Cath Styles

Current

Online projects officer at National Museum of Australia

Past

Managing Editor, Websites at National Archives of Australia
Web Editor at National Archives of Australia
Print & Web Services Manager at Adult Learning Australia

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Education

Australian National University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Cath

Connections

34 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

My Website

Cath Styles’s Summary

Cath Styles’s Specialties:

digital media, visual thinking, analysis, synthesis, cultural theory, Freirean pedagogy, writing, editing (structural and copy-editing), staying calm in a crisis, being happy

Cath Styles’s Experience

Online projects officer

National Museum of Australia

(Government Agency; Museums and Institutions industry)

November 2009 — Present (5 months)
Managing Editor, Websites

National Archives of Australia

(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

August 2006 — October 2009 (3 years 3 months)
Web Editor

National Archives of Australia

(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

April 2002 — August 2006 (4 years 5 months)
Print & Web Services Manager

Adult Learning Australia

(Publishing industry)

1999 — April 2002 (3 years )

Cath Styles’s Education

Australian National University

PhD , cultural studies, museum education, adult education, history , 1994 — 1999

My thesis was a reading of the Australian War Memorial in a Freirean framework – as a site for informal learning.

Now that Web 2.0 has become mainstream, the idea of a participatory museum – where the teacher-museum is co-intent on learning with the student-visitor – makes much more sense. There are still organisational cultural barriers to co-creation in most museums, but audience expectations will force the change. Bring it on!

Activities and Societies:

I made my first websites in 1997.