The University of Western Australia

Assoc/Prof Judith Berman

Principal Adviser (International Research Networks) (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri)
Vice-Chancellery

Contact details

Address

Vice-Chancellery
The University of Western Australia (M011)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 8033

Email

judith.berman@uwa.edu.au

Biography

Judy’s research training and employment history spans three continents and education systems, from living on a Kibbutz in Israel and completing a BA (Hons) and Dip Ed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, through school teaching in the UK, to a PhD (History), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (UWA). She has also worked for the WA state government, in the Office of Multicultural Interests. She moved into research management in 2004 and is now Associate Director of Research Development at the University of Western Australia.

As well as lecturing in Holocaust Studies, she has made a substantial contribution to Australian and international research on representations of the Holocaust with two books and ten sole-authored referred articles in national and international journals as well as conference papers and reviews. She was Vice President of the WA Holocaust Institute for six years. Since 2004 she has steadily been building up a track record of research in higher education policy and research management, her new area of research specialisation. She is a member of the Professional Development Committee of the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) and in 2006 won the prestigious ARMS Award for Excellence. In 2009 she was awarded an Endeavour Executive Award (DEEWR) to visit China to exchange best practice in research development.

Key research

Holocaust remembrance & memorialisation

Holocaust

Higher education policy and research management

Postdoctoral development

Industry-University research partnerships

Publications

Books

Berman, Judith, E, Holocaust agendas, conspiracies and industries?: issues and debates in Holocaust memorialisation, Vallentine Mitchell: London, 2006.

Berman, Judith, E, Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities, 1945-2000, University of Western Australia Press: Perth, 2001.

Chapters in books

Berman, Judith, E, “Jewish Holocaust Museums in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney: the 'Australianisation' of the Holocaust?”, in Franz Oswald and Maureen Perkins (eds.), Europe - Divided or United?, Southern Highlands: Canberra, 2000, pp. 317-329.

Articles in refereed journals

Pitman Tim & Berman, Judith E, “Of what benefit and to whom?: linking Australian humanities’ research with its ‘end users’”, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management , accepted 14th February 2009.

Berman, Judith E., Pitman, Tim, Thomson, Campbell, & Juniper, Sato “Reconceptualising post-PhD research pathways: a model to create new postdoctoral positions and improve the quality of postdoctoral training in Australia”, Australian Universities Review, vol. 50, issue 2, September 2008, pp.71-78.

Berman, Judith “Connecting with Industry: Bridging the Divide”, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management , vol. 30, issue 2, 2008, pp. 165-174.

Berman, Judith E. “Holocaust commemorations in London and Anglo-Jewish (dis)unity”, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2004, pp. 51-71.

Berman, Judith, E. “Holocaust museums in Australia: the impact of Holocaust denial and the role of survivors”, Journal of Holocaust Education, vol. 10, no. 1, Summer 2002, pp. 67-88.

Berman, Judith, E, “Yom haShoah Commemorations in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, 1945-96: Debates Concerning the Date, Scope, Location, Nature, and Rituals”, Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, vol. XV 1999, Part I, November 1999, pp. 80-94.

Berman, Judith, E, “Yom haShoah (Holocaust Day) Commemorations in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, 1945-96: Attendance and Youth Participation”, Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. XIII, November 1999, pp. 94-116.

Berman, Judith, E, “Jewish Holocaust Museums in Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney, 1984-96: Representations of the Holocaust”, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 200-221.

Berman, Judith, E, “The Lessons and Messages of the Holocaust as Conveyed through Yom haShoah (Holocaust Day) Commemorations in Selected Australian Jewish Communities, 1945-96”, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, vol. 4, no. 1, February 1999, pp. 54-71.

Berman, Judith, E, “Holocaust Education in Australian Mainstream Jewish day schools, 1976-1995: Staff and Curricula”, History of Education Review, vol. 27, no. 1, 1998, pp. 66-83.

Berman, Judith, E, “Holocaust Education in Australian Mainstream Jewish High Schools, 1976-1995”, in Yad Vashem: International Conference – The Holocaust And Education, 16 October 1996, p. 7.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Role - to assist the Research Executive to increase and diversify UWA’s external research income and lead the Research Development team (including the Postdoctoral Coordinator)in support of this goal. The role includes providing strategic advice to researchers on issues related to external research funding; facilitating greater research collaboration – internally and externally, with the public and private sectors, and nationally and internationally; coordinating bids for major external research funding (including the facilitation or preparation of Business Plans); postdoctoral development, and delivering workshops on funding schemes and career development to the research community.

Languages

English and Hebrew (fluent)

Memberships

Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS)
International Network of Research Management Societies (iNorms)
Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM)
Holocaust Institute of WA (former vice-President)

Honours and awards

Endeavour Executive Award, Department of Education, Employment & Workplace Relations, 2009

Award for Excellence, Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS), 2006

UWA Faculty of Arts’ Excellence in Teaching Award - runner up, 2001

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Re-entry)
University of Western Australia, 2000

Jill Bradshaw Bursary, Australian Federation of University Women (WA), 1999

Previous positions

Policy Officer, Office of Multicultural Interests, Department of Premier and Cabinet, 2004

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (History Dept.), University of Western Australia, 2000-2003

Teaching

Unit Coordinator and Lecturer, 'HY 238/338 The Decline & Fall of the Russian Empire 1894-2001', University of Western Australia, 2001, 2002.

Unit coordinator and lecturer,‘HY 168 – The Holocaust and its Legacy for the Twentieth Century’, University of Notre Dame,
1999.

Lecturer, ‘History 122 – Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians’, University of Western Australia, 1999.

Current external positions

Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) PD national committee

Research profile

Research profile and publications