Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Teaching: Modern European history; history, heritage and planning; medical history; regional and community history

Research interests: Australian medical history - hospital development and organisation in the late nineteenth early twentieth century; rural health; local and community history; regional planning and development and local governance.

Projects in Progress:

Y.Collins & S. Kippen ‘The Toll from Toil: The Politics of Occupational Health in Bendigo, 1880s – 1910' (forthcoming).

Selected Publications:

M. Butcher & Y.M.J. Collins (eds) Bendigo at work: An industrial history, Bendigo, Holland House, 2005.
Y.M.J. Collins ‘Introduction' in M. Butcher & Y.M.J. Collins (eds) Bendigo at work: An industrial history, op.cit.
Y.M.J. Collins ‘The Cinderella industry: A history of the textile industry in the Greater Bendigo district from 1912 to 1966' in M. Butcher & Y.M.J. Collins (eds) Bendigo at work: An industrial history, op.cit.
Y.M.J. Collins & S.A. Kippen ‘Working conditions' in M. Butcher & Y.M.J. Collins (eds) Bendigo at work: An industrial history, op.cit.
H. Bullows & Y.M.J. Collins ‘The Bendigo Ordnance Factory' in M. Butcher & Y.M.J. Collins (eds) Bendigo at work: An industrial history, op. cit.
Y.M.J. Collins ‘Sent up there to die? The Victorian metropolitan patient transfer scheme of the 1920s and 30s’ Health and History, Vol.6, no.1, 2004, pp.29-66.
S. A. Kippen & Y.M.J. Collins ‘Radical Reformers: the role of medical men in improving working conditions on the Bendigo goldfields’ Journal of Australasian Mining History, Vol. 2 Sept. 2004, pp.75 – 89.
S.A.Kippen & Y.M.J. Collins ‘Radon at the Wheal South Crofty: The Social Construction of an occupational health and safety issue’ Cornish Studies, Vol. 12, 2004, pp. 201-214.
Collins, Y.M.J. & S.A. Kippen ‘The Sairey Gamps of Victorian nursing? Tales of drunk and disorderly wardsmen in Victorian public hospitals between the 1850s and the 1880s.’ Health and History, Vol.5, no.1, 2003, pp 42-64.
Bennington, L. & Y.M.J. Collins ‘The good, the bad and the inaccessible: Public reporting of Best Value in Victoria’, paper presented to the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Beechworth, 2002.
Butcher, M. & Y.M.J. Collins Postwar Portrait: Photographs of Alan Doney 1900 – 1987, Bendigo, Holland House, 2002.
Butcher, M. & Y.M.J. Collins An American on the Goldfields: The 1861 Bendigo photographs of Benjamin Pierce Batchelder, Bendigo, Holland House, 2002. (Commendation, Victorian Community History Awards.)
Rogers, M.A. & Y.M.J. Collins (eds) The Future of Australia’s Country Towns, CSRC, May 2001.
Collins, Y.M.J. ‘Health Care in rural Australia’ in S. Lockie & L. Bourke, Rurality Bites: The social and environmental transformation of rural Australia, Annadale, NSW, Pluto Press: 2001.
Y.M.J. Collins “Practical research in rural communities: Community benefits and the value for student learning.” refereed paper presented to Higher Education and Community Engagement conference in Ipswich, NSW: 2000.
Collins, Y. 'Love’s labours lost: bureaucratic independence versus ministerial control', presented to and then collated in an edited Proceedings of the History of Medicine Conference, Sydney, July 1999.
Collins, Y. & S. Kippen (eds), Aprons and Arches: A history of Bendigo Hospital Trained Nurses, 1883 - 1989, Holland House Publishing, 1998.
Collins, Y. "The Chinese and Public Health in Bendigo: 1850s - 1910". Conference Proceedings of the Australian Medical History Association Conference, Feb. 1993 [Hobart, 1994].
Collins, Y. ‘Visiting overseas “experts” and their influence on hospital reform in Victoria (Australia), 1922 – 1940’, in New Countries and Old Medicine, Proceedings of an international conference on the History of Medicine and Health, ed. by L.Bryder and D.Dow [Auckland, 1994].