Author, Researcher, Historian
The British Journal of Social Work has released an online version of its Special Issue titled Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience. I’m proud to have been invited to be a member of a guest editorial panel for this ground-breaking initiative. It’s a bumper issue with 14 academic papers 38 reflective pieces and […]
Caring about language, knowledge, rights and identity: Discourse analysis and framing the problem: a paper for the National Aged & Community Care Roundtable for Forgotten Australians Frank Golding, On line 8 February 2023 Over the past decade or two I’ve been doing a lot of research and advocacy on Care Leaver voice and agency. My PhD […]
Opportunity for Care Leavers and others with direct experience of institutions and social work The British Journal of Social Work (BJSW) is inviting submissions to a special issue which will be written by people with lived experience to be published in Spring 2023. Context Harnessing the knowledge and expertise of people with lived experience is […]
My PhD thesis from Federation University Australia is now available on line. This is a very brief summary: Australia has a long history of removing children from their families when they are deemed to be neglected or ‘in moral danger’. Placed in orphanages, children’s Homes and foster ‘care’ out of the public gaze, these children […]
Whose History is it, Anyway? Global Records Access Information Exchange, 28 September 2021, Frank Golding OAM, PhD When I started thinking about what I could say in my allotted 10 minutes today, I thought I might discuss the first 5 of the 10 rights in the CLAN Charter of Rights in Records—which are grouped under […]
This is an interim commentary. I want to add more to it when I have time. One of the things keeping me busy over the past several years is linking into and keeping up with Care Leavers organisations in other countries. There’s a great deal of interest in sharing experiences across the world. For a […]
The Alliance for Care Experienced People in Higher Education is a project currently being developed by care experienced people for care experienced people in Higher Education (HE). The term ‘care experienced’ people has become a common tag used in the Uk to describe what we in Australia usually call Care Leavers (and some people still […]
A group of Care Leavers (in Australia) and Care Experienced People (in the UK) have initiated the Alliance for Care Experienced People in Higher Education – a project currently being developed by care experienced people for care experienced people in Higher Education. There are care experienced people researching, working, and studying in Higher Education who […]
Just published on line through Springer. Will be printed in Archival Science in due course. Below is a pre-publication version of the manuscript. Some minor changes will be found in the on line version which can be accessed at ‘Online First’: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10502-019-09304-0 DOI 10.1007/s10502-019-09304-0 “Problems with records and recordkeeping practices are not confined to the past”: A […]
Frank Golding, 13 March, 2019 at the Melbourne County Court Flanked by five hefty policemen, the Cardinal sits impassively at the rear of County Court Room 3.3, while from the front, Chief Judge Kidd reads his sentencing report, without relent. Not accustomed to listening to others for such a stretch, Pell will have to wait […]