[ecrea] Fwd: [csaa-forum] History of Educational Software - PhD Scholarship, Flinders University

History of Educational Software PhD Scholarship

Opening Date: 09-01-2014   Closing Date: 31-10-2014

This scholarship is not part of the main round of APA/FURS scholarships, 
and is for this project only.

DESCRIPTION

A full-time Flinders University PhD Scholarship is available for a 
suitably qualified prospective PhD candidate in the Department of Screen 
and Media associated with the ARC Future Fellowship project “Creative 
Micro-computing in Australia, 1976 – 1992”.
This Flinders University PhD Scholarship is associated with the ARC 
Future Fellowship project (FT130100391) on Creative Micro-Computing 
awarded to Associate Professor Melanie Swalwell.

This project will research the history of educational software in 
Australia.  This comes out of the considerable evidence that Assoc Prof 
Swalwell’s team has turned up on Australian-made educational titles 
during this era, such as the oeuvre of Jacaranda/Greygum Software.  
Teachers often authored early educational software.  Debates about the 
use of computers in schools during the era will be researched, providing 
a backdrop to the software development history and experiences of 
users.  Titles such as Jacaranda’s “Raft-Away River” still evoke 
powerful memories today, owing to the fact that school use was often the 
first experience people had of a computer.

The PhD candidate will be jointly supervised by Associate Professor 
Melanie Swalwell and Associate Professor Karen Vered, a children’s media 
specialist in the Flinders University Department of Screen and Media.

The successful candidate will be expected to produce research with a 
complementary yet stand-alone focus with respect to the research project 
outlined above.

The scholarship must be taken up by second semester 2015.

BENEFITS

The 2014 Flinders University PhD full-time stipend rate is $25 392 pa 
tax exempt for 3 years.  A top up of $7000 per annum will be awarded to 
the successful candidate.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for a PhD scholarship the applicant is expected to have a 
record of excellent academic performance and will have achieved an 
excellent Honours qualification in an associated field.  Reference 
should be made to the Flinders University Postgraduate Research 
Scholarships webpage for more information.

APPLICATION

Applicants should make contact with Associate Professor Melanie 
Swalwell, email: (melanie.swalwell /at/ flinders.edu.au), phone: +61 8 8201 
2619 before submitting an application.





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Assoc. Prof. Melanie Swalwell

ARC Future Fellow



Screen and Media,

Flinders University

GPO Box 2100

Adelaide SA 5001



Ph: +61 8 8201 2619

278 Humanities Bldg

www.flinders.edu.au

http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/melanie.swalwell



Popular Memory Archive: http://playitagainproject.org

Play It Again blog: http://blogs.flinders.edu.au/play-it-again/

Australasian Heritage Software Database: www.ourdigitalheritage.org



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