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Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
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
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 2012
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