to understand the population, their environment, influences on their health and access to healthcare resources. The ultimate aim of her work being to improve access to health services for Tasmanians and the broader Australian population by improving efficiencies in the use of resources. Her research spans over various disease areas with a focus on respiratory diseases.
Dr Manon Simon:
Learning from Weather Modification Law for the Governance of Regional Solar Radiation Management Dr Manon Simon is a lecturer at the University of Tasmania Faculty of Law interested in the transferability of lessons from the governance of weather modification techniques to the governance of solar radiation management. She graduated with a Bachelor’s in Public and International Law from the University of Poitiers, before pursuing a LL.M. in Environmental and Natural Resources Law at the University of Oregon, USA. She started her PhD in 2017 at the Research Institute of Environmental Law in China, working on international regulations of weather modification activities. In 2019, she transferred to the University of Tasmania where she completed her PhD “Governing Cloud Seeding in Australia and the United States: Lessons for Regional Solar Regional Solar Radiation Management.” She examined the extent to which existing cloud seeding laws can inform the development of legal arrangements to govern regional solar radiation management techniques. Dr Manon Simon is now working as a post-doctoral research fellow on the ARC Discovery Project, “Governing Solar Radiation Management Research, Development and Deployment” with the Australian Forum for Climate Intervention Governance (AFCIG)
Branwell Roberts:
“A rough mineral and polished rubbish”: Tennyson and Browning in Antarctica Poetry was read – and written – on many polar expeditions during Antarctica’s “Heroic Age” (1898-1922). It was also the subject of much discussion, most famously when a debate was held on the Discovery expedition (1901-1904) as to whether Alfred Tennyson or Robert Browning was the superior poet. Branwell will also be sharing some of his own poetry, which responds to the themes of reading and Antarctic history. He will give an overview of his plans for the book-length collection of poems which will be the main output of his PhD.
The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.