Chief Investigators:

Prof Tracy Ireland (Lead CI), Adj/Prof Michael Broderick (CI), A/Prof Alice Gorman (CI), Dr Alison Wain (CI)

Partner Investigators:

Prof John Schofield (PI), Dr Deborah Lawler-Dormer (PI), Adj/Prof Matthew Connell (PI), Dr Joseph Bevitt (PI)

Funder:

Australian Research Council Linkage Project

Partners:

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, ANSTO, Flinders University, The University of York, UK, Curtin University

Nuclear Nation: a contemporary archaeology of Australia's atomic heritage.

The history of nuclear science in Australia is of growing interest to scholars, however the physical remains of this controversial legacy are yet to be investigated. This interdisciplinary project would bring together leading academics, curators, scientists and First Nations researchers, using innovative contemporary archaeology approaches, to generate new understandings of the significance of Australia’s atomic heritage in global context. Expected outcomes include improved capacity for heritage management, and new resources and methods for understanding and interpreting Australia’s role in the Nuclear Age. This should generate substantial benefits for the Partner Organisations, and for Australia's tourism and cultural sectors more broadly.