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PhD History University of Melbourne
Masters History University of Melbourne
Bachelors History University of Melbourne

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According to Wikipedia, Shurlee Lesley Swain, is an Australian social welfare historian, researcher and author. Since August 2017 she has been an Emeritus Professor at the Australian Catholic University . Early life and education Swain was born in 1948 at Natimuk, Victoria. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father a grocer. The family relocated to Ringwood in Melbourne in 1951, where she completed all her schooling. At the University of Melbourne she completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and Diploma of Social Work before completing her Doctor of Philosophy in 1977 on The Victorian Charity Network in the 1890s.

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Confronting Cruelty: Historical Perspectives on Child Protection in Australia (2002) (74)
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. (2017) (67)
Equal subjects, unequal rights (2003) (61)
Apologies and the legacy of abuse of children in care : international perspectives (2015) (54)
Child, nation, race and empire: Child rescue discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850–1915 (2010) (46)
Single Mothers and their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia (1995) (43)
Confronting cruelty: Historical perspectives on child abuse (2002) (37)
We are the stories we tell about ourselves: child welfare records and the construction of identity among Australians who, as children, experienced out-of-home ‘care’ (2012) (35)
History of Australian inquiries reviewing institutions providing care for children (2014) (28)
Giving Voice to Narratives of Institutional Sex Abuse (2015) (24)
Institutional Abuse: A Long History (2018) (19)
Ignorance Is Not Innocence: Sex Education in Australia, 1890–1939 (2004) (19)
Beyond child migration: inquiries, apologies and the implications for the writing of a transnational child welfare history (2016) (18)
A Long History of Faith-Based Welfare in Australia: Origins and Impact† (2017) (18)
The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory (2017) (14)
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (2005) (14)
A network of support: mothering across the Koorie community in Victoria, Australia (1999) (14)
Maids and mothers: Domestic servants and illegitimacy in 19th-century Australia (2005) (13)
Destitute and dependent: Case studies in poverty in Melbourne, 1890–1900 (1980) (13)
Sweet Childhood Lost: Idealized Images of Childhood in the British Child Rescue Literature (2009) (13)
Toward a social geography of baby farming (2005) (12)
Saving the child and punishing the mother: Single mothers and the state 1912–1942 (1993) (12)
Speaking the Unspeakable, Naming the Unnameable: The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2018) (12)
Khat-chewing in liminal leisure spaces: British-Somali youth on the margins (2018) (11)
Responding to “Forgotten Australians”: historians and the legacy of out-of-home “care” (2012) (11)
Birth and death in a new land attitudes to infant death in colonial Australia (2010) (10)
History of child protection legislation (2014) (10)
Conceptualising and categorising child abuse inquiries: From damage control to foregrounding survivor testimony (2017) (10)
Stakeholders as Subjects (2014) (9)
Market Forces: Defining the Adoptable Child, 1860–1940 (2012) (9)
Negotiating Poverty: women and charity in nineteenth‐century Melbourne (2007) (9)
Child Rescue: The Emigration of an Idea (2001) (8)
Strangers of the north: South Asians, cricket and the culture of ‘Yorkshireness’ (2016) (8)
Grime music and dark leisure: exploring grime, morality and synoptic control (2018) (7)
The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (2013) (7)
Do You Want Religion with That? Welfare History in a Secular Age (2005) (7)
Reflections on the State of the Profession: A Review of the Norma Parker Addresses 1969–2008 (2017) (7)
Stakeholders as Subjects: The Role of Historians in the Development of Australias Find & Connect Web Resource (2014) (7)
Archives, identity and survivors of out-of-home care (2012) (7)
Enshrined in Law: Legislative Justifications for the Removal of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Children in Colonial and Post-Colonial Australia (2016) (6)
Why Sexual Abuse? Why Now? (2015) (6)
Born in Hope: The Early Years of the Family Court of Australia (2012) (6)
