Paul Sendziuk is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and Monash University. He specialises in Australian History, with particular interests in the histories of immigration, public health, disease, labour and manufacturing. Paul's doctoral thesis, 'Learning to Trust: A History of Australian Responses to AIDS', was awarded the 2002 Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal. A revised version of this text, published by UNSW Press and University of Washington Press, was short-listed for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's 2004 Human Rights Award (non-fiction section).Paul's current research project, 'People, Places and Promises: Social Histories of Holden in Australia', is a history of General Motors-Holden's workers and workplace culture, and the places were Holden's factories were situated. It is a collaboration between the research team (CIs Sendziuk, Jennifer Clark, Alistair Thomson, Graeme Davison and Carolyn Collins) and General Motors-Holden, the National Library of Australia and the National Motor Museum. The team received an Australian Research Council Linkage grant (LP170100860) to conduct the project in 2018-21. So far, outcomes include an exhibition at the National Motor Museum titled 'Holden & Me: Treasures from a Working Life', and an article published in Studies in Oral History.Paul has recently completed three other large-scale research and publication projects. The first examined the history of volunteerism during the HIV/AIDS crisis, which was conducted in collaboration with A/Prof. Shirleene Robinson and Prof. Robert Reynolds and supported by an ARC Discovery grant (DP160103552). Outcomes included a monograph, In the Eye of the Storm: Volunteers and Australia's Response to HIV/AIDS (UNSW Press, 2021), which won the Oral History Australia Book Award (2021); scholarly articles; articles in The Conversation and for the ABC's website; and an exhibition about the AIDS crisis and volunteering that was held at Sydney's M2 Gallery (with a permanent online component).The second project, titled 'The Art of AIDS Prevention: Cultural Responses to HIV/AIDS in Australia, South Africa and the United States', explored the nexus between art and health promotion and the way in which artists can save lives. Outcomes include a website containing essays, oral histories with artists, and galleries of images. Further findings will be published in a book under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.The third project, titled 'A Forgotten Odyssey: A Study of Polish-Australian Displacement, Identity and Memory through Life Stories and Material Culture', investigated the poorly understood experience of Polish displaced persons who migrated to Australia after World War Two. Outcomes of this project include a collection of oral histories held at the National Library of Australia, and articles published in History Australia and Oral History Australia Journal.Paul also researches and publishes on the history of South Australia. His most recent book in this field, A History of South Australia, was co-authored with Robert Foster and published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. The book was awarded the Keain Medal by the Historical Society of South Australia for the best book on a South Australian history topic.At undergraduate level, Paul teaches 'Australia and the World', 'Colonial Australia' and 'Migrants, Refugees and the Making of Modern Australia'. At Honours level, he teaches 'Themes and Debates in South Australian History' and the 'Common Course' (a course in historical method and theory). He also supervises a number of Honours and postgraduate students.In recognition of his teaching, Paul was awarded the Executive Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007, and the University's highest teaching honour, the Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2009. More recently he was the recipient of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. For his work as a supervisor in 2017 he won the Faculty of Arts Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision Prize, a Beacon Commendation for Implementing Effective HDR Supervision Practices, and his second Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in HDR Supervisory Practice.Paul has held a variety of leadership positions, including Head of the Department of History. Between 2014-2018 Paul was a member of the Australian Historical Association's Executive Committee and served two two-year terms as the AHA's Treasurer. He is currently the Vice-President of the Australasian Board of the International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History, and is a Council Member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the journals 'Health and History' and 'New Zealand Journal of History'.Paul also co-hosts a regular Australian History program on ABC radio, Adelaide. Recent programs have included 'The Referendum to Ban the Communist Party' and 'Who Were the Convicts?'.