Shop Talk: Department Stores, Shoppers and Consumer Capitalism, 1945-2025. This project aims to provide a deeper understanding of shopping and its significance in everyday Australian life by using oral history interviews with shoppers, workers and managers who have engaged with department stores since 1945. This project expects to produce the first history of the country’s post-war department stores. Expected outcomes include new, more nuanced perspectives of shopping and the challenges affectin ....Shop Talk: Department Stores, Shoppers and Consumer Capitalism, 1945-2025. This project aims to provide a deeper understanding of shopping and its significance in everyday Australian life by using oral history interviews with shoppers, workers and managers who have engaged with department stores since 1945. This project expects to produce the first history of the country’s post-war department stores. Expected outcomes include new, more nuanced perspectives of shopping and the challenges affecting the retail sector via a range of publications, international collaborations, and an archive of oral history recordings. This should provide significant benefits to researchers examining the retail sector, to Australians working in retail, and to ordinary Australians, whose stories will be placed on the historical record.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130100634
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$357,139.00
Summary
Shoal waters: estuary histories, local knowledge and sustainable fishing in Eastern Australia. Estuaries all along Eastern Australia are subject to two hundred years of pressure from changing human populations, which has put fish and their environments at risk. This project provides an innovative framework for sharing scientific and local knowledge to contribute new ways of planning for the future of estuary fishing.