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?