Peter Hobbins

PHA NSW Accreditation

Professional Member

About

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Specialising in the history of science, technology and medicine, Peter Hobbins has been publishing historical research since 2007. A former professional medical writer and company director, he has a Master of Medical Humanities and a PhD from the University of Sydney, where he now works in the Department of History. Peter revels in the challenges of placing complex technical, institutional and operational developments in the context of their historical places, moments and stories.

The main threads running through Peter’s work are Australian medical research, military medicine, and the role of science and technology in shaping the nation, from sailing ships to air traffic control. His two major publications include Stories from the Sandstone: Quarantine Inscriptions from Australia’s Immigrant Past (with archaeologists Ursula K Frederick and Anne Clarke, 2016) and Venomous Encounters: Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial Australia (2017). His current research project, spanning 2016–19, is a history of aircraft crashes and aviation safety in mid-twentieth century Australia. Encompassing military and civilian archives, museums, crash sites and oral histories, this work is supported by an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship. He is also the 2016 Merewether Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales.

Peter is passionate about sharing history with a wide variety of audiences, ranging from international conferences to university classes and community groups. He has led walking groups at historic sites, launched exhibitions and featured in radio and television interviews. Peter has also been an active committee member in the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, and serves as one of the editors for its journal, Health and History.

Follow Peter's discoveries, impressions, thoughts and connections on Twitter: @history2wheeler

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Major awards:

• Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA), 2016–19.
• State Library of New South Wales, Merewether Fellowship, 2016.
• University of Sydney Rita and John Cornforth Medal for PhD Achievement and Community Contribution, 2014.
• University of Sydney Merit Award, 2010–13.

Area of Expertise

• medical history
• military medicine
• history of Australian science
• history of technology

Publications/Past Work

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Books:

• Hobbins, Peter, Ursula K. Frederick and Anne Clarke, Stories From the Sandstone: Quarantine Inscriptions from Australia’s Immigrant Past (forthcoming in 2016 with Arbon Publishing).
• Hobbins, Peter, Venomous Encounters: Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial Australia (forthcoming in 2017 with Manchester University Press).

Published articles and book chapters:

• Hobbins, Peter, ‘From Camels to cats: experimenting with medicine in the Australian Flying Corps’, War & Society 35, no. 2 (2016): 114–31.
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  Hobbins, Peter, Annie Clarke and Ursula Frederick, ‘Stories from the sandstone’, in Dannielle Viera, ed. From Quarantine to Q Station: Honouring the Past, Securing the Future (Crows Nest: Arbon Publishing, 2016), pp. 82–107.

• Bashford, Alison, Peter Hobbins, Annie Clarke and Ursula K. Frederick, ‘Geographies of commemoration: Angel Island, San Francisco and North Head, Sydney’, Journal of Historical Geography 52 (2016): 16–25.
• Clarke, Anne, Ursula Frederick and Peter Hobbins, ‘Sydney’s landscapes of quarantine’, in Alison Bashford, ed., Quarantine: Local and Global Histories (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2016), pp. 175–94.
• Hobbins, Peter, ‘“No bloody research”: bringing science to military medicine’, in Jacqueline Healy, ed., Compassion and Courage: Australian Doctors and Dentists in the Great War (Melbourne: Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne, 2015), pp. 94–100.
• Bashford, Alison and Peter Hobbins, ‘Rewriting quarantine: Pacific history at Australia’s edge’, Australian Historical Studies 46, no. 3 (2015): 392–409.
• Hobbins, Peter, ‘A spur to atavism: placing platypus poison’, Journal of the History of Biology 48, no. 4 (November 2015): 499–537.
• Hobbins, Peter, ‘Invasion ontologies: venom, visibility and the imagined histories of arthropods’, in Jodi Frawley and Iain McCalman, eds., Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities (Oxford: Routledge, 2014), pp. 181–95.
• Hobbins, Peter, ‘Imperial science or the republic of poison letters? Venomous animals, intercolonial exchange and national identity’, in Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie, eds. Routledge History of Western Empires (Oxford: Routledge, 2014), pp. 285–98.
• Bashford, Alison and Peter Hobbins, ‘Science and medicine’ in Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre, eds. The Cambridge History of Australia, Volume Two: the Commonwealth of Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 263–83.
• Hobbins, Peter, ‘Spectacular serpents: snakebite in colonial Australia’, in Jacqueline Healy and Kenneth D. Winkel, eds., Venom: Fear, Fascination and Discovery (Melbourne: Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne, 2013), pp. 37–46.
• Hobbins, Peter, and Hannah Forsyth, ‘Mobilising medical knowledge for the nation, 1943–49’, Health and History, 15, no. 1 (2013): 59–79.
• Hobbins, Peter, ‘“Immunisation is as popular as a death adder”: the Bundaberg tragedy and the politics of medical science in interwar Australia’, Social History of Medicine 24, no. 2 (2011): 426–44.
• Hobbins, Peter and Kathryn Hillier, ‘Isolated cases? The history and historiography of Australian medical research’, Health and History 12, no. 2 (2010): 1–17.
• Hobbins, Peter G., ‘Serpentine science: Charles Kellaway and the fluctuating fortunes of venom research in interwar Australia’, Historical Records of Australian Science 21, no.1 (2010): 1–34.
• Hobbins, Peter Graeme, ‘“Outside the institute there is a desert”: the tenuous trajectories of medical research in interwar Australia’, Medical History 54, no. 1 (2010): 1–28.
• Hobbins, Peter, ‘The whole country is poisoned: framing disease mortality in the historiography of the South African War’, War & Society 28, no.1 (2009): 29–60.
• Hobbins, Peter G., and Kenneth D. Winkel, ‘The forgotten successes and sacrifices of Charles Kellaway, director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1923–1944’, Medical Journal of Australia 187, no. 11/12 (2007): 645–8.
• Hobbins, Peter Graeme, ‘“Living in hell but still smiling”: Australian psychiatric casualties of war during the Malaya-Singapore campaign, 1941–42’, Health and History 9, no. 1 (2007): 28–55.

Web: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/peter.hobbins.php