| History | Alison McDougall was born and educated in Launceston, Tasmania but moved to Adelaide, South Australia for her tertiary studies. In 1980 she graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Speech Pathology) from the South Australian College of Advanced Education. She moved into historical research in the early 2000s completing a Graduate Diploma in Local, Family and Applied History at the University of New England, NSW, in 2003. She is a freelance researcher and oral historian working in private and public institutions, including the National Library of Australia, the City of Unley Museum and the Architecture Museum in the School of Art, Architecture and Design, at the University of South Australia. A long-standing committee member of the Oral History Association of Australia (South Australian Branch), Alison is editor of its publication Word of Mouth. |