Staff profile:Dr Lynda Kelly
- Position title:
- A/Head Visitor Programs and Services
- Branch:
- Visitor Programs & Services
- Division:
- Public Programs & Operations
- Phone:
- +612 9320 6413
- Email:
- Contact Lynda Kelly using the form below
Profile
I am the Head of Audience Research at the Australian Museum, Sydney. I have published widely in museum evaluation and write the Audience Research in museums blog with a readership of around 500 per month. I am particularly interested in visitor experiences and learning and how these can be measured, young children's learning, Indigenous evaluation, as well as the strategic uses of audience research and new technologies in organisational change. I am happily obsessed with all things Web 2.0 and curious to see how this will change the world that museums operate within and the ways people learn. In 2007 I completed my PhD in museum learning, and now that's finished I am looking forward to the adventures the new web world will bring.
For the next 6 months (to March 2010) I will be Acting Head of Visitor Programs and Services managing a great team of people who deliver visitor programs and services to a wide range of audiences.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Technology, Sydney
- Graduate Diploma in Employee Relations, University of Western Sydney
- Bachelor of Arts, Psychology Major, Macquarie University
Professional Memberships
Member, Peer Advisory Committee, Family Learning in Interactive Galleries IMLS National leadership Grant (2008-2010)
Board Member ICOM CECA (2004-current)
Board Member, ICOM Australia (2005-current)
Assessor, Australian Research Council (current)
Member Editorial Board, Journal of Audience and Visitor Research, University of Salford, U.K. (current)
Member Editorial Board, Journal of Visitor Studies, Visitor Studies Association (current)
Advisory Committee Member: ARC Special Project Partnerships in Humanities Research: An Evaluation of Collaborative Projects with Cultural Institutions, University of Western Sydney (2002-2004)
Steering Committee Member: Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre on Visitor Accessibility in Urban Tourism Environments.
Vice President and Board Member, Evaluation and Visitor Research Special Interest Group, Museums Australia Inc (1998-2003)
Board Member, Museums Australia NSW (1996-1999)
Member:
o Australasian Evaluation Society
o Australian Association of Educational Research
o International Council of Museums (ICOM)
o Museums Australia
o Visitor Studies Association
Research Projects
- Exhibitions as Contested Sites
- Engaging with Social Media in Museums
- Identity-based personalised mobile content
- New Literacy, New Audiences
Pages
- Musing on learning seminar 1999
- Tracking and Observation Studies
- Audience Research Online Resources
- Making a difference: what have we learned about visitor learning?
- The schools audience
- Why Learning? Seminar 2002
- Audience Research Unit Publications
- Controversy in museums: reading list
- Controversy in museums: a timeline
- Audience Research Reading List
- Student Projects and Placements
- How do I conduct a focus group?
- Australian Museum Evaluation Reports
- Making Winny
- COP15: the UN Conference on Climate Change
- Measuring the impact of museums
Facebook page
http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=736749318#/home.php?ref=homeFlickr photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amarclk/Contact form
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