Prison history, culture & heritage
This overarching research theme explores, understands, and engages with the nuanced relationships between prisons, culture, and heritage, shedding light on the stories that shape our collective understanding of justice, identity, and societal evolution.
Truth-telling, film-making, & skill-building
Empowering Indigenous children to shape their own narratives and forge deeper connections with their community and heritage.
Roebourne
Investigating the history of imprisonment of Indigenous Australians, looking into the causes and the legacy today.
The art of Fremantle Prison
The stories of Indigenous prisoners at Fremantle Prison who together created astounding internationally significant art.
Digital Panopticon
A collaboration between the Universities of Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield, Sussex and Tasmania, tracing London convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925.
How convicts connected the world
Unfree labour in British and Imperial dockyards.
Criminals incapable of reform?
Reassessing the population of Cockatoo Island Prison, Sydney, 1847-1869.