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Prof

Janet McCalman

Honorary
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
social sciences
3 good health and well being
arts & humanities
life sciences & biomedicine
science & technology
history
pediatric
social sciences - other topics
australia
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Projects

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Diggers to Veterans: risk, resilience and recovery

What really happened to the Diggers after the war? In this centenary year of Gallipoli, it is still not known. It is not known how long they..

2015 - 2019
Completed
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Birthing Digital Heritage at the Royal Women’s Hospital Site

2016 - 2016
Completed
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Land and Life: Aborigines, Convicts and Immigrants in Victoria, 1835-1985: an interdisciplinary history

This project is an interdisciplinary investigation of dispossession and colonization of southeast Australia. It uses longitudinal cohort stu..

2011 - 2016
Completed
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THE AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY ONLINE AND EMERGING NATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS: NETWORKING RESEARCH CAPABILITY

The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online and Emerging National Information Systems Project will link the dictionary's scholarly biograp..

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FOUNDERS AND SURVIVORS: AUSTRALIAN LIFECOURSES IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT

This project will create one of the world's outstanding longitudinal studies of human health and resilience. It will contribute to the histo..

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A DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIO-MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE OF VICTORIA 1800-2000: RECONSTITUTIONS AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

We have produced a world-first historical demographic and epidemiological database that will be of continuing cultural and professional valu..

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SCIENCE & CITIZENSHIP: DEMOCRACY IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE-MEDIATED RISK

This community-based project in the Goulburn Valley focuses on citizens' negotiation of scientific expertise, perceptions of risk and partic..

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SCIENCE & CITIZENSHIP: DEMOCRACY IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE-MEDIATED RISK

This community-based project in the Goulburn Valley focuses on citizens' negotiation of scientific expertise, perceptions of risk and partic..

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"Turning Points: Redemption, Women and Alcohol in Melbourne, 1870-1945"

History is one of the most effective forms of public communication, currently thriving in the public sphere in books, film, television, and ..

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HISTORY, THE ARCHIVES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES; DEVELOPING THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S ARCHIVES PROJECT

This project will create and define generic tools and services to increase the productivity of those involved with the creation, maintenance..

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Project Types

8

Research Grant

2

Internal Research Grant

2

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

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1 Fractional Identities: The Political Arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians

Len Smith, Janet McCalman, Ian Anderson, Sandra Smith, Joanne Evans, Gavan McCarthy, Jane Beer

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Unprotected: Aboriginal, Convict and Poor Women in Colonial Victoria: Or How Everything Bad Was Made Worse by Being Female

J McCalman

Journal article  |  2022  |  Victorian Historical Journal

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A LIFECOURSE PERSPECTIVE ON HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF CIRCULATORY SYSTEM DISEASE AND ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AUSTRALIA

Cecily C Kelleher, Gabrielle Kelly, Ricardo Segurado, Jonathan Briody, Alexander M Sellers, Janet McCalman

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

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Building Longitudinal Datasets From Diverse Historical Data in Australia

Janet McCalman

Journal article  |  2021  |  Historical Life Course Studies

Australia is rich in population datasets generated to manage convicts, civilians, stock, land and the colonised and displaced Firs..

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Origins of 'the gap': perspectives on the historical demography of aboriginal victorians

Janet McCalman, Rebecca Kippen, Len Smith, Sandra Silcot

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF POPULATION RESEARCH

Australia enjoys ninth place out of 190 countries on the United Nations Life Expectancy Index. Aboriginal Australians—as a fourth-..

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The life-course demography of convict transportation to Van Diemen's Land

Janet McCalman, Rebecca Kippen

Journal article  |  2019  |  HISTORY OF THE FAMILY

This paper reports on a sample of 16,953 male and 7,783 female convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land between 1818 and 1853 who..

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Early Results From the ‘Diggers to Veterans’ Longitudinal Study of Australian Men who Served in the First World War. Short- and Long-Term Mortality of Early Enlisters

Janet McCalman, Rebecca Kippen, Joan McMeeken, John Hopper, Michael Reade

Journal article  |  2019  |  Historical Life Course Studies

As the world marks the centenaries of the First World War, we still know remarkably little about the life course effects of milita..

