Governance

UWA Publishing (UWAP) acknowledges the Whadjuk Noongar people as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which UWAP operates. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend our respect to all First Nations people. We recognise First Nations people as the original story tellers and are committed to championing their stories in the books we publish.

UWA Publishing's activities are overseen by the UWA Publishing Board.

UWA Publishing Board

Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Chair

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth is the Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia. His books include Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt (UWAP, 2017) and Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia (MUP, 2001). Tony convened the 2019 Association for the Studies of Australian Literature (ASAL) Conference Perth and is the Director of the Westerly Centre, which publishes Westerly Magazine.

Amanda Davies

Professor Amanda Davies is Head of UWA’s School of Social Sciences and a lecturer and researcher in human geography. With a disciplinary background in geography, Professor Davies’ research focuses on examining Australia's population growth, distribution and patterns of demographic change. Her work also focuses on exploring the social, economic and environmental issues related to rural re-population.

Professor Davies is an applied researcher, working closely with industry and government partners to deliver timely and relevant information to inform policy.

Anas Ghadouani 

Anas Ghadouani is Professor of Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Australia. Anas has over 20 years of research and teaching experience in the area of water. Anas is a founding member and past Executive Director of the multidisciplinary Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, and is currently the Chair, Communication, Adoption and Translation in the ARC Training Centre for the Transformation of Australia’s Biosolids Resource.  He is an expert advisor to a number of organisations and agencies in Australia and internationally. He has also been an editor for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) since 2005. Anas is passionate about strategic research translation and business development.

Jill Benn

Jill Benn is the University Librarian at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and has significant experience in the leadership of academic libraries. Jill’s professional interests include learning space design, leadership development, and equitable access to information.  Jill’s commitment to excellence is recognised through the award of Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, and she is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

 Kate Hislop

Kate Hislop is the Dean and Head of the UWA School of Design, and a registered architect in Western Australia. Kate has more than 20 years of experience in education and research in architecture, with particular interests in the intersections of architectural history with visual culture as well as contemporary design thinking and practice. While an academic at UWA she has maintained strong involvement with the architectural profession at state and national levels. She was the first female editor of the long-running journal 'The Architect' (WA), has participated in architecture award juries and been a regular examiner of candidates presenting for the Australian Practice Examination (APE). She is currently the Chair of the National Advisory Panel to the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia. In 2021 she received the Architects Board Award (WA) for service to the profession. 

Lucy Montgomery

Lucy Montgomery is Professor of Knowledge Innovation at Curtin University, where she leads the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative. Her research focuses on the ways in which open knowledge is transforming landscapes of knowledge production, sharing and use. She has been involved in the open access scholarly book space since 2012 and is Research Director of COARD: a not-for-profit consultancy specialising in open access books.  

Owen Davies

Owen Davies is the Chief Marketing Officer at The University of Western Australia. In this role Owen is responsible for UWA’s marketing, communications, student recruitment and admissions functions across all International and Domestic markets.
Owen is a commercially astute marketing leader with over 20 years of experience across market research, business analytics, growth strategy, marketing and communications.  Prior to joining UWA, Owen spent over a decade in senior marketing and strategy roles for Crown Resorts, was a Consultant at leading global market research firm Synovate, and held various marketing and business development roles in the technology sector.  Owen has a track-record of delivering marketing plans that have driven strong growth for large Western Australian and national brands.

Sarah Collins

Assoc. Prof. Sarah Collins FAHA has published widely on the relationship between music and literary aesthetics and broader intellectual and political currents in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and Durham University, and has received competitive national grants from funding bodies in the UK and Australia. She has been reviews editor for the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (Cambridge UP) and is currently co-editor of Music & Letters (Oxford UP). She has also edited and co-edited numerous collections and special issues. 

Shino Konishi

Shino Konishi joined both the UWA Discipline of History in the School of Humanities and the School of Indigenous Studies in January 2014. Her research interests largely concern histories of cross-cultural encounters in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Australia, the history of European, particularly French, exploration in Australia and the Pacific, European and colonial representations of Aboriginal people and gender relations, Indigenous biography and emotions. Shino is of Aboriginal descent and identifies with the Yawuru people of Broome, Western Australia.