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. Her PhD thesis, which was awarded in 2005, was published as an academic monograph in 2006 by Melbourne University Publishing and entitled Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia. Her Discovery project will result in several articles and a monograph, which will be a study of political trust in Australia.
Jackie is also engaged in two studies of the advertising industry: ‘Selling with the past’, which looks at the role of advertising in the construction of the past; and a comparative study of the conjunction between consumption and modernity entitled ‘Behind The Gruen Transfer: Advertising Practices, Consumption and Identity, 1870-1970’, in collaboration with colleagues from the CHERhub research group.
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Publications
Books
- J. Dickenson, Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia (Melbourne, MUP, 2006)
Refereed articles and conference publications
- 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)
Book reviews
- J. Dickenson, review of Mungo MacCallum, Poll Dancing: The Story of the 2007 Election (Black Inc.: Melbourne, 2007) in Journal of Australian Studies (July 2008)
- J. Dickenson, review of David Clune and Ken Turner (eds), Writing Party History: Papers from a Seminar Held at Parliament House, Sydney, May 2006 (Parliament of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007) in Labour History (May 2008)
- J. Dickenson, ‘Portrait of an enigma’, review of John Barnes, in Socialist Champion: Portrait of a Gentleman Crusader (Australian Scholarly Press, 2005) in Australian Fabian News (February 2007)
Teaching
Jackie has taught for more than ten years at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She currently co-ordinates and teaches an Honours seminar entitled New Histories of Australian Politics.