ADOPTION, SECRECY AND THE SPECTRE OF THE TRUE MOTHER IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA (2011) (6)
“Being Thankful for their Birth in a Christian Land”: Interrogating Intersections between Whiteness and Child Rescue (2009) (6)
Revisiting Henderson: Poverty, Social Security and Basic Income (2019) (6)
The khat controversy: dark leisure in a liquid modern world (2017) (5)
Looking for Leroy: illegible black masculinities (2014) (5)
Florence and Rosamond Davenport Hill and the Development of Boarding Out in England and Australia: a study in cultural transmission (2014) (5)
In Whose Interest? Voluntarism and Child Care, 1880–1980 (2004) (5)
Writing Social Work History (2008) (5)
Recognition of violence in the Australian family law system : A long journey (2010) (5)
In These Days of Female Evangelists and Hallelujah Lasses: Women Preachers and the Redefinition of Gender Roles in the Churches in Late Nineteenth‐Century Australia (2002) (4)
Leisure in the Current Interregnum: Exploring the Social Theories of Anthony Giddens and Zygmunt Bauman. (2017) (4)
The Victorian charity network in the 1890's (1976) (4)
"I am directed to remind you of your duty to your family": public surveillance of mothering in Victoria, Australia, 1920-40. (1999) (4)
Traces in the archives: Evidence of institutional abuse in surviving child welfare records (2007) (4)
The Value of the Vignette in the Writing of Welfare History (2008) (4)
Women in conversation: a wartime social survey in Melbourne, Australia 1941-43 (2003) (4)
"Homes Are Sought for These Children": Locating Adoption within the Australian Stolen Generations Narrative (2013) (4)
Examining Abusive Pasts : Reassessing Institutional Violence and Care through Commissions of Inquiry (2018) (4)
Sport, Theology, and Dementia: Reflections on the Sporting Memories Network, UK (2018) (4)
Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives (2017) (3)
Introduction to the Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory (2017) (3)
The market in children: Analysing the language of adoption in Australia (2012) (3)
Child, nation, race and empire (2017) (3)
Moving Forward: Critical Reflections of Doing Social Justice Research (2017) (3)
Institutionalized Childhood: The Orphanage Remembered (2015) (3)
Special issue of journal for cultural research: Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives (2016) (3)
Dear problem page, I'm single pregnant and... (1991) (3)
Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society (2020) (3)
What price a child? Commodification and Australian adoption practice 1850–1950 (2016) (3)
Constructing the working mother: Australian perspectives, 1920-1970. (2005) (3)
The ‘best interests of the child’ Historical perspectives (2010) (3)
WRITING THE HISTORY OF WOMEN AND WELFARE (2007) (3)
Fault, gender politics and family law reform (2011) (2)
‘Brighter Britain’: Images of Empire in the International Child Rescue Movement, 1850–1915 (2008) (2)
The Australian Labour Movement and Working Mothers in the United Nation's Decade for Women, 1975-1985 (2007) (2)
Judicial and couple approaches to contributions and property: The dominance and difficulties of a reciprocity model (2007) (2)
The Baby Farmers: A Chilling Tale of Missing Babies, Shameful Secrets and Murder in 19th Century Australia (2014) (2)
But the children ... Indigenous Child Removal Policies Compared (2002) (2)
Whiteness, maternal feminism and the working mother, 1900–1960 (2009) (2)
The Market in Babies (2013) (2)
Derivative and indigenous in the history and historiography of child welfare in Australia: Part One (2001) (2)
Centre and Periphery in British Child Rescue Discourse (2006) (2)
Locating the child within the history of childhood (2016) (2)
Old Age in Australia: A History (2016) (2)
Contained and confined: Female incarceration in nineteenth-century Australia (2014) (2)
Philanthropy and nation building (2001) (2)
Sport, Power and Politics: Exploring Sport and Social Control within the Changing Context of Modernity (2019) (2)
Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017) (2)
Infanticide; savagery and civilization: The Australian experience (2006) (1)
As though his face had been white :Child rescuers, Whiteness and the Empire (2007) (1)
Examining the Past and Shaping the Future (2021) (1)
Child rescue as mission in Britain, 1850-1915 (2011) (1)
Women in the City: Identifying the Gynocentric Zone in Melbourne and Sydney, 1880s to 1920s (2021) (1)
Trove and the history of childhood – combining microhistory and big data (2021) (1)
