Carol McKirdy - Oral HistorianCarol has excellent experience and expertise with oral history.
Practicing Oral History with Immigrant Narrators, published by Left Coast Press / Routledge, 2015 TAFE NSW Sydney Institute Oral History Project Sudanese People in the Sutherland Shire - A Moving Community TAFE NSW Sydney Institute 120 years Imagine Project The Benevolent Society 200 Years Anniversary Celebration Edmondson Park South Oral History Project - oral historian contracted through Cintel. Australian Golf Heritage Society Oral History Project, 2013-2016 Gib Gate 60 years young Oral History Project Chinese Life Stories of the Sutherland Shire Oral History Project, 2014-2015 Latin American Life Stories of the Sutherland Shire Oral History Project, 2015-2016 Egyptian Life Stories of the Sutherland Shire Oral History Project, 2016-2017 Freelance oral histories and life stories Coordinator Soundbites event for the History Council NSW History Week -2011 (Eat History), 2012 (Threads) Oral History NSW Australia member and former committee member Member of national working party developing oral history curriculum for the vocational training sector Presented papers on oral history at international conferences in Glasgow, Scotland (2009), Launceston (2009), Sydney (2010), Melbourne (2011), Montreal, Canada (2012), selected for the International Oral History Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012, Tampa Florida, USA Oral History Annual Meeting, 2015, Melbourne, 2016, Wollongong 2016. SHELLHARBOUR CITY LIBRARIES - Heritage Festival Event 2013 Growing your Family Tree Orange City Council - Villages of the Heart Oral History Project - Trainer, 2013-2014 Westfield Premier's History scholarship recipient (2008) to study oral history practice in the United Kingdom Creator and manager of an educational oral history wiki website incorporating curriculum materials for Primary, Secondary and TAFE students and the community. |
Dr Mark McKirdy - WriterMark has a Doctorate of Creative Arts in Writing and has published widely including:
Rare Species Truths My Tutor Never Told Me, Bantam Books Newsmakers, Ashton Scholastic Two Sides to Everything, Macmillan Write Time, Jacaranda Press The Bulletin - feature articles, poetry Sunday Telegraph / Family Circle - travel articles Press Releases for organisations including the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau and FRATADD, NSW Various online travel magazines Mark's doctoral thesis on Australian History was entitled: The Secret Journal of Captain Cook (1994). Mark's latest book- Lost and Profound: The rejected Book Reviews by Famous People (available through Amazon.com.)
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