Brad Underhill
Staff memberBrad Underhill
BA (Hons.) History and Australian Studies, BCOM (Economics)
Biographical note-
I am an Associate Lecturer at Deakin University in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. I am also employed on a casual basis as a research assistant on an ARC project: History of Australian Foreign Aid. My PhD was awarded in February 2022. This thesis, New Deal on the Ground in Papua New Guinea was awarded joint winner of the Hank Nelson Memorial award (Judged as the best Doctor of Philosophy thesis submitted by any student, internationally, on any aspect of Papua New Guinea’s history or society over a two year period).
I am the recipient of a Postgraduate Research Scholarship at Deakin University. In 2017 I completed a Double Degree Arts/Commerce with (first-class) Honours: awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for academic excellence. In 2017, I was presented with the Bowater Trust medal, best all-round undergraduate student in the Deakin Business School: based on academic merit, community service and ambassadorial qualities. I have recently established the Underhill/Bowater Scholarship to provide economic and mentoring support to a Deakin student experiencing financial disadvantage. I am a current Board member at Licola Wilderness Village- a not-for-profit organisation supporting at risk children.
Awards and Prizes
2022 Hank Nelson PhD Prize
2018 Deakin University Postgraduate Research Scholarship
2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Prize: Arts and Education top Honours student
2016 Bowater Trust Medal: Deakin Business School Graduate of the Year
2016 Dean Merit Award- top 2% Academic Excellence Deakin University
Affiliations
Contemporary Histories Research Group
Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Education
PNG Study Group- Deakin University
Australian Policy and History Network
Research Interests
Pacific History
Colonial Development Theory and High Imperialism
Decolonisation and Micro-nationalism
Contested memory
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