Author : Frank Golding

Refuge, Rescue and Reform: Voices of suffering and survival

Another book!  I’m very pleased to announce that a book Dot Wickham and I have been working on for a few years is finally at the printers and will be launched in Ballarat by Hon. Catherine King MP, the Minister for Transport on 24 May as part of the Ballarat Heritage Festival. The publisher is […]

New Publication: That’s Not My Child

I’m pleased to announce that my book, That’s Not My Child: Five Generations on the Welfare Treadmill will be released on 12 March 2024 by Australian Scholarly Press under their Arcadia imprint.  Clink on the images to enlarge them.

Whose pain? Whose shame?

‘Whose pain? Whose shame? Integrating heritage and histories in Ballarat, Australia’ An article pushed online today by the International Journal of Heritage Studies Here’s the link to read it: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2024.2320319  

Whose history is it, anyway?

Dr Frank Golding OAM This is a lightly edited version of the article which was published in IQ Magazine in September 2022 and was awarded RIMPA Global 2022 iQ Article of the Year Award (RIMPA is Records Information Managers Practitioners Alliance). The codification of children’s rights extends back to the early decades of the 20th […]

Article of the year

RIMPA Global (Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance)RIMPA Global (Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance)3,297 followers3,297 followers 🏆✨ Celebrating Excellence at the RIMPA Live 2023 Black Tie Gala Dinner! ✨🏆 📚 iQ Article of the Year: A standing ovation for Dr Frank Golding OAM, whose powerful article “Who’s history is it, anyway?” delved into the lives of children […]

Care Leavers speak back to history

“If only they’d kept proper records”: Care Leavers speak back to history: A paper by Frank Golding at a seminar titled ‘Honouring stories of struggle: reassessing Australian records of disadvantage’, Canberra, 21 October 2022. The seminar was sponsored by the Steering Committee of the Documenting Australian Society of the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World […]

Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience

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 […]

Do you care what you’re called?

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 […]

Voice and Influence of People with Lived Experience

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 […]

PhD Thesis: Care Leavers Recovering Voice and Agency Through Counter-Narratives

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 […]

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