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Faculty Honours Co-ordinator, Dr Ben Maddison, (centre front) surroun...

Conference showcases students’ innovative research

‘New Country, New Life: Post-1945 Female Polish Immigrants in the Illawarra’ and ‘Linseed Lancers, Body Snatchers and Other Cheery and Jovial Names: The Role of the Stretcher Bearer, Gallipoli 1915’ were among an array of topics at this year’s School of History and Politics annual Honours and Masters Students’ conference.

The conference was held over 9 and 10 June at the Communications Building.

There were 16 presentations of student research work-in-progress.

Topics spanned Australian foreign policy, European regional linguistic politics, international aid and the UN, Australian military, feminist, psychiatric and labour history, local histories, indigenous and working class histories, contemporary feminist theory and psychohistory.

The event was video conferenced and included presentations by honours students from other UOW campuses.

Faculty Honours Co-ordinator, Dr Ben Maddison, said the aim of the conference was to allow students to share their innovative research work with other students and academics.

“It was an exciting and inspiring showcase of the coming generation of researchers being generated within the Faculty of Arts,” Dr Maddison said.     

The conference was officially opened by the Arts Dean Elect and Chair of the Faculty Research Committee, Professor Wenche Ommundsen.