History@Work's credentials

History@Work has spent many years exploring myriad forms of history telling with an eye to quality and enrichment:

  • Commissioned histories
  • Medical and scientific history
  • Oral history
  • Exhibition text
  • Short entries for historical encyclopaedias and guides
  • Book reviews
  • Workshops for community groups and for professional historians
  • Significance assessments of historical collections
  • Primary and tertiary level history education
  • Researching public records and private archives
  • Working individually & in collaboration
  • Memoirs, personal and family
  • Managing large history projects
  • Magazine and journal articles
  • History walks, plaques and interpretations
  • Expert witness reports on heritage buildings

Awards:

  • Inaugural Australia ICOMOS Victorian Scholarship, 2008
  • Collingwood Plaques Project team member – the project won Best Collaborative/Community Project in the 2008 Victorian Community History Awards

Community Work:

When possible I donate my time to voluntary and community groups for small or time wealthy projects. A recent example is a five year history project with students at my local primary school.

Memberships:

  • Professional Historians Association (Vic)
  • Oral History Association of Australia
  • Heritage Council of Victoria, alternate historian member
  • Intangible and Moveable Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee, Heritage Council of Victoria, Chair
  • Circa, Professional Historians Association (Vic) Journal, Editorial Board