Background
Helen Klaebe is Head of Postgraduate Studies (Coursework) in QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty.
Her PhD examined new approaches to participatory public history using multi-art form storytelling strategies, including oral history and digital storytelling. Her Master of Arts (research) project included producing an oral history collection for Outward Bound Australia (OBA) — recording its challenges and achievements over the past 50 years.
Klaebe’s particular strengths lie in
- organising, working, training and talking with communities and industry
- identifying synergies
- initiating and managing partnerships.
She has used these skills for an array of project management and community undertakings during the last twenty years, most recently as the social historian/curator of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village Sharing Stories and the Mill Albion history projects. She is the author of
- Onward Bound: the first 50 years of Outward Bound Australia (2005)
- Sharing Stories: a social history of Kelvin Grove (2006).
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Helen Klaebe.
