Email:

lauren@storymanagement.org

Contact:

STORY MANAGEMENT,

A.B.N. 22 644 343 627

Telephone: 0421 957 118 

Availability:

Part-time

Please email lauren@storymanagement.org for availability.

Member Status:

Professional Historian

Academic Qualifications:

Bachelor of International Studies (Hons) (History); Graduate Diploma of Library and Information Management; Bachelor of Arts, with English Literature major and Economics minor

Membership of Related Societies:

Australian Society of Archivists, History Council of South Australia, South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society, Professional Historians of Australia (SA).

Professional Experience:

At Story Management we help businesses and individuals care for and share their information.

Lauren is a professional historian and archivist, with a specialist knowledge of the less dusty and boring of archives (but often dirtier and smellier) – including motoring, food, and wine history.

In order to share your story it needs to be cared for: stored appropriately to limit damage and ensure future preservation, listed so you know what precious stories you hold, sorted so you know where to find and return things, and finally it needs to be shared in an engaging and meaningful way. 

Clients include the Royal Automobile Association of South Australia, Adelaide Central Market, Motor Trade Association of SA/NT, Mitsubishi Motors Australia, TREENET Avenues of Honour, Australian National Motor Museum, Kay Brothers Amery Winery, and the South Australian Country Women’s Association. 

Skills and Services Offered:

  • project development and management
  • historical research and writing
  • gather and create content for websites, social media, and marketing purposes
  • exhibitions
  • Reports including Significance Assessments, Preservation Needs Assessments, Collection Development Policies and Training Manuals
  • staff and volunteer training
  • creation and maintenance of historical collection databases, digital asset management systems (DAM), and catalogues
  • library standard indexing and cataloguing
  • archival standard preservation methods for the correct storage and display of collections
  • preparation and presentation of events about history, historical collections, and information management and access 

Research Interests:

Archival advice, curatorial advice, displays, editing, exhibitions, local history, organisation history, wine industry history, automotive industry history, motoring history, sports history, preservation advice, social media, heritage surveys/studies, indexing, multimedia, project design, project management, proof-reading, public speaking, publicity, records management, research, site surveys, writing, business history, genealogy, Significance Assessments, Preservation Needs Assessments, Collection Development Policies.

Specialist Areas:

Archival advice, Business history, Automotive Industry history, Curatorial Advice, Exhibitions, Genealogy, Heritage studies, Indexing, Multimedia, Social Media, Preservation Needs Assessments, Project management, Proof-reading, Publicity, Records management, Research, Significance Assessments, Sports history, Teaching, Wine industry