Professor Royston Gustavson
Areas of expertise
- Cultural Studies 2002
Research interests
The History of the Book including:
- 16th century music printing and publishing in the German-speaking area
- Printing and publishing in 16th-century Nuremberg
- The book in sixteenth-century Iceland
- The Bibliotheca aulica Salisburgensis
- Nineteenth-century Australian music printing
Biography
Royston Gustavson joined ANU in 2003. A passionate educator, in 2009 he received the ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, from 2010-2011 was Associate Dean (Education) of the ANU College of Business and Economics, and from 2010-2012 served on ANU’s 15-person governing body, the ANU Council. Since January 2012 he has been Associate Dean (Education) in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, with academic oversight of the College’s degree programs and courses, concurrently serving from 2017 as Deputy Dean of the College. From January 2019 to April 2021 he was Interim Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) and, following an executive restructure, was appointed the university's inaugural Dean (Academic Quality) from 6 April 2021.
He chaired a number of reviews and working parties including the first formal review of the ANU Bachelor of Arts, the outcome of which focused the program on theory and method and the development of research skills; the ANU Honours Working Party, which put in place significant minimum standards for research-training in the honours year; the Academic Board Working Party on Academic Integrity; and the Graduate Coursework Working Party.
His service to government includes appointment since 2015 by the Minister to the board of a statutory authority, the ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies, of which he was founding co-chair of the Board's Innovation Committee, and he is a former member of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency’s Register of Experts.
From 2015 to 2017 he convened the learning and teaching network of the Australasian Council of Deans of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; from 2014-2017 was deputy chair of the ANU Educational Standards and Quality Committee; from 2018 is founding deputy chair of the ANU Teaching and Learning Development Committee (a sub-committee of Academic Board); and from 2019 is Chair of the Academic Quality Assurance Committee (a sub-committee of Academic Board).
Royston is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK); and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Institute of Managers and Leaders Australia and New Zealand, and Bruce Hall at ANU.
Royston's ORDID ID is: 0000-0001-7237-0252. He has a commitment to publishing Open Access.
Researcher's projects
My current research projects are (i) book-length studies on each of the following sixteenth-century printer/publishers and the reception of their publications: Hieronymus Formschneider; Christian Egenolff; Montanus & Neuber/Gerlach/Kauffmann; and (ii) a study of sixteenth-century publishers' and library catalogues and what they tell us about the music book trade and about lost music books; and (iii) a continuation of my project on the Bibliotheca aulica Salisburgensis.
My current research projects are: (i) a book on the printer Hieronymus Formschneider; (ii) the works of Heinrich Isaac published under Hans Ott's printing privilege of 1534, and (iii) a study of music publishing in sixteenth-century Germany.
Publications
- Gustavson, R 2021, 'The Montanus & Neuber Catalogue of 1560: Prices, Losses, and a New Polyphonic Music Edition of 1556', in Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Grantley McDonald (ed.), Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe, Routledge, London, London, pp. 247-279. Gold open access at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429342844
- Gustavson, R 2020, 'The Early Music Collection of the Bibliotheca aulica Salisburgensis: An Initial Investigation', Journal of the Alamire Foundation, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 11-49. Gold open access at https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.JAF.5.120209
- Gustavson, R 2018, 'The Music Editions of Christian Egenolff: a new catalogue and its implications', in Lindmayr-Brandl, A.; Giselbrecht, E.; McDonald, G. (ed.), Early Music Printing in German-Speaking Lands, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdon, pp. 153-195. Gold open access at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315281452
- Gustavson, R 2013, 'Senfl in Print: The Einzeldrucke', in Stefan Gasch and Sonja Troester (ed.), Senfl-Studien 2, Hans Schneider, Tutzing, pp. 257-307. Gold open access at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62248
- Gustavson, R 2011, 'Business Ethics as Field of Teaching, Training and Research in Oceania', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 104, no. SUPPL. 1, pp. 63-72. Republished as a chapter in: Global Survey of Business Ethics in Training, Teaching and Research, ed. Deon Rossouw and Christoph Stückelberger. Geneva: Globethics.net, 2012, pp. 353–378. ISBN 978-2-940428-39-7, Open Access at http://www.globethics.net/documents/4289936/13403236/GlobalSeries_5_GlobalSurveyBusinessEthics_text.pdf/d13e186c-198a-4e77-ac7a-9aa5584e7a8c
- Gustavson, R 2011, 'Commercialising the Choralis Constantinus: The Printing and Publishing of the First Edition', in David J Burn and Stefan Gasch (ed.), Heinrich Isaac and Polyphony for the Proper of the Mass in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout Belgium, pp. 215-268. Gold Open Access at http://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/M.EM-EB.4.9009
- Gustavson, R 2010, 'Competitive Strategy Dynamics in the German Music Publishing Industry 1530 -1550', in Birgit Lodes (ed.), NiveauNischeNimbus: Die Anfaenge des Musikdrucks noerdlich der Alpen, Verlag Hans Schneider, Germany, pp. 185 - 210. Gold open access at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/36731
- Gustavson, R, Kimani, N & Ouma, D 2009, 'The Anglo-American model of corporate governance in sub-Saharan Africa: explanatory and normative dimensions', in Thankom Gopinath Arun & John Turner (ed.), Corporate Governance and Development; Reform, Financial Systems and Legal Frameworks, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, MA, pp. 23-42.
