Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania
I have had a varied career as a teacher, archaeologist, historian, and museum educator. I am currently employed at the University of Tasmania in the School of Education as a Senior Lecturer specialising in Humanities and Social Sciences education. My areas of expertise are in the ancient History and archaeology of the Mediterranean world, Australian history and archaeology, museum education, history pedagogy and curriculum design. Over the years I have written many textbooks and articles about teaching history and archaeology to primary and secondary students. In 2009 I was a writer of the first iteration of for the Australian Curriculum: History, Foundation to Year 10 and the Senior Secondary Ancient History course. In 2012 I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study innovative archaeology education programs overseas. Since joining UTAS in 2015, I have been awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Award of Community Engagement (2018) and a College Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2019).
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
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
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
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