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The Thesis Proposal Review (TPR) outlines the what, why and how of your research. As the first major milestone for PhD students, the TPR is important for convincing your School that you understand the process of scholarly enquiry, and that you have a project that is both viable and feasible. In this workshop, relevant research proposals from HASS are analysed to better understand their purpose and key components. Discuss and develop strategies for planning, structuring and writing your own proposal. 

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How you structure your research proposal may be dictated by the requirements of your specific college or school, or even supervisor based on the nature of your project. It is your responsibility to find out what the expectations are.

In the table below, we list some subtitles that are typical of research proposals in the Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences. Whether you adopt or adapt these headings to better meet your needs, remember that your task is simply to communicate the what, why, and how of your intended project.

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School of History PhD candidates will present their thesis proposals among peers and supervisors on Wednesday 28 November. Presentations are 12 minutes long followed by an equal length of time for questions & discussion.

1.10-1.35         Rebecca Collard 1.35-2.00         Kathryn Wells 2.00-2.25         Rhys Williams 2.25-2.50         Nichola Garvey

3.10-3.35         Jennifer Bird 3.35-4.00         Aileen Walsh 4.00-4.25         Alexandra McKinnon 4.25-4.50         Stephen Kinnane

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Battle of the ‘reproductive frontier’: investigating gender, race and sexuality within the policy of biological absorption in western australia, 1920s-1940s.

Rebecca M Collard

During the 1930s the Western Australian government waged a campaign to change its racial landscape. Its policy aimed to ‘breed out’ the physical features of Aboriginality by encouraging inter-racial unions between white men and mixed-raced Aboriginal women. This thesis seeks to uncover how colonial constructions of gender, race and sexuality intersected within this policy from the 1920s to the late 1940s. It contends that the policy of biological absorption was based on a number of colonial assumptions regarding Aboriginal women’s sexuality, white femininity and masculinity, racial theory and the use of maternity in the nation-building project. These themes form the focus of my investigation, wherein I examine how colonial constructions of gender and sexuality filtered through dominant discourses of race to produce the policy the government pursued. This research also questions what the government envisioned for mixed-raced Aboriginal men, as only half the mixed-raced population was eligible to participate in the government proposed scheme. This research builds on recent scholarship on inter-racial relationships within Australia, and contributes to the growing body of work on gender, race and nation. The project draws on a post-colonial framework in conjunction with a gendered reading of archival material. This has resulted in a two-part thesis. The first takes an intellectual, political and administrative approach in examining the creation and implementation of the policy, drawing on records held by the State Records Office of Western Australia, the Battye Library, several works by A.O. Neville, parliamentary debates, royal commissions and legislation. The second is devoted to the lived experience of Aboriginal people, which will be substantiated by testimony and archival records. This dual focus aims to highlight Aboriginal people’s interactions with the state, and their various modes of resistance and resilience, which in turn will contribute to a more robust theorisation of Aboriginal men and women’s agency in the study of Australia’s colonial power relations.  

Song, Swing and Survival: Indigenous musicians, global intersections and local rights movements, 1920s-1990s

Kathryn Wells

Song is a means for connecting histories of experience across Indigenous and other communities. This thesis will examine Australian Indigenous musicians, their songs and public performances as a deliberate and, sometimes, confrontational means of addressing cultural and political identity in Australia from the 1920s to the early 1990s. It will explore how global intersections with African American singers and music (that had begun in the 1800s) influenced the adoption of styles, such as ‘Negro’ plantation songs about loss and escape from slavery, and other genres, especially jazz, blues and swing, widely popular from the 1920s. From Queensland, through south-eastern Australia, and across to Western Australia, these songs or styles were adapted into Aboriginal language and song types, and developed on pastoral stations, in missions, jails and urban clubs for Indigenous associations, into distinct musical and song traditions. Across the Top End from the 1930s to the 1960s, Pacific Island style Hula music and Filipino string bands mixed with Torres Strait Island songs, creating unique Indigenous saltwater sounds and dance forms.  By the 1970s, Rock ‘n Roll, including new styles from Native American performers, became a dominant influence, and contributed to Desert Rock in the 1980s, which was often sung in Indigenous language, with an identifiable tempo, texture and timbre. This thesis aims to show how song was used by Indigenous performers to unsettle the meaning and racist ideologies of dominant Australian culture, whether within entertainment or human, civil, labour and land rights campaigns through to the 1980s and 1990s, when Indigenous protest songs became part of mainstream media and song charts in Australia. The thesis acknowledges an international historiography of ‘racialisation politics’ (Solis) as well as anthropological and ethnomusicology studies whilst also drawing on specific Indigenous approaches, archival sources and oral histories. In doing so, it seeks to map organised Indigenous connections across Australia in a changing cultural and political landscape and demonstrate the ways in which Indigenous public performances of song was a force of imagination and history.

