Menzies Australia Institute MPhil/PhD MPhil/PhD

Overview

• Research income: Funding from the Australian and British Governments, and individual projects by the British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Australia Research Council and other similar organisations.

• Current number of academic staff: 2.

• Current number of research students: 2 full-time, 1 part-time PhDs; 1 visiting/funded postdoctoral research fellow.

• Recent publications:

• • Agnieszka Sobocinska, Saving the World: Western volunteers and the rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 

• • Simon Sleight, Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914 (Routledge: 2016).

• Current research projects:

• • Expat Diaspora: Australians across the Globe

  • Australian participation in international organisations

  • : Geographies of Belonging in Australia's Britain

  • UK/Australian social, cultural, diplomatic and military history

  • Decolonisation in the Asian and Pacific regions

  • History and memory

  • Children, childhood and youth in the British World

  • The social history of Australia House

  • Reading and the Antipodes

To study at King's, it is essential that you can communicate effectively in English and are able to do so in an academic environment. You are usually required to provide certification of your competence in English before starting your studies.

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• complete our online application form