- Gustavson, R 2009, 'The Company Directors' Perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility', in Samuel O. Idowu & Walter Leal Filho (ed.), Professionals' Perspectives of Corporate Social Responsibility, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 97-117.
- Gustavson, R 2009, 'Australia: Practices and Experiences', in Samuel O Idowu, Waletr L Filho (ed.), Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 463-495.
- Gustavson, R 2007, 'Commerce and the Arts', in Robert W. Kolb (ed.), Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 351-355.
- Gustavson, R 2007, 'Market for Corporate Control', in Robert W. Kolb (ed.), Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 1333-1335.
- Gustavson, R 2007, 'Minority Shareholders', in Robert W. Kolb (ed.), Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, pp. 351-355.
- Gustavson, R 2007, 'Georg Wachter', in Luwdig Finscher, (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2nd edition. Personenteil vol. 17. Barenreiter, Kassel, pp. 264-265.
- Gustavson, R, Kimani, N & Ouma, D 2006, 'Adding Value through Integrating Culture into Corporate Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa', Adding Value to the Financial World: A 2020 Perspective, ed. University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Gustavson, R 2005, 'Schoffer, Peter d.J.', in Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte and Gegenwart, Personenteil vol. 14. Barenreiter, Kassel, Germany, pp. 1568-1569.
- Alford, J, Gustavson, R & Williams, P 2004, The Governance of Australia's Courts: A Managerial Perspective, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Inc, Melbourne.
- Gustavson, R 2004, 'Montanus & Neuber', in Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte and Gegenwart, Personenteil vol. 12. Barenreiter, Kassel, Germany, pp. 371-373.
- Gustavson, R 2002, 'Grimm & Wirsung', in Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte and Gegenwart, Personenteil vol. 8Barenreiter, Kassel, Germany, pp. 43-44.
- Gustavson, R 2002, 'Gerlach, Katharina und Dietrich', in Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte and Gegenwart, Personenteil vol. 7. Barenreiter, Kassel, Germany, pp. 783-787.
- Gustavson, R 2001, 'Formschneider, Hieronymus', in Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte and Gegenwart, Personenteil vol. 6. Barenreiter, Kassel, Germany, pp. 1472-75.
- Gustavson, R 2001, 'Egenolff, Christian', in Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte and Gegenwart, Personenteil vol. 6. Barenreiter, Kassel, Germany, pp. 98-103.
- Gustavson, R 2001, 'Ott, Hans', in Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (eds), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd. ed. London, Macmillan, volume 24, pp. 800-801. Online at https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.20566
- Gustavson, R 2001, 'Formschneider, Hieronymus', in Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (eds), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd. ed. London, Macmillan, volume 9, pp. 97-98. Online at https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09989
- Gustavson, R 2000, Review of Musica Britannica Volume 74: Thomas Watson's Italian Madrigals Englished (1590) and The Byrd Edition Volume 9: Latin Motets II. Musicology Australia 23, pp. 136-141.
- Gustavson, R 2000, 'The Printing of the Novum et insigne opus musicum (RISM 1537/1 and RISM 1538/3)' in David Greer (ed.), Musicology and Sister Disciplines Past, Present, Future: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the International Musicological Society London 1997, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 630.
- Gustavson, R 1999, 'Editorial', in R Gustavson (ed.), Australasian Music Research Volumes 2-3 (1997-1998), Parkville, Vic: The University of Melbourne Centre for Studies in Australian Music, pp. vii-viii.
- Gustavson, R 1998, 'Brumby, Colin', 'Fisher, Sylvia', 'Lawrence, Marjorie', 'Melba, Dame Nellie', 'Ruth', in W Bebbington (ed), A Dictionary of Australian Music, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 44-45, 115-116, 187-188, 214-215, and 278.
- Gustavson, R 1997, 'Editorial', in R Gustavson (ed.) Australasian Music Research, volume 1 (1996), Parkville, Vic: The University of Melbourne Centre for Studies in Australian Music, pp. ix-xiii.
- Gustavson, R 1997, 'Brumby, Colin' in W. Bebbington (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 79-83.
- Gustavson, R 1997, 'Centre for Studies in Australian Music', in W. Bebbington (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, p. 105.
- Gustavson, R 1997, 'Clarke, Sir William', in W. Bebbington (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, p. 130.
- Gustavson, R 1997, 'Fisher, Sylvia', in W. Bebbington (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, p. 217.
- Gustavson, R 1997, 'Lawrence, Marjorie', in W. Bebbington (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, p. 332.
- Gustavson, R 1997, 'Melba, Dame Nellie', in W. Bebbington (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 366-367.
- Gustavson, R 1997, 'Ruth [by George Tolhurst]', in W. Bebbington (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 498-499.
- Gustavson, R 1997, 'Tolhurst, George', in W. Bebbington (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, p. 554.
- Reeder, H & Gustavson, R 1994 (eds), Alfred Hill: Giovanni. Opera in Three Acts. Vocal Score. Historic Australian Operas No. 2. Parkville, Vic: The University of Melbourne Centre for Studies in Australian Music.
