Jane Jago, PhD candidate, supervised by Dr Kyle Mulrooney , Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Dr Jenny Wise (funded by an Australian RTPS Scholarship). This is a longitudinal study tracing the past footprints of transported poachers and other rural thieves in the...
Key personnel: Dr Richard Tuffin, Prof Martin Gibbs This project aims to prove the critical role that the probation system (1839-53) played in the development of an Australian colony. Derided at the time and since as a monumental failure, the system had a lasting...
Margaret Strike, PhD candidate, supervised by David Andrew Roberts, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Matthew Allen (funded by an Australian RTPS Scholarship). This project examines the pivotal role played by magistrates in the establishment of British law and the...
Key personnel: Prof Martin Gibbs, Dr Richard Tuffin This project seeks to increase our understanding of the hidden landscapes of the Darlington Probation Station. The history of the place is complex, encompassing early use as a penal station (1825-32), probation...
Key personnel: Dr Richard Tuffin, Sylvana Szydzik (Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority) A collaborative project between the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority and Dr Richard Tuffin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of New England. The...
