This project has produced a collected volume, The First World War, the Universities and the Professions, which is due for publication by Melbourne University Press in February 2019. The book examines how Australia’s extraordinary contribution to World War I extended well beyond the nation’s military forces to the expertise of its universities and professional associations, and opportunities for training its men and women. In making these links […]
New additions to the University of Melbourne War Records
Dr James Waghorne one of the Chief Investigators on the Expert Nation project published an article for Remembrance Day, November 11 2017. Appearing in the University of Melbourne’s Pursuit publication the article reveals how research for this project has identified 156 additional names, which were absent from the original University of Melbourne’s War Memorial Book. One of the names added is Dr Mary De Garis, the second female […]
Trixie Whitehead: Intelligence and the First World War
British intelligence tends to conjure up thoughts of MI6, James Bond and of course the Cold War. It was WWI, however, that was the first international conflict that British intelligence agencies became an important part of the government’s overall war effort. This is of particular relevance to the Expert Nation project. While doing research on the graduates of the Women’s College within the University of […]
Symposium: World War 1, the Universities and the Professions
The symposium, World War One, Universities and the Professions, was held on 12 & 13 October 2017 at the University of Melbourne. Bringing together a group of academics, each examining a different profession. Presentations were grouped into five sessions: The Arts: Design, Music and Writing Teaching, Languages and the Law Medical Sciences Science and Technology Government, Accounting and Anthropology Themes explored included: the impact of World War I […]
History of Education Review – Universities, Expertise and the First World War
There are myriad connections between universities and war. The latest issue of History of Education (Vol 45 Issue 2) prompts us to see the war not simply in terms of guns and battles but also how the battlefield extended university expertise with long-lasting implications into the 1920s and 1930s. The contributors each ask how university education, expertise and professional experience were applied both in the context of the […]
Symposium: Social & Cultural Experience of WWI
The Social and Cultural Experience of World War I : Symposium at the University of Melbourne, 11 May 2016 The photographs, writings and ephemera assembled in the exhibition Somewhere in France: Australians on the Western Front reveal individual connections and personal experiences of individuals on the Western Front. These glimpses convey the diverse motivations and interests of those engaged in the war, and hint at the changes […]
Dentistry & the War
When war broke out in 1914, dentistry was still embroiled in bitter conflicts between interest groups with different understandings of the social status of the profession and the relationship of universities to it. But the wartime experience of solider dentists left them in no doubt about these questions. For dentistry, as for so many other branches of science, the war functioned as a ‘huge laboratory […]
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