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Daisy Bailey is passionate about history, how we can connect to the past to shape the present, and take research beyond the academy.

She is Senior Project Coordinator and Production Coordinator on the Australian Research Council Linkage Project Comedy Country: Australian Performance Comedy as an Agent for Change. The project, which includes academics from Monash University, RMIT University, the University of Adelaide, plus production partner Roar Film, and key industry and collecting institutions, are working to create a public-facing, media-based cultural history of comedy in Australia from 1945 to the present.

Daisy completed her PhD at Monash University in March 2025, on a cultural history of Chartist and Young Ireland political prisoners transported to the Australian colonies in the 1840s-1850s. She explored their varied experiences in and out of carceral systems through the history of emotions to overturn previous arguments of their passivity and complicate their status as victims. This position was connected to the Australian Research Council Linkage Project Conviction Politics: The Convict Routes of Australian Democracy, which Daisy also worked on as a Research Assistant and Project Coordinator.

Daisy has further research interests in feminist history, gender-based violence, and the cultural conceptualisation of consent, which she investigated in her Honours research on rape trials and women’s self-defence in 1970s Australia at Australian Catholic University in 2019.

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Australia

Expertise by Geography

Australia, United Kingdom

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, 20th century

Expertise by Topic

Colonialism, Gender, Labor, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexual Violence