KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Catharine Coleborne
Newcastle, NSW
Catharine Coleborne is an Australian academic historian of illness, health and medicine, especially mental illness and institutions. Her career contributions include a focus on patients, asylum records and medical case book narratives in the archive, and interactions between families and medical personnel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She has written about changing understandings of health and illness and has used oral histories to examine the patient experience. She has published numerous books, chapters and journal articles and her work is internationally recognised.
She is currently leading an Australian Research Council project (with Dr Effie Karageorgos) focused on mental health aftercare in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia, 1900 to 1960. This will result in a co-authored book and a public-facing exhibition to share the histories of mental health aftercare to a wide audience.
In 2025, she will be a Visiting Fellow at the State Library of NSW and a residential Fellow at the National Library of Australia working on a history of polio memories and experiences. Catharine has supervised student research theses on a wide range of topics including mental illness and mental health; child health and disability; public health; patient pathography; and institutions.
She is currently based at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales where she is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences. Her most recent book is Vagrant Lives in Colonial Australasia: Regulating Mobility, 1840-1910 (Bloomsbury, 2024).
Professor Jakelin Troy
Sydney, NSW
My research interest are currently focussed on documenting, describing and reviving Indigenous languages. I have a new focus on the Indigenous languages of Pakistan, including Saraiki of the Punjab and Torwali of Swat. I have two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects one with Prof John Maynard on the history of Aboriginal missions and reserves in eastern Australia and the history of Aboriginal people who were not institutionalised. The other DP is about the practise of 'corroboree' by Aboriginal people in the 'assimilation period' of the mid C20 in Australia. I am interested in the use of Indigenous research methodologies and community engaged research practises. I am Aboriginal Australian and my community is Ngarigu of the Snowy Mountains in south eastern Australia.
Professor Yayi Suryo Prabandari
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Professor Prabandari is the chair of the Department of HBES (Health Behavior,
Environment & Social Medicine) FM-PHN UGM and also the chair of Health Promoting University, Universitas Gadjah Mada (HPU-UGM).
She graduated from Faculty of Psychology UGM in 1989 and master degree program in clinical psychology in 1994. She holds PhD on community medicine from the University of Newcastle Australia (2006).
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She received NIH US Fogarty Grant in collaborated with an Indian College and three US universities (2003 to 2013), USAID PEER Health Grant with RTI US (2015 to 2019), Co-Fresh Project with University of Stirling UK & University of Putra Jaya Malaysia (2023-2024), and ASSIST Project with University of Glasgow, UK, University of the Philippine & University of
Bejing (2021-2025) for tobacco control research.
In the last ten years she published more than 100 international journal articles on tobacco control and ethics, health behavior,
education and promotion, as well as become reviewer in more than 20 international reputable journals.