Prof Erik Eklund - Researcher Profile

Biography

Erik works in the Office of the PVC & President Gippsland at Monash University as a Professor of History in the School of Applied Media and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts.

His expertise covers Australian history especially regional, labour, social and environmental histories. He is also interested in heritage studies, mining in local and global contexts,  and the role of E-learning and mobile learning in education and community engagement.

He is a former Treasurer of the Australian Historical Association (2008 to 2012), and a member of the editorial boards for the journals, 'Labour History' and 'History Australia'.

In addition to his substantive role at Gippsland, he has recently been appointed Deputy to the Pro Vice Chancellor at the Berwick campus, where he has responsibility for developing new programs for the Faculty of Arts and the campus.

Related Links:

• Detailed Faculty of Arts Profile click for detailed profile
• New book - Mining Towns: making a living, making a life click for publishing details

Keywords

Australian government and politics, Urban History, australian history; labour history, deindustrialisation, great depression, human research ethics, industrial relations , industrialisation, labour history regional history industrial towns mining towns industrialisation deindustrialisa, mobile learning, heritage studies,, oral history, qualitative research, regional studies, teaching history; service teaching; curriculum design; student cohorts;

Qualifications

PHD (ARTS)

Institution: University of Sydney

Year awarded: 1995

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONORS)

Institution: University of Sydney

Year awarded: 1989

Publications

Books

Eklund, E.C., 2012, Mining Towns: Making a Living, Making a Life, UNSW Press, Sydney NSW Australia.

McIntyre, J., Eklund, E.C., 2008, A Living History of Fort Scratchley, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle NSW Australia.

Crotty, M., Eklund, E.C. (eds), 2003, Australia to 1901. Selected Readings in the Making of a Nation, Tertiary Press, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Eklund, E.C., 2002, Steel Town. The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla, Melbourne University Press, Carlton Vic Australia.

Eklund, E.C., Murray, M., 2000, Copper Community. A History of the Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company of Australia Ltd & Southern Copper Ltd, Port Kembla, University of Wollongong Press, Wollongong NSW Australia.

Book Chapters

Eklund, E., 2011, The margin as a centre: memory and identity in Broken Hill and Mount Isa, in Outside Country: Histories of Inland Australia, eds Alan Mayne and Stephen Atkinson, Wakefield Press, Kent Town SA Australia, pp. 311-329.

Eklund, E.C., 2009, 10 June 1931. The Premiers' plan and the Great Depression: high politics and everyday life in an economic crisis, in Turning Points in Australian History, eds Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts, UNSW Press, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 115-128.

Bollard, R., Eklund, E.C., 2009, The hidden proletarian past of Canberra, in Labour History in the New Century, eds Bobbie Oliver, Black Swan, Perth WA Australia, pp. 103-110.

Journal Articles

Roberts, D.A., Eklund, E.C., 2012, Australian convict sites and the heritage of adaption: the case of Newcastle's Coal River heritage precinct, Australian Historical Studies [E], vol 43, issue 3, Routledge, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 363-380.

Eklund, E.C., 2012, Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin, The big fella: the rise and rise of BHP Billiton, William Heinemann, North Sydney,2009 pp 518 $18.95 paper, Labour History (Australia) [P], vol 1, issue 102, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Australia, pp. 241-242.

Reeves, K., Eklund, E., Reeves, A., Scates, B., Peel, V., 2011, Broken Hill: rethinking the significance of the material culture and intangible heritage of the Australian labour movement, International Journal of Heritage Studies [P], vol 17, issue 4, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 301-317.

Eklund, E., 2011, Dust and dreams: mining communities in South-East New South Wales, Australian Historical Studies [P], vol 42, issue 3, Routledge, Australia, pp. 431-432.

Adams, P., Eklund, E., 2011, Representing militancy: photographs of the Broken Hill industrial disputes, 1908-20, Labour History (Australia) [P], vol 101, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Australia, pp. 1-34.

