45A Whitewood Drive
Upper Sturt SA  5156
ABN 34 749 477 485
Telephone: mobile 0427 618 484
Website www.wallacecosgrove.com.au

Availability

Part-time

Member status

Professional Historian

Academic qualifications/status

BA (ANU), Grad Dip Applied Science–Cultural Heritage Management (University of Canberra).

Membership of related societies

National Trust of South Australia; Historical Society of South Australia; Mount Lofty Districts Historical Society.

Professional experience

Heritage consultant/historian for 11 years, including 6 years with the ACT National Trust; preparation of site assessments, conservation management plans, heritage studies, a heritage survey, historical material for the internet; tutoring Aboriginal students; conducting oral histories; preparing heritage tour brochures.

Skills and services offered

Historical research and writing; analysis and assessment of heritage significance; oral history; photographic research; project design; editing and proof-reading; text for tour brochures.

Brief list of publications

Challenging Times: National Trust of South Australia, 1955-2005 (co-author); Twentieth Century Heritage Survey of SA, Stage 1: (1946-1959) Overview History; Kangaroo Island Heritage Survey; Prospect Heritage Review; articles for Heritage in Trust, the National Trust of Australia (ACT) magazine; Heritage Tour brochures of Hall Village and Barton, ACT; History and ‘Macks Southwell’ sites for the Cultural Map of the ACT on the internet: <http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13919/20020125/www.culturalmap.act.gov.au/index.html>

Tharwa (ACT) Heritage Survey; Pisé Places in the ACT (heritage study); Duntroon Dairy (ACT) Conservation Plan, and Interpretation Plan; Bass Gardens (ACT) Conservation Plan; Glenburn, Kowen (ACT) Conservation Plan; Ginninderra Blacksmith’s Workshop (ACT) Conservation Plan; ‘Canberra: A City Born of Federation’ travelling exhibition.

Research interests

Architecture; Australian studies; Conservation; Environment; Heritage studies; Pastoralism; Political history; South Australian studies.

Tags: Architecture, Australian studies, Conservation, Editing, Environment, Heritage studies, Oral history, Pastoralism, Photographical research, Political history, Project design, Proofreading, Research, South Australian studies, Tour guides/brochures, Writing