Philip Bachelor (Australian)
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PHILIP BACHELOR
Dr Philip Stephen Bachelor OAM is an Australian social scientist and business administrator specialising in bereavement-care management[62]. He advocates improving cemetery service standards through professional education and industry training[1,2,3]. His doctorate was conferred by Charles Sturt University in 2001[4,5,6] and he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2015[7,8].
EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
Personal Life Born in Melbourne, 10 June 1955, Bachelor was the fourth of eight children to Norma (1925 –) and Arthur Bachelor (1917–2005) of East Brighton, Victoria. In 1969, the family relocated to nearby Hampton [9]. In 1976, Bachelor married Jan (Janice Mesley) Bachelor, with whom he has lived in urban and rural Victoria and Tasmania and raised three daughters[9].
Schooling and Technical Training Bachelor left Brighton Technical School at the end of 1971, aged 16, and soon after commenced an apprenticeship in Gardening & Turf Management with the City of Brighton (now City of Bayside), which he completed in 1975. He subsequently earned certificates in Tree Surgery (1978), Supervision (1980), Landscape Design (1982), Fitness Leadership (1988) and Training & Assessment (2010)[62].
Higher Education Bachelor studied parks and recreation management at Charles Sturt University, graduating in 1992 with a Bachelor of Applied Science. In 1997, he was awarded a Master of Business Administration jointly by Deakin University and the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia[10]. In 2001, he received his Doctor of Philosophy from Charles Sturt University[4,5,6].
CAREER
1977-1989 Bachelor managed parks and recreation facilities and services at Sandringham (1977-1981) and Bendigo (1981-1983) in Victoria, and at Launceston in Tasmania (1983-1989)[10], caring for a range of local government amenities from nature reserves and conservation areas to sportsgrounds, playgrounds, urban parks and gardens, small zoos and cemeteries[62].
1989 – In 1989, he returned to Victoria to manage operations at Melbourne’s Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park, where he introduced numerous landscape developments, training initiatives and service improvements[10] and pioneered client research that eventually led to extensive national bereavement studies[11,12,13]. From 2005 to 2011, he managed community and commercial businesses and technical training operations in rural Victoria and Melbourne[14]. In 2011, he returned to bereavement-care administration and led turnaround of Box Hill Cemetery[1] from impending insolvency to the now financially-secure, professional service enterprise[15].
RESEARCH
Bachelor pioneered cemetery social research at Melbourne’s Fawkner Memorial Park in 1989[11,12]. Initially investigating leisure potential of cemeteries, he gathered vital demographics of cemetery clients[10], findings which were of particular interest to the Australian cemeteries industry[12,13]. Subsequent quantitative cemetery visitation research was presented to the Australian Cemeteries & Crematoria Association and the International Cremation Federation in 1996[16]. During 1997 and 1998, he coordinated further studies involving thousands of cemetery visitors across Australia[17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28].
From 1998 to 2000, Bachelor conducted additional naturalistic observations and in-depth qualitative investigations of personal bereavement experiences. Combined with his unique quantitative Cemetery Visitation Study[29,30,31] and qualitative Bereavement Response Study[29,30,32], these investigations formed the basis of his 2001 doctoral thesis Cemetery Visitation: The place of the cemetery in the grief process[29,30] and established an evidence-based foundation for today's cemetery services[31,33].
