John Willsteed is a musician and academic. He toured the world through the late 80s in The Go-Betweens, has recorded and performed with many bands and has been a member of award-winning Brisbane group Halfway since 2011. A composer and sound editor with over 90 film and television credits and 3 AFI/AACTA awards, he holds an adjunct position at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He has presented papers nationally and internationally, and his academic interest is in cultural heritage, curatorial practice and storytelling.  He has produced work examining Brisbane’s punk and post-punk scene, has written numerous pieces for The Conversation and has contributed to academic journals and books as both writer and editor. He won the inaugural Letty Katts Award at the State Library of Queensland in 2016, and was recently awarded the 2024 John Oxley Library Fellowship for his project, Dive For Your Memory – Queensland music stories.

Keynote Lecture

It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Humidity

Websites

https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/j.willsteed