Eklund, E., 2010, Herbert Vere Evatt, The Tolpuddle Martyrs: Injustice Within the Law, Labour History (Australia) [P], vol 98, issue May 2010, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Australia, p. 1.

Eklund, E., 2009, Deeper Leads: New Approaches to Victorian Goldfields History, Australian Historical Studies [E], vol 40, issue 2009, Routledge, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 120-121.

Caprioni, E., Deiana, M., Eklund, E.C., 2009, Interview techniques in three different research scenarios, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences [P], vol 4, issue 7, Common Ground, Australia, pp. 1-10.

Eklund, E., 2008, David Oldroyd, Estates, Enterprise and Inventment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England c.1700-1780, Labour History (Australia) [P], vol 95, issue Nov 2008, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Australia, p. 1.

Eklund, A.A., Eklund, E.C., 2008, 'Do you love the town you live in?': narratives of place from Australian mining towns, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, vol 3, issue 7, Common Ground, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 53-57.

Eklund, E., 2008, Review of Greg Hall, Diane Michael and Jason Van Genderen's Lockout, History Australia [P], vol 5, issue 1, Monash University ePress, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 15.1-15.2.

Eklund, E.C., 2007, Official and vernacular public history: historical anniversaries and commemorations in Newcastle, NSW, Public History Review, vol 14, issue 2007, UTS Press, Australia, pp. 128-152.

Eklund, E.C., 2007, Retail co-operatives as a transnational phenomenon: exploring the composition of Australian society and culture, Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol 9, issue 2007, University of New England, School of Classics, History & Religion, Australia, pp. 67-99.

Eklund, E., 2007, The state of industrial relations: the state of the states, 2005, Labour History (Australia) [P], vol 92, issue May 2007, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Australia, p. 1.

Eklund, E., 2007, Ufil' Umuntu, Ufil' Usadikiza! Trade unions and struggles for democracy and freedom in South Africa, 1973-2003, Labour History (Australia) [P], vol 92, issue May 2007, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Australia, p. 1.

Crotty, M., Eklund, E.C., 2006, History as service teaching. Possibilities and pitfalls, History Australia, vol 3, issue 2, Monash University ePress, Australia, pp. 1-16.

Eklund, E.C., 2000, The 'place' of politics; class and localist politics at Port Kembla, 1990-1930, Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, vol -, issue 78, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Australia, pp. 94-115.

Conference Proceedings

Eklund, E.C., 2012, Community formation in Australian mining towns, 1880 to 1980, International Mining History Congress 2012 Abstracts and Papers, 17 April 2012 to 20 April 2012, International Mining History Congress, on line, pp. 1-18.

Other

Eklund, E.C., Beddie, F., Moore, C., Quinlan, M., 2012, Guest Workers, Rear Vision, ABC Radio National, Australia.

Eklund, E.C., 2008, 10 June 1931. Never again? The Great Depression changed a generation, Inside Story. Current Affairs and Culture, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Grants

Title:

Historical research into the Toomuc Creek area, Pakenham.

Investigators:

Eklund, E

Funding:

(2011 - 2015). The Rotary Club of Pakenham Inc.

Title:

Frontiers of Labour: Identity and belonging in Australian Mining and Industrial Towns, 1850-2000.

Investigators:

Eklund, E

Funding:

(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A skills analysis of the Votes for Women Suffragette lobbying campaign, London 1903-1928..

Supervisors:

Eklund, E (Main), Edmondson, E (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Becoming 'unsick': exploring recovery from long duration chronic illness .

Supervisors:

Ballis, P (Main), Eklund, E (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Unemployment in Melbourne during th 1890s depression.

Supervisors:

Eklund, E (Main), Wilson, K (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Glowrey, C.

Program of Study:

An environmental history of Corner Inlet, Victoria, Australia. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Eklund, E (Main), Wilson, K (Associate).

Student:

Steel, K.

Program of Study:

'to the bitter end': the 1977 State Electricity Commission of Victoria maintenance workers' dispute. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Eklund, E (Main).