Dr Janet Hope earned first-class honours degrees in biochemistry and law from the ANU in the mid-1990s and received her PhD in Law in 2005 after practising as a barrister and solicitor and court friend in Australia and New Zealand. From 2000 to 2009 she was a pioneer of efforts to translate the "open source" model from software to biotechnology, a key agenda item for scholars working to develop socially just models of intellectual property management. Janet’s international prize-winning 2008 book, BioBazaar (Harvard University Press), was the first systematic exposition of the open source model outside the software context, offering a detailed conceptual framework to support further development of the model in biotech and elsewhere. From 2013 to 2020 she built a thriving “international micro-business” serving hundreds of individual and organisational clients around the world, primarily in the higher education sector. Janet holds the International Coach Federation’s senior practitioner credential (PCC) and is a founding member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (Asia-Pacific Region). Her current primary research interests relate to restorative reform in a variety of contexts, especially health and justice systems.
Here Janet discusses her favourite holiday, the best thing she has watched on TV recently and what she sings in the shower.
What’s the ideal start to a Sunday? Gentle start or a jolt?
It's been a few years now since I've been woken at 5AM by a child walking on my head and that's the way I like it.
What’s the best thing you’ve watched on TV recently?
Annabel Crabb did a great job with MsRepresented.
A glass of something you’d recommend?
Nothing alcoholic -- I fall asleep -- I usually order a soda water with lime.
What’s that you’re singing in the shower?
BTS after the kids play it at breakfast, but I have no idea what the actual words are.
Soundtrack of your choice?
Allegri Misereri at night, Godzilla by Eminem in the morning.
Best vacation you’ve been to?
Cycling/hiking/kayaking trip to Croatia in 2016.
Tell us something about yourself that would surprise us.
I once had a gig as an international travel writer for a Sydney senior citizens' magazine. Did you know that Kashima Stadium in Ibaraki, Japan is easy to get around with a walking frame?
The ideal dinner menu?
Thai beef salad, with something lemony for dessert.
Ideal dinner venue?
Picnic on the beach.
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