The 2022 President's Award and 2021 Sigrid McCausland Emerging Writers Award were presented at the 2022 Annual General Meeting held on 17 October 2022.
2022 President's Award
Congratulations to the five who were presented with a President's Award at the 2021 Annual General Meeting.
- Wendy Biggs for her long-standing commitment to the Queensland School Archives Special Interest Group in the role of Secretary and supporting the professional development programme.
- Dr Jessie Lymn in recognition of her leadership in relation to the ASA journal, Archives & Manuscripts, and in moving it to an open access model of publishing.
- Julia Mant for her leadership in establishing and chairing the ASA’s Professional Training and Accreditation Committee.
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Andrea McKinnon-Matthews in recognition of her long-standing commitment and leadership within the South Australian Special Interest Group.
- Nicola McGrath in acknowledgement of her ongoing commitment to the Victorian Branch.
2021 Sigrid McCausland Emerging Writers Award
Congratulations to the 2021 recipient of the Archives and Manuscripts Sigrid McCausland Emerging Writers Award - Rose Barrowcliffe for Closing the narrative gap: social media as a tool to reconcile institutional archival narratives with Indigenous counter-narratives from A&M Vol 49(3), 2021
The award recognises the work of emerging writers who have published an article in the journal. Each year the members of the Archives and Manuscripts Editorial Board decide the winner of this award, which features a $1000 cash payment.
Judges’ Comments
This is a thought-provoking exploration of institutional inertia in the Australian government archive sector, but more broadly across all major GLAM organisations, when it comes to engaging with counter-narratives. Taking social media as its focus, the article examines how collecting/memory institutions failed to engage with the Black Lives Matter movement in Australia, despite their public affirmations of National Reconciliation Week. The author concludes on the basis of her case study that “a significant narrative gap” still remains between “stories about Indigenous peoples and stories by Indigenous peoples”. The article ultimately makes the case that while “archives have been used as a tool of colonisation”, they can also support “[Indigenous] counter-narratives … as a tool to dismantle colonial certitude in historical narratives in settler-colonial nations”. This is a powerful article that will generate great discussion about collecting Indigenous peoples’ stories and records in Australia.
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