Research graduate

Dr Jason Smeaton

Year of completion: 2023

PhD thesis

Smeaton, Jason James. (2022). Nurse or not? Voluntary aids and the Australian Army Medical Women's Service during the Second World War: Organisational identity and the value of women's work [PhD Thesis]. Australian Catholic University Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences https://doi.org/10.26199/acu.8yz57

Research topic

This research investigates the experience of Australian women who served in the Army's nursing auxiliary service during World War Two. Through an exploration of the events, relationships and tensions that shaped the work of the auxiliary service, this study questions what effect untrained servicewomen and the war more broadly had on the nursing profession.

Supervisory team

Principal supervisor: Professor Joy Damousi
Co-supervisor: Dr Mary Tomsic
Associate supervisor (end-user): Ms Amanda Hill - Department of Veterans’ Affairs

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Publications

“Auxiliary power: in wartime, Australian women fought germs, fired shells – and took on gender norms”, 25 April 2023.

“80th Anniversary of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service”, VetAffairs, December 2022.