Traffic is a refereed interdisciplinary postgraduate journal published by the University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association (GSA).
ISSN 1447-2538
The journal aims to showcase the best of Melbourne University's postgraduate community research, and to provide a forum for graduate students to present their work in an engaging and interesting style to a broader audience beyond their departmental peers. Through publishing a diverse range of postgraduate research, Traffic seeks to facilitate a sense of cohesiveness in the postgraduate community and to counter its fragmentation.
The journal is refereed (using a double "blind" peer review process), so it counts for valuable "publication points" when applying for jobs, scholarships or grants. It is also licensed by Gale Cengage databases, meaning that scholars worldwide can access and cite articles published in Traffic. If you are a Science researcher considering submitting to the journal, check out our
Science FAQ.
To contact the editor of Traffic, email traffic (at) gsa.unimelb.edu.au or telephone (03) 8344 8308
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Join us for the launch of the eleventh edition of Traffic, 'Fact or Fiction?' and a seminar with the Hon Michael Kirby on 23 November at 2.30pm in the Gryphon Gallery, Graduate Centre. He will discuss the topic of "Truth or Fiction?" and launch the latest edition of the refereed graduate student interdisciplinary journal, Traffic. The journal, published by the Graduate Student Association, includes contributions from graduate students from fields as diverse as nursing, anthropology and history.
Michael Kirby will explain the differences we have had in the courts (including the High Court of Australia) concerning whether one can tell the difference between truth and falsehood by the impression of witnesses in the artificial circumstances of a court room. Or anywhere else for that matter. In recent years, the High Court has moved to reduce the previous confidence in the mystical judicial capacity to evaluation truth based upon impressions. Instead, it has insisted upon greater reliance on contemporaneous records, objective facts, and the internal logic of the circumstances.
A light snack and drinks will be provided at the seminar. Please RSVP to events@gsa.unimelb.edu.au if you wish to attend.
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Traffic Style Guide
For any style issues not covered in the Traffic style guide see the Australian Government Publishing Service's Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers (6th ed.). Spelling and hyphenation should follow the Macquarie Concise Dictionary (3rd ed.).
The Call for Papers for
Traffic 11 has now closed and while
we are no longer accepting article submissions, we are still seeking book reviewers.
We're also planning a 'best-of'
Traffic edition, drawing together the most engaging papers from the past ten issues.
Traffic, GSA's interdisciplinary, refereed graduate student journal, is calling for submissions to its eleventh edition. Tailor your research to suit the theme 'Fact or Fiction?' and you could win a $1,000 prize.
Foreword - Traffic 10
Just over a decade or so ago, almost everywhere you looked, history as a discipline appeared to be in a bad way. In Australia, Keith Windschuttle, at that time a relatively obscure media lecturer, published his readable but intemperate volume, The Killing of History (1994), in which he lamented the death of history at the hands of cultural studies...
...History in several of its varieties is represented here: no primitive neo-conservative crudities that abhor nuance and ambiguity; no over-reliance on postmodernist puns that suggest a lack of awareness of Christopher Norris’s demolition of Derrida; no half-understood poststructuralist mutterings that show ignorance of Andrew Scull’s recent demolition of Foucault’s scholarship: just good, incisive scholarship―and interesting stories.
Tony Taylor, Monash University
Submission Guidelines
Before submitting an article to Traffic, please read the following guidelines to ensure your submission is accepted. Traffic is a fully refereed journal (which means it is a valuable addition to your publishing record no matter what your field), so your submission must fulfil a number of criteria in order to be accepted for publication. If you are a Science student, also see our Science FAQ.
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Editor and Advisory Board
Editor: Dr Michelle Smith - traffic@gsa.unimelb.edu.au
Founding Editor: Monica Dux
Previous Editors:
Dr Heather Benbow
Natasha Harris
Advisory Board
Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Australian National University
Professor Michael Crommelin, University of Melbourne
Professor Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne
Professor Peter Doherty, University of Melbourne
Professor Cathy Falk, University of Melbourne
Professor Ruth Fincher, University of Melbourne
Dr Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle
Professor Marilyn Lake, La Trobe University
Professor Stuart MacIntyre, University of Melbourne
Dr Chris McAuliffe, University of Melbourne
Professor Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne
Professor Robert Manne, La Trobe University
Professor Simon Marginson, University of Melbourne
Professor Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Professor Field Rickards, University of Melbourne
Professor Peter Singer, Princeton University, USA
Professor Frank Stilwell, University of Sydney
Professor David Wood, University of Melbourne
Traffic Seminar: The Global Power of the Olympic Games, Beijing 2008 in Historical Perspective - 13 August
Why was China was so eager to host the Olympic Games? What does it hope to gain? And what has hosting the Olympic Games meant for host countries politically, economically, and culturally?
