Dr Jan McLeod

Casual Research Assistant

School of Humanities and Social Science

Email:jan.mcleod@newcastle.edu.au
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Career Summary

Biography

I have worked in academic and professional roles at the University of Newcastle since 2001, and have tutored and guest lectured in Australian History since 2008. As someone who champions life long learning, I value my previous work as a teacher and educator in the vocational and secondary school systems.

In my professional role as a research assistant, I have worked in various roles across many organisations, faculties and schools. These include projects examining the educational and sociological aspects of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, historical and archival research for the Global Newcastle Research Network, and research projects undertaken by the Faculty of Health and Medicine: the Hunter Community Study, Aged Care Needs Assessment Study, Fractured Neck of Femur Study, and the Study into the Health of Aircraft Maintenance Personnel.

My doctoral thesis (History), Within reach, beyond care: an examination of medical care during the Papuan (Kokoda) Campaign 1942-43 through the lens of the Australian Field Ambulance, built on my History Honours thesis, A Soldier's Diary: History's First Draft. Both works examined the experiences of front line medical units, while also exploring the subject of military medicine more broadly, and considering historiographical and popular representations of Kokoda. I continue to explore military medical history via research for journal articles and conference presentations.

My book Shadows On The Track: Australia's Medical War in Papua 1942 - 1943 (Newport, NSW: Big Sky Publishing / Australian Army History Unit) was published in February 2019.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Arts, University of Newcastle
Diploma in Education, University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle

Keywords

Australian History
History
Military Medicine
Research
Teaching

Professional Experience

Membership

Dates	Title	Organisation / Department
1/1/2017 - 1/1/2018	Member	Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine Australia
1/1/2015 - 1/1/2018	Member	Australian Historical Association Australia
18/7/2017 - 18/7/2018	Affiliate Member	Society, Health and Disability Research Group School of Humanities and Social Science University of Newcastle Australia

Professional appointment

Dates	Title	Organisation / Department
1/1/2017 -	Research Assistant I am currently working on various projects for Professor Catharine Coleborne,Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science and Dr Caragh Brosnan, Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science. I am also part of the Global Newcastle team, which is a collaborative project between the University of Newcastle and Newcastle Region Library.	Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle Australia

Awards

Award

Year	Award
2007	History Honours Scholarship Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Teaching

Code	Course	Role	Duration
HIST1051	The Australian Experience Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle	Tutor	28/2/2011 - 3/6/2011
HIST1051	The Australian Experience Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle	Tutor	26/2/2018 - 4/6/2018
HIST1051	The Australian Experience Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle	tutor	1/1/0001 - 1/1/0001
HUMA3003	Arts Practicum Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle	Course Coordinator	25/2/2019 - 7/6/2019
HIST1051	The Australian Experience Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle	Tutor	22/2/2016 - 3/6/2016
HIST1052	Australia and the World School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Tutor	25/7/2011 - 4/11/2011
HIST1051	The Australian Experience School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Tutor	2/3/2009 - 5/6/2009
HIST 1051	The Australian Experience The University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts	Tutor	25/2/2019 - 7/6/2019
HIST1051	The Australian Experience School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Tutor	1/3/2010 - 4/6/2010
HIST1051	The Australian Experience School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Tutor	18/2/2008 - 6/6/2008
HIST1051	The Australian Experience Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle	Tutor	23/2/2015 - 26/6/2015
HUMA3003	Arts Practicum The University of Newcastle, Australia	Course Co-ordinator	27/6/2017 - 31/7/2017

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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (2 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2021	McLeod J, Mopping up the casualties: Australia's medical war in the South West Pacific Area 1943 - 1945 [forthcoming], Australian Army History Unit, Sydney NSW (2021)
2019	McLeod JM, Shadows on the Track: Australia's medical war in Papua 1942-1943 Kokoda - Milne Bay - The Beachheads, Big Sky Publishing, Newport New South Wales Australia (2019) [A1]