PUBLICATIONS
Bereavement texts include Life after Death: Understanding bereavement and working through grief (2002) Hill of Content, Melbourne (case studies of bereavement within diverse social and cultural contexts)[32,34] and Sorrow & Solace: The social world of the cemetery (2004) Baywood, New York (a sociological review of significant practical, cultural and emotional values of cemeteries)[31,35]. He previously wrote and illustrated Signature Plants (1981) City of Sandringham, Melbourne (a field guide to significant species characteristic of the Sandringham environment)[36] , and subsequently authored Fourth Child (2012) Waterdragon, Melbourne (a transgenerational Australian social history)[9]. He also edited Paul Richards’ Isotopes, Imaging & identity: The history of nuclear medicine in Australia & New Zealand (2013) Australian & New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine[37]. Bachelor has also written over three-dozen papers on managerial, bereavement and environmental themes published in various journals, including Australasian Cemeteries & Crematoria[13,16,40,43,49,50], Australian Parks & Leisure[12,38], Australian Horticulture[39], Peace of Mind[40,41,42,43,44], Grief Matters[45] and Health Sociology Review[46,47,48]. He has also presented research findings at over a dozen Australian and international conferences[2,3,13,16,49,51,52,53,54,55].
AWARDS
In 2015, Bachelor was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the community, the environment and to cemeteries management[7,56]. Previous honours included fellowships of the Australian Institute of Horticulture (1992)[10], Environment Institute of Australia & New Zealand (2001) and Australian Institute of Management (2002) (now Institute of Managers & Leaders, Australia & New Zealand). In 2016, he became a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (2016)[57]. He has also received letters under seal of the City of Sandringham (1981) and City of Maroondah (2015)[56], and certificates of appreciation from the Cemeteries & Crematoria Association of Victoria (2005)[58], Australian Centre for Grief & Bereavement (2005) and the Rotary Clubs of Monash & Nunawading (2012). A research grant awarded by the Australasian Cemeteries & Crematoria Association in 1998 sponsored national data collection, and a further grant awarded in 2002 sponsored publication of Life after Death: Understanding bereavement and working through grief[10,32].
ASSOCIATIONS
Past Activities Bachelor has served several professional and community organisations in various honorary roles, including: the Australian Institute of Horticulture, holding positions of Victorian President (1989-1991) and National Vice-President (1991-1992); the Environment Institute of Australia & New Zealand, as Victorian Treasurer (1993-1994) and Victorian President (1994-1996)[10]; the Rotary Club of Pascoe Vale, holding several board roles (1996-2000) and participating in overseas aid projects in Papua New Guinea (1995) and Western Samoa (1998); the Cemeteries & Crematoria Association of Victoria as Vice-President (2000-2001), President (2001-2003) and Secretary (2003-2004)[10,58,59]; the Australian Centre for Grief & Bereavement (formerly Centre for Grief Education)[10], as Secretary (2002-2005); the Australasian Cemeteries & Crematoria Association, as a director (2004-2005); and the Rotary Club of Chirnside Park, as President (2008-2009).
Current Activities Bachelor is a mentor and fellow of the Institute of Managers & Leaders Australia & New Zealand[63] and a graduate and fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a life member of the Order of Australia Association and a member of the Royal Society of Victoria. Since 2009, he has supported young people in police custody through Victoria’s Youth Referral and Independent Person Program. Since 2014, he has been an honorary director of Paramedics Australasia[60] and an adjunct lecturer with Charles Sturt University’s School of Environmental Science[61].
REFERENCES
1. www.boxhillcemetery.com.au/ourmanagement
2. Bachelor, P. Ultimate Cemetery Service: Understanding our clients & delivering the goods (2012) 25th annual conference of the Australasian Cemeteries & Crematoria Association Conference, Adelaide, 14-18 October.
3. Bachelor, P. Cemetery Sustainability: Responsibly meeting our long-term obligations (2014) Cemeteries & Crematoria Association of Victoria, Conference, Chirnside Park, 28-29 March; and Cemeteries & Crematoria Association of New South Wales, Conference, Albury, 13-14 November.
4. Daily Liberal, Special day comes for graduates at Charles Sturt uni, p8, 28 May 2001.
5. Charles Sturt University Graduation Ceremony, Doctoral graduates, Dubbo, 23 May 2001.
6. ACCA News, First Cemetery Doctorate, p11, Winter 2001.
7. www.gg.gov.au/queens-birthday-2015-honours-list
8. Maroondah Leader, Cemetery work an easy job to dig, p9, 16 June 2015.
9. Bachelor, P. Fourth Child (2012) Waterdragon, Melbourne.
10. Chambers, D. (2006) Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park, Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park, Melbourne.
