The History of the University Unit

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Year Researcher Department/School Research Topic
2008 Dr Ros Bandt Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies Percy Grainger: the visionary of the soundscape, and the creator of electro-acoustic FREE MUSIC
2008 Dr Tina Bell School of Forest and Ecosystem Science (Forestry) Herbarium Restoration of the School of Forest and Ecosystem Science (Forestry) Herbarium
2008 Richard Collmann Art History Program, School of Culture & Communication Lilian Alexander and The Wheel of Life
2008 Dr Michael Crozier School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne A short history of Political Science at the University of Melbourne
2008 Veryan Croggon School of Historical Studies A historical walking tour of the University of Melbourne, Carlton and Parkville
2008 Aleksandra Michalewicz Medley Hall Medley Hall, 1953-2008: a social history of Benvenuta
2008 Miriam Riverlea Centre for Classics & Archaeology, School of Historical Studies The University of Melbourne Classics and Archaeology Library: a study of the collection's past and present
2008 Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, School of Historical Studies Cultural Materials Conservation at the University of Melbourne: The First Twenty Years
2008 Dr Peter Tregear School of Music A history of Music Library services at the University of Melbourne
Year Researcher Department/School Research Topic
2007 Dr Judith Buckrich School of Historical Studies 150 Years of the Melbourne University Boat Club
2007 Dr Ian Burk School of Arts and Sciences, Australian Catholic University Ronald Farren-Price and his contribution to pianism and pedagogy at the University of Melbourne
2007 Lesley Ann den Hartog Ormond College From Paddocks to the picturesque: the evolution of the Australian college garden at Ormond College, the University of Melbourne, 1881-2007
2007 David Dodd Australian Centre; Committee of Convocation Re-creation of the Foundation Stone (Plate) of the University of Melbourne
2007 Jane Ellen Information Services A catalogue for an exhibition on the history of the Art History Department at the University of Melbourne
2007 Professor Kenneth Ghiggino School of Chemistry The School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, 1960-2000
2007 Joan Lesley Gravina Department of Chemical Engineering History of the Chemical Engineering Department, 1950-1990
2007 Bronwyn Eleanor Hughes The ‘lost’ stained glass windows of Wilson Hall rediscovered
2007 Associate Professor Angela O'Brien School of Culture and Communication MUST website and database, 1965-1975
2007 Dr Sheridan Palmer School of Historical Studies Intellectual & cultural legacies: three European women at the University of Melbourne between 1938-1948
2007 Dorothy Prescott School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry History of the Map Collection, University of Melbourne Library
2007 Dr Carolyn Rasmussen School of Historical Studies A biography of David Miles Danks (1886-1901), ‘Father of Clinical Genetics in Australia’
2007 Dr William Rostène Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, France The Faculty of Melbourne University (1886-1901): a novel
2007 Professor Ross Alan Williams Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research History of the Economics Department
Year Researcher Department/School Research Topic
2006 Professor Malcolm Macmillan School of Psychology, Deakin University The UNESCO studies and recollections of student life in the Department of Psychology
2006 Dr Kenneth Winkel Australian Venom Research Unit, The University of Melbourne The History of Toxinology at the University of Melbourne
2006 Dr Andy Brown-May School of Historical Studies University of Melbourne TimeMap
2006 Dr Fay Woodhouse School of Historical Studies Raymond Priestley's role in connecting the University to the Melbourne Community
Year Researcher Department/School Research Topic
2005 Lucy Battiste Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Recovery of a wire recording of Sir Lance Townsend
2005 Ms Ann Brothers Medical History Museum History of the Medical School Library, 1862-2005
2005 Dr Linden Gillbank History and Philosophy of Science Exhibition featuring the work of University of Melbourne researchers at the Tidal River field laboratory since 1961
2005 Professor Emeritus Rod Home History and Philosophy of Science Biographical essays on Sir Harrie Massey and Sir Leslie Martin for the Australian Dictionary of Biography
2005 Professor John Langford Melbourne Water Research Centre, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering A history of the Melbourne University and Alumni Bushwalkers
2005 Gretna Weste & Joan M Kenny Melbourne University and Alumni Bushwalking Group Amblers, Ramblers and Scramblers: A history of the Melbourne University and Alumni Bushwalking Group 1975-2005
2005 Associate Professor Kim Rubenstein   Conducting and transcribing interviews for your biography of Joan Montgomery
2005 Ms Helen M. Whyte Melbourne University Engineering Foundation Small exhibition on ‘Teaching and Student Life’ in the Faculty of Engineering
