Presentations and Publications

Presentations

2024 ‘A Page for Womenfolk’: the representation of women in the Victorian Railways Magazine
The 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

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