Stephen Valambras Graham completed a Master of Information Management at the University of South Australia in 2021 and was awarded the Australian Library and Information Association and UniSA STEM Prize for the highest achieving graduate in the Master's program. An article based on his research report in partial fulfillment of the Master of Information Management was published in Humanities Research 2024 vol. xx, no. 1. Stephen is also a member of the Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and has a keen interest in the online discoverability of digital humanities research.

Also a trained art historian, writer, and researcher, Stephen's recent publications have appeared in the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, Australian Historical Studies, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, Meanjin, and Portrait. In 2022, he was awarded the Wakefield Press South Australian History Essay Prize, an annual award for the best essay on a topic relating to the history of South Australia, for his essay 'Open Doors: The art of charity in the Promised Land'. 

His most recent publication (November 2025) focuses on the work of artist John Michael Crossland in its exploration of the representation of character and civic virtues in the portraits of three public figures who embodied the emerging middle class and professional elite in early South Australia: 

Valambras Graham, S. (2025). 'Framing Virtue: Public Portraits and Civic Identity in Victorian Adelaide'. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 29(2), 1-18.

Stephen's current research examines public subscriptions for commissioned portraits in the mid-nineteenth century.