Alison Vaughan
Manager Collections 聽
Alison Vaughan聽manages the National Herbarium of Victoria鈥檚 collection of 1.5 million botanical specimens. With 糖心影视鈥檚 Collections team, she ensures excellence in collections care and optimises access to the herbarium collection by welcoming research visitors, promoting good information management, and sharing stories from the collection. The appropriate management of Indigenous Cultural Knowledge associated with specimens in the Collection is a key focus of her current work.
With a background in botany, history, Indigenous studies and communications, Alison is passionate about connecting people with plants through social history and storytelling. Her research focus is Australian botanical history, particularly the contribution of First Peoples and women to botanical science.
Publications
Maroske, S., Vaughan, A. & Le Get, R. 2025. Additions and corrections to a biographical register of Ferdinand Mueller鈥檚 female plant collectors, and observations on the limitations of specimen databases. .
Maroske, S., May, T.W., Taylor, A., Vaughan, A. and Lucas, A.M. (2018). On the threshold of mycology: Flora Martin n茅e Campbell (1845鈥�1923). Muelleria 36,&苍产蝉辫;51鈥�73.
Maroske, S. and Vaughan, A. (2014). . Muelleria 32, 92鈥�172.
Parnell, J.A.N., Womersley, H.B.S., Sinkora, D., Vaughan, A. and Huisman, J.M. (2010). W.H. Harvey's Australian Travelling Sets of algae in the herbarium of the Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL), Australia. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 110B, 119鈥�161.
Vaughan, A. (2017). The Eileen Ramsay collection at the National Herbarium of Victoria. Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 171, 18鈥�22.聽
Klazenga, N. and Vaughan, A. (2014). Australia鈥檚 Virtual Herbarium hits 5 million records. Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 159, 7鈥�10.聽
Vaughan, A. and Brown, G. (2014). The University of Melbourne Herbarium: now accessible on-line via Australia鈥檚 Virtual Herbarium. Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 160, 10鈥�11.聽
Vaughan, A. (2017). The Eileen Ramsay collection at the National Herbarium of Victoria. Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 171, 18鈥�22.聽
Conference proceedings
Stajsic, V. and聽Vaughan, A.C.聽(2007). The role of the National Herbarium of Victoria (MEL) in the documentation of new weeds. In聽Proceedings third Victorian weed conference: earth wind fire water and weeds,聽pp. 70鈥�74. Weed Society of Victoria, Frankston.