University of Sydney

Graduate Student, History

Thesis Title: The ownership of knowledge in Higher Education in Australia

About

Current Candidate, PhD, Commenced 2008, University of Sydney

My research, “The Ownership of Knowledge in Higher Education in Australia, 1939-1996”, explores changes to conceptions of university knowledge in relation to ideas of civilisation, nation and the economy. I am tracing the commodification of knowledge and the consequences of a shift from academic authority to the authority of the market - from academic freedom to market freedom.

New Projects for 2012:
Recipient of Margaret George Award for emerging researchers at the National Archives of Australia for the project 'Knowledge, Nation and Democracy in Post-war Australia'

Recipient of $25,000 grant at the University of Sydney for the project 'Taking a longer view of widening participation: towards a history of social inclusion in Sydney 1945-1975'

Participant in project 'Diversity and Difference in History teaching' at the University of Sydney and in related social inclusion projects.


Prior study:
Graduate Certificate in Learning Science & Technology
-2006, University of Sydney
Master of Arts, 2005, University of Sydney
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), 1998, University of Sydney

Recipient of Carrick Australia (now Australian Learning and Teaching Council) Awards for University Teaching Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, 2006

Recent Publications and Presentations:

Forsyth, H. (2012, forthcoming). History of New Year’s Eve in Sydney. Accepted for publication in 2012 with LAP Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany ISBN: 978-3-659-11655-1. Date of acceptance: 30/4/2012.

Forsyth, H. (2012, forthcoming). ‘Negotiating the Benefits of Knowledge: International Networks and Technology in Australian Post-War Universities’, History of Education Review.  Accepted for publication 3/5/2012.

Forsyth, H. (2012, forthcoming). ‘Writing the New Left’. Review of From New Left to Factional Left: fifty years of student activism at Sydney University by Alan Barcan. Commissioned for History Australia in December 2011, in press.

Sherington, G. and Forsyth, H. (2012, forthcoming). “Ideas Of A Liberal Education: An Essay On Elite And Mass Higher Education” in Luciano Boschiero (ed), On The Purpose of a University Education: a history and examination of liberal education in Australia. Scheduled for publication in 2012 by Australian Scholarly publishing. In press.

Devonshire, E., Forsyth, H., Reid, S. and Simpson, J. (2012, forthcoming). ‘The Challenges and Opportunities of Online Postgraduate Coursework Programs in a Traditional University Context’. Book Title TBA. Scheduled for publication in 2012 by IGI Global. In press.

Forsyth, H. (2012). Knowledge, Nation and Democracy in Post-War Australia. Accepted for Australian Historical Association Conference, Adelaide, July 2012.

Forsyth, H. (2012) Sydney Universities: the manufacture of urban ambition in the 1940s and the 1970s. Accepted for From the Ground Up Symposium, Macquarie University, Sydney, August 2012.

Forsyth, H. (2011). The Humanities PhD. Gateway: the PhD and its Future. Symposium at St Paul's College, 8 August.

Forsyth, H. (2011). Knowledge, democracy and the Russel Ward Case. Australian Historical Association conference, Launceston.

Forsyth, H. (2011). New Year's Eve. Entry for the Dictionary of Sydney. http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/new_years_eve

Forsyth, H. (2011). 'Making Night Hideous with their Noise': New Year's Eve 1897. History Australia, 8 (2)

Forsyth, H. (2010). Gift Culture and the Competitive Ethic: knowledge and the community of scholars after 1987. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference, Byron Bay.

Forsyth, H. (2010). The Sydney Philosophy Strike and
the Ownership of Knowledge. The History of University Life Seminar Series, St Paul's College, University of Sydney

Forsyth, H. (2010). Technology and the university: two British scientists in Australia. Scholarly Networks in the British Empire, Wadham College, Oxford

Forsyth, H. (2010). Academic Work in Australian Universities in the 1940s and 1950s. History of Education Review 39(1).

Newspaper article: Forsyth, H. Why Unis shouldn't play the economics card, New Matilda 18 May 2010 http://newmatilda.com/2010/05/18/why-unis-shouldnt-play-economics-card

Forsyth, H, Pizzica, J, Laxton, R and Mahony MJ (2010). Distance Education in an era of eLearning. Higher Education Research and Development 29(1). http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0729-4360&volume=29&issue=1&spage=15

Forsyth, H (2009) Privatisation in public universities: the decade that commodified knowledge. Australia and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) Conference, December 2009

Forsyth, H, 2009. Knowledge and intelligence: why ASIO thought university knowledge would undermine democracy,1968-1973. Australian Historical Association Conference, University of the Sunshine Coast

Forsyth, H.. Laxton, R., Moran, C., van der Werf, J., Banks, R. and Taylor, R., “Postgraduate Coursework in Australia: issues emerging from university and industry collaboration”, Higher Education 57 (5), 2009 http://www.springerlink.com/content/l26632t736833x6q/

Forsyth, H. “The Energy of the City: Marshall Berman and New Year’s Eve in Sydney”, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 22 (2), 2008

Forsyth, H, 2008 Leisured inquiry and heroic discovery: Eric Ashby’s descriptions of academic work in Australian universities in the 1940s and 1950s. ANZHES/HES Conference, Sydney December 2008

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