Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania
PhD 2012 Deakin University, MPhil 1991 in Archaeology, Museum and Heritage University of Cambridge, BA DipEd 1981 University of Sydney. Specialises in history, archaeology and history education in schools. Awarded 2012 Churchill Fellowship to investigate innovative archaeology education programs for school students in the UK, USA and Croatia. In my current position at the University of Tasmania I train pre-service teachers in History, Geography and Civics and Citizenship.
Experience
2015–present
Lecturer, University of Tasmania
2013–2015
Lecturer , Western Sydney University
2008–2010
Associate lecturer, Macquarie University
Education
2012
Deakin University, Doctor of Philosophpy
1991
University of Cambridge, Master of Philosophy
1980
University of Sydney, Diploma of Education
1979
University of Sydney, Bachelor of Arts
Publications
2017
‘Pompeii-mania’ in schools Down Under’, Archeostorie. Journal of Public Archaeology. 1: pp. 37-45. Available at: www.archeostoriejpa.eu/2017_3a
2015
Using archaeology to teach Australia’s ‘difficult’ Indigenous past , Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 17, 91-106
2015
Archaeology as pedagogy at Sydney’s Big Dig Archaeology Education Centre, The Historic Environment, 6(2), 177-191
2015
Echoes from the past: oral history in the National Museum of Australia, Oral history, museums and education, Nakou, I. & A. Gazi (eds) Nissos Publications, Athens
2009
Why the national history curriculum needs a museum site study, reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, 4(1)
2009
Beyond four walls: learning outside, and even under the classroom (with A. Frappell), Teacher. September, 6-9
2005
Pompeii and Herculaneum, Heinemann Ancient and Medieval History (Harcourt)
2004
Archaeology (with A. Cremin), Heinemann Ancient and Medieval History (Harcourt)
1998
Experience Archaeology, Cambridge University Press