Biography
Honorary Professor Sarah Paddle previously held the rold of Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning within the Faculty of Arts and Education. She played a national role in the leadership of teaching and learning, especially in the Arts and Humanities. Over ten years, she generated funding for the Faculty portfolio from internal and external grants totalling $2,924 million.
Prior to taking on that role, Sarah taught History and Australian Studies at Deakin. Sarah trained in the fields of History and Education at Monash and the University of London. She also worked in short term appointments in China and Japan.
Read more on Sarah's profileResearch interests
Sarah Paddle's research interests include gender in history, Australian women's history, and writing cross-cultural histories on women in Australia, Britain and China. Her PhD was on British cultural history and reform movements of the late nineteenth century.
Recent research includes a study of Australian women and China over the last two centuries. The Australia-China Council funded joint research with Associate Professor Li Ping, from Remnin University, Beijing. Recent publications include studies of Western feminists, colonisation and international citizenship, and the Chinese slave girl campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s.
Sarah Paddle has also edited a collection of postwar journalism with Deborah Jordan, University of Queensland, titled There's a Woman in the House. A 1950s Journey. Current research is on Australian women missionaries who went to China from the 1880s to the 1950s.
Awards
Awards include:
Three Small Australian Research Council (ARC) research grants; Award for Outstanding Contribution to Leadership in the Faculty (2010) and partner in four Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) national competitive program grants 2008-2013.
Projects
Biography of Ethel Reid
Publications
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Funded Projects at Deakin
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Supervisions
Annette Lewis
Thesis entitled: Janet Lady Clarke (1851-1909) 'Leader in the Good Work'
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Ruth Lee
Thesis entitled: Mary De Garis: Progressivism, Early Feminism and Medical Reform
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
John Keating
Thesis entitled: The Neon Cross - Moore Memorial Church Shanghai
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Jacqueline Abbott
Thesis entitled: Dora Lynnell Wilson (1883-1946) A Life in Art
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Maria Schmidt
Thesis entitled: Small-scale Irrigators, Pastoral Livelihood Diversification and Poverty Alleviation in Kenya
Doctor of Philosophy, School of International and Political Studies
Loes Westerbeek-Veld
Thesis entitled: Dutch-Indonesians in Australia: Second Generation Identity in the Diaspora
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Valerie Margaret Tarrant
Thesis entitled: Melbourne's Indigenous Plants Movement: The Return of the Natives
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Remedios Teoh
Thesis entitled: Gender and National Identity: The People's Theatre in the Philippines (1967- 2000)
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Qinglin Chen
Thesis entitled: AUSTRALIA'S INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: POLICIES AND EXPERIENCES
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Australian & International Studies