Dr Jacqueline Dickenson
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 8344 4661
- Email:
- jackied@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 8344 7894
- Location:
- Room 329 Bridge
History, John Medley Building
The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
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Biography
Jackie Dickenson is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in History. She was educated in the UK and at the University of Melbourne. Jackie worked for many years in the advertising industry both in Australia and overseas, and previously taught creative advertising at RMIT University.
Research
Jackie’s postdoctoral project is a history of political accountability in Australia, which builds upon her existing expertise as an historian of political trust relationships. Jackie is currently writing a monograph based on her postdoctoral research entitled Dishonourable Members: Australians and Their Politicians, which will be completed in 2010. With Professor Brian Costar from Swinburne University, Jackie is currently developing a historical study that builds on this research, looking at the intervention of money in all its forms in the relationship between politicians and voters in Australia.
In March 2010, Jackie will take up a fellowship at the Australian Prime Ministers’ Centre in Canberra. Her study aims to raise awareness of the important achievements of two former prime ministers, E.G. (Gough) Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, towards managing government accountability in Australia. It traces their support for the establishment of a Commonwealth Ombudsman, which was achieved in 1977 after a decade of debate, asking what the roots of this bi-partisan support for the establishment of the office were, what opposition these leaders received, and how they responded to it. As the behaviour of parliamentarians and public servants is currently under great scrutiny both in Australia and abroad, the study is particularly timely.
Jackie is also engaged in a study of the Australian advertising industry in collaboration with the School of Historical Studies’ Dr Gideon Reuveni, and researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) and University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). The study aims to record an oral history of Australian advertising praxis and to establish an Advertising Industry Archive at the University of Melbourne. In April 2010, a symposium on this topic will be held at the University of Melbourne with Dr Liz McFall from the Open University, UK, as keynote speaker. For further details on this event visit: www.history.unimelb.edu.au/cherhub/
Publications
Books and edited works
- J. Dickenson, Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia; (Melbourne, MUP, 2006)
- R. Corcoran and J. Dickenson, A Dictionary of Australian Politics (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2010), See http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781742370507
- (Forthcoming) J. Dickenson, N. Dyrenfurth and S. Scalmer (eds), Special Issue: ‘The Rebirth of Political History’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 56, issue 1 (March 2010)
Refereed articles and conference publications
- Forthcoming: J. Dickenson, ‘Journalists Writing Political History’, Australian Journal of Politics and History (March 2010)
- J. Dickenson, ‘Stuff History: The Past as a Resource in the Production of Advertising Material’, Advertising and Society Review, 10, issue 3 (October 2009) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/advertising_and_society_review/toc/asr.10.3.html
- J. Dickenson, ‘Trust: why and how historians should study it’, in Australian Journal of Politics and History, 54, issue 4 (December 2008)
- J. Dickenson, ‘Mal Colston: the worst rat of the lot’, in Labour Traditions (July 2007)
- J. Dickenson, ‘Nice company for Christian men: Adela Pankhurst Walsh and the British Empire’, British World 3 Conference, online publication (July 2004)
- J. Dickenson, ‘The greatest curse and traitor: H. H. Champion in Britain and Australia’, in Journal of Australian Studies, 80 (February 2004) (Available online at www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/jas/jas.cgi?issue=80)
- J. Dickenson, ‘Chasing the rat: The language of betrayal in Britain and Australia, 1840-1940', in Labour History Review 68, Manchester, UK (August 2003)
Conference presentations
- J. Dickenson, ‘My Voice will not be heard: attitudes towards parliamentary representation, 1929-32’, in Australian Historical Association Conference, Melbourne, July 2008
- J. Dickenson, ‘Stuff history’: the role of advertising in the construction of the past’, Australian Historical Association Conference, Armidale, September 2007
- J. Dickenson, 'Historicising political trust', in Mateship and Trust in Australian History Conference, Melbourne, February 2006
Non-refereed articles
- J. Dickenson, ‘Politicians have lost our trust - again’, in The Age, 20 March 2007
- J. Dickenson, ‘Why governments shouldn’t lie’, in Socialist Objective (May 2005)
Teaching
Jackie has taught for more than twelve years at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has co-ordinated and taught the Honours seminar 'New Histories of Australian Politics' (2005-2009) and 'Controversies in Australian History' (2009).