| 2012 | May Josephine Rose, 'Lessons from the black box: Australian cinematic representations of the classroom', Combined conference of the ANZHES, Mechanics¿¿¿ Institutes World Wide and the 10th Australian Library History Forum, Melbourne, Australia (2012) [E3] | |
| 2012 | May Josephine Rose, 'Reading the country in The Country Schoolteacher: The relevance of the history of education on film for understanding Australian nationalism', Program. 17th Biennial Conference: Canadian History of Education Association, Vancouver, BC (2012) [E3] | |
| 2012 | May Josephine Rose, 'The multicultural nation at school in Australian cinema', Abstracts. International Standing Conference for the History of Education, Geneva, Switzerland (2012) [E3] | |
| 2011 | May Josephine Rose, 'Suffering sexualities: Otherness and counternarratives of nation in two Australian coming of age films', Histories of Sexuality, Newcastle, Australia (2011) [E3] | |
| 2011 | Proctor Helen, May Josephine Rose, 'The ties that bind: Memory and the experience of the NSW selective public high school, 1920s-1950s', Experiencing Education: Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society Conference. Programme and Abstracts 2011, Auckland, NZ (2011) [E3] | |
| 2010 | May Josephine Rose, 'Schooling at the periphery: In My Beginning and the experimental Koornong School, Victoria, 1939-1947', Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society Conference Program and Abstracts, Wagga Wagga, NSW (2010) [E3] | |
| 2009 | May Josephine Rose, 'ATEA in the 1980s: Context, history and identity', ATEA 2009 Conference Program, Albury, NSW (2009) [E3] | |
| 2009 | May Josephine Rose, 'From reel schools to real schools: Australian films and the history of education', Connections and Circuits in Histories of Education: Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society Conference Program and Abstracts 2009, Adelaide, SA (2009) [E3] | |
| 2008 | May Josephine Rose, 'A challenging vision: Eros, agency and gender in The Heartbreak Kid', ASA Conference 2008. New Voices, New Visions: Challenging Australian Identities and Legacies. Book of Abstracts, Brisbane, QLD (2008) [E3] | |
| 2008 | May Josephine Rose, 'Father knows best: One woman's transition from school to work in the late 1940s', Work! Work! Work! Work and the History of Education: Program and Abstracts, University of Sydney (2008) [E3] | |
| 2006 | May J, 'Reflections on writing the history of a professional association: the ATEA Project', ANZHES Conference: Education, Leadership and Community, Armidale (2006) [E3] | |
| 2005 | May J, 'Picnics, Playgrounds and Puberty Blues: Visions of Youth and the Nation in Australian Films 1970s to the 1980s', Paper presented at the 8th Biennial EASA and InASA Conference, ReVisions of Australia: Histories, Images, Identities, Debrecen (2005) [E3] | |
| 2001 | May J, Jarvis R, Holbrook A, 'Migrants and education in the Hunter Region of New South Wales after World War Two', Visible Migrants 6 - Speaking to Immigrants: Oral testimony and the History of Australian Migration, Canberra (2001) [E3] | |
| 1999 | May J, 'Sex/gender differences in the school to work transition of forty selective school students in Newcastle, 1930s to the 1950s', NIER Mini-Conference 99: From School to Work, Callaghan (1999) [E3] | |
| 1999 | Holbrook Allyson Patricia, May Josephine Rose, 'Research into gender and discipline in the early twentieth century classroom', Global Issues & Local Effects: The Challenge for Educational Research, Melbourne Australia (1999) [E3] | |
| 1998 | Holbrook Allyson Patricia, May Josephine Rose, 'Making an impression: teachers' use of the 'visual' in Australian classrooms (1920s-1950s)', Imagine, All the Education..... The Visual in the Making of the Educational Space through History, Leuven (1998) [E3] | |