British Socialists and Australia, 1880-1914

Rhys Williams

My thesis is a study of British Socialists and Australia, and of British Socialist thought on Australia, between 1880 and 1914. Contributing to British labour history, Australian labour history, and the history of British Socialism, it aims to explore under-studied intellectual influences in the history of British Socialism – that is, the contribution of Australia and the Australian labour movement. It will investigate the impact of Australia on the British labour movement by examining British Socialist perceptions and experiences of Australia in this period. It draws on both British and Australian material relating to British and Australian labour history prior to the Great War, particularly labour newspapers, Socialist newspapers, labour movement records, and the private papers of British Socialists who visited Australia before 1914. Such sources, and the methods of intellectual, political and labour history, are used to build a picture of British Socialist interests in Australia, especially in respect to the Australian Labor Party, the Australian labour movement, the Australian Socialist movement, Australian politics, and Australian society, and to place them in the social context of nineteenth-century Socialist thought in Britain. The specific historical questions guiding the thesis are: What influence did Australia and Australian labour experience have on British Socialists and the British labour movement? In what ways did Australian labour experience contribute to developing the political thought of British Socialists and the British labour movement before the Great War?

Second Fleet Women, First Rate Survivors

Nichola Garvey

The Second Fleet, and in particular the transport ship Neptune, recorded the most deaths and the worst conditions in Australian convict transportation history. According to a letter to Jonathan Wathen from Lieutenant William Hill on the arrival of the Second Fleet: “Three hundred and seventy are already dead and four hundred and fifty have landed sick and so emaciated and helpless that very few or any of them can be saved by care or medicine... the slave trade is merciful compared to what I have seen in this fleet”. This study casts a spotlight on a small group of 66 women who survived transportation to Australia in 1790 on board the Neptune. It aims to contribute to redressing the underrepresentation of women’s lives in colonial times, so at its crux it is a gendered study. It also seeks to provide a more intimate biographical perspective that is largely missing from the established literature in this field, which has tended to study these women as a collective or prosopographically. While prosopography is a key methodology, my approach to studying Neptune’s 66 women will go much deeper into individual lives, using micro-history techniques to build a clearer, closer picture.  Did the shared experience of the Neptune bring these women closer together?  In what ways did these colonial women support each other in day-to -day life? The 66 women of the Neptune present a small enough cohort to manage, while large enough to convey range, depth and direction. Sufficient records survive to do the work of historical reconstruction, but they require painstaking investigative and interpretative work to bring these women to life in a way that has not been done before.

Robert Edward Knox – The ‘Flash Fighting Man’: One infamous convict’s journey through the New South Wales colonial penal system, 1829-1869

