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PROF JANET MCCALMAN



Contact Details

Organization: Population Health
Position: PROFESSOR (CHS)
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Homepage: http://www.sph.unimelb.edu.au/about/allstaff/mccalman
Work: 8344 9107
Fax: 8344 0824
Room: 518
Level: 05
Building: 207 Bouverie St.
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts The Australian National University
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 20-Oct-1999
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) 22-Sep-2005

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Victorian Premier's Award for Australian Studies For 'Struggletown' (MUP 1984) 19-Oct-1984
Prize Ernest Scott Prize, University of Melbourne For 'Struggletown' (MUP 1984) 02-Dec-1985
Medal The Max Crawford Medal, Australian Academy of the Humanities For 'Struggletown' (MUP 1984) 18-Nov-1992
Prize Fellowship of Australian Writers' Local History Award For 'Struggletown' (MUP 1984) 15-Aug-1985
Prize Age Non-fiction Book of the Year For 'Journeyings' (MUP 1993) 15-Dec-1993
Prize Winner NSW Premier's History Awards in Community and Regional History For 'Sex and Suffering' (MUP 1998) 15-Jul-1999
Prize Victorian Community and Local History Award, best publication category winner For 'Sex and Suffering' (MUP 1998) 20-May-1999
Other (Award) 1999 Media Award from the College of Educational Administration (Vic) for outstanding contribution to public discourse on education. 25-Sep-1999
Other (Award) Walkley Awards for Journalism. Short-listed for Editorial and Opinion category, 18-Aug-1997

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
SCIENCE & CITIZENSHIP: DEMOCRACY IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE-MEDIATED RISK Chief Investigator MOIRA SHIRE COUNCIL,
SHIRE OF STRATHBOGIE,
SHIRE OF CAMPASPE,
BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY,
GOULBURN BROKEN CATCHMENT & MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY,
GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY,
DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2005
A DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIO-MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE OF VICTORIA 1800-2000: RECONSTITUTIONS AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
THE AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY ONLINE AND EMERGING NATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS: NETWORKING RESEARCH CAPABILITY Chief Investigator AUST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
"Turning Points: Redemption, Women and Alcohol in Melbourne, 1870-1945" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2006
FOUNDERS AND SURVIVORS: AUSTRALIAN LIFECOURSES IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2007
HISTORY, THE ARCHIVES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES; DEVELOPING THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S ARCHIVES PROJECT Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Book Chapters

  • To Die Without Friends: Solitaries, Drifters and Failures in a New World Society
    Year: 2009
    Book: Body and Mind: Historical Essays in Honour of F. B. Smith
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • Silent Witnesses: Child health and well-being in England and Australia and the health transition 1870-1940
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Health Sociology Review
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 25-35
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A health transition: birth weights, households and survival in an Australian working class population sample born 1857-1900
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Social Science & Medicine
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1070-1083
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  • Fractional identities: the political arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Interdisciplinary History
    Volume: xxxviii
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 533-551
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  • Inequalities of gender and health 1857-1985: a long-run perspective from the Melbourne lying-in hospital birth cohort
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Journal of Social Issues
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 29-44
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  • Ten years of Health and History (editorial)
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Health and History
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-3
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Reports

  • Adventures with Breath: A story of interdisciplinary innovation
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Unversity of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Janet McCalman on the world of the sixty-nine tram
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  •  A review of Pete Daniel's 'Toxic drift: pesticides and health in the post-World War 2 South'
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Alabama Review
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 210-212
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  • Mapping Aboriginal Victoria:  review of Broome, R (2006) Aboriginal Victorians: a history since 1800


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Meanjin
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 213-218
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  • Birth weight and coronary heart disease in a cohort born 1857-1900 in Melbourne, Australia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Journal of Epidemiology
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 880-885
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  • Mapping Aboriginal Victoria [CINEMA]
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Meanjin
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 213-218
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • 'All just melted with heat': mothers, babies and 'hot winds' in colonial Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Book: A change in the weather: climate and culture in Australia
    Publisher: National Museum of Australia Press(Canberra)
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  • The past that haunts us: the historical basis of well-being in Australian children
    Year: 2005
    Book: No time to lose: the well-being of Australia's children
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • Book review: A Melbourne doctor and his generation: Leonard Cox Bell, 1894-1976, neurologist, orientalist, art collector, gardener
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Health and History
    Volume: 71
    Issue: 109-110
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Australian Society of the History of Medicine(Melbourne)
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  • Book review: Milton Lewis: the people's health. vol I:, public health in Australia 1788-1950; Vol II: public health in Australia 1950 to the present
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Medical History
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 107-109
    Publisher: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
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  • The People's Health, vv2, Milton Lewis
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Medical History
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 107-109
    Publisher: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
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Major Reference Works

  • The Encyclopedia of Melbourne:Community
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • The Encyclopedia of Melbourne:Diseases and Epidemics
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • The Encyclopedia of Melbourne:Religious Allegiances
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Julie Marcus: The Indomitable Miss Pink: a life in anthropology
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Isis
    Volume: 95
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 328-330
    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press(Chicago)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Hard Cases Make Bad History: Doctors and children between the wars
    Year: 2003
    Book: Future Imaginings: Sexualities and Genders in the New Milennium
    Publisher: University of Western Australia Press(Nedlands)
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Journal Articles

  • Mothers' health and babies' weights: the biology of poverty at the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital, 1857-83.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Social History of Medicine
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 39-56
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  • Trends in birthweight between 1857 and 1883, in Melbourne, Australia.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 236-243
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Labour ward 30, Royal Women's hospital, Melbourne 1947-72
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Nursing Inquiry
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 31-36
    Publisher: Blackwell Science
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Publications in 2001

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Introduction
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 30th anniversary symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
    Conference Publication: Humane Societies
    Page numbers: ix-xii
    Publisher: The Australian Academy of the Humanities (Canberra)
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