History In The Making - What Happens Next? Podcast on exploring our history
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In this final episode about exploring our history, Monash Alum Elizabeth Finkel explains why she tells the stories of how science works, and our experts offer their best tips and advice on where to do a deeper dig for knowledge.
About the Authors
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Elizabeth finkel am
Science journalist and author
Elizabeth Finkel AM is a former biochemist who switched from research to telling the stories of other scientists. She completed a PhD in biochemistry at Melbourne University in 1982, followed by postdoctoral experience at the University of California in San Francisco, studying a gene that inscribes a pattern onto the blank canvas of the fruit fly egg. Her work was published in Nature magazine. Returning to Melbourne in 1988, she left research for journalism, making regular contributions to American magazine Science and The Age, and authored two books. From 2013-2018, she was editor-in-chief of Cosmos Magazine, a science publication she co-founded in 2005.
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Lynette russell am
Distinguished Professor, and Laureate Fellow, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre
Lynette's research is broadly anthropological history. She's published widely in the areas of theory, Indigenous histories, post-colonialism and representations of race, museum studies and popular culture.
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Alistair evans
Associate Professor (Research), School of Biological Sciences
Alistair is a Senior Research Fellow and ARC Future Fellow. His research areas of interest include functional morphology, particularly of mammalian teeth, 3D imaging and analysis, morphological evolution, evolution and development (evo-devo), body mass evolution and evolutionary rates.
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Justin adams
Senior Lecturer, Anatomy and Developmental Biology, BDI
Justin has led fieldwork and faunal analysis at sites in and around the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site. His ongoing research projects and collaborations address outstanding questions on the palaeobiology of Pliocene and early Pleistocene South African mammalian faunas and the taphonomy and palaeoecology of palaeocave sites. His Integrated Morphology and Palaeontology lab brings together comparative methods and advanced 3D imaging resources to the study of living and fossil mammal anatomy.
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Susan carland
Director, Bachelor of Global Studies, and Lecturer, School of Language, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics
Susan's research and teaching specialties focus on gender, sociology, contemporary Australia, terrorism, and Islam in the modern world. Susan hosted the “Assumptions” series on ABC’s Radio National, and was named one of the 20 Most Influential Australian Female Voices in 2012 by The Age.
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Episode 31: A Matter Of Time
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