Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney is the Friends' Lecturer and Curator of the ANU Classics Museum. Georgia is a transdisciplinary researcher and practitioner spanning museum curation, ethics, pedagogy, community outreach, and the history of the arts in education, health and wellbeing. Georgia completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Law and Classical Studies at the ANU (2006), under the tutelage of Prof. Elizabeth Minchin, a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education majoring in History at Monash University (2009), and a PhD  at ANU(2017) supervised by Dr Susan West and Prof. Minchin, which developed a transdisciplinary framework encompassing classical studies, etymology, pedagogy, philosophy, and the origins of music in human society, for application to the everyday practice of music in classrooms and communities.

Georgia was Convenor of the Music Engagement Program (MEP) at the ANU School of Music from 2011-2018. In 2018 the MEP became a private organisation, of which Georgia is Co-Director with Dr West. Georgia continued her research in the College of Health and Medicine from 2018-2022, where she undertook a range of research roles and fellowships within the ANU Medical School and the Centre for Mental Health Research. Her research during this period included projects concerning mental health peer work, medical education, and the impacts of communal singing outreach for people living with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. In 2022 Georgia returned to the ANU Centre for Classical Studies as Friends' Lecturer in Classics and Curator of the ANU Classics Museum, funded through the philanthropic support of the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum. This role involves the development of new outreach and education programs for teachers, students and communities across the ACT and further afield. Georgia has led initiatives and research projects encompassing object-based learning, museum ethics, collaborative repatriation with representatives of the Italian Government, and the ARTefacts project, where contemporary artists respond to the Classics Museum's collection of antiquities.

In 2016 Georgia was presented with a Children's Week Award by the Governor General of Australia for her work with Cranleigh School, a specialist school for children living with disabilities. A guest seminar at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Music in Human and Social Development (2017) led to her appointment as External Examiner to the University of Aberdeen's Community Music degree (2018-2020). In 2020 Georgia undertook a Research Fellowship with the National Library of Australia, exploring the community singing movement in interwar Australia (postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic). In 2022 she  collaborated with colleagues at the ANU School of Music and the Royal College of Music (London) on an International Network for Musical Care, involving practitioners and researchers from across the globe in inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural sharing and development.

BA (ANU), GradDipEd (Monash), PhD (ANU)

Classical Studies

Museum Studies

Music in Health and Wellbeing

Music Education

Transdisciplinary Research