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Visiting scholars

The Library’s Visiting Scholar program is a competitive and prestigious initiative aimed to support and foster writing, research and study. The program provides a room and behind-the-scenes access to Library staff. Research topics have ranged from early colonisation of Australia through to investigations of contemporary life.

The principal purpose of the Visiting Scholar program is to faciliate and support the use of the Library's unique collections for a sustained period of study and research. Project proposals must focus on original materials and identify a clear outcome.

Dr Lisa Murray and Ms Georgia McWhinney

It is expected that Visiting Scholars will:

  • Be researchers who are able to demonstrate a record of scholarship, such as publications or other research outcomes.
  • Present a project that directly draws on the unique collections of the State Library of New South Wales.
  • Present a project that has a specific time frame and outcome.
  • Have support from an industry employer or research supervisor, emphasising the value of a Visiting Scholarship to the applicant.
  • Submit to the Mitchell Librarian a brief summary of their completed project, copies of any research outcomes (presentations and publications) and a bibliography.
  • Visiting Scholars may be invited to contribute to Library publications or the Library’s series of Scholar Talks.
  • The Library is unable to offer any funding to Visiting Scholars. A successful Visiting Scholar is not precluded from applying for a paid Fellowship at the conclusion of their project.

Applications are subject to the approval of the Visiting Scholars committee, staff resources as well as capacity in the Donald & Myfanwy Horne Room.

Applications are accepted at any time of the year, with commencement dates in February and July. For an application form, register your interest by sending an email to: scholarship@sl.nsw.gov.au

2020

Dr Peter Hobbins, for his project: Airframes and Afterlives: the affective artefacts of aviation accidents.

2020

Dr Gareth Wearne, for his project: Prolegomena and Marginalia of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century English Bibles in the Richardson Collection of the State Library of New South Wales.

2020

Rebekah Ward, for her project: Press Reception of Australian Literature, 1888-1949.

2020

Tom Gardner, for his project: Australian Journalists in Republican China 1897-1949.

2019

Kelly Lewer, for her project: Champions of Activism: the history of feminism and domestic violence support services in New South Wales.

2019

Georgia McWhinney, for her project: Doctored Uniforms: dress, disease, and the British Dominion Forces’ altered uniforms and vernacular medicine in the First World War 

2019

Dr Mark Dunn, for his project: The Convict Valley: a new history of the Hunter Valley 

2018

Mr Ryan Cropp, for his project: A Thesis Examining the Life and Work of Donald Horne

2018

Dr Lisa Murray, for her project: Australian Cemeteries: a history and graveside companion

2018

Dr Margo Beasley, for her project: A Biography of Dr Eric Payton Dark

2018 (Inaugural)

Dr Geoffrey Cains, for his project: The Nature of the Acquisition and Embargoes of Archival Material by Public Institutions

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