Recognition of Expertise

I regularly review journal articles. Journals that I have reviewed articles for include the following,

  • Australian Historical Studies
  • Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing;
  • European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics;
  • Gender & History;
  • Health & History;
  • Health Emergency and Disaster Nursing Journal;
  • History Australia;
  • International Journal of Military History and Historiography
  • Journal of Advanced Nursing;
  • Journal of Clinical Nursing;
  • Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health;
  • Journal of Royal Australian Historical Society;
  • Journal of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia;
  • Labour History;
  • Medical History;
  • Nursing History Review;
  • Nursing Inquiry;
  • Sydney Journal;
  • Victorian Studies.

The following journals have recognised my expertise by requesting a book review, most recently:

  • Australian Historical Studies;
  • Health & History;
  • Social History of Medicine;
  • Medical History Newsletter;
  • University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities;
  • Public History Review; 
  • Metascience;
  • Victorian Studies;
  • Royal Australian Historical Society Journal;
  • History Now Te Pae Tawhito O Te Wa;
  • Medical History;
  • Journal of Religious History;
  • JIGS. A Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies;
  • The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History;
  • Labour History. 

Other recognition includes:

  • The external judge for the North Shore Historical Society’s essay prizes, October 2024.
  • Interview with Wendy Hamer and Robbie Brock on 702, Radio Sydney on International Year of the Nurse and Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday on 12 May 2020;
  • keynote address on Florence Nightingale at the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife Conference (Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, 12 May 2020) was cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis;
  • Hon. consultant to film The Lady Superintendent (2019) by Meg Collins about Lucy Osburn;
  • Wrote blurb and selected photos for pre-stamped envelope commemorating the arrival of nurse Lucy Osburn in Australia 150 years ago;
  • Interviewed as expert commentator on nursing/midwifery history for Pioneers, Soldiers, Renegades: a documentary film of nursing and midwifery’s history in Australia, Waterbyrd Films (Victoria), produced by Nick Byrd and Eleanor Sharpe, 2014; and
  • social and medical history advice for researchers of various TV programs set in the past, such as the first series of Love Child and Who Do You Think You are?