11. Bachelor, P. (1991) Cultural acceptability of leisure behaviour in a contemporary memorial park, B.App.Sc. Research Project, Charles Sturt University, Albury.
12. Bachelor, P. (1992) No dancing through the tombstones, Australian Parks & Recreation, Royal Australian Institute of Parks & Recreation, Winter 1992, 42-48.
13. Bachelor, P. Who places the flowers?: A sociocultural review of memorial park visitation (1993) Proceedings of the sixth annual conference of the Australian Cemeteries and Crematoria Association, Melbourne.
14. https://www.smh.com.au/business/small.../cultivating-success-20090619-cqaq.html
15. Box Hill Cemetery (2017) Financial Statements, Shepard Webster & O’Neill, Frankston.
16. Bachelor, P. Survivors discovered: A sociocultural review of major cemetery clientele (1996) Proceedings of the Australian Cemeteries and Crematoria Association and International Cremation Federation, International Conference, Adelaide. Abridged version published in Australian Cemeteries & Crematoria Association News, Summer 1996.
17. Bachelor, P. (1997a) Visitors to Carr Villa Memorial Park, Report to the City of Launceston, Tasmania.
18. Bachelor, P. (1997b) Visitors to Centennial Park, Report to Centennial Park Board, South Australia.
19. Bachelor, P. (1997c) Visitors to Cheltenham Cemetery, Report to Adelaide Cemeteries Authority, South Australia.
20. Bachelor, P. (1997d) Visitors to Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Report to Botany Cemetery and Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park Trust, New South Wales.
21. Bachelor, P. (1997e) Visitors to Karrakatta Cemetery, Report to Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, Western Australia.
22. Bachelor, P. (1997f) Visitors to Keilor Cemetery, Report to City of Brimbank, Victoria.
23. Bachelor, P. (1997g) Visitors to Memorial Park, Altona, Report to Memorial Park Trust, Victoria.
24. Bachelor, P. (1997h) Visitors to Mt. Gravatt Cemetery, Report to City of Brisbane, Queensland.
25. Bachelor, P. (1997i) Visitors to Enfield Memorial Park, Report to Adelaide Cemeteries Authority, South Australia.
26. Bachelor, P. (1998a) Visitors to Fremantle Cemetery, Report to Fremantle Cemetery Trust, Western Australia.
27. Bachelor, P. (1998b) Visitors to Gungahlin Cemetery, Report to ACT Public Cemeteries Authority, Australian Capital Territory.
28. Bachelor, P. (1998c) Visitors to The Necropolis, Springvale, Report to the Necropolis Trust, Victoria.
29. Bachelor, P. (2001) Cemetery Visitation: The place of the cemetery in the grief process, unpublished PhD thesis, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga.
30. https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/.../cemetery-visitation-the-place-of-the-cemetery-in-t...
31. Bachelor, P. Sorrow & Solace: The social world of the cemetery (2004) Baywood, New York. ISBN 0-89503-297-X Search this book on 
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32. Bachelor, P. Life after Death: Understanding bereavement and working through grief (2002) Hill of Content, Melbourne. ISBN 085572 326 2 326 2 Search this book on 
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33. The Age, The pilgrimage & Saying our long goodbye, Today pp.1&3, 7 August 2001.
34. www.themintergroup.com.au › Books & Stationary › Soft Cover Books
35. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philip-Bachelor/e/B001KJ2GUC
36. Bachelor, P. Signature Plants (1981) City of Sandringham, Melbourne. ISBN 0 9596863 3 9 9596863 3 9 Search this book on .
37. Richards, P. Isotopes, Imaging & identity: The history of nuclear medicine in Australia & New Zealand (2013) Australian & New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine.
