Menzies Centre for Australian Studies

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MPhil/PhD

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Part Time, Full Time

Arts & Humanities graduate class
RESEARCH PROFILE
  • Research income: Funding from the Australian and British Governments, Monash University, the Menzies Memorial Foundation and subscriptions from a number of Australian universities, and occasionally from the British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council and other such bodies.
  • Current number of academic staff: 3.
  • Current number of research students: 2 full-time, 4 part-time PhDs; 2 funded postdoctoral research fellows.
  • Recent publications:
    • The British World: Diaspora, Culture, Identity.
    • A Delicate Mission: the Washington Diaries of RG Casey, 1940-2.
    • Mid-Victorian Reading and the Antipodes.
    • The Ethics of Fellowship in Two Antipodean War Films: Peter Weir's Gallipoli and Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings.
    • Changing the Face of Advertising: Australia's Advertising Industry in the Early Days of Television.
  • Current research projects:
    • The Australian Diaspora in Britain 1901-2001.
    • A short biography of WM Hughes.
    • Representation of Aboriginality in Art, Literature and Film.
    • History of sexuality in Australia.
    • Reading the Antipodes.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Carl Bridge
Awarding institution
King's College London
Duration
Expected to be: MPhil two years FT, three years PT; PhD three years FT, four-six years PT.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
Civil service, media, museums and galleries, publishing, academia, the City, journalism.
Year of entry 2013
Offered by
Maughan Library