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1 y separately published work icon The Message Giver : An Analysis of Joan Phipson's Writing for Children Janet Doolan , Z984538 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Above and Beyond Broadcasting : A Study of First Nations Media and the COVID-19 Pandemic Claire Stuchbery , Bronte Gosper , Sharon Huebner , Lyndon Ormond-Parker , Andrew Dodd , Brad Buller , Alice Springs : First Nations Media Australia The University of Melbourne Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas , 2022 24237459 2022 single work criticism

'First Nations media organisations have adapted their crisis response to the pandemic to focus on vaccination information and managing information flow about the evolving directives for travel and lockdowns on an ongoing basis. Through case study examples, this study has generated understanding about how First Nations media organisations operated during the early days of Australia’s COVID-19 pandemic. It has identified key lessons that can be learned from that experience, both for the future benefit of media organisations and for those First Nations communities continuing to struggle with the impact of Australia’s most urgent public health challenge in nearly a century.'

Source: Introduction.

1 3 y separately published work icon Untapped : The Australian Literary Heritage Project. Rebecca Giblin , Melbourne : The University of Melbourne , 2020 20798758 2020 website

'Most Australian books ever written are now out-of-print and unavailable to readers. That includes local histories and memoirs, beloved children’s titles – and even winners of our most glittering literary prizes.

'Untapped is a collaboration between authors, libraries and researchers, working together to identify Australia’s lost literary treasures and bring them back to life!

'We’re digitising culturally important out-of-print Australian novels, histories, memoirs, poetry and more. They’ll be licensed into public libraries around the country, and our library partners will promote them so everyone has an opportunity to rediscover these engaging, enlightening texts. And most of them will be made available for sale as ebooks too!

'This project will create a new income source for Australian authors, who currently have few options for getting their out-of-print titles available in libraries. And it supports arts workers affected by COVID, who we’re hiring to assist us with the proofreading necessary to get the scanned books up to library quality.

'It will also support vital research into the economic value of out-of-print rights for authors, the value of libraries’ book promotion efforts, and the relationship between library lending and sales.

'The results will be fed into public policy discussions about how we can best support Australian authors and literary culture. And we’re hopeful that this new investment and attention will cause some of these important books to get another look from commercial publishers too.' (https://untapped.org.au/)

1 y separately published work icon Breaking New Ground : Biographies of Women Agricultural Science Students, University of Melbourne 1942-1965 Helen Billman-Jacob , Ann Westmore , Melbourne : The University of Melbourne , 2019 20253300 2019 selected work biography interview

'The book explores the lives and careers of fourteen of the first female agricultural scientists to spend a residential year at Dookie Agricultural College during the second year of their studies at the University of Melbourne.'

Source: University of Melbourne (https://fvas.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-events/news-formatted/gallery-builder-for-news). (Sighted: 28/9/2020)

1 y separately published work icon Anthropologist of Space: The Poetry and Poetics of Laurie Duggan Cameron Lowe , Melbourne : 2014 8242204 2014 single work thesis

'This thesis, which comprises a critical dissertation and creative manuscript, explores the representation of contemporary space in the work of Australian poet Laurie Duggan. Through comparative readings of Duggan’s poetry and that of other poets with whom he shares thematic preoccupations and aesthetic concerns, the thesis provides a range of critical approaches for illuminating the representational strategies in Duggan’s work. The thesis argues, with reference to theoretical perspectives including those of Michel de Certeau, Henri Lefebvre and Fredric Jameson, that Duggan’s poetry constructs a deceptively complex spatial dynamic, a poetic strategy grounded in specific localities, while recognising that the local, as space, is open to social and cultural associations that extend beyond the static nature of place. Situating Duggan’s work within a modernist tradition of process-based aesthetics, the thesis argues that Duggan’s poetry involves a process of spatial mapping, a strategy that constructs experiential, yet necessarily provisional, maps of contemporary space that move fluidly from the local to the global.

