The Ian Langham Memorial Lecture – Uncle Rob Cooley, Gamay Rangers

Bio: Uncle Rob Cooley is a saltwater man with connections to Gamay-Botany Bay and the NSW South Coast. Currently, Uncle Rob is Senior Ranger and Leader of the Gamay Rangers, a group of Indigenous Rangers who undertake natural and cultural resource management activities on cultural areas within Gamay and on conservation land owned by the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council. In this role Uncle Rob leads the coastal management of Gamay, and has promoted co-design and co-leadership in coastal management, bringing public awareness to Indigenous Knowledge of Coastal and Marine systems.

Ian Langham (1942-1984) was one of the pioneers of the academic study of HPS in Australia. Ian was an active exponent of the view that historians of science must examine the political, social and economic implications of scientific change, and believed it was essential for science students in particular to have their attention directed to these implications in order more fully to understand their own work and career choices. This Memorial Lecture aims to sustain and encourage this particular form of critical inquiry at the University of Sydney.