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DR DOLLY MACKINNON



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies, Music
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow), Honorary (Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/staff/mackinnon.html

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Early Modern Britain, Social and Cultural History culture, landscape, society England, Scotland
Music History Social and Cultural History United Kingdom, England, Scotland, Australia
Medical History mental health, history of psychiatry, history of deinstitutionalisation United Kingdom, Australia, Northern America
Higher Education internationalizing curricula, internationalising assessment Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
New Zealand The University of Waikato Research
Australia The University of Queensland Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 09-Sep-1995
Graduate Certificate (Higher Education) Queensland University of Technology 20-Apr-2000
Bachelor of Music University of Melbourne 14-Mar-1987

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Society of Archivists Incorporated Member 31-Dec-1994

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
A HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTIONALISATION AND COMMUNITY CARE IN AUSTRALIA, 1830s-1990s Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
Reading the Objects: Developing Online Personal Stories from Australia's Museums of Madness , 1870-1980 Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2009

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Victorian Parliamentary Library Fellowship, Department of Parliamentary Services, State Government of Victoria, (April - September 2008).

Career Enhancement Fellowship, The University of Melbourne (held in the Faculty of Music), (October 2008-April 2010).


Australia Research Council Discovery Grant (National Scheme) DP0771163 with Professor Elizabeth Malcolm (History, University of Melbourne), and Dr John Waller (History and Philosophy of Science, Michigan State University), and Dolly MacKinnon (History, University of Melbourne), entitled: A history of psychiatric institutions and community care in Australia, 1830s-1990s. (2007-2009)

Marsden Fund, Royal Society of New Zealand (Intermational Scheme). Collaborative grant with Dr Catharine Coleborne, History Department University of Waikato. Project: 'Family strategies involving 'madness' in colonial Australia and New Zealand, 1860-1914'. (2004-2005)

SR0354657 Australia Research Council Network for Research Development in Medieval and Early Modern European Social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia.

Visiting Fellowship, History Department, University of Waikato, NZ, (2003). 

Early Career Grant 'Redefining musical literacy in Britain 1500-1800', FQueensland University of Technology , (2001). 


Small Teaching and Learning Grant Scheme,  'Advocating socially and culturally responsive assessment in Arts core units', with Dr Catherine Manathunga (TALLS), , Faculty of Arts, Queensland University of Technology. (2000)


Small Teaching and Learning Grant Scheme,  ‘The Tyranny of Talk’: The Multiple Functions of Silence in Teaching and Learning’, , Faculty of Arts, Queensland University of Technology (1999)

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 2008

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Journal Articles

Publications in 2007

Books

Book Chapters

  • Goldfields Asylums: anxieties, evasions and erasures
    Year: 2007
    Book: Deeper Leads: New approaches to Victorian goldfields history
    Publisher: Ballarat Heritage Services(Ballarat, Victoria)
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  • Hearing the English Reformation: Earls Colne, Essex
    Year: 2007
    Book: Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Music, madness and the body: symptom and cure
    Year: 2006
    Journal: History of Psychiatry
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 9-21
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  • Psychiatry and its institutions in Australia and New Zealand: An overview
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Review of Psychiatry
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 371-380
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Publications in 2005

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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Review of Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Parergon
    Volume: 21
    Issue: No 2, July 2004
    Page numbers: 193-194
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  • Women and Family business in England, Wales and the Colonies c 1500-1800: Constructing a model for historical analysis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Lilith
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 117-126
    Publisher: University of Melbourne, Department of History(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • 'Madness' in Australia: histories, heritage and the asylum
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press(St Lucia)
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Book Chapters

  • "Jolly and fond of singing": the gendered nature of musical entertainment in Queensland mental institutions c1870 - c1937
    Year: 2003
    Book: 'Madness' in Australia: Histories, Heritage, and the Asylum
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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    URL - open access http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ao0y00MyNHgC
  • 'Diaries, history of'
    Year: 2003
    Book: Reader's Guide to British History
    Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers(London)
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  • 'Hearing madness': the soundscape of the asylum
    Year: 2003
    Book: 'Madness' in Australia: histories, heritage and the asylum
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press(St Lucia)
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  • 'Music: 16th and 17th Centuries'
    Year: 2003
    Book: Reader's Guide to British History
    Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers(London)
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  • 'Music: Instrumental and operatic, after 1660'
    Year: 2003
    Book: Reader's Guide to British History
    Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers(London)
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  • 'Music: Plainsong and Polyphony'
    Year: 2003
    Book: Reader's Guide to British History
    Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers(London)
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  • Introduction: 'Madness' in Australia: histories, heritage and the asylum
    Year: 2003
    Book: 'Madness' in Australia: histories, heritage and the asylum
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press(St Lucia)
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  • The Godly Family of the Seventeenth Century and John Howard's Australia
    Year: 2003
    Book: Future Imaginings: Sexualities and Genders in the New Millennium
    Publisher: University of Western Australia Press(Nedlands)
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Journal Articles

  • 'The Trustworthy Agency of the Eyes': Reading Images of Music and Madness in Historical Context
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Health and History
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 123-149
    Publisher: Australian Society of the History of Medicine(Melbourne)
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  • Going Global with Assessment: What to do when the dominant culture's literacy drives assessment
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Higher Education Research and Development
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 131-144
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  • Introduction: Deinstitutionalisation in Australia and New Zealand
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Health and History
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 1-16
    Publisher: Australian Society of the History of Medicine(Melbourne)
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  • Review Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds) History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Book Review
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 255
    Page numbers: 14
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

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