Tracy IRELAND

Tracy Ireland is Associate Professor of Cultural Heritage in the Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra, where she leads the Future Heritage program in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research. Tracy's career has also included working for the New South Wales Heritage Council as the State Archaeologist and heading up the Canberra Office of GML Heritage. She undertook a PhD at the University of Sydney, awarded in 2001, and  has published extensively on historical archaeology, heritage and conservation, and their entanglement with nationalism and colonialism. Tracy has prepared heritage assessments and management plans for some of Australia's most significant places, including the Old Great North Road World Heritage site, the Australian War Memorial, Old Parliament House and the Blacktown Native Insitution. Tracy is known internationally for her work on heritage ethics and the social values of heritage and she has researched and published on the archaeology and heritage of colonialism in Australia, New Zealand, Quebec, North Eastern USA, and in Cyprus, as a member of the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project. Her recent books include The ethics of cultural heritage (with John Schofield), and Object Lessons: Archaeology and heritage in Australia (with Jane Lydon).

Tracy has had 5 PhD and 1 Masters student complete successfully since 2015. In 2017 Tracy was visiting Research Fellow at the University of Stirling in Scotland.

Tracy is the Lead Chief Investigator for the 3 year ARC Linkage project  Heritage of the Air, 2018-2020, a digital and community focussed project studying how communities value the heritage of Australian aviation, partnering with Airservices Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the SFO Museum and the Civil Aviation Historical Society.