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Mr Richard Gehrmann

Name Richard Gehrmann
Position Senior Lecturer (International Studies)
Section School of Humanities and Communication
Office Q201
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1073
Extension 1073
Email
Qualifications BA Griffith , PGDipSocSc Qld , GCertIntellSecAn TrainCommand , GDipFET USQ , MA Deakin , MDefStud UNE , MEd USQ , MSt Cambridge
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/8116v/mr-richard-gehrmann
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  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Other Human Society ( 449900 )

War and society, Social and cultural history, International relations, War in film and memoirs, Military geography, Military organisation and culture studies.

Richard Gehrmann is author and co-editor of two recent Palgrave Macmillan books on war and society, Communication, Interpreting and Language in Wartime: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Amanda Laugesen & Richard Gehrmann (eds), 2020, https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030270360 and Memory and the wars on terror: Australian and British perspectives,Gildersleeve, Jessica and Richard Gehrmann (eds), 2017. https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319569758
Richard is also a member of a research team led by Associate Professor Martin Kerby (team members Professor Margaret Baguley, Richard Gehrmann, Dr Alison Bedford & Dr Daniel Maddock) exploring the role of monuments and memorials in understanding historical events through a series of journal articles, with two recent Q1 articles published. As part of this project, the team has also published the open access text A Possession Forever: A Guide to Using Commemorative Memorials and Monuments in the Classroom, (2021) https://usq.pressbooks.pub/apossessionforever/ T. The project team is supported by a 2020 Department of Veterans Affairs Project Grant ‘A Possession Forever: The role of monuments and memorials in understanding historical events’, and by a USQ Capacity Building Research Grant titled 'Counter Memorials/Monuments and the Australian Commemorative Landscape'.


USQ Human Research Ethics Committee


Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group
International Australian Studies Association
Australian Historical Association
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society


  • Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)

INR2003 Strategic Studies
INR2001 Australian Foreign Relations
INR1000 Introduction to International Relations
HMT3002 Independent Study: International Relations
INR3007 Global Environmental Politics


  • Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified ( 169999 )
  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200299 )
  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 210399 )
  • Other Human Society not elsewhere classified ( 449999 )
  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 470299 )
  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 430399 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Other Human Society ( 449900 )