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Director, Gallipoli Centenary Research Project, Macquarie University

Presently Senior Research Fellow in the Dept. of Modern history at Macquarie University, Director of the Gallipoli Centenary Turkish Archives Research Project. He is also a writer, lecturer, broadcaster, documentary producer and study tour leader. A fluent speaker of Turkish he specialises in Mediterranean and Middle East history. In his 23 year career as a producer and executive producer for the ABC he won awards for radio and TV productions such as Gallipoli, The Fatal Shore, Victory in the Pacific, The 75th Anniversary Gallipoli Pilgrimage, and The Boys Who Came Home; Recollections of Gallipoli. He recently worked as historical advisor on a documentary film Revealing Gallipoli and produced Gallipoli Voices and Minstrels of War for ABC Radio National. He is also the author of Gallipoli, The Fatal Shore, a book that marked the 90th anniversary of that campaign in 2005 and was historical consultant and writer for ABC Innovation’s interactive award-winning website, Gallipoli, the First Day, 2009.
Research Grants
• ARC Linkage Grant 'Completing the Gallipoli Story: Researching documents in the Turkish
archives", 2007-2012
• Macquarie University External Collaborative Grant (with the Australian War Memorial) 2006-7
• Army History Unit Research Grant, 2003

Experience

  • 2005–present
    Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Gallipoli Centenary Research Project, Macquairie University
  • 1977–2000
    Producer-Director and Executive Producer, , Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Education

  • 1974 
    University of Manchester , BA Hons, Near Eastern Studies
  • 1974 
    Dept. of Education, NSW, Diploma of Education
  • 1967 
    Institute of Education, University of Birmingham, Certificate in Education

Publications

  • 2005
    Gallipoli The Fatal Shore, Viking Penguin
  • 1990
    The Boys Who Came Home:Recollections of Gallipoli, ABC Books

Research Areas

  • Other History And Archaeology (2199)

Honours

Awarded UNNA Media Peace Award, 1988 for ABC TV documentary "Gallipoli, The Fatal Shore" (with Chris Masters)
Awarded Television Society award for best Special Event Television Program 1990