Author, Researcher, Historian
The tacit semantics of ‘Loud Fences’: tracing the connections between activism, heritage and new histories This article written by Associate Professor Jacqueline Wilson and I was published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies on 11 May 2017 ABSTRACT In 2015, in response to harrowing accounts of child sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy in […]
Lost and found: counter-narratives of dis/located families This is the Abstract for a paper presented at a symposium of the Dis/located Children’s Network in Adelaide on 16 December by Frank Golding in collaboration with Associate Professor Jacqueline Z Wilson of Federation University Australia Conventional histories of children in institutional care are dominated by the voices […]
HUI ON THE ROYAL COMMISSION IN NEW ZEALAND Leonie Sheedy, CEO of CLAN, and I were invited to participate in a hui (gathering or workshop) in Wellington, New Zealand on 14-15 February. The purpose of the hui was to discuss the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the NZ Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse […]
Hope Street: From Voice to Agency for Care-Leavers in Higher Education This is a new article written by Dr Jacqueline Wilson, Dr Philip Mendes and myself just published in the latest issue of Life Writing In summary: In the early 1980s, one of the authors became an adolescent ward of the State of Victoria, Australia, […]