ProfessorSarah Paddle

Sarah Paddle's research includes studies in Australian women's history, and writing cross-cultural histories on women in Australia, Britain and China. Her PhD was on British cultural history and reform movements of the late nineteenth century.

Recent research includes studies of Australian women and China over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Australia-China Council funded joint research with Associate Professor Li Ping, from Remnin University, Beijing. Recent publications include studies of Western women missionaries, feminists, colonisation and international citizenship, in the context of Chinese women’s history. Her current research is on Australian women missionaries and reformers who went to China from the 1880s to the 1950s.
In addition to the Australian Research Council, the following bodies have supported Sarah's research: the Australia-China Council, Anhui University Hefei China, Remnin University Beijing, and Deakin University.

Projects
Missions and Modernity; China and Australia
Biography of Ethel Reid