The Richard and Janet Southby Visiting Fellows programme offers students and staff the opportunity to expand the way they think about the outside world and to consider other ways of seeing and understanding.

Inspired by Richard Southby’s distinguished academic career in global health, the programme offers intellectual rigour, thought-provoking insights, interesting life experiences, creativity, and a world of new thinking. It opens minds to new ideas and excites curiosity.

As part of our Creative Education programme, Visiting Fellows develops students as global citizens, stimulating creative goal setting and delivering applied learning.

It is through your generous gifts that we have continued to deliver this creative approach to learning since 2005, connecting us with a global community of inspiring scholars and professionals.

As a critically important adjunct to how GGS students learn about the wider world and engage with it, the programme has delivered an impressive list of distinguished Visiting Fellows.

  • Geoff Lemon (FB’99): cricketing journalist and author
  • Lachy Hulme: star of film, stage and television
  • Emeritus Professor Andrew McNamara: art historian and professor in visual arts and creative industries
  • Dr Shireen Morris: lawyer and author
  • Professor Toby Walsh: expert in Artificial Intelligence
  • Alannah Hill: fashion designer and style icon
  • Nigel Brennan: freelance photo-journalist, ambushed and kidnapped in Somalia
  • Dr Anita Heiss: author of the bestselling Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
  • Emilia Lahti: Finnish researcher and social activist
  • James Harpur: award-winning UK poet
  • Robin Eley: Los Angeles-based hyperrealist painter
  • Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce AC CSC RAN (rtd): lead on South Australian Government Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission
  • John O’Donnell: renowned keyboard player, choral conductor and musicologist
  • Drew Berry (M’87): known as the Steven Spielberg of molecular animation
  • Dr Tony Holmes AO (Cu’63): plastic and reconstructive surgeon delivering life-changing surgery to children
  • Dr Penny Allen (Fr’80): led a surgical team to implement the world’s first bionic eye prototype
  • Dr David Cropley: one of Australia’s leading experts on creative problem solving and innovation
  • Associate Professor Rufus Black (Glamorgan’81): ethicist, theologian and consultant on ethical and public policy
  • Tony Walker AM (FB’64): a foreign correspondent for the Australian Financial Review
  • Judith Beveridge: Australian poet and academic
  • Emeritus Professor Hugh White AO: professor in strategic studies at ANU
  • Professor David Runia: oncologist
  • Dr Romayne Holmes: Chair of the Australia Council
  • James Strong: former Warden of Trinity College, Melbourne
  • Peter Hay, (FB’68): business leader
  • The Honourable Frank Callaway RFD, QC (dec.): Court of Appeal justice at the Supreme Court of Victoria
  • Alexandra Richards KC: practitioner in commercial, taxation and human rights law
  • Bob Randall (Uncle Bob) (dec.): member of the Stolen Generation, with a message of love, forgiveness and respect

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