The Interplay Between Infertility and Adoption in Policy and Practice in Twentieth-Century Australia (2017) (1)
Narratives of Innocence and Seduction (2016) (1)
The paradox of ultra democratic governments: indigenous civil rights in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Canada and Australia (2001) (1)
Finding Fault in Marital Property Law: A Little Bit of History Repeating? (2006) (1)
Introduction: Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives (2018) (1)
Voices from the margins: Khat-chewing, devotional leisure and ambivalence in the British-Somali diaspora (2021) (1)
Both Victim and ‘Perpetrator’: Finding a Voice before Inquiries into Historical Abuse in Out-of-Home Care (2018) (1)
Khat-chewing, Moral Spacing and Belonging: Sociological Insights into the Cultural Space of the mafrish in the Leisure Lives of Older and Middle-aged British-Somali Males (2021) (1)
Bringing Child Sexual Assault into Public Discourse: The Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission (2021) (1)
Child Welfare Amalgamation: The Long and Winding Road (2000) (1)
Faith in Action: HammondCare (2014) (1)
Do you want religion with that (2005) (1)
Book Review: Fish and Chips: A History (2015) (0)
Transitional Justice Workers and Vicarious Trauma (2015) (0)
Conclusion (2018) (0)
The Fabric of Welfare: Voluntary Organisations, Government and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840–2005 by Margaret Tennant (review) (2023) (0)
Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Survivor Memorials: Remembering Trauma and Loss in Contemporary Australia (2020) (0)
Marriage, Australian style (2012) (0)
Review of Melanie Oppenheimer’s Volunteering: Why We Cant Live Without It (2009) (0)
In This Issue (2009) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
Derivative and indigenous in the history and historiography of child welfare in Australia: Part Two (2002) (0)
Chapter 1: Imperial expansion and its critics (2017) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
In Our Midst: The Church, Prostitutes and the Poor (1997) (0)
Chapter 7: A new orthodoxy in child protection practice (2017) (0)
South Africa: Saving the White voters from being ‘utterly swamped’ (2018) (0)
A Motherly Concern for Children: Invocations of Queen Victoria in Imperial Child Rescue Literature (2016) (0)
Australian Social Work Reviewers 2012 (2012) (0)
Apology from the review editors (1996) (0)
Pitch Your Tents on Distant Shores: A History of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti, 2nd ed. (Caringbah, Sydney: Playright Publishing, 2010). ISBN 97780980666649 (HC). 255 B&W illustrations, 3 Figures, appends., 476 pp. (2011) (0)
Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-Century Child Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debates around Child Protection (2011) (0)
‘Nettles and thistles...turned into roses for life’. Constructions of childhood in the international child rescue literature 1850-1915 (2007) (0)
An Imperial Mission? The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the International Dissemination of Ideas around Child Protection prior to World War I (2021) (0)
Lost, stolen or forgotten (2017) (0)
Australasia: One or two ‘honorable cannibals’ in the House? (2017) (0)
Chapter 2: The gospel of child rescue (2017) (0)
The gospel of child rescue (2017) (0)
List of maps (2018) (0)
Reflections and Refractions of Empire Child Rescue Discourse in the British World (2004) (0)
In this issue (2007) (0)
Contents (2018) (0)
In this issue (2006) (0)
In This Issue (2009) (0)
In this issue (2007) (0)
Canada: ‘A vote the same as any other person’ (2018) (0)
Asylum to Action Family Action 1851–1991: A History of Services and Policy Development for Families in times of vulnerability, by Donella Jaggs. 1991. 208pp. $20 (incl. p&p). (1992) (0)
Canada: ‘If they treat the Indians humanely, all will be well’ (2018) (0)
Women Leaders in the Discipline of History (2013) (0)
Sarah Carter. Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies. (2019) (0)
The politics of twentieth-century adoption (2022) (0)
Child Welfare Agency Amalgamation References (2000) (0)
After the Orphanage: Life Beyond the Children's Home (2009) (0)
Stolen Motherhood: Aboriginal Mothers and Child Removal in the Stolen Generations Era. By Anne Maree Payne (London: Lexington Books, 2021), pp. ix + 197. £73 (hb). (2022) (0)
Imperial expansion and its critics (2018) (0)
The paradox of ‘ultra-democratic’ government (2017) (0)
Her father's daughter (2011) (0)
Chapter 4: The body of the nation (2017) (0)
Australian Social Work Reviewers 2009 (2009) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
