Dr Thomas Heenan - Researcher Profile

Thomas Heenan

Address

Monash University
Wellington Road, Clayton

Biography

Tom believes that learning should be informative and a fun experience. He likes nothing more than taking students on the road. His students sample life in Outback New South Wales. He introduces them to the mining community around Broken Hill, and the endless expanses of Eldee Station and the Mundi Mundi Plain. They ride camels, visit the ghost town of Silverton and meet the indigenous custodians at Lake Mungo National Park. Students explore this and other Australian places and issues as part of Tom’s Australian Idols: Exploring Contemporary Australia unit.

Tom also coordinates the Centre’s undergraduate teaching program. As well as Australian Idols, he teaches across the Centre’s sports units – Sport and Australian Society, A World of Sport and Australian Sports Writing – and the international relations unit, Australia in a Globalizing World.

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2009
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Books

Heenan, T.F., 2006, From Traveller to Traitor: The Life of Wilfred Burchett, Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Heenan, T., Dunstan, W., 2011, Don Bradman: Just a boy from Bowral, in The Cambridge Companion to Cricket, eds Anthony Bateman and Jeffrey Hill, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 85-99.

Nyland, C.T., Heenan, T.F., 2003, William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler: a marriage of minds on Jeremy Bentham's doorstep, in The Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought, eds C Nyland, R Dimand, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham UK, pp. 241-261.

Journal Articles

Heenan, T., 2010, Robert Manne's Wilfred Burchett: The uses and abuses of biography, Australian Journal Of Politics And History [P], vol 56, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 208-224.

Nyland, C., Heenan, T.F., 2005, Mary van Kleeck, Taylorism and the control of management knowledge, Management Decision, vol 43, issue 10, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 1358-1374.

Other

Heenan, T.F., 2007, Burchett, Wilfred Graham (1911-1983), Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 17 1981-1990 A - K, vol 17, issue -, Melbourne University Press, Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 157-159.

Heenan, T.F., 2007, Hutton, Geoffrey William (1909-1985), Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol.17 1981-1990 A - K, vol 17, issue -, Melbourne University Press, Carlton Vic Australia, p. 568.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Houses of Horror: a study of murders in Victoria.
Supervisors:
Dunstan, W (Main), Baker, A (Associate), Heenan, T (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
'What is the importance of soccer (association football) to Australia?' .
Supervisors:
Heenan, T (Joint-co), Hutchins, B (Joint).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
A Noble Son of Empire. The Short Life of 2nd Lt. WHC Buntine, MC, RFC." .
Supervisors:
Heenan, T (Main), Dunstan, W (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Arabunna and the Ghan.
Supervisors:
Heenan, T (Main), Conor, L (Associate), Hughes, K (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
How the digital age of journalism has impacted on the reportage of AFL football and its players.
Supervisors:
Heenan, T (Joint), Nash, C (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The Political Economy of Australia's War in Vietnam.
Supervisors:
Heenan, T (Main), Sobocinska, A (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The Seagull, Black People in White Australia.
Supervisors:
Hawke, J (Main), Burke, J (Associate), Heenan, T (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
UAE Development Plan: A Political Economic Strategy (Sports-tourism-transport) .
Supervisors:
Heenan, T (Main), Freeman, S (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Kelly, R.
Program of Study:
From Pilgrimage to Patriotism - Exploring changing visitor attitudes to Gallipoli and Kokoda.. (Masters) 2010.
Supervisors:
Reeves, K (Main), Heenan, T (Associate).