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Dr Glenn Mitchell

BA Hons (UNSW), DipEd, PhD (UOW)

Location: 19:2045
Telephone: (02) 42213723
Email: gmitchel@uow.edu.au

Biography

Glenn Mitchell is a Senior Lecturer in and the Convenor of the History Program in the School of History and Politics at the University of Wollongong. He has taught Australian History since 2001 when he completed a term as the Sub Dean in the Faculty of Arts. Before that he taught in Science and Technology Studies and Communication & Cultural Studies.

After Glenn completed his PhD, he was Director of Migrant Health for the NSW Department of Health, which in turn led to Glenn writing ethic access policies for the NSW Department of Local Government and the national migrant health policy for the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Glenn has received two OCTAL awards - Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning (1995 and 2004) – and is a frequent nominee for this award. He has also received a teaching award from the Australian College of Educators (2006). He is a member of the NSW Board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Glenn is also a passionate supporter of the Liverpool (probably the greatest team ever to play the beautiful game), is highly enthusiastic about learning to play jazz drums and is a serious student of jazz, 1945-1965.

Research Profile

• Environmental history;
• Social history of medicine;
• Urban history, especially themes of power, corruption and industrial pollution in Wollongong: and
• Comparative regional history

Selected Publications

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Public Health and Medicine

Monographs:

Evaluation of the New South Wales Local Government Ethnic Affairs Policy Statement, NSW Department of Local Government, December 1989. Contract Research Monograph. No. 1.
Health Policy for a Multicultural Australia, Office of Multicultural Affairs, AGPS, Canberra, 1988.

Submission to the Commission of Inquiry on Behalf of the Department of Health, NSW. Illawarra Region and the Ethnic Affairs Commission of NSW. Investigation of Proposed Sites for Coal Washery and Industrial Waste Disposal within the Wollongong Plain Subregion, including Cringila and Wongawilli, November 1984.

Community Welfare Services and Ethnic Minorities, Contract Research Monograph No.1., N.S.W. Government Printer, Sydney 1983. (With Andrew Jakubowicz).

Journal Articles and Published Conference Papers:

‘The price of progress: OH&S in an industrial region – The Port Kembla smelter’, Proceedings, Australian and New Zealand Association of Occupational health and Safety Educators Sixth Annual Conference, Hong Kong, February 2000. ISBN 1 8634185 0 4.

‘Work and community: the Port Kembla copper smelter’, presented at Sixth Biennial National Labour History Conference, Wollongong, October 1999, published in Illawarra Unity, Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 2(1), 1999. ISSN 1327-8126.

‘The construction of ‘clean air’: the work of the NSW Smoke Abatement Committee’ in (ed) T Dingle, Proceedings of the Third Australian Planning History/Urban History Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, 1997

'Health policy in New Zealand', Health Care Analysis, 4(2), May 1996, 134-140. (with Brian Martin)

'The Cringila Coalwash Dump. Industrial Waste Disposal and the Port Kembla Steelworks: The Triumph of Community Politics or the Failure of Environmental Consciousness?' Ecopolitics II, Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, 23 May 1987. Published in Conference Proceedings

'Industrial Pollution at Port Kembla, 1945-1974: Observations and Reflections of Port Kembla Residents'. Second National Oral History Conference. University of Sydney, May 1981. Published in Conference Proceedings.

Papers Presented:

'Management and Equity in Health Care - Public Participation in a Health Controversy - the Cringila Coalwash Dump'. Workshop of Consumers Health Forum, July 1992.

'The Dumping of Wastes in an Industrial Suburb; or How We Beat the Dump and Learned to Live with a Healthier Environment’, Healthy Cities Conference, Zagreb, Yugoslavia.  September 1988.

Australian Social History

Monographs:

On Strong Foundations. A History of Industrial Relations in the Australian Building and Construction Industry, 1942-1992, Harcourt Brace, Sydney, 1996.

Chapters in Books:

'His Satanic Majesty’s Request: The Genesis of Conciliation and Arbitration in New South Wales, 1878-1896'. Maritime Strike Centenary Conference, December 1990, University of Wollongong. Published as Chapter 7 in The Maritime Strike: A Centennial Retrospective. Essays in Honour of E.C.Fry. (eds. J.Hagan & A.Wells) Five Islands Press, Wollongong, 1992. pp66-82. (With Henry Lee)

Journal Articles and Published Conference Papers:

'The Politics of Industrial Discipline: the BWIU and Deregistration in 1948 and 1992-3', The Proceedings of the 8th AIRAANZ Conference, February 1994. Published in Conference Proceedings.

'The Illawarra Harbour and Land Corporation and Harbour Development in the Illawarra'. Australian Historical Association Conference, Newcastle University, September 1985. Published in Conference Proceedings.

'The Australian Politicians and Papua New Guinea’, Journal of New Guinea, Vol.9(1) March-April 1974, 38-43.

Papers Presented:

'Post-Gunston Illusions: The New Clean/Green Image for Wollongong and the Healthy Cities Project. Australian Community Health Association, 3rd National Conference, November 1990.

Environment

Chapters in Books:

‘The Garden of the Illawarra’ in (eds) J Hagan & A Wells, A History of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Press, 1997, pp143-156

Papers Presented:

'The Greenpeace Raid on Port Kembla Harbour - A Lost Opportunity for Improved Environmental Health'. Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, October 1994.

'Pollution in an Industrial City - The NSW Environmental Protection Agency, Greenpeace and the New Pollution Standards. Green Left Conference, Easter 1994.

'Wollongong's Response to Environmental Health Threats'. Australian Culture Workshop in association with the Library Society of New South Wales, May 1992.

History of Technology

Chapters in Books:

‘See an Atomic Blast and Spread the Word: Indoctrination at Ground Zero’ in Useful Bodies. Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century, (eds) J Goodman, A McElligott & L Marks, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2003, pp133-164

‘The Industry Time Forgot’ in A History of European Housing in Australia. (ed) P Troy, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp77-85

Journal Articles and Published Conference Papers:

'The Mount Kembla Mine Explosion of 1902: Towards the Study of the Impact of a Disaster on a Community'. Journal of Australian Studies, Vol.1(1) June 1977, 52-69. (With Stuart Piggin)

Internet:

‘A small house in a migrant suburb – 26 Lake Avenue, Cringila’ in Our House, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra, 2000.

Membership of organisations

• Society for the Social History of Medicine (Public Health and Medicine)
• The International Network for the History of Public Health (Public Health and Medicine)
• Australian Historical Association (Australian Social History)
• Ecopolitics Association of Australasia (Environment)
• Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (Education)
• Member of the ESTER Network (platform for research students in Europe studying economic and social history)