Stephanie Lindsay Thompson,
an MPhil (Australian Studies) candidate at CCR, is finalising her
thesis titled, Museums connecting cultures: representations of
Indigenous histories and cultures in small museums of western Sydney.
Stephanie commenced postgraduate studies at the ANU in 1998, and
completed a Graduate Diploma in Australian Studies in that year.
She became interested in Indigenous issues while working with Aboriginal
people on joint projects. For the Human Rights Commission, in 1986,
she consulted with Aboriginal communities in the ACT, at Nowra and
Wreck Bay, and wrote a paper setting out Aboriginal concerns with
the ACT Adoption of Children Ordinance. While working for
the Children's Services Program, she collaborated with staff of
the then Department of Aboriginal Affairs on several joint projects,
and with Aboriginal Child Care Agency representatives, resulting
in the funding of Aboriginal child care centres.
During 1960-77 while working for the Department of Immigration as
Senior Social Worker, and later, Senior Research Officer, Stephanie
researched and wrote several papers for the Immigration Advisory
Council, including Acceptance of Migrants' Cultural Diversity
in the Australian Community.
In 1969 Stephanie was awarded an Italian Government scholarship
in exchange with the ANU, for Italian language studies at the University
of Perugia followed by coursework in the Postgraduate School of
Sociology and Social Research at the University of Rome. In 1970,
she conducted research into return migration from Australia to Italy,
interviewing former migrants to Australia who had returned and resettled
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Books
1980 Australia Through Italian Eyes: A Study of Settlers
Returning from Australia to Italy, Melbourne. Oxford University
Press.
Book awards
1978 Oxford Quincentenary Award
1980 New South Wales Premier's Special Book Award.
Articles in edited volumes
2001 'Italians in the Canberra Region', in Jupp, J. (ed.),
The Australian People, An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its
People and Their Origins, Oakleigh, Victoria, Cambridge University
Press.
2000 'Second-generation Italians of the Canberra
Region and their Custodianship of Italian Language and Culture',
in Italian Australian Institute, In Search of the Italian Australian
into the New Millenium, Conference Proceedings, Melbourne,
Gro-Set Pty Ltd.
1983 'Italian Migrant Experiences of Australian
Culture (1945-1970)', in Cresciani, G. (ed) Australia, the
Australians and the Italian Migration. Milan, Quaderni di
Affari Sociali Internazionali, Franco Agneli.
1973 'Italians who returned home', in Immigration
Advisory Council, Committee on Social Patterns, Inquiry into
the Departure of Settlers from Australia. Final Report, Canberra,
AGPS.
1990 As Writer-in-Community for the ACT Arts
Council's Multicultural Writing Project, Stephanie assisted Spanish-speaking
residents of the ACT to write their stories of migration. The
project, funded by the Community Cultural Development Unit of
the Australia Council, resulted in a publication: The Arts Council
of the ACT, with the assistance of Stephanie Lindsay Thompson,
Stories of Migration from the Spanish-speaking Community of
Canberra, Canberra, Copy-qik.
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