the history of trade union training in Australia for an ARC Linkage project, bringing together historians, vocational educationalists and industrial law experts. Teaching Garner became involved in community actions to support her local government secondary school and this inspired her to train in secondary teaching at Victoria University (2013-2014). She worked as a French and History teacher at Albert Park College from 2015 to 2019 and co-led the Languages curriculum team with colleague Tasha Brown. Music life She has been playing cello since the age of ten, and was a long-time member of the Xylouris Ensemble. The ensemble, led by Giorgos Xylouris on Laouto, performed contemporary, original and traditional Cretan music and released several studio albums. Garner currently plays in a trio, the endlings, with David Bowers and Dee Hannan, and has also played with euphonia with Mairead Hannan and Dee Hannan. Awards 1982 – nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, for Monkey Grip 1996 – nominated for the Australian Film Institute Awards, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Love and Other Catastrophes 1997 – won Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor – Female, for Love and Other Catastrophes 2002 – won the Screen Music Awards, Australia for Best Soundtrack Album, for One Night the Moon shared with Mairead Hannan, Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody, John Romeril, Deirdre Hannan 2005 – shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's History Awards General History Prize for A Shifting Shore: locals, outsiders and the transformation of a French fishing town, 1823–2000 2015 – Victoria University Medal for Excellence in Postgraduate Studies Personal life Garner is married with three children. Filmography Film Television Bibliography A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, And The Transformation Of A French Fishing Town, 1823–2000, Cornell University Press, published 31 January 2005, . The Student Chronicles, Melbourne University Publishing, 2006 co-authored with Diane Kirkby, Academic Ambassadors, Pacific Allies: Australia, America and the Fulbright Program (Manchester University Press, 2018) References External links Actors for Refugees web site Alice Garner Biography University of Melbourne media release 31 August 2005 on Garner's appointment Xylouris Ensemble web site 1969 births Living people APRA Award winners Australian film actresses Australian women writers University of Melbourne alumni Australian television actresses Actresses from Melbourne Writers from Melbourne