Year Researcher Department/School Research Topic
2004 Ms Jay Miller Ian Potter Museum of Art Web-based publication relating to the World War I memorials in the 1888 Building
2004 John Crichton Melbourne University Credit Union Limited Melbourne University Credit Union: Past, Present, and Future
2004 Christine Deppeler Civil and Environmental Engineering Biographical summary highlighting the academic achievements of Professor Laszlo, with commemorative plaque
2004 Professor Emeritus William S. C. Hare Department of Radiology Radiology at the University of Melbourne: A History from Roentgen to the Year 2000
2004 Professor John Langford, Joan Kenny Melbourne Water Research Centre, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Photographic archive relating to Melbourne University and Alumni Bushwalkers
2004 Alistair Moffat Computer Science and Software Engineering Interview of Peter C. Poole, Brisbane, for use with web based Departmental history
2004 Carole Hooper Centre for the Study of Higher Education Interviews with former and current members of staff
Year Researcher Department/School Research Topic
2003 Dr Stephen Bowden School of Behavioural Science History of the development of the graduate program in Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychology in the 1970s
2003 Christine Deppeler Civil and Environmental Engineering Biographical summary highlighting the academic and foundation achievements of Professor Kernot, a founding academic in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2003 Professor Ken Ghiggino Melbourne University Chemical Society, School of Chemistry Defray publication costs of The Collected Lady Masson Lectures, which includes lectures given since 1949
2003 Keir Reeves Department of History Production of a film relating to the visual history of the University
2003 Louisa Wilson Department of Information Systems Assistance with production of history of the Department of Information, 1995-present
2003 Professor Emeritus William S. C. Hare Department of Radiology Department of Radiology Assistance to publish departmental history
Year Researcher Department/School Research Topic
2002 Professor Shaun Brennecke Obstetrics and Gynaecology
(Head of Department) 		Collection of documents and interviews with past staff, as first step in preserving the department’s history
2002 Geoffrey Dye Graduate Union (Honorary Librarian) Assistance with printing costs for short illustrated history of the Graduate Union - Broberg, Faye, A short history of the Graduate Union of the University of Melbourne / Faye Broberg. Parkville, Vic.: Graduate Union, University of Melbourne, 2002
2002 Dr John Gonzalez University of Wollongong Travel access to research materials relating to biography of Alexander Sutherland
2002 Bernie Joyce School of Earth Sciences Documentation of history of the School of Earth Sciences
2002 Sonia Potter Faculty of Education (Development Officer) Research and publication of oral history of Education Faculty - A sense of history - celebrating Melbourne Education: stories of a learning and teaching community / edited by May Leckey and Paul Beekman. Carlton, Vic.: University of Melbourne, Faculty of Education, 2003
2002 Ann Tonks Melbourne Theatre Company (General Manager) Assistance with the publication of a visual history of the MTC
  Helen Whyte Faculty of Engineering (Manager–Alumni Development) Assistance with publication of proposed History of the Faculty of Engineering
Year Researcher Department/School Research Topic
2001 Christine Deppeler Civil & Environmental Engineering Biographical summary of Gilbert Vasey - Research conducted and plaque since prepared
2001 Roger Hughes Civil & Environmental Eng Investigting glass slides of engineering activities - A digital photographic collection for the department was subsequently initiated
2001 Pauline Ladiges Botany History of School of Botany
2001 Craig McInnis Centre for Study of Higher Education Gathering material for history of CSHE
2001 Thérèse Radic Music GWL Marshall-Hall Bio-Catalogue - G.W.L. Marshall-Hall: a biography & catalogue / written and compiled by Thérèse Radic, Melbourne: Marshall-Hall Trust, 2002
Year Researcher Department/School Research Topic
2000 Nicholas Brown   Assistance with publication of biography of Professor R. I. Downing - ‘The Natural Inheritor’: R. I. Downing and a Melbourne Tradition of Social Advocacy. [Brown, Nicholas, Richard Downing: economics, advocacy and social reform in Australia, Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2001]
2000 Don Garden History 4th Year Honours publication - A chequered past: pieces of Melbourne University/The Millennium Scholars, Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Dept. of History, 2000
2000 Suzanne Robinson Music Researching correspondence of Prof. G. W. L. Marshall Hall
2000 Lisa Sullivan Ian Potter Museum Production of catalogue for exhibition entitled ‘a collection and a cottage - [Ian Potter Museum of Art, A collection and a cottage / curator: Lisa Sullivan. Parkville, Vic.: The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, 2000]
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