Ania Kotarba-Morley

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ABOUT ANIA KOTARBA-MORLEY

Ania is an Archaeologist and Cultural Heritage expert with research focus on protecting and managing heritage sites endangered by climate change through community archaeology. She has worked globally in over 30 countries, including in the Near and Middle East, South Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific, as well as Australia and Remote Oceania. Dr Kotarba is active in the international field of cultural heritage management as an Expert Member of ICOMOS Australia (International Committee for Monuments and Sites), its Scientific Committee for Risk Preparedness (ANZCORP), and an Expert Member of ICAHM (International Committee for Archaeological Heritage Management). Following her dream to work for UNESCO, she has also interned at ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) in Rome, Italy and ATHAR (Architectural and Archaeological Tangible Heritage in the Arab Region) in Sharjah, U.A.E. Dr Kotarba has broad consultancy sector expertise, having worked in senior roles in heritage consultancies around the world, as well as being appointed a Heritage Lead on an Independent Panel of Experts for World Bank infrastructural projects. She has vast museum and conservation expertise, having worked at the Museum of London, Sharjah Archaeological Museum, and Qatar Museum Authority. Ania is also engaged in digital humanities, particularly in an ARC-funded \'Slow digitisation\' and objects of Martindale Hall project. In recent years, Ania has been passionately active as both a professional and educator in the field of risk preparedness and loss mitigation for cultural heritage vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters and armed conflict. In this area she works with Indigenous communities from Channel Country, QLD, Northern Arnhem Land, NT and Torres Strait Islands. She is currently directing and producing a short documentary with Yolngu-speaking Marthakal Indigenous Rangers from Arnhem Land on threats to cultural heritage from climate change in Northern Territory. In 2022 she run the first Australian Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage (DRM4CH) course with ANZCORP at Flinders University. At Adelaide University she leads \'The Art of Curation\' series of lectures, documentaries, and masterclasses. Educated at The University of Oxford with a DPhil in maritime and landscape archaeology, Ania\'s academic journey has led her to senior lecturing roles in Australian universities. In 2023, she joined the University of Adelaide as a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Curatorial and Museum Studies.