Summer Research Scholarships
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Some of our Scholars starting in November, 2012: Johanna Qualmann, Louise Ryan, Brittany Johansson, Peter Cross, Johannah Bevis, Katelyn Klemm, Rebecca Lush, Olivia Nowland, Anna Temby. |
The Summer Research Scholarship is an opportunity for undergraduate and some postgraduate students to get involved in an exciting research project within HPRC during the summer. In 2012-2013, the School offered an unprecedented 11 scholarships, including two for the RD Milns Antiquities Museum and three for the Centre for the Government of Queensland. Read about these current projects below.
The next round of the Summer Research Scholarships will be held during summer 2013-2014. For details of the scholarships offered in the next round, please check the website in mid-2013. For the guidelines and the application form, visit the Office of the Undergraduate Education website.
Program dates: November - February
Application deadline: Applications for the 2012-2013 Summer Research Scholarships closed on 30 August, 2012.
The School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics is a unit within the Faculty of Arts, and incorporates four main disciplinary areas:
- History - Australian, British and European, Asian, Pacific, the Middle East, the United States, and thematic areas
- Philosophy - the appraisal of argument, the nature of thinking, the nature of the mind that thinks and what it thinks about
- Studies in Religion - the study of various religious and spiritual experiences and practices, including the study of the major world religions, as well as new religious movements, religion and the environment, paganisms and esotericism
- Classics and Ancient History - Ancient Greek and Latin, and the history of early Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and the Celts
This year The Centre for the Government of Queensland and the RD Milns Antiquities Museum also offered summer scholarships.
Please contact the HPRC Academic Administrator for further information or any questions related to HPRC summer research scholarships.
HPRC Projects for Summer 2012-2013
| Area: | Classics and Ancient History |
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Olympic Athletes Ancient and Modern |
| Project Leader: | Dr Tom Stevenson Email: t.stevenson@uq.edu.au |
| Summer Research Scholar: | Brittany Johansson |
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This project is part of ongoing research into athletes who were successful at the ancient Olympic Games with a view to writing a history of changes in the profiles of victorious athletes over time. An attempt will also be made, in greater detail this year, to compare the experiences of some of the ancient athletes, and the nature of their achievements, with the experiences of selected modern Olympians.
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| Area: | The RD Milns Antiquities Museum & The Centre for the Government of Queensland |
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The RD Milns Antiquities Museum: The First 10 Years |
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Dr Janette McWilliam Email: j.mcwilliam@uq.edu.au |
| Summer Research Scholars: | Johanna Qualmann, Anna Temby |
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The RD Milns Antiquities Museum at The University of Queensland was established in 1963 as a teaching resource for the former Department of Classics. The Museum remains integral to the Discipline of Classics and Ancient History within the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics (HPRC). It holds significant collections that promote and support the study of the classical civilizations of Greece, Rome, Egypt and Western Asia within the University community and for the broader general public.
In 2013 The RD Milns Antiquities Museum will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. In preparation for this event, the two Summer Research Scholars will help research the history of the Museum from 1963-1973 and will work collaboratively to:
The Project is supervised by Dr Janette McWilliam (Classics) and Dr Geoff Ginn (History). Expertise, research advice and technical support will also be provided by staff from The RD Milns Antiquities Museum and the UQ Centre for the Government of Queensland.
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| Area: | The Centre for the Government of Queensland |
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Oral History Project |
| Project Leader: | Dr Danielle Miller Email: d.miller5@uq.edu.au |
| Summer Research Scholars: | Johannah Bevis, Peter Cross, Louise Ryan |
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The Summer Research Scholars will be working on a new stage of the Queensland Speaks oral history project examining the trade union movement in Queensland. Scholars will write briefing notes on potential interviewees, formulate interview questions for upcoming interviews, and conduct at least one recorded interview. They will also have the opportunity to listen to completed interviews and produce interview summaries and short biographies of interviewees to be used on the website. Additionally, the Scholars will work with a staff member to produce a short article which they will present to an academic audience. Their papers will then be eligible for inclusion on the Queensland Speaks website.
