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Biography
Dr Matthew Bailey is one of Australia’s leading retail historians. His book, Managing the Marketplace: Reinventing Shopping Centres in Post-War Australia (Routledge, 2020) is the first book on the subject, and one of the few to comprehensively examine Australian retail history. Dr Bailey has published widely on retail and retail property history, including in leading international and Australian journals such as Urban History, Enterprise & Society, Australian Economic History Review, Journal of Australian Studies, History Australia, and the Journal of Historical Research in Marketing.
Dr Bailey is available for media commentary on retailing, department stores, shopping and shopping centres. He is an experienced oral history interviewer, has undertaken consumer research consultancy for firms in the retail property sector, and is available to work on corporate histories and public history projects. He is also available to supervise projects on a diverse range of business history subjects, social and cultural histories of retailing and consumerism, as well as studies of the built environment and historical actors' engagement with it.
Dr Bailey is currently working on a number of archival and oral history projects, including a study on the development of supermarketing in Australia, and a history of global retail innovations.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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One-stop-shop: The rise and rise of the Australian shopping centre, 1958-2015
11/07/16 → 24/12/16
Project: Research
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Staff and students' expectations of technology enhanced learning in higher education program delivery
1/01/15 → 30/06/16
Project: Teaching
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A history of Australian shopping centre development, 1958-1994
Bailey, M. & Brawley, S.
1/07/14 → 30/06/15
Project: Research
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Research Outputs
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Introduction: industriousness in twentieth-century Australia
Forsyth, H. & Bailey, M., 2025, In: History Australia. 22, 2, p. 201-208 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Introduction: Public sport history and community sport
Evans, T., Rathbone, K. & Bailey, M., 2025, In: The International Journal of the History of Sport. 42, 2, p. 121-130 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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"Feudal barons extracting tribute": narratives of market power in the Australian retail property sector during the 1980s
Bailey, M., Jun 2023, In: Enterprise and Society. 24, 2, p. 355-373 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Histories of Australian retailing
Bailey, M., 2023, In: History of Retailing and Consumption. 9, 3, p. 221-230 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Oral history and business: disruption and continuity
Crawford, R. & Bailey, M., 2023, London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 130 p. (Routledge Focus)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Prizes
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Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
Bailey, Matthew (Recipient), 1 Nov 2017
Prize: Teaching award