Lee-Ann Monk is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (Industry) in the History Program at La Trobe University, where she is researching the history of Kew Cottages (Kew Residential Services) as part of an interdisciplinary research team funded by an ARC-Linkage Grant with the Victorian Department of Human Services. Lee-Ann is writing a book on the history of Kew Cottages from its beginnings as the first specialised institution for people with intellectual disability in Australia to its imminent closure. This research relates to the work she undertook for her PhD, which focused on the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century asylum attendants, their work and identity. The book based on that research, Attending Madness: A History of Work in the Victorian Asylum, will be published by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UK.