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AHRC Response

The College extends congratulations to the following members of Response to the Australian
the JCH community who were recognised in 2017 and 2018 for Human Rights Commission Report
outstanding contributions to the society in which they live. on Sexual Harassment and Sexual
Assault on Australian University
Queen’s Birthday 2017 (UK) Australia Day 2017 Campuses

Professor Alexandra Walsham CBE Mrs Jennifer Happell OAM (1956) As the first university college for women
(Tutor 1989) For service to the community through in Australia, Janet Clarke Hall applauds
Professor of Modern History, voluntary roles with horticultural the work of the Australian Human Rights
University of Cambridge. organisations. Commission in bringing the issue of
For services to history. sexual violence on campus to national
A volunteer guide at Melbourne’s Royal attention.
Prof Walsham’s research focuses on the Botanic Gardens since 1983, she also
religious and cultural history of early contributed to the documenting and Over the past few years the College has
modern Britain and she has published reclassifying of approximately 950 worked to increase recognition of the
widely in this field. A Fellow of Trinity camellias and the subsequent naming issue, and to refine our own practices,
College, she has been a Fellow of the of the Gardens as a Camellia Garden of policies and education in order to
Royal Historical Society since 1999 Excellence. prevent sexual violence and better
and was elected a Fellow of the British support its survivors. We have worked
Academy in 2009 and of the Australian Emeritus Professor Keryn Williams AC closely with various groups including
Academy of the Humanities in 2013. (1968) ‘The Hunting Ground Australia Project’,
For eminent service to medical science the Australian Human Rights Centre at
in the field of ophthalmology through UNSW, End Rape on Campus (EROC)
Queen’s Birthday 2017 (Australia) the research and development of corneal Australia, CASA House, the University of
transplantation, as an academic and Melbourne, and the Melbourne Chapter
Professor Jennie Ponsford AO (1974) mentor, and as a supporter of young of Colleges, as well as the Australian
For distinguished service to medical women scientists. Human Rights Commission itself.
research in the field of neuropsychology,
and through seminal advances in the Prof Williams was co-founder and The College is providing external and
diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of scientific director of the Australian internal annual training on respectful
patients with traumatic brain injuries. Corneal Graft Registry based at Flinders relationships, consent, and bystander
University, developing a transplant engagement for all students and staff. In
Prof Ponsford is Director of Monash database that has virtually eliminated recent years students have engaged with
School of Psychological Sciences’ corneal transplant waiting lists and staff, and with each other, in important
Clinical Programs and Director of restored sight to thousands. She is and, at times, difficult conversations
the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation currently Associate Dean (Research) about power, trust, and respectful
Research Centre. She remains deeply within the Faculty of Health Sciences at relationships.
engaged in research and is part of the Flinders.
Attention & Memory Research Program There is always more to learn, and
at the Monash Institute of Cognitive and more to do as we refine our thinking
Clinical Neurosciences. Australia Day 2018 and practice in terms of prevention,
education, and support for survivors of
Adjunct Professor Jennifer Webb AM Professor Janet McCalman AC (1967) sexual harassment and assault. Whilst
(1970) For eminent service to education, the College has long stood up for the
For significant service to education, particularly in the field of social history, rights of those pushed to the margins,
particularly to archaeology, as an as a leading academic, researcher that does not mean that we have always
academic, researcher and author, and to and author, as a contributor to multi- done the best that we possibly could
the community. disciplinary curriculum development, have done to support those who may
and through the promotion of history to have suffered sexual violence within or
Adj Prof Webb studied classics and the wider community. beyond our walls.
ancient history at the University of
Melbourne and subsequently at the Prof McCalman is a distinguished The College wishes to offer a deep and
British School of Archaeology at Athens. historian of health and medicine, as unreserved apology to anyone who
She has co-directed excavations at well as the social history of Australia has suffered through our failings, at
Marki, Deneia and Politiko in Cyprus. more broadly. A Redmond Barry an institutional level, and at any time
She is currently Charles La Trobe Distinguished Professor of the University throughout our history, in addressing
Research Fellow at La Trobe University. of Melbourne, and Professor of History the issues of sexual harassment and
in the Centre for Health Equity within sexual assault. Alumni and friends of the
the Melbourne School of Population and College who wish to contact the College
Global Health, she is also the author with any matter arising from the AHRC
of award-winning books including, Report are encouraged to do so, in
Struggletown: Public and Private Life in confidence if desired.
Richmond 1900-1965 and Journeyings:
The Biography of a Middle-Class
Generation 1920-1990.
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