About
I am an archaeologist who specialises in working with Aboriginal communities in Australia to document, understand and protect their heritage places and homelands. I have worked with many communities and families on heritage projects, especially in north, north-western and south-western Queensland, the South Australian Riverland. I have a particular love of western and central Cape York Peninsula, where I have been fortunate to work with a wide range of Indigenous community organisations on research, land management and heritage management projects. I continue to do this work, with several active projects looking at aspects of the histories of Indigenous communities in central and northern Cape York Peninsula, digital heritage repatriation, and investigations into the long-term and deep-time histories of these regions and Homelands.
My ‘day job’ is as an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and History at The University of New England, Armidale. I am also affiliated with Community Cultural Heritage Services, a community-oriented heritage advisory service. See the links for more information about my roles in each organisation.
This site is different. It’s the real deal, 100% Mick usually unfiltered and unrestrained. This draws together information about my research, teaching, resources I’d like to share and how to contact me.
It may not be pretty, it may not be regularly updated, and heck the content may not even be that good: but it is my little corner of the Internet, crafted by hand and with love. I have recently rebuilt this site from a pre-existing Wordpress Blog before getting busy in academia and not blogging very much. I may still not write here much, but I wanted somewhere to write again after a period of dormancy.
I hope you find what you need, and thanks for stopping by.
Mick 23 July 2023