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Alison Watts

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Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University

Dr Alison Watts was awarded her doctorate in 2015 which drew upon mental patient files to investigate mothers committed into Victorian mental institutions in the early twentieth century.

Currently working in collaboration with the Beechworth Research Team investigating the former Mayday Hills asylum. The former Beechworth Lunatic Asylum built in 1867 still retains a 'sense of place.' The project includes arts-based research, concerning history, genealogy, women, returned soldiers, mental health, and emotional geography. The research group have been funded to create a virtual tour website of Mayday Hills and Beechworth Cemetery https://maydayhills.org.au/

Experience

  • 2021–2023
    Adjunct associate, Southern Cross University

Education

  • 2018 
    Curtin University, Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching
  • 2015 
    Southern Cross University, PhD
  • 2005 
    Southern Cross University, Bachelor or Arts Honours

Publications

  • 2023
    Genealogy, Maternal Insanity in the Family: Memories, Family Secrets, and the Mental Health Archive
  • 2021
    Health and History, Experimental treatments: Women, gender and ‘maternal insanity’ in Victorian psychiatric institutions: 1920–36