Dr Geraldine Mate ~ Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Geraldine's research is focussed on cultural landscapes, particiularly related to industry. This includes archaeological investigations of social and industrial landscapes of resource extraction such as mining, sugar growing, and large scale indsutrial works and the central importance of people in these landscapes.

In understanding the interplay between people and technology, Geraldine is interested in the interpretation of cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, together with ideas about memory and meaning, and their manifestations through cultural landscapes and material culture. This includes considerations of how technology, labour history and large scale industry can be represented in museum collections.

More broadly her research foci are firmly tied together through the framework of cultural landscapes, material culture and the adoption and adaptation of technology. Current research includes the cultural heritage of the Ipswich Railway Workshops site and the suburban landscape beyond.

Interests

Professional

• Museological approaches to intangible Heritage
• Material Culture and its interpretation

Research

• Landscape archaeology
• Cultural landscapes of nineteenth and twentieth century mining towns
• Interpretation of cultural heritage, memory, labour history
• Historical archaeology of industrial places and technology, interplay between people and technology

Experience

• 2015 to present - Principal Curator, History Industry and Technology, Queensland Museum Netwrk (Queensland Museum and Sciencentre)
• 2010 to 2015 - Senior Curator, Transport and Energy, Queensland Museum Network (The Workshops Rail Museum)
• 2007 to 2010 - Curator, Science and Technology, Queensland Museum Network (Queensland Museum and Sciencentre)
• 2005 to 2010 - PhD Candidate, University of Queensland (St Lucia)
• 1989 to 2004 - Manufacturing Manager / Process Engineer, Capral Aluminium Ltd

Research Disciplines

• Archaeology (4301)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and (4501)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Understanding past societies (1307)
• Expanding knowledge (2801)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Mate G and Ulm S (2021) Working in archaeology in a changing world: Australian archaeology at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Australian Archaeology, 87 (3). pp. 229-250
• Collins S, Mate G and Ulm S (2020) Revisiting inscriptions on the Investigator Tree on Sweers Island, Gulf of Carpentaria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 124. pp. 137-164
• Hadnutt N and Mate G (2020) Characterising the Queensland Museum historical archaeology collection: fostering engagement through partnerships. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 38. pp. 58-67
• Mate G and Pocock C (2018) A disconnected journey. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 24 (4). pp. 374-389
• Mate G and Ulm S (2016) Another snapshot for the album: a decade of Australian Archaeology in Profile survey data. Australian Archaeology, 82 (2). pp. 168-183
• Mate G (2014) Streets and stamper batteries: an 'industrial' landscape of gold mining townships in nineteenth-century Queensland. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 32. pp. 47-55
• Mate G (2014) Digging deeper: the archaeology of gold mining in Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research, 17. pp. 21-36
• Oertle A, Leavesley M, Ulm S, Mate G and Rosendahl D (2014) At the margins: archaeological evidence for Macassan activities in the South Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 32. pp. 64-71
• Mate G (2013) Mount Shamrock: a symbiosis of mine and settlement. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 17 (3). pp. 465-486
• Ulm S, Mate G, Dalley C and Nichols S (2013) A working profile: the changing face of professional archaeology in Australia. Australian Archaeology, 76. pp. 34-43
• Prangnell J and Mate G (2011) Kin, fictive kin and strategic movement: working class heritage of the Upper Burnett. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 17 (4). pp. 318-330

Book Chapters

• Pocock C, Stell M and Mate G (2018) Raw emotion: the living memory module at three sites of practice. In: Emotion, Affective Practives, and the Past in the Present. Key Issues in Cultural Heritage. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 281-303

More

ResearchOnline@JCU stores 19+ research outputs authored by Dr Geraldine Mate from 2010 onwards.

These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• "In any direction it would be difficult to find one acre of level ground?: The Mining and Social Landscapes of the Normanby Goldfield, near Bowen, North Queensland (PhD , External Advisor)

Completed

• Old Smithfield Township, Cairns, 1876-1879: Revealing the Material Life of a Nineteenth Century Community in Tropical North Queensland (2023, PhD , External Advisor)

The map shows research collaborations by institution from the past 7 years.
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