Dr Jackie Dickenson is the Senior Research Associate on the ARC Discovery project 'Globalising the Magic System: a History of Advertising Industry Practice in Australia 1959-1989'. Before completing her PhD in labour history, Jackie worked in the advertising industry and taught creative advertising at RMIT University. She is the author of Trust Me: Australians and their Politicians (NewSouth Publishing, 2013), and has published extensively on political and advertising history. Her history of Australian advertising women will be published next year by Palgrave Macmillan.
