Dr Tamsin  KERR

780 Belli Creek Rd

Cooroy QLD 4563

(07) 5447 7746 h

0419 489227 mob

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www.cooroorainstitute.org

SKILLS SUMMARY

·      Strong strategic planning, liaison, policy, procedures coordination, consultