ACRO People

These are some of the people, past and present, who have contributed to the development of ACRO. There are more pictures and bios on the way

	Cindy Gallois is Professor of Psychology and Faculty Research Director in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Queensland. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Cindy's  research and research supervision is broadly focused on intergroup and intercultural communication in organisational and health contexts, particularly on the process of communication accommodation. She is a CI on most of the grants that have funded ACRO.
	Dave Rooney is Senior Lecturer in Communication at the UQ Business school and co-Director of ACRO.
	Greg Hearn is Professor in Media and Communication at QUT's CIRAC. Greg is an influential voice in IT policy in Australia and has made significant international impacts upon practically every field in communication research.
	Peter (Willy) Willersdorf does the digitising at ACRO. He is walking art and has a long history at the forefront of Australian rock music as a bass player.
	Liz Ferrier is Senior Lecturer in Communication at the UQ Business school and conceived of the EdgeX project. She has a long and distinguished history in screen writing and has been published widely in communication and media studies journals.
	Tim Gaze is ACRO's industry collection coordinator and an Australian blues guitar legend. He currently moonlights as a guitarist in Jimmy Barnes's band.
	Tom Worthington is from the ANU and a leading figure in Australian IT policy. A mystery and an enigma, Tom travels the world and traverses the breadth of the IT field.
	Ashley (Velvet) Jones is project manager for ACRO and a PhD candidate at UQ . You may  have heard the dulcet tones of Velvet Jones talking you into something you could neither understand nor resist.
	Dr Jane Hunter late of the DSTC and currently Professor: acerbic wit, collaborative software guru, metadata mama, and archival technology legend. Jane has given invaluable advice and support throughout the development of ACRO.
	Dr Axel Bruns teaches and conducts research about online publishing, electronic creative writing, online communities and popular music at the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology. He is originally from Hannover, Germany, but has lived and worked in Brisbane since the mid-90s. He has completed a major study of Resource Centre Sites on the World Wide Web, which involved describing and analysing a major new genre of online news, information and discussion Websites including Slashdot.org and MediaChannel.org. Axel is a co-founder of the online journals M/C and dotlit and the Web developer responsible for QUT's streaming media station EMIT.
	Tim Brailsford is Professor of Finance and Foundation Head of the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland. Prior to this appointment, Tim was Dean of the Faculty of Economics & Commerce at the Australian National University and has held senior academic positions at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. Tim’s area of expertise is in investments and valuation, corporate finance and financial management. He is a regular consultant to industry and government and is the current President of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia & New Zealand. Tim is an Executive Board Member of ACRO and funds ACRO's operations through the UQ Business School.
	Bruce Muirhead is the founding Director of The Institute for Educational Research, Policy & Evaluation, currently hosted by Griffith University but funded by all 8 Queensland universities and Queensland State Government. Bruce was also the founding Director of the University of Queensland’s Community Service and Research Centre (CSRC) from 1999 to late 2004. His research and activity interests include third way entreprenueralism; local governance/ community capacity building; communities and new technologies, and universities as sites of civic responsibility and democracy. In collaboration with key community leaders, he is coordinator and developer of graduate programs in interprofessional leadership, community and information technology and social innovation.
	Jan Servaes is Head of the Department of Journalism and Communication at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. He has worked previously at the universities of Cornell (Ithica, NY), Nijmegen (Netherlands), Thammasat (Bangkok), K.U. Leuven and U.I. Antwerp (Beligum). Jan is former President of the European Consortium of Communication Research. He specializes in international communication and development communication, and has done research and consultancy work in different parts of the world including Argentina, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Dominican Republic, South Africa and Thailand. He has discussed the right to communicate in many of his publications.
	Following in the footsteps of his father, Luke Blair has already made a mark in the music industry. Growing up to the sounds of his father's banjo in Broken Hill to mastering the Didgeridoo at the age of 12, Luke is destined to go onto do great things in the entertainment and media industry. Luke is a bass player as well as being proficient in using Pro Tools, Producing soundtracks and is a strong performer in his own right. He has toured the United States of America with "Slick Shoes", filled in bass for triple J unearthed winners Rhubarb on their Wheels in Motion tour of Australia. He is passionate about music, production and brings a fresh and innovative approach to digitising media within the archive. Luke is continuing his formal education in music and is enthusiastic about they way technology can support and enhance the industry.
	Phil Graham is founding Director of ACRO. He spent over 20 years in advertising and related industries before escaping into academia. His research interests include political economy of new media, discourse analysis, and the implications of a knowledge economy for large-scale social and institutional change. He is Associate Professor of Communication in the UQ Business School and former Canada Research Chair in Communication and Technology at the University of Waterloo. Phil is founding Director of ACRO and The Canadian Centre for Cultural Innovation.
	Jo Tacchi is Senior Research Fellow at CIRACM,QUT. Jo specialises in ethnographic action research that integrates broadly qualitative research methods to see how ICT interventions fit into local poverty and communications, and how these interventions might be more effective. She is is CI on the YIRN and EdgeX projects.
	Jeremy Hunsinger Jeremy Hunsinger is ACRO's intrepid sysadmin and occasional visiting researcher. He with the help of many others basically keeps ACRO up and running. In his spare time, Jeremy manages the Jeremy manages the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech; teaches in Ancient and Medieval Political Theory, Comparative Political Economy, Political Communication, Modern Political Theory, Democratic Theory, The Internet:Power, Politics and Policy; is completing his PhD in Political Economy of the Internet; and does about a thousand other interesting and complicated things. .