Chapter 5: Canada: ‘a vote the same as any other person’ (2017) (0)
Submission in response to the Australian Government’s Consultation Paper on the Establishment of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2012) (0)
The Uses of Historical Reserach in Child Abuse Inquiries (2020) (0)
The salvation of the race (2017) (0)
South Africa (2018) (0)
General editor's introduction (2018) (0)
Left on a Doorstep: The Role of Infant Abandonment in Preserving and Exposing Family Secrets in Australia 1834–1954 (2022) (0)
Sexual Violence in Australia, 1970s–1980s: Rape and Child Sexual Abuse by Lisa Featherstone (review) (2023) (0)
Imagined, Intended, Forsaken: The Status of the Mother in a Century of Australian Adoption Advertisements (2019) (0)
Chapter 2: Canada: ‘If they treat the Indians humanely, all will be well’ (2017) (0)
Breaking the barriers: An oral history of the treatment of single mothers and their children (1990) (0)
The body of the child (2017) (0)
Chapter 1: The child as citizen (2017) (0)
Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement [Book Review] (2003) (0)
The Martin Presence: Jean Martin and the Making of the Social Sciences in Australia (2017) (0)
Chapter 3: The body of the child (2017) (0)
Chapter 7: South Africa: saving the White voters from being ‘utterly swamped’ (2017) (0)
The Birth Certificate: An American History by Susan J. Pearson (review) (2023) (0)
From the margins to the mainstream: The domestic violence services movement in Victoria, Australia, 1974-2016 [Book Review] (2018) (0)
Notes To Authors (1997) (0)
Blind workers against charity: The national league of the blind of Great Britain and Ireland, 1893-1970 [Book Review] (2016) (0)
Front matter (2018) (0)
The child as citizen (2017) (0)
The poor people of Melbourne (2020) (0)
The Body as Nation: (2017) (0)
From philanthropy to social entrepreneurship (2014) (0)
A new orthodoxy in child protection practice (2017) (0)
Eyes of identification: Challenges and opportunities in leveraging highly visible, multiple-level histories (2013) (0)
Australasia: ‘Australia for the White Man’ (2018) (0)
Chapter 6: Australasia: ‘Australia for the White Man’ (2017) (0)
Social and Political History of Adoption in Australia (2021) (0)
Acknowledgements (2018) (0)
Chapter 8: Lost, stolen or forgotten: the legacy of the survivors (2017) (0)
History of Adoption and Fostering in Australia (2013) (0)
Deirdre Murphy. The Young Victoria. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. 224. $45.00 (cloth). (2020) (0)
Honouring the gift: Ethical considerations in the oral history relationship (1997) (0)
In This Issue (2009) (0)
Chapter 5: The salvation of the race (2017) (0)
The salvation of the empire (2017) (0)
John Murphy, A decent provision: Australian welfare policy, 1870–1949 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xvii + 270. 7 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9781409407591 Hbk. £65) (2012) (0)
Chapter 6: The salvation of the empire (2017) (0)
Index (2018) (0)
Youth, community and social well-being: Investigating the role of youth groups in the health and social well-being of young in semi-rural areas in the North of England (2020) (0)
Sport, Power and Politics: Exploring Sport and Social Control within the Changing Context of Modernity (2019) (0)
A liquid modern analysis of skin bleaching in Jamaica. CERS Working Paper 2012 (2012) (0)
ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR PATRICIA GRIMSHAW (2007) (0)
The 'Goalball Family' - Executive Summary (2020) (0)
Pugilism, Power, and the Cultural Politics of Celebrity: Charting Vitali Klitschko’s Rise from Heavyweight Champion to Mayor of Kiev (2021) (0)
Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society (2020) (0)
Khat Chewing and Dark Leisure (2016) (0)
The 'Goalball Family': An exploration of the social value of Goalball amongst players and communities in the UK. (2020) (0)
Structural theories of leisure (2017) (0)
From a symbol of ‘Broken Britain’, grime has become a voice for the voiceless (2018) (0)
Youth, community and social-wellbeing - Executive Report (2020) (0)
Somali Men and Khat Chewing as Resistance (2014) (0)
Edinburgh Research Explorer Disneyization and the provision of leisure experiences (2018) (0)
Barriers to accessing university in coastal communities: a qualitative study exploring why young people living along the North Yorkshire Coast are underrepresented in Britain's higher education institutions (2019) (0)

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