David Andrew Roberts, University of New England, with transcriptions by Chris Bedford This is the beginnings of an attempt to identify and code non-British convict voyages to Australia in the early-colonial period. By that we mean convict voyages that embarked from...
Dr Caitlin D’Gluyas, Lecturer in Archaeology: Within Van Diemen’s Land (now lutruwita/Tasmania) juvenile convicts were at times separated from the general convict labour network and sent to Point Puer, a convict site of reform and trade training that operated between...
Tracking Illegal Movement in Convict in 1830s New South Wales In 2021, staff and students at UNE, working under the direction of Dr Melissa Gibbs and Nina Roberts, undertook a collaborative transcription project to investigate the prevalence and nature of convict...
Alyssa Madden, PhD candidate, supervised by Martin Gibbs and David Andrew Roberts. This is an historical archaeological study of the Moreton Bay carceral landscape as the foundation of Queensland’s capital city, Brisbane. The Moreton Bay convict station was...
Nina Kathleen Roberts, PhD candidate, supervised by David Andrew Roberts and Jenny Wise (funded by an Australian RTPS Scholarship). This multidisciplinary study, sitting across Australian History and Criminology, examines the use of capital punishment and the...
