User:LloydGraham
Qualifications[edit]
BA (Hons), Trinity College Dublin, 1982; PhD, University of Cambridge, 1986.
Bio[edit]
Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1961, Lloyd D. Graham is now based in Sydney, Australia. Until Oct 2014 he was a biomedical research scientist at CSIRO, working mainly in the disciplines of molecular biology and protein chemistry; his scientific publications are listed here. In 2017, he was a member of the Colvera team that won the Eureka Prize for Innovation in Medical Research and the CSIRO Entrepreneurship Award. Lloyd took early retirement to focus on his interests in the arts and humanities, as described below; he is now a CSIRO Alumnus.
Lloyd's interest in the humanties began early. As an undergraduate member of the TCD Theological Society, Lloyd argued for the merits of Robinsonian radical theology in a Theo debate (ca. 1980) against philosophy professor J.C.A. Gaskin, then Junior Dean of the College. Now, some 40 years later, he is a Professional Member of the International Association of Egyptologists and an Associate Member of the USA-based Societas Magica. In addition, he is a member of Macquarie University's Ancient History Association (MAHA) [1], its University Students for Egyptological Research society (USER), and its Rundle Foundation of Egyptian Archaeology. He is also a former member and Committee Member of the university's Society for the Study of Early Christianity [2]. Since 2015, Lloyd has undertaken 23 units of Ancient History via the university's (now discontinued) Continuing Education program and has studied biannually in the Macquarie Ancient Languages School [3]. He is also a member of Sydney University's Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation (NEAF). Online, Lloyd is currently a co-administrator for the public Facebook group "Egyptology in Australasia" (1500+ members), a member of the academic Facebook group Islamic Occultism, and an invited contributor to the Million Image Database at the Institute for Digital Archaeology. His arts/humanities publications are primarily hosted in his Academia portfolio and most are also listed on his ORCID profile.
Lloyd has had articles published in Literature and Theology (OUP), Prague Egyptological Studies, Trabajos de Egiptología, Göttinger Miszellen, JEOL, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Birmingham Egyptology Journal, Eikón Imago, Australian Aboriginal Studies, MC (now Modern Believing), Giluy Milta B'alma (Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, NLI), Journal of Vampire Studies, The Esoteric Quarterly, Academia Letters, Epigraphic Society Occasional Papers, Mythos Journal, Jones’ Celtic Encyclopedia, Ethnic Jewels Magazine, AusAnthrop, Fickle Muses, Clavis, PornSaints, and Lamhfada: An Online Magazine of Myth and Story. In addition, he was awarded two WordCount:Great Prose Exposed features on deviantART. Lloyd's arts/humanities portfolio on Academia is frequently in the top 0.5% of the platform's traffic, with more than 4350 followers and over 250,000 views to date (AuthorRank = 7.2, at the time when this metric was discontinued); he has served as an editor there since June 2017.
In 2020, Lloyd completed a book which surveys the history of his surname; it is titled House GRAHAM: From the Antonine Wall to the Temple of Hymen. The full PDF is available free of charge from Academia, from Scribd and from the Clan Graham Society, while print versions of the book are available for purchase from Lulu Press: the options are Standard edition or Premium edition.
Over the years, Lloyd's poems have appeared in The Poet’s Cut, KotaPress Journal, The Verse Marauder, Australian Life Scientist, The Harrow and Stylus Poetry Journal, and have been published on the websites of LabLit and The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (Johns Hopkins University Press). He won the poetry prize in both of the science-based creative writing competitions held by CSIRO. Some of his poems are listed in the AustLit database.
In Jul-Aug 2015, Lloyd's collection of Western Desert Aboriginal art formed the EarthSong exhibition at the McGlade Gallery which accompanied the Australian Catholic University's 25th anniversary conference, titled Grounding the Sacred. In Nov 2016, his collection of talismans, amulets and magical documents was exhibited at Macquarie University under the title TALISMANIA. This hands-on display illustrated the survival of magical traditions associated with Judaism, Christianity and Islam into recent times by presenting 74 artefacts (19th - 21st century) from the Middle East, Türkiye, the Levant, Africa, Eastern Europe and south-east Asia. In Aug 2017, Lloyd delivered a talk on the princess-priestesses of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to the University Students for Egyptological Research (USER) group at Macquarie University.
As a Continuing Education student in Macquarie's Dept. of Ancient History, Lloyd was a member of the three-person team that won the W.M.F. Petrie Award in 2016 (AHIS170: Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology, end-of-unit quiz). In 2017, he was awarded the Golden Obelisk (AHIS272: Ancient Egyptian Literature, end-of-unit performance).
Some of Lloyd’s digital art is featured on the Mythical Ireland website and has been used by the Royal Irish Academy. He designed the conference logo for the 10th Human Leukocyte Differentiation Antigen Workshop (HLDA10), an international biomedical symposium held in 2014. Lloyd is also proud to have two oil paintings in the permanent collection of the Museum of Bad Art (MoBA) near Boston, MA, one of which is reproduced in the book Museum of Bad Art: Masterworks (2008), which was reissued as a paperback in 2021. Other art and photography projects can be seen in his deviantART gallery.
His unusual leisure-time activities have included rehearsing for World War III as a Warning Officer with UKWMO at Ayr Group Control, and singing Carmina Burana with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs at the Sydney Opera House.
Wikipedia Pages[edit]
Pages created with extensive content:
Tingari; Ecdysone receptor; Danny Malboeuf
Major contribution to:
Wati kutjara; Bioadhesives; 20-hydroxyecdysone; Zdzisław Beksiński
Minor contribution to:
Lake Mackay; Tjurunga; Kukatja; Geoffrey Bardon; Lebor Gabála Érenn; Grigori; Ecdysone; Ecdysteroids; Ultraspiracle