Jennifer Bird

This thesis examines an individual experience of the colonial penal system during the years 1829 to 1869, that of recidivist convict, Robert Edward Knox, who was incarcerated for around thirty of his forty years in the New South Wales colony. Reconstructing Knox’s biography will be undertaken through a close examination of sources in the convict archives, such as gaol records, police gazettes, newspaper articles and other colonial records. The question of the historiographical and methodological value of the study of an individual life is at the centre of this research. By tracing Knox’s life and his experience of the colonial penal system over decades, the thesis is concerned to investigate the usefulness of the single case as a viable and productive approach in convict studies. Recently, big data through the digitisation of convict records is contributing to new and deeper understandings about convicts as a collective. Individual studies, however, can highlight specific and diverse experiences of convicts and their interaction with the colonial penal system. Previous characterisations of the criminality of convicts transported to Australia often cast them as representative of the British working classes or as professional criminals with no hope of reform. A.G.L. Shaw proposed biographical studies to temper the generalisations of previous studies, and in ways that could shed further light on the question of convict criminality and its causes. This thesis seeks contribute to greater understandings of convict experience and convict criminality. Rather than reinforcing the collective experience, it will tease out singularities and contingencies within the broader patterns and generalities. Finally, it aims to offer a remedy to naturalistic or environmental explanations of causality by emphasising individual agency.

Time in History: Dominant cultural expressions and their oppressions

Aileen Walsh

Time encapsulates but only in terms of perspective. And country shows the vicissitudes of British time in Australia. The problem of how we know ourselves and our culture as good is relative to others in different cultural contexts and has been an enduring problem for Europeans since the nations of Europe began colonizing the world. Yet a clarity of perspective of Aboriginal cultures and history, compared to Europeans, is lacking because anthropologists do not take an historicist approach in their work. This thesis, then, examines Aboriginal cultures in deep time primarily using early ethnographic material by Scott Nind, Daisy Bates and Scott Kane but also descriptions by explorers such as George Grey. Colonial archives and archaeological research will also be examined to elucidate Aboriginal understandings of the world and especially of country before the British arrived. I argue that early colonial descriptions of Aboriginal people represent Aboriginal people as they would have been for tens of thousands of years and that the proof for this was in the quality of the country when the British arrived. The theoretical approach is cross disciplinary using linguistic theory to understand how Aboriginal people remembered stories many thousands of years old and to understand the present confusion as to where Indigenous people sit in cultural evolutionary theory. This research will show how Aboriginal understandings and values of the primacy of relationships are what protect the future. Aboriginal knowledge that protects the country protects future generations of people, and in terms of measuring the goodness of a culture, over 65,000 years of the past indicates very strong goodness.

Hereafter: Memory, Commemoration, and the First World War at the Australian War Memorial, 1927–1930s

Alexandra McKinnon

My thesis will explore how families engaged with memory-making and the state in the aftermath of the First World War, focusing on engagements between Australian families and the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in the interwar period. In Australia, the process of writing the official histories of the First World War began soon after the Armistice, drawing on an archive of letters, diaries, and documents from those who had experienced it. From 1927 to the mid-1930s, the AWM actively reached out to families whom it believed might hold relevant records. Out of the approximately 5000 enquiries sent, half were to the next-of-kin of war dead, most of who were women. While most of these recipients had no direct experience of the conflict, they remained profoundly affected by its results. How did the AWM engage with families in the development of its archives and in the writing of the official history of the war? How were next-of-kin included -- or excluded -- from this process?  How did individual experiences of loss affect commemoration and memory? This research is based in the archives of the AWM and is focused on the record of correspondence between families and that institution in response to this request for donations. These files reflect a process of collaboration and communication both between the AWM and next-of-kin, and between different family members of the war dead, in determining what should be offered for inclusion. This thesis will examine the entire series of communication, building a body of work that explores a process of transition from “memory” to “history”. The files are a record of engagement between families and the state, and reveal the ways in which the archives of the AWM were constructed. Respondents were conscious that the material they donated would continue to be used by future generations after the conflict had left living memory. The experiences of these families are embedded in the histories produced by the AWM, and preserved in the archives that still underwrite that institution, and are crucial to understanding how commemoration of the First World War in Australia has evolved.

