PhD projects

Completed

Matilda Keynes's doctoral research, From Courtroom to Classroom: Transitional Justice and History Education, was an interdisciplinary project examining the role and uses of history education in transitional justice (state redress processes) since the 1980s, supervised by Associate Professor Anna Clark, Dr Tamson Pietsch, and Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington.

 

Archie Thomas’s PhD thesis explored the history of attempts at Aboriginal control and “Aboriginalisation” within bilingual schools in the from the 1970s to 2010s. Educators, both Aboriginal people and settler supporters, experimented with education controlled by Aboriginal bodies, teaching an Aboriginal curriculum, in an Aboriginal language or languages, alongside English. These experiments provoked contests for control over school spaces and curriculum between the state and local groups, and represented contesting visions of producing knowledge, and contested imaginations of the future.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.