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| Area: | History |
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Personal stories, perilous crossings: multicultural colonial Queensland |
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Dr Dolly MacKinnon (HPRC) Email: a.mackinnon@uq.edu.au |
| Summer Research Scholars: | Tess Cohen, Katelyn Klemm, Daniel McKay |
 The Summer Research Scholars (pictured right: Daniel McKay, Tess Cohen and Katelyn Klemm) will work on an historical project jointly coordinated by Dr Dolly MacKinnon (School of HPRC) and industry partner Sue Hutley (Director, Collections and Access, Queensland State Archives) researching personal stories of involuntary and voluntary migration to Queensland between 1824 and 1860 using the extensive Queensland State Archives collections. The research outcomes will take the form of personal narratives that form part of QSA’s digitisation of archival resources project in the areas of migration and multiculturalism made available on the QSA website. |
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| Area: | History |
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African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941-1945 |
| Project Leader: | Associate Professor Chris Dixon Email: c.dixon1@uq.edu.au |
| Summer Research Scholar: | Rebecca Lush |
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This project will provide the first comprehensive examination of African Americans in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. After analysing black Americans' preconceptions of the Pacific – a region considered both primitive and exotic – it will consider African Americans' wartime experiences, examining the complex interplay between national identity, a racially segregated military culture, and the possibilities of transnational racial advancement, as black Americans contemplated not just their own oppression, but also that of the colonised people of the Pacific. The Summer Research Scholar will work with a number of public sources – newspapers, memoirs, etc – to learn more about African Americans' perceptions of the vast Pacific region and its peoples. This project will provide our Scholar not only an opportunity to engage in some important and valuable primary source research, and learn more about the historians' craft, but also to develop research skills that can be relevant across a number of areas.
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| Area: | Studies in Religion |
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Waterways in South East Queensland: Social and Sacred Dimensions |
| Project Leader: | Dr Sylvie Shaw Email: sylvie.shaw@uq.edu.au |
| Summer Research Scholar: | Olivia Nowland |
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The Summer Research Scholar will work with Dr Sylvie Shaw (HPRC) on the development of the literature review which will form part of the report for an ARC Linkage project Monitoring and evaluating Moreton Bay and its catchments as a social-ecological system. This project focuses on people’s values of and experiences with waterways across South East Queensland, including the catchments, creeks and rivers, and Moreton Bay and islands. Its eventual goal is the development of an ongoing monitoring and evaluation program for the Moreton Bay Marine Park, a marine sanctuary that is threatened by its proximity to Brisbane, by marine degradation, and by nutrient runoff from upstream areas.
The literature review will target studies on waterways. It will focus on social, spiritual and cultural values of watersheds, rivers and oceans, covering both Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. It may also be possible to participate in interviews with residents or observations of ways individuals use waterways across the region. Benefits of the project are both academic and practical. There is limited spiritual or socio-ecological research on people’s relationships not only towards Moreton Bay, and related rivers and catchments, but on waterways and marine areas generally in Australia. Adding detailed evidence of people’s perceptions, values and experiences of these areas adds to the academic study of ‘aquatic religion’ and water-place attachment, as well as establishing a human-environment profile of these unique and interconnected waterways.
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2011-2012 Scholarships
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The 2011 HPRC Summer Research Scholarship recipient, Jonathan Devine, is pictured with Emeritus Professor Robert Milns at the 2012 Olympic Athletes Conference. Last summer Mr Devine undertook a project with Dr Tom Stevenson on “Olympic Athletes: Ancient and Modern.” His paper at the Olympics Conference explored his summer research project on Milo of Croton, an ancient Olympic wrestler (Milo, the famous malt and chocolate drink, is named after this athlete). Dr Tom Stevenson has offered another scholarship this summer on Olympic Athletes Ancient and Modern. The details of this project are listed above. |
