Presentations
2026 Serving the State: Women of the VR Refreshment Services Branch,
La Trobe University, Department of History, Postgraduate Seminar Series.
2026 Storytelling Tips and Tricks, ‘Reclaim Her Name’ – How to research and write about women worth remembering, Royal Historical Society Victoria
2025 The Spirit of Progress – Women on the footplate,
19th Biennial conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH), Melbourne.
2025 “Line Clear?” The dangerous work of women gatekeepers on the Victorian Railways
Humanities & Social Sciences Graduate Research Conference, La Trobe University
2025 ‘Blazing a trail on the tramways, highways and trainlines: Women ‘firsts’ in public transport. (Co-papered with Dr Emma Robertson). The Privilege of Trailblazing workshop, ACU.
2025 Attracting and keeping new volunteers and members
Association of Eastern Historical Societies
2024 ‘A Page for Womenfolk’: the representation of women in the Victorian Railways Magazine
Australian Historical Association (AHA) 2024 Conference, Flinders University
2023 ‘a growing and objectionable evil’ – Victoria’s first Station Mistresses
Australian Historical Association (AHA) 2023 Conference, Melbourne
2022 Women on the Victorian Railways
Surrey Hills Historical Society
2022 History of the Yarra Valley Railway
Lilydale Library
2022 Underpaid and at risk: the precarious role of women in the Victorian Railways
17th biennial conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History,
(ASSLH), Bendigo.
2021 Women of the Victorian Railways:
Stories of women from the collections, Museums Victoria
2020 Who are the women of the VR?
New Tracks in the History of Railways Conference
2019 Sustainability and Community Museums
Victorian Collections Day
2019 Sustainability and Community Museums
Association of Eastern Historical Societies Conference
2019 Recruiting and retaining volunteers: in volunteer run museums
Glen Eira City Council
2018 The Open Palace Programme
ENVi
2018 There’s gold in them there grants
Victorian Collections Day
2018 Harry and me, researching Norman Henry James
Ringwood Historical Society
2017 Curating a VC Story: Inspiration for digital storytelling
Victorian Collections Day (co-presented)
Available for presentations, please contact me.
Publications
Stories of Support
Institutional care through Victoria’s cultural collections
Breaking the Mould:
The first police women in Victoria