ECR Blog: How To… Survive in academia until you secure a position
In this week’s post, Jatinder Mann offers some personal reflections on his journey to secure an ongoing position in academia. Read it here.
Category: Blogs by members
Honest History update
The Honest History website has had new material added: review by Ben Wilkie of Bain Attwood’s The Good Country; appreciation by John Shield of Don Charlwood’s 1965 classic, All the Green Year; Phil Cashen on the second conscription referendum, 1917, in Gippsland; the new Australian Journeyproject at the National Museum of Australia (hosted by Bruce Scates and Susan Read more …
Honest History update
New material at includes an English translation by John Moses of a German review of Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers, a review by Derek Abbott of Roland Perry’s book on Generals Monash and Chauvel, a review by Amanda Laugesen of a book about Australian aphorisms, a posthumously republished article by Geoffrey Bolton on the Max Gluckman Affair Read more …
ERC blog update: Objects That Shaped My Life
Karen Schamberger is a curator at the National Museum of Australia. She is currently expanding her horizons through her work as part of the exhibition team developing a new long-term environmental history gallery. She recently completed her PhD: ‘Identity, belonging and cultural diversity in Australian museums’ and previously worked as a research assistant at Deakin Read more …
ECR Blog: Q&A with John Maynard
Professor John Maynard talks about what inspired his love of history, who he writes for and the future of academia. He has some fantastic advice for ECRs, reminding them to read widely, work hard and with passion, and to never be afraid to listen and take advice. Read it here.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Jeannine Baker, who has been awarded the biennial Ferguson Prize for the best article published in Labour History on an interwar theme/topic, for ‘Australian Women Journalists and the “Pretence of Equality”’, Labour History, no. 108, May 2015.
ECR Blog update: Emerging Historians – Dr Claire Higgins
Claire Higgins completed her DPhil in History in January 2014 at the University of Oxford. She is now now a Senior Research Associate at the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW. Read about her experience as an emerging historian here.
‘My Marvellous Melbourne’
‘My Marvellous Melbourne’ is a new podcast produced by staff and students affiliated with the Melbourne History Workshop in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, under the direction of Professor Andrew May. Segments combine stories, interviews and personal reflections on the social history of the city and suburbs, as well as new Read more …
ECR Blog update: Q&A with Douglas Wilkie
In this entry, Dr Douglas Wilkie talks about his love of solving history puzzles and the difference between writing as a freelance and academic historian. Read it here.
AHA ECR blog additions: The Book that Changed my Life – Hannah Forsyth
Hannah Forsyth is Lecturer in History and ARC DECRA Fellow at ACU in Sydney. Find out what book changed her life here.