Shurlee Swain | |
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Born | 1948 (age 73–74) |
Nationality | Australian |
Awards | Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2007) Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2017) Member of the Order of Australia (2018) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
Thesis | The Victorian Charity Network in the 1890s (1977) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Institutions | Deakin University University of Melbourne Australian Catholic University |
Shurlee Lesley Swain, AM , FASSA , FAHA (born 1948) is an Australian social welfare historian,researcher and author. [1] Since August 2017 she has been an Emeritus Professor at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). [2]
Swain was born in 1948 at Natimuk,Victoria. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father a grocer. The family relocated to Ringwood in Melbourne in 1951,where she completed all her schooling. At the University of Melbourne she completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and Diploma of Social Work before completing her Doctor of Philosophy in 1977 on The Victorian Charity Network in the 1890s. [1] [3]
Swain's career as an academic began as a tutor in Australian Studies at Deakin University,before being appointed lecturer at her alma mater,the University of Melbourne,in the late 1980s. From there she moved to the Australian Catholic University (ACU) when it opened in 1991. [1]
In 2011 Swain,together with Professor Cathy Humphreys and Associate Professor Gavan McCarthy,were appointed the three Chief Investigators in the Australia-wide Find and Connect Project —a project to provide history and information about Australian orphanages,children's homes and other institutions. [4]
Outside her university commitments,for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2014,Swain wrote three reports: [5]
Swain resigned from her position as Professor of Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences at ACU in 2017 after ten years in that position. ACU celebrated her retirement by hosting a symposium and reception in her honour. [9]
With Judith Smart,Swain is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Women &Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. [10]
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