Dr Richard Tuffin

Biography

Richard Tuffin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New England (2020-22). He conducts research in relation to the Australian convict period, in particular the deployment and management of unfree labour. His postdoc project focuses on an historical archaeological investigation of the workshops of the Port Arthur penal station (1830-77), examining the documentary and archaeological record for insight into the work regimes and outputs of the convict system. He works in the Digital Humanities, having produced for a previous project (Landscapes of Production and Punishment: the Tasman Peninsula 1830-77 [2017-20]) a webmap of Port Arthur. Alongside Professor Martin Gibbs he is also creating a similar mapping system for convict places throughout Australia.