The Dictionary is pleased to welcome Dr Naomi Parry to our small team. Naomi is a graduate of the University of Tasmania, Macquarie University and University of New South Wales, where she completed her PhD on black and white children in welfare in NSW and Tasmania 1880-1940. She has lectured at Macquarie University, University of New South Wales, University of Tasmania and the University of Western Sydney.  Naomi has a background in cultural development, heritage and public history including running Eskbank House and Museum for Lithgow City Council. Significantly, for the past three years Naomi has worked on a national digital history project to locate records and create histories of children's homes for Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants called the Find and Connect web resource.

Naomi brings with her a wealth of historical research, strong editorial skills and highly sought after digital publishing experience. Naomi's role will be to work on entries that have been waiting in our system while we have been attending to multiple project deadlines, an upgrade of the Heurist system that runs the Dictionary, an office move and all the associated IT challenges that relocating to new, more independent, premises involves. It's been a busy six months for the Dictionary. We are looking forward to having Naomi on board and bringing more great Sydney history to you soon.