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Personal profile
Biography
I am on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Further and Higher Education, an international journal concerned with all aspects of higher education, and I review submissions for a range of higher education journals.
After completing my PhD in Australian autobiography at UNSW, I spent nearly a decade in university administration and management at ANU and the University of Tasmania. I returned to academic work in 2013.
Research interests
Military history (strategy, with a particular interest in the interface between war and culture); Higher education (graduate learning, professional military education, learning identities); Australian auto/biography (with particular interests in belonging and estrangement).
Current student projects
PhD project: Command and Leadership at Suvla Bay, 1915.
PhD project: British Strategy in the Iraq War.
Masters project: The Destruction of Art in War.
Masters project: Decision-making, Moral Injury and Strategy.
Researcher's projects
Currently researching:
(1) reading Thucydides through the lens of Foucault's theories of power and knowledge.
(2) professional military education and learning identities.
Qualifications
SFHEA
Expertise Areas
- Higher Education
- Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
- HISTORICAL STUDIES
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Educating for what? PME, the ADF and an uncertain 21st century
Chow, A. & Bowers, J., 2021Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Hal Porter: The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony: An Australian Autobiography
Bowers, J., 2019, Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf (ed.). 1st ed. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, p. 1838-1850Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Jane Alison: The Sisters Antipodes: A Memoir
Bowers, J., 2019, Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf (ed.). 1st ed. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, p. 2089-2102Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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"Lest We Forget": Mateship, Masculinity, and Australian Identity
Bowers, J., 2018, Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir. Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph (ed.). First ed. Moorebank, Australia.: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 299-314Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Australian? Autobiography? Postnational self-identity and the politics of belonging
Bowers, J., 2017, Migrant nation : Australian culture, society and identity. Paul Longley Arthur (ed.). First ed. Australia: Anthem Press, p. 77Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter