May 04, 2021 7:30 AM
Jim Cameron
Early Colonial History

Jim majored in geography at UWA, specialising in historical geography, and completing a PhD in 1975. The content of his doctorate reflected his experience as an immigrant. He was intrigued by the various methods migrants used to come to terms with the Western Australian environment which was very unfamiliar to them. He focused on how the first group of immigrants (1829 onwards) developed their agricultural systems.

Since completing his doctorate he worked as a teacher, teacher educator, and part-time historical geographer, in several state education systems and universities, increasingly overseas, particularly Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Now fully retired, he has settled back into Western Australia and spends his time as a woodturner and occasional writer of colonial geography.