'The creative component of the thesis takes the form of a poetry manuscript, the poems responding to—though not attempting to explicate—the aesthetic concerns explored in relation to Duggan’s poetry and poetics. Although the poetry presented here displays shared influences and representational strategies with Duggan and the other poets considered in this study, the manuscript is not imitative, or derivative but instead deliberately charts its own conception of contemporary space. In this respect, the two components of the thesis complement one another, offering on the one hand a critical investigation of Duggan’s approach to the representation of space, while at the same time creatively exploring the possibilities of what might constitute a spatial poetics.'

Source: The University of Melbourne.

1 y separately published work icon Sustainable Data From Digital Research: Humanities Perspectives on Digital Scholarship Nick Thieberger (editor), Linda Barwick (editor), Rosey Billington (editor), Jill Vaughan (editor), Melbourne : The University of Melbourne , 2011 7769759 2011 anthology criticism

'Academic fieldwork data collections are often unique and unrepeatable records of highly significant events collected at considerable expense of researcher time, effort and resources. While fieldworkers have been quick to take advantage of digital technologies to enable them to collect and organise their data, standards and workflows are only now beginning to emerge to assist researchers to submit their data for archiving and access. This collection of refereed papers from the conference of the same name held at the University of Sydney in December 2006 provides a record of recent research practice by fieldworkers in linguistics, botany and anthropology, and by archive and repository managers.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Inside Out in Istanbul Lisa Morrow , Melbourne : The University of Melbourne , 2011 6111821 2011 single work prose travel

'Planning to travel to Istanbul and want to know what adventures will await you? Already been and want to know more? Announcing the much awaited release of

'"Inside Out In Istanbul" a collection of short stories about life in Istanbul by author Lisa Morrow. The stories in this collection take you beyond the world famous sights of Istanbul to the shores of Asia, to an Istanbul that is vibrantly alive with the sounds of street vendors, wedding parties, weekly markets and more. The stories in "Inside Out In Istanbul" lead the reader behind the tourist façades deep into this sometimes chaotic, often schizophrenic but always charming city.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Telling Tales : Helen Demidenko and the Autobiographical Pact and 'The Pact' Melinda Denham , Melbourne : 2010 Z1792164 2010 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon The Roving Party : Extinction Discourse in the Literature of Tasmania Rohan Wilson , 2009 Z1775389 2009 single work thesis 'The nineteenth century discourse of extinction - a consensus of thought primarily based upon the assumption that 'savage' races would be displaced by the arrival of European civilisation - provided the intellectual foundation for policies which resulted in Aboriginal dispossession, internment, and death in Tasmania. For a long time, the Aboriginal Tasmanians were thought to have been annihilated. However, this claim is now understood to be fanciful. Aboriginality is no longer defined as a racial category but rather as an identity that has its basis in community. Nevertheless, extinction discourse continues to shape the features of modern literature about Tasmania.

'The first chapter of this dissertation will examine how extinction discourse was imagined in the nineteenth century and will trace the parallels that contemporary fiction about contact history shares with it. The novels examined include Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World by Mudrooroo, The Savage Crows by Robert Drewe, Manganinnie by Beth Roberts, and Wanting by Richard Flanagan. The extinctionist elements in these novels include a tendency to euglogise about the 'lost race' and a reliance on the trope of the last man or woman.

'The second chapter of the dissertation will examine novels that attempt to construct a representation of Aboriginality without reference to extinction. These texts subvert and ironise extinction discourse as a way of breaking the discursive continuities with colonialism and establishing a more nuanced view of Aboriginal identity in a post-colonial context. Novels analysed here include Drift by Brian Castro, Elysium by Robert Edric, and English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. However, in attempting to arrive at new understandings about Aboriginality, non-Aboriginal authors are hindered by the epistemological difficulties of knowing and representing the Other. In particular, they seem unable to extricate themselves from the binaries of colonialism.' (Trove)
1 y separately published work icon Voice The University of Melbourne Voice 2007 Parkville : The University of Melbourne , 2007- Z1760447 2007 periodical (21 issues)

'Voice is the newspaper of the University of Melbourne. It is published monthly and is distributed on the University's campuses, published as a supplement to the Age on the second Monday of each month and is available on line and by free email or hard copy subscription.

'Each month Voice explores a major social issue in which University academics and researchers contribute to public debate. Voice also contains research news, informed opinion and analysis, alumni news and profiles, stories on student life and activities, Arts reviews and previews, sport, previews of multimedia programs and listings of Public Lectures and other events.'

