Services

Research

I have extensive experience with individual and collaborative research projects, including company and institutional histories, individual biographies, and histories of individual mine sites, commodities and sectors.

I also regularly write briefings and reports on the contemporary mining industry and political developments.

Broadly, I help clients locate and make sense of historical informaton. My experience encompasses research in archives, libraries and private collections in Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania and I have conducted hundreds of interviews, from miners to heads of state.

Training and teaching

I provide training sessions on research methods and research ethics and have run these sessions for organisations in Australia, Britain and South Africa. My teaching also covers historical topics and I have taught at several leading universities during my career.

I’ve also designed a training curriculum for onboarding new professional staff at a multilateral financial institution.

You can read more about my teaching here.

Project management

I have managed teams on preservation and digitisation projects and work closely with the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

You can read more about the project I ran to digitise the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia archives here.

Speaking

I’m an experienced public speaker and have given more than 70 talks over the last decade to university, industry, government and public audiences in 15 countries.

More details of my talks are available here.