In this episode of Rural Crime we speak with Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart about his work on convict life in Australia, with particular attention to crime over the life-course and the role of rurality. Biography: After graduating with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Hamish worked for the Welcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow until 1997 when he migrated to Australia. As a Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania, he co-designed the highly successful Lottery of Life exhibition which ran at Port Arthur from 1999-2018. In 2000 he was appointed to the teaching staff in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania where he worked until 2011 when he was appointed as a visiting fellow at the University of Texas. The following year he took up the Keith Cameron Chair in Australian History at University College Dublin. On his return to the University of Tasmania in 2013 he was appointed Associate Dean Research, for the Faculty of Arts, a position he held until 2016. During that time he established a highly successful diploma in Family History as well as teaching World History at first year level. After a highly successful 23 years at the University of Tasmania he joined the History and Archaeology team at UNE in April 2021. MRJSNWTOWMS0NCSV