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2021–present
Head of Knowledge, Australian National Maritime Museum
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2020–2021
Principal, Artefact Heritage Services
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2019–2020
Senior Communications Officer, National Archives of Australia
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2016–2019
ARC DECRA Fellow, Department of History, University of Sydney
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2016–2017
Merewether Fellow, State Library of New South Wales
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2013–2016
Research Associate, Department of History, University of Sydney
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2012–2012
Associate Lecturer, Department of History, University of Sydney
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2011–2011
Postgraduate Teaching Fellow, Department of History, University of Sydney
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2007–2010
Freelance Medical Writer, Badger's Den
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2000–2006
Director, Elixir Healthcare Education
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1999–2000
Medical Writer, Alchemy Communications
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1997–1999
Copywriter, Medicus
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1995–1997
Senior Medical Writer, Oxford Clinical Communications
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2017
(with Anne Clarke and Ursula K Frederick) “No complaints”: counter-narratives of immigration and detention in the graffiti at the North Head Immigration Detention Centre, Australia 1973–76, World Archaeology
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2017
Venomous Encounters: Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial Australia, Manchester: Manchester University Press
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2017
Tending the body politic: health governance, benevolence and betterment in Sydney, 1835–55, Health and History
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2017
Union Jack or Yellow Jack? Smallpox, sailors, settlers and sovereignty, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
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2016
(with Alison Bashford, Anne Clarke and Ursula K Frederick) Geographies of commemoration: Angel Island, San Francisco and North Head, Sydney, Journal of Historical Geography 52, pp. 16–25
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2016
(with Ursula K Frederick and Anne Clarke) Stories From the Sandstone: Quarantine Inscriptions from Australia’s Immigrant Past, Crows Nest: Arbon Publishing
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2016
(with Anne Clarke and Ursula K Frederick) Sydney’s landscapes of quarantine, In Alison Bashford, ed., Quarantine: Local and Global Histories (Houndmills: Palgrave), pp. 175–94
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2016
From Camels to cats: experimenting with medicine in the Australian Flying Corps, War & Society 35, no. 2, pp. 114–31
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2015
(with Alison Bashford) Rewriting quarantine: Pacific history at Australia’s edge, Australian Historical Studies 46, no. 3, pp. 392–409
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2015
“No bloody research”: bringing science to military medicine, In Jacqueline Healy, ed., Compassion and Courage: Australian Doctors and Dentists in the Great War (Melbourne: Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne), pp. 94–100
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2015
A spur to atavism: placing platypus poison, Journal of the History of Biology 48, no. 4, pp. 499–537
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2014
Imperial science or the republic of poison letters? Venomous animals, intercolonial exchange and national identity, In Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie, eds. Routledge History of Western Empires (Oxford: Routledge), pp. 285–98
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2014
Invasion ontologies: venom, visibility and the imagined histories of arthropods, In Jodi Frawley and Iain McCalman, eds., Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities (Oxford: Routledge), pp. 181–95
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2013
(with Hannah Forsyth) Mobilising medical knowledge for the nation, 1943–49, Health and History, 15, no. 1, pp. 59–79
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2013
Spectacular serpents: snakebite in colonial Australia, In Jacqueline Healy and Kenneth D. Winkel, eds., Venom: Fear, Fascination and Discovery (Melbourne: Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne), pp. 37–46
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2013
(with Alison Bashford) Science and medicine, In Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre, eds. The Cambridge History of Australia, Volume Two: the Commonwealth of Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 263–83
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2011
“Immunisation is as popular as a death adder”: the Bundaberg tragedy and the politics of medical science in interwar Australia, Social History of Medicine 24, no. 2, pp. 426–44
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2010
Isolated cases? The history and historiography of Australian medical research, Health and History 12, no. 2, pp. 1–17
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2010
“Outside the institute there is a desert”: the tenuous trajectories of medical research in interwar Australia, Medical History 54, no. 1, pp. 1–28
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2010
Serpentine science: Charles Kellaway and the fluctuating fortunes of venom research in interwar Australia, Historical Records of Australian Science 21, no.1, pp. 1–34
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2009
The whole country is poisoned: framing disease mortality in the historiography of the South African War, War & Society 28, no.1, pp. 29–60
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2007
(with Kenneth D. Winkel) The forgotten successes and sacrifices of Charles Kellaway, director of the WEHI, 1923–1944, Medical Journal of Australia 187, no. 11/12, pp. 645–8
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2007
“Living in hell but still smiling”: Australian psychiatric casualties of war during the Malaya-Singapore campaign, 1941–42, Health and History 9, no. 1, pp. 28–55
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2006
Compromised ethical principles in randomised trials of distant, intercessory prayer, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2, no. 3, pp. 142–52