Email:
Contact:
37a Kyle Street,
Glenside SA 5065
ABN 12 732 128 018
Telephone (08) 8338 1209
Mobile 0439 872 116
Availability:
Full-time
Member Status:
Professional Historian
Academic Qualifications:
BA (Hons), Dip. Ed
Membership of Related Societies:
Museums Australia
Professional Experience:
20 years’ experience working with community history groups as a staff member of the History Trust of South Australia; six years’ experience as a freelance historical and museum consultant. Skills and services offered Research; writing; editing; oral history; exhibition planning and installation; scripting and editing for multimedia; museums collections management and significance assessments; museum reviews and feasibility studies.
Skills and Services Offered:
Research; writing; editing; oral history; exhibition planning and installation; scripting and editing for multimedia; museums collections management and significance assessments; museum reviews and feasibility studies.
Publications / Reports:
Interpretation plans for museums or visitor centres at Woomera, Mount Lofty Summit, Head of Bight, Kalgoorlie War Museum; Midland Railway Workshops (Perth); feasibility studies or museum reviews for cities of Norwood, Payneham St Peters and Charles Sturt, and museums at Burra and Penneshaw; significance assessments for collections at the SA Folk Federation, Mount Lofty & Districts Historical Society and Willunga Courthouse Museum; Publications: Museums in South Australia Directory; Collecting South Australian History; articles in History Trust magazines, and in compilations such as the Wakefield Companion to South Australian History.
Research Interests:
Aboriginal studies; Australian studies; Biography; Cultural tourism; Environment; Heritage studies; House history; Industrial history; Material culture; Pastoralism; South Australian studies.
Specialist Areas:
Aboriginal studies, Australian studies, Biography, Cultural tourism, Editing, Environment, Exhibitions, Heritage studies, House history, industrial history, Material culture, Multimedia, Museum reviews, Oral history, Pastoralism, Research, South Australian studies, Writing