Category: 2020

  1. Daniel Hannington-Pinto

    Daniel Hannington-Pinto, ‘The Social and Moral Campaigning of Australian Trade Unions, 1960s to 2015’ (PhD in History, 2020) Although wages and working conditions have long been their ‘bread and butter’, trade unions have frequently campaigned on broader social and moral issues. In the Australian context, however, the labour history literature remains relatively silent on these […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/04/daniel-hannington-pinto

  2. Phoebe Kelloway

    Phoebe Kelloway, ‘Three Major Industrial Disputes 1928–30, Rank-and-File Action and the Communist Party of Australia’ (Phd in History, 2020) At the start of the Depression in Australia, workers in three industries waged determined struggles against significant cuts to their wages and conditions: waterside workers in 1928, timber workers in 1929, and coalminers of the NSW […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/04/phoebe-kelloway-2

  3. Martin Kovacic

    Martin Kovacic, ‘The Buddhist Ethics of Killing: Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Ethics’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2020) Significant media interest and academic scholarship has in recent years brought attention to the normative status of killing in Buddhism, concurrent with the worst genocidal event since the last century, committed by apparent Buddhists, in Rakhine State in Myanmar, in August-September […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/03/martin-kovacic

  4. Katherine Mannell

    Katherine Mannell, ‘Young Adults, Mobile Messaging, and the Negotiation of (Un)Availability’ (PhD, History & Philosophy of Science, 2020) With a mobile phone, a person can reach and be reached anytime, anywhere. As many scholars have noted, this creates mutual expectations of availability, particularly among young adults whose friendships typically involve high rates of mobile messaging. […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/03/katherine-mannell

  5. Daniel Nott

    Daniel Nott, ‘Talking Sense to the American People: The Appeal of Adlai Stevenson in the McCarthy Era’ (MA in History, 2020) The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the enduring popularity of Adlai Stevenson with the liberal elements of the Democratic Party during the 1950s. This is worth investigating as he was the overwhelming […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/03/daniel-nott

  6. Christopher Orrell

    Christopher Orrell, ‘Communicable Knowledge: Medical Communication, Professionalisation, and Medical Reform in Colonial Victoria, 1855–66′ (MA in History & Philosophy of Science, 2020) This thesis examines the process of medical professionalisation in colonial Victoria from 1855 to 1866. During this eleven-year period the medical profession of colonial Victoria were able to create Australia’s first long lasting […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/03/christopher-orrell

  7. Philip Patterson

    Philip Patterson, ‘Virtue and the Three Monkey Defence: Regulating Ethical Conduct in the Australian Public Service’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2020) The thesis is an investigation of the efficacy of the ‘values-based’ ethics regulation system … operated by the Australian Public Service (‘APS’). Normative propositions which identify virtue, human character, or dispositions to behave, as determinatively […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/philip-patterson

  8. Fergus Dale Prien

    Fergus Dale Prien, ‘A Reliabilist Strategy for Solving the Problem of Induction’ (MA in Philosophy, 2020) In this thesis I develop a two-stage strategy in which a simple reliabilist theory of knowledge and justification can be employed so as to solve David Hume’s famous ‘problem of induction’. In so doing, the key arguments I make include: (i) […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/fergus-dale-prien

  9. Belle Shapardon

    Belle Shapardon, ‘The Sioni Cultural Complex: Cultural Complexity and Interaction during the Transcaucasian Chalcolithic’ (PhD in Classics & Archaeology, 2020) In the past, the Chalcolithic period (c5000–3500 BCE) in the Transcaucasus represented a poorly defined ‘interlude’ between the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. An understanding of this period was hindered by a lack […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/belle-shapardon

  10. Evan Tindal

    Evan Tindal, ‘Evaluating the Photooxidative Ageing Properties of 3D Printed Plastics: Strategies for Their Use and Conservation in Cultural Heritage Contexts’ (PhD in Cultural Materials Conservation, 2020) 3D printing is a fairly ubiquitous term today, due in part to the dissemination of the manufacturing technique to a wide variety of applications. While initially developed as […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/evan-tindal

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