Category: Undergraduate Students
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Neuroscience and Gender Politics
Last year, students taking the subject ‘Sex and Gender in the Sciences’ took direct part in the public debates over neuroscience and gender politics. Led by Professor Cordelia Fine (HPS), the students held a focused class discussion on sensationalised research findings comparing female and male brains. Later, the students co-authored a statement on this issue, which was […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2025/04/29/neuroscience-and-gender-politics
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Celebrating Our Outstanding Students
We congratulate students who won prizes in 2022 for excellence in the fields of Classics & Archaeology, Cultural Materials Conservation, Hebrew Studies, and History, and extend our thanks to the benefactors whose generosity has supported our students in their endeavours and has helped both to make possible and to recognise their achievements in these fields. […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2025/01/06/celebrating-our-outstanding-students
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Silver Medal for Philosophy Students in Tertiary Ethics Olympiad
In October 2024 two teams of students from the University of Melbourne participated in the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) Tertiary Ethics Olympiad. These ethics athletes, or ‘eth-letes’, as they are known in the competition, went up against universities from across Australia. They were supported by coach Dr Alex Cain (Teaching Associate, Philosophy), who reports here […] -
Cuckoldry in Early Modern England
Early modern English culture displayed an obsession with women’s infidelity and anxieties around the shame this brought on their husbands. History major Joseph Moorhead explored this topic for the subject A History of Sexualities (HIST30004) in 2020, and was awarded the 2020 Laurie R Gardiner Prize for the best undergraduate essay in early modern British […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/09/19/cuckoldry-in-early-modern-england
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Inches Apart: Railways & Federation
History major Patrick Gigacz explores the history of the state borders in Australia through the prism of the 1921 Royal Commission over railway gauges in this prize-winning essay produced for the subject Controversies in Australian History (HIST30064) in 2021. The pandemic has reminded many Australians that they live in a federation of states. Passionate public […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/03/28/inches-apart-railways-federation
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Melbourne University Philosophy Society 2020–2021
Despite rolling lockdowns, the SHAPS undergraduate societies have continued to operate and thrive, doing vital work in creating innovative ways for students to connect and interact throughout the pandemic. In this article, we feature the Melbourne University Philosophy Society (MUPS). We farewell the outgoing 2021 committee and look back on their activities over the past […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/11/03/shaps-undergrad-soceties-part-one
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The 2021 International Summer School in Transnational History, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Since 2018, the Universitas Gadjah Mada has hosted an annual International Summer School in Transnational History, bringing together students from across Southeast Asia to live and study together in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In 2018 and 2019 SHAPS was able to send small groups of students, together with Associate Professor Katharine McGregor, to participate in person in […] -
History Capstone 2020 Showcase
Making History is the capstone subject for our History majors — for many of our students this is their last academic unit of History. The subject gives students an opportunity to focus on History in the world as well as History in the academy. We always end the semester with a Closing Conference as an […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/01/22/history-capstone-2020-showcase
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Becoming a Transnational Scholar of Southeast Asia
In 2019, Caitlin Ryan (Masters of International Relations) and Hillary Mansour (Combined Honours in History and Indonesian Studies), and Michael Anderson (Honours in History) spent a week at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, together with students and academics from universities across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In this article, they tell us […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/03/24/becoming-a-transnational-scholar-of-southeast-asia
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Building Rail, Building Victoria: A History of the Melbourne–Geelong Railway
Trains and railroads hold a curious appeal for many of us, and they make compelling subjects for historical research. In 2018, History major Tim Lilley chose to produce his third-year capstone research project on the history of the Melbourne-Geelong railway. We showcase his outstanding project here, in the first of a series of posts spotlighting […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/06/28/building-rail-building-victoria