 Beyond ‘The Land of Promises’: Historical intersections of development, rights, peoplehood and social transformation in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, 1988–2018

Stephen Kinnane

My thesis examines the history of Indigenous social and political transformation in the Kimberley region of Western Australia from 1988 to 2018 in the context of human development. Founding Kimberley Aboriginal visions of development were endorsed by a significant meeting of Traditional Owners at the Crocodile Hole in 1991 following the completion of a seminal study, led by Nugget H. C. Coombs, The East Kimberley Impact Assessment Project (1983-1989). The resultant report, The Land of Promises (1989), formed a foundational baseline of evidence from which regional social and political transformation in the Kimberley was launched via The Crocodile Hole Report (1991). Subsequent histories of the Kimberley region have identified increasing divergence between Aboriginal collective agency framed by collective self-determination, sustainable development, cultural governance, and inherent rights; and increasing pressure to initiate large-scale mainstream Western development projects in remote, northern Australia. This study will compare and analyse the history of Aboriginal development with the history of government and large-scale commercial development initiatives in the Kimberley to reveal their divergence, intersection, and interdependence, addressing the following key questions: What is the history of Indigenous development visions and agency in the Kimberley? What narratives of Western development have been deployed to transforming the Kimberley? How have Aboriginal development narratives transformed since the beginning of the self-determination era and how have these changes influenced Aboriginal choice and agency? The thesis will be grounded in oral histories of Kimberley Aboriginal leaders and non-Indigenous participants, underpinned by archival research, review of social and political histories, and analysis of changes in government policy over time. The research will contribute to the history of Aboriginal social and political movements underpinning contemporary Indigenous development within the context of the realpolitik of Kimberley Aboriginal experience from the era of self-determination to the era of mainstreaming.

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Thesis proposal review: securing the energy rights of remote first nations households.

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Household prepayment requires payment in advance for electricity services and is ubiquitous in remote First Nations communities yet banned in most populous regions of Australia due to the disruption it causes vulnerable groups. In remote communities, prepay is associated with high risks of household energy insecurity and fewer household rights and protections than are afforded to other Australian households, demonstrating that the essential energy needs of these communities are being chronically neglected. The potential for further marginalization is exacerbated in the context of climate change and Australia’s energy transition, as reliance upon household heating and cooling grows with increasing temperature extremes, and First Nations communities struggle to have their interests recognised and served by settler colonial states. While existing energy policies operate to entrench disparities faced by communities, there are also opportunities for change evident in the advocacy work of community-led organisations and national and sub-national policy agendas such as the First Nations Clean Energy Strategy.

This PhD research seeks to interrogate how rapidly changing energy policies in Australia are serving or undermining the energy needs of remote First Nations communities. It is being conducted in partnership with First Nations organisations, whose work interfaces with the energy, social and health needs of their communities. Through mixed methods, the research seeks to identify how policy can best support household energy access in remote First Nations communities and future energy systems that align with community priorities and needs. This TPR seminar provides a first opportunity to present the conceptual framework for the research based in intersecting theories of decoloniality, energy justice, energy sovereignty and the right to energy and to explore the four primary studies which will contribute to the active policy work of partner organisations and form the basis for a thesis by compilation output with policy impact.

Sally Wilson is a PhD candidate at the Crawford School of Public Policy with prior experience as a lawyer. Most recently she has been working as part of an interdisciplinary research team at the Australian National University focusing on energy insecurity and related issues in the energy transition. Her research interests focus on energy justice issues. In 2022, Sally was awarded the Garnaut Prize for highest achievement in the Master of Climate Change.

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Thesis Proposal Review: Evaluating Health Service Delivery in Papua New Guinea

Health systems are complex structures that vary widely between different countries. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), including resultant indicators, has long been established as the mechanism for measuring health system performance, both for the purpose of accountability and quality improvement through informed decision making. However, the information gained through M&E activities, is only valuable if it is acted upon in an effective and timely manner.

Despite data collection taking place at the health service delivery interface, that is, in Primary Health Care (PHC), there is little research to date on how to use data effectively at this level of the system, for health service delivery improvement. This is particularly relevant for health systems like that in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where there are multiple administrative layers and the geography means communities are often isolated and reliant solely on their locally available health services.

This PhD project aims to understand the process of using the findings from M&E activities to drive improvements in health service delivery within communities in PNG. It is about unpacking the feedback loop, from data to action, at the local level of the health system, to provide evidence and discover new ways of leveraging data use.

All her work has been underpinned by the principles of operational research with the view to improve implementation of existing resources, in collaboration with those that live and work in these communities.

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