Associate Professor Lyndon Ormond-Parker was born in Darwin and is of Alyawarra decent, from the Barkly tablelands region of the Northern Territory. He has been involved in advocacy, policy development, research and negotiations at the local, national and international level.
A cultural heritage expert with significant experience in the fields of repatriation, archives, materials conservation, heritage and policy, information technologies and digital inclusion.
He is also the Principal Research Fellow (0.5EFT) on the Mapping the Digital Gap in Remote First Nations Communities project supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (CE200100005) RMIT University. He also currently holds an ARC Research Fellowship (0.5EFT) with Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies Australian National University (IN220100008). Ormond-Parker has held numerous positions across universities, organisations, government committees and boards. Ormond-Parker has significant experience in coordinating tertiary level subjects and also in the development and delivery of 'on country' learning. He has lectured in numerous graduate and undergraduate courses across disciplines and universities.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.