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The Private and the Public

Janet McCalman

Book Chapter  |  2019

Arguments about the discipline of Australian History, from thinkers across the ideological and historical spectrum, are distilled ..

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Response by Janet McCalman

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Journal article  |  2019  |  History Australia

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Epidemiological Transition: Patterns Of Temporal Association Between Foreign-Born Immigration (1891-1986) And Cardiovascular Disease In Australia (1907-2016)

R Segurado, AM Sellers, J Briody, J McCalman, CC Kelleher

Journal article  |  2019  |  Atherosclerosis

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Keyword Analysis

Historical Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Demography
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Epidemiology
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture, Language and History
Public Health
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Evaluation of Health and Support Services

News

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Hidden women of history: 'the Buzzwinker' Ellen Miles, child convict, goldfields pickpocket and vagrant

Janet McCalman AC

—Me name’s Miles; Ellen Miles, remarked an old woman at the City Court yesterday. —And you are charged with vagrancy, stated Sergeant Eas..

April 11, 2022
conversation Article
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Vale Stuart Macintyre: a history warrior who worked for a better Australia

Janet McCalman AC

Stuart Macintyre has gone. To those whose lives touched his, an Australian history community without him seems hugely empty. For almost ..

November 23, 2021
conversation Article
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Hidden women of history: how 'lady swindler' Alexandrina Askew triumphed over the convict stain

Janet McCalman AC

In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. “A LADY SWINDLER”, gasped the Illustrated Australian News in Novemb..

October 21, 2021
conversation Article
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Friday essay: it's possible — how we can create a fairer, greener Australia beyond COVID

Janet McCalman

We are living through the greatest disruption of the postwar era; what is likely to be the defining historical period of our lives. And the..

October 1, 2020
conversation Article
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The carers, advocates and reformers of women’s health

Jacqueline Healy, Janet McCalman, Madonna Grehan, Leslie Reti

‘The colony was in the midst of a gold rush that would bring half a million people in the decade. Women were abandoned – pregnant and desti..

July 11, 2019
pursuit Article
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Class divide defies social mixing and keeps public housing stigma alive

Janet McCalman, Deborah Warr

Public housing reform is again agitating the inner suburbs, just as it did four decades ago when citizen action and courageous academic res..

August 2, 2017
conversation Article
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Spinning diamonds for quantum precision

Alexander Wood, Andy Martin

We live in a noisy world. Interference from light, vibrations, electromagnetic radiation and sound can be annoying; it messes with our slee..

August 2, 2017
pursuit Article
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Science and fear: a review of vaccination documentary Jabbed

Janet McCalman

In April 1939, measles was coursing through the industrial suburbs of North Melbourne, Carlton and Fitzroy, but the city medical officer as..

May 24, 2013
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2018

Companion of the Order of Australia

2019

Medal Accepted and Issued

UoM Service Recognition 25 Year Bronze Medal
2016

University of Melbourne
1999

for outstanding contribution to public discourse on education.

1999 Media Award from the College of Educational Administration (Vic)
1999

For 'Sex and Suffering' (MUP 1998)

Winner NSW Premier's History Awards in Community and Regional History
1999

For 'Sex and Suffering' (MUP 1998)

Victorian Community and Local History Award, best publication category winner
1997

Short-listed for Editorial and Opinion category,

Walkley Awards for Journalism.
1993

For 'Journeyings' (MUP 1993)

Age Non-fiction Book of the Year
1992

For 'Struggletown' (MUP 1984)

The Max Crawford Medal, Australian Academy of the Humanities
1985

For 'Struggletown' (MUP 1984)

Ernest Scott Prize, University of Melbourne
1985

For 'Struggletown' (MUP 1984)

Fellowship of Australian Writers' Local History Award
1984

For 'Struggletown' (MUP 1984)

Victorian Premier's Award for Australian Studies
2015

Filosofie Hedersdoktor (Honorary Doctorate), University of Umea Sweden

2005

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

1993

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Honorary

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Education

Filosofie Hedersdoktor (Honorary Doctorate)

Umea University

Doctor of Philosophy

The Australian National University

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

University of Melbourne

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