LYNDON ORMOND-PARKER

Professor Lyndon Ormond-Parker is a First Nations Principal Research Fellow at the RMIT University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).

Professor Ormond-Parker was born in Darwin and is of Alyawarra descent from the Barkly tablelands region of the Northern Territory. A cultural heritage expert with significant experience in the fields of history of medical collections, repatriation, archives, information technologies, materials conservation, heritage, and policy.

He is the Co-Chair on the First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group, which works closely with First Nations communities to hear their views on digital inclusion, understand local needs and priorities, and provide advice to the Minister for Communications.

He is the First Nations Principal Research Fellow on the Mapping the Digital Gap project supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University. He also currently holds an ARC Research Fellowship with Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies Australian National University. Ormond-Parker has held numerous positions across universities, organisations, government committees and boards.