38. Bachelor, P. Memorial parks: Our popular cultural sites (1998) Australian Parks and Leisure, 1, 2, 35-38.
39. Bachelor, P. Gardens to die for (1999) Australian Horticulture, November.
40. Bachelor, P. Why our clients visit cemeteries (2002) Australasian Cemeteries & Crematoria Association News, Summer, 36-38. (reprinted in ‘Peace of Mind’, Autumn/Winter 2002).
41. Bachelor, P. Cemetery visitation patterns (2003) 'Peace of Mind', Winter 2003, 72-73.
42. Bachelor, P. Difficult creatures: Clients of the cemetery (2004) 'Peace of Mind', Winter 2004, 72-73.
43. Bachelor, P. Contemporary death in Australia (2002) Australasian Cemeteries & Crematoria Association News, Autumn, 8-10 (reprinted in ‘Peace of Mind’, Summer 2003, 72-74).
44. Bachelor, P. Sex of cemetery visitors (2004) 'Peace of Mind', Summer 2004, 72-74.
45. Bachelor, P. Beyond the funeral (2001) Grief matters: The Australian journal of grief and bereavement, 4, 3, 43-46.
46. Bachelor, P. Practical Bereavement (2007) ‘Health Sociology Review’, 16, 5, 405-414.
47. https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1435897631/practical-bereavement
48. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274778811_Practical_bereavement
49. Bachelor, P. Cemetery visitation in Australia (1998) Proceedings of the eleventh Annual Conference of the Australian Cemeteries & Crematoria Association, Alice Springs.
50. Bachelor, P. Impacts of grief and trauma (2004) Australasian Cemeteries & Crematoria Association News, Autumn, 10-12.
51. Bachelor, P. The religions of Australian cemetery clients, (1999) Cemeteries & Crematoria Association of Victoria, Spiritual Diversity Seminar, Melbourne, 14 October.
52. Bachelor, P. Revisiting the cemetery: Obligatory or therapeutic? (1999) Eleventh Biennial National Conference of the National Association for Loss & Grief, Melbourne, 19–22 October.
53. Bachelor, P. Personal values of cemetery visitation (2000) Centre for Grief Education, AGM Seminar, Melbourne, 16 October.
54. Bachelor, P. Making sense of death and life through the cemetery (2004) The London Ontario International Grief and Bereavement Conference, London, 16-19 May.
55. Bachelor, P. What’s the use of cemeteries? (2004) Thirteenth Annual ‘Women in Funeral Service’ Seminar, Melbourne, 20 February.
56. maroondah.infocouncil.biz/Open/2015/06/ORD_22062015_MIN.PDF
57. Out and About (2017), Company Director, 33, 01, 64.
58. Cemeteries & Crematoria Association of Victoria, Celebrating 50 years of Service to Victorian Cemeteries & Crematoria (2015), Cemeteries & Crematoria Association of Victoria, Melbourne.
59. https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/20/1055828492811.html
60. https://www.paramedics.org/board/
61. http://science.csu.edu.au/schools/environmental/staff/adjunct-staff
62. https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-bachelor-47644872/
63. Institute of Managers and Leaders Australia & New Zealand, Something in Common (2018) ‘Leadership Matters’, May 2018, 45.
EXTERNAL LINKS
www.boxhillcemetery.com.au/ourmanagement www.gg.gov.au/queens-birthday-2015-honours-list https://www.paramedics.org/board/ http://science.csu.edu.au/schools/environmental/staff/adjunct-staff https://au.linkedin.com/in/philip-bachelor-47644872 https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/20/1055828492811.html https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philip-Bachelor/e/B001KJ2GUC maroondah.infocouncil.biz/Open/2015/06/ORD_22062015_MIN.PDF www.ccav.org.au/ccav-country-conference/2014-country-conference/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274778811_Practical_bereavement www.dailyliberal.com.au › News › Local News https://www.smh.com.au/business/small.../cultivating-success-20090619-cqaq.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-bachelor-47644872/
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