ANU School of History PhD candidate, Kimberly Doyle is the recipient of a $7000 History Research Grant awarded annually by the Australian Army History Unit. 

Her research project Chasing Rainbows? Australian Peacekeepers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands and East Timor was selected from a highly competitive field of research proposals and was recognised by the funding panel for its contribution toward the historical understanding the "on the ground" peacekeeping.

The funding will assist Doyle as she embarks on an oral history project which will involve a series of interviews being conducted around Australia with over sixty peacekeepers who were deployed to the Pacific region between 1997 and 2006.

Doyle's project explores what it means to "keep the peace" in the peacekeeping operations that took place in East Timor, Bougainville and Solomon Islands during this period. The oral histories secured during the project will form a valuable public archive in their own right after the completion of the project.

The Australian Army History Unit is responsible for developing policy and programs for the collection, conservation, interpretation and promotion of the Australian Army's history.