Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment - CACHE

06/12/2022

It might be near the end of the year, but we've been busy & have great news to share! Please check out our CACHE News to learn more about some of the exciting initiatives, grants, promotions & activities our CACHE community has been up to!
https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/resilient-societies/centres/cache/news-and-events

29/09/2022

Happy Friday! It's been a good news week! Please join us as we celebrate that Dr Sophia Aharonovich, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel (2020 – 2022), has been appointed to a lectureship position at the Australian Catholic University in the Faculty of Education & Arts. You can read more about Sophia's work and new role in our Latest News.

CACHE is delighted to celebrate that Dr Sophia Aharonovich, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel (2020 – 2022), has been appointed to a lectureship position at the Australian Catholic University in Faculty of Education & Arts.

28/09/2022

We are delighted to share more CACHE News! Please join us as we congratulate our Executive Member, Associate Professor Emily O'Gorman, on the award of an ARC Future Fellowship, Protecting Global Wetlands, 1945 to the Present. You can learn more about Emily's project in our latest News.

CACHE congratulates our Executive Member, Associate Professor Emily O'Gorman, on the award of an ARC Future Fellowship, Protecting Global Wetlands, 1945 to the Present.  

18/09/2022

We are delighted to share the wonderful news of a successful ARC Linkage Grant! CACHE congratulates our members Associate Professor Donna Houston and Dr Alexandra Carthey and their colleagues on the award of an ARC Linkage Project, Urban Rewilding: Ecologically and Community-informed Futures. To read more about the project and the work of incredible colleagues, please see our latest news piece.

CACHE is delighted to share the wonderful news of a successful ARC Linkage Grant! CACHE congratulates our members Associate Professor Donna Houston and Dr Alexandra Carthey and their colleagues on the award of an ARC LinkageProject,Urban Rewilding: Ecologically and Community-informed Futures.

31/08/2022

CACHE is delighted to welcome Dustin McKenzie to our CACHE community! Dustin has joined CACHE as an ECR affiliate! To read more about Dustin's work check out our News!

Dustin is an Early Career Researcher in Ancient History and Archaeology. They graduated from the University of Queensland with a BA (Hons) in Ancient History and Archaeology and a Diploma of Languages in 2015 and received their MPhil from UQ in 2018. Dustin’s research interests include the relatio...

11/08/2022

We are delighted to announce our 2022 CACHE Postdoctoral Fellowship has been awarded to Dr Melanie Pitkin, Senior Curator of the Nicholson Collection of the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney. Melanie's project will be sponsored by CACHE Executive Member Professor Damian Gore (School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University). Dr Pitkin’s CACHE Fellowship project, titled Egyptian stelae in the Chau Chak Wing Museum: an interdisciplinary examination of their materiality, production and decoration, will provide new insights into the way we understand, and think of, ancient Egyptian stelae.

To read more about Melanie's project see our CACHE News. Please join us as we congratulate and welcome Dr Melanie Pitkin to the CACHE community.

Melanie is an Australian based Early Career Researcher with a PhD in Egyptology (awarded by Macquarie University in 2018). She has a strong research track record, particularly during her 4-year Postdoctoral position in Egyptian Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Melanie worked on the....

21/07/2022

CACHE is delighted to share some more good news! Please join us as we congratulate another of our ECR affiliates and 2021 CACHE Indigenous Australian Research Fellow, Zac Roberts, who was awarded the John Mulvaney Fellowship for 2022 by the Australian Academy of the Humanities. To learn more, head to our CACHE News.
https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/resilient-societies/centres/cache/news-and-events/news/news/zac-roberts-awarded-the-john-mulvaney-fellowship-for-2022.

21/07/2022

Please join us as we congratulate our ECR Affiliate and one of our 2021 CACHE Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Dr Michael Spate, and co-authors Christian Leipe and Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute on their article publication titled “Reviewing the Palaeoenvironmental Record to Better Understand Long-Term Human-Environment Interaction in Inner Asia During the Late Holocene” (2022) in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 10. You can read more about Dr Spate's publication in our News.

CACHE congratulates our ECR Affiliate and one of our 2021 CACHE Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Dr Michael Spate, and co-authors Christian Leipe and Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute on their article publication titled “Reviewing the Palaeoenvironmental Record to Better Understand Long-Term Human-Envi...

14/07/2022

CACHE is delighted to welcome some new members who will be joining us from the MQ Environmental Humanities Research Group! Check out our News to read more about this incredible group of scholars!
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CACHE is delighted to welcome some new members who will be joining us from the MQ Environmental Humanities Research Group, co-lead by CACHE Executive Committee member A/Prof. Emily O’Gorman.  Environmental Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that serves as an umbrella for environmental subf...

07/07/2022

CACHE is delighted to welcome new members Dr Matthew Kosnik & Dr Shaina Russell, who will be joining us from the Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences! You can read more about their profiles in our Newest News! 🔥✨🥳🔗👇

CACHE is delighted to welcome new members, Dr Matthew Kosnik and Dr Shaina Russell, who will be joining us from the Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences.

26/06/2022

🚨FUNDING DEADLINE🚨 Two weeks to apply for CACHE Postdoctoral & ECR Indigenous Australian Research !
Applications close Sunday 10 July 22
All details https://tinyurl.com/29nksbbn
$5K for research in

02/06/2022

We are delighted to celebrate the success of our centre member Associate Professor Emily O'Gorman, on the award of a 2022 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner in Ecology & Environment for her publication Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. To read more about the publication, please see our latest news piece on the CACHE website.

CACHE is delighted to congratulate one of our inaugural 2021 CACHE ECR Indigenous Australian Research Fellows, Zac Roberts, who has been appointed an Associate Lectureship in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. Zac is a Yuin scholar and PhD candidate in the Department of In...