Source: Voice website, http://voice.unimelb.edu.au/
Sighted: 15/02/2011

1 y separately published work icon Staging Marvellous Melbourne : Theatre and the Nation from the Federation Era to the New Wave Gabrielle Wolf , Carlton : 2005 Z1471865 2005 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Imagining the World from the Classroom : Cultural Difference, Empire and Nationalism in Victorian Primary Schools in the 1930s and 1950s Vicki Macknight , Melbourne : 2005 Z1449220 2005 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair : A Reading of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry Cassandra Atherton , Melbourne : 2004 Z1317862 2004 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon In a Bigger City Tina Giannoukos , Melbourne : 2004 Z1260701 2004 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon From 'Babes In The Wood' To 'Bush-Lost Babies': The Development of an Australian Image Kim Torney , Melbourne : 2004 Z1210494 2004 single work thesis

'In this thesis I argue that the image of a child lost in the bush became a central strand in the Australian colonial experience, creating a cultural legacy that remains to this day. I also argue that the way in which the image developed in Australia was unique among British-colonised societies. I explore the dominant themes of my thesis the nature of childhood, the effect of environment upon colonisers, and the power of memory primarily through stories. The bush-lost child is an image that developed mainly in the realms of "low" culture, in popular journals, newspapers, stories and images including films, although it has been represented in such "high" cultural forms as novels, art and opera. I have concentrated on the main forms of its representations because it is through these that the image achieves its longevity. Understandings of childhood have always been central to the power of the image of the bush-lost child. I examine the development of attitudes towards children and childhood in Australia from the earliest days of settlement to the beginning of the First World War, through several main strands of children"s experiences work, education and health. The story and image of the "Babes in the Wood" was brought to Australia with its colonial settlers. I trace its development and assimilation into the folklore culture of Britain from the late sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, and consider other European influences. It was adopted from the parent culture by European settlers to represent an Australian colonial experience and was then progressively translated into the assertively Australian image of "Bush-lost Babies". I consider other comparable settler colonies in America, Canada and New Zealand to develop my argument that the identification with the lost child image was unique to Australia, and that the other settler-colonies were dominated by the image of the captive child. This examines the power of cross-culturally transmitted attitudes towards Indigenous peoples in Britain and its colonies, including Australia. The bush search scenario, and the way in which it came to be regarded as an affirmation of community, were rapidly associated with the image of the bush-lost child. I examine this development primarily through close studies of several different lost-child incidents. Various memorialisations of bush-lost children fitted into the wider process of memorialising the past in Australia. My consideration of this involves an exploration of expressions of grief at the loss of young people before World War I, and the change in national understandings of loss after this time. The 1960 story of "Little Boy Lost", which received intense national attention, forms the core of the concluding chapter in which I argue for the continuing currency of the bush-lost child image in modern Australia. '

Source: Author's abstract, University of Melbourne ePrints Repository, http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000767/
Sighted: 17/08/2005

1 y separately published work icon Zero Zero Zero Martyn Pedler , Melbourne : 2003 Z1373392 2003 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Nettie Palmer and Fourteen Years Robin Lucas , Melbourne : 2003 Z1306623 2003 single work thesis Nettie Palmer played a significant role in the development of Australian writing and publishing by supporting and promoting a generation of Australian authors. This study explores the differences between Nettie Palmer's original journals and notebooks, and the version of these published by Meanjin Press in 1948 as Fourteen Years: Extracts from a Private Journal 1925-1939.
1 y separately published work icon Keeping the Drama on Stage : A Baillieu Library Exhibition Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the MTC The University of Melbourne , Parkville : The University of Melbourne , 2003 Z1252894 2003 reference Catalogue of an exhibition displayed at the University of Melbourne.
1 y separately published work icon Imago : a novella Sue Saliba , 2002 Z1403230 2002 single work thesis An exploration of the construction of narrative in relation to desire and loss.
1 y separately published work icon The Knowledge Used by Primary Classroom Teachers in Their Everyday Practices in the Curriculum Area of English Cheryl Semple , Melbourne : 2001 (Manuscript version)x401831 Z1418080 2001 single work thesis
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