Dr. David Waldron
Head of Social Sciences and Humanities
Campus
Biography
Dr David Waldron is an Associate Professor of History at Federation University Australia with a research focus on folklore and community heritage.
He is the author of “Sign of the Witch: Modernity and the Pagan Revival” (Carolina Academic Press 2008), “Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay – a Case Study in Local Folklore” (Hidden Press 2010) and “Snarls from the Tea-Tree: Victoria’s Big Cat Folklore” (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2013), editor/contributor of “Goldfields and the Gothic: a Hidden Heritage and Folklore” (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2016) and author of “Aradale: the Making of a Haunted Asylum (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2020).
He is regularly involved in public engagements, festivals, and multi-media displays, including the Ballarat Heritage Festival, and is the co-writer and researcher for the 2019 National Trust of Australia People’s Choice award and 2023 Victorian Community History Award-winning podcast series “Tales from Rat City”.
He is also the winner of 2024’s Jane Hansen Award for History Advocacy from the History Council of Victoria and a 2024 Silver ENNIE award for game design for his 2023 Victorian Community History Award winning "William Bailey's Haunted Manion" published by Chaosium.
- Publications
Fighting Back or Falling Short? The Limits of Self-Defence as Violence Prevention
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/08164649.2025.2599194
Empowering Minds: The Experience of History Teaching Within the Ballarat Clemente Course
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-031-97525-7_6