Journal article (4 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2020	McLeod J, 'Book Review: Moncrieff, A. Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2020)', Reconnaissance: The Magazine of the Military History Society of New South Wales Inc, 42 32-36 (2020)
2020	McLeod J, 'Book Review: Howie-Willis, I. VD: The Australian Army's experience of sexually transmitted diseases during the twentieth century', Reconnaissance, (2020)
2017	McLeod JM, 'The House That Jack Built: DGMS Rupert Downes and Australian Army Medical Preparations for World War II', Health and history, 19 80-101 (2017) [C1]
2016	McLeod JM, 'Review: An Unending War: The Australian Army's Struggle against Malaria, 1885-2015 by Ian Howie-Willlis', Health and history, 18 127-129 (2016)
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Conference (6 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2017	McLeod JM, '"Bill buries most of our dead": Soputa 27 November 1942', Newcastle NSW Australia (2017)
2017	McLeod JM, 'There follows a mist and a blinding rain, and life is never the same again: a local perspective on the Japanese attack at Soputa, Papua 1942', Newcastle NSW Australia (2017)
2015	McLeod JM, 'Strange Bedfellows: How the Crimean War, the politician, the journalist, the nurse, the banker and the doctor influenced Australia's military medical service', Presenter, Australasian Association for European History, XXIV Biennial Conference. War, Violence, Aftermaths: Europe and the Wider World held in Newcastle, Australia (2015)
2015	McLeod JM, 'Carved in Granite: Re-examining the four pillars of the Kokoda Campaign (Courage, Endurance, Mateship, Sacrifice) through the lens of the Australian Field Ambulance', Presenter, Foundational Histories conference, Australian Historical Association at the University of Sydney (2015)
2013	McLeod JM, 'Of Angels and Men: The Australian Field Ambulance on the Kokoda Track', Presenter, Tethering the Past: University of Sydney Postgraduate History Conference (2013)
2011	McLeod JM, 'The Soputa Bombing: An Assumption of Japanese Ignorance', Presenter, The Pacific War 1941-45: Heritage, Legacies & Culture conference, Monash University (2011)
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Other (6 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2020	McLeod J, '"We are collecting a lot of wounded here": the medical care of Australian soldiers on the Kokoda Track', (2020) [O1]
2019	McLeod J, 'Shadows On The Track: Australia's Medical War in Papua 1942 - 1943', (2019) [O1]
2019	McLeod J, '"Dead, mangled bodies, blood, guts and mud": The Medical War in Papua', (2019) [O1]
2017	McLeod JM, '"Knowledge was not translated into action": malaria and the Papuan Campaign of 1942. Our Healthy Heritage - Animals and humans in health and history seminar', (2017) [O1]
2015	McLeod JM, 'This stage of twenty years: interwar influences on Australia's military medical service', (2015) [O1]
2015	McLeod JM, 'Within reach, beyond care: medical care during the Papuan (Kokoda) Campaign', (2015) [O1]
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Thesis / Dissertation (2 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2015	McLeod JM, Within Reach, Beyond Care: an examination of medical care during the Papuan (Kokoda) Campaign 1942-43 through the lens of the Australian Field Ambulance, University of Newcastle (2015)
2007	McLeod JM, A Soldier's Diary: History's First Draft, University of Newcastle (2007)

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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants	1
Total funding	$3,360

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20191 grants / $3,360

Australian Army History Research Grant$3,360

To assist with costs associated with research project: 'Mopping up' the casualties: Caring for Australian soldiers in the South West Pacific Area 1943-1945.

Funding body: Australian Army History Unit

Funding body	Australian Army History Unit
Scheme	Australian Army History Research Grant
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2019
Funding Finish	2020
GNo
Type Of Funding	C2110 - Aust Commonwealth - Own Purpose
Category	2110
UON	N

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Dr Jan McLeod

Position

Casual Research Assistant
School of Humanities and Social Science
College of Human and Social Futures

Contact Details

Email	jan.mcleod@newcastle.edu.au
Phone	####

Office

Location	Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia

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