Key personnel: Prof Martin Gibbs, Assoc Prof David Roberts, Dr Richard Tuffin, Prof Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Dr David Roe (formerly Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority), Susan Hood (formerly Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority), Dr Jody Steele (formerly Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority)

Landscapes of Production and Punishment: the Tasman Peninsula 1830–77 was an Australian Research Council project designed to test the prevalent assumption that convict Australia was a place of brutality, repression and exploitation. Focusing on the archaeological and historical legacy of the Tasman Peninsula (Tasmania), the project examined the deployment and management of convict labour in terms of its impact upon convict lives and the environment.