War and Reconstruction: Australian Universities and Postwar Recovery 1943-57

Funded by the Australian Research Council Special Research Initiatives 2020.

This project aims to investigate the impact and transformative effect of the university education-led recovery in postwar Australia from 1943 to 1957. It undertook a collective biographical survey of ex-service male and female university students across the nation, who were funded through the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme (CRTS). What is the CRTS funding?

The Chief Investigators:

Professor Julia Horne University Historian, University of Sydney (Lead)

Emeritus Professor Stephen Garton, University of Sydney

Professor Kate Darian Smith, University of Melbourne

Dr James Waghorne, University of Melbourne

Research and database management, Liz Gillroy University of Sydney

Research, Jackie Dickenson University of Melbourne

University Archivists: ……