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Email

deborah.towns@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Fellow)
Department of Management and Marketing
Education
PhD
La Trobe University
PhD
La Trobe University
Masters (Coursework & Research)
Monash University
Bachelors Degree
La Trobe University

Dr Deborah Towns

Honorary (Fellow)
Department of Management and Marketing

63 Scholarly works
0 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website

    Short, Katherine Hilda Tapley (1870-1947) Community activist, Teacher.
  • 2025

    Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival

    Cherishing, Challenging, Democracy: Civics, Rights, Responsibity
  • 2024

    Journal article

    One Hundred Stories and the Centenary of the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Business and Economics, 2024-2025
  • 2024

    Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website

    Shirley Horne (nee Benson) AM, 1921-2007, AM BCom 1944, Dip. Pub. Policy 1971
  • 2024

    Conference Proceedings

    Before 'free, secular, compulsory', and Port Phillip's and Victoria's Schools
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Celebrating with Three Rs: Responsibility, Realisation, Reflection 150 years of Public Education in Victoria 1872–2022
  • 2022

    Conference Proceedings

    Celebrating the 150th with Three Rs: Responsibility, Realisation, Reflection
Deborah Towns

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2019
<p>Awarded OAM for services to gender equity and education.</p> Queens Birthday Australian Government
2019
2018
Collaborative Community History Award, Towns &amp; Andrews, 'A Secondary Education For All?' A History of State Secondary Schooling in Victoria. Public Record Office of Victoria

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2023

    Journal article

    Women's Community Leadership: Mothers' Clubs in the 20th Century
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Celebrating the 120th Anniversary of National Council of Women Victoria (NCWV)
  • 2022

    Reference Work

    Dow, Gwyneth Maude (1920–1996)
  • 2022

    Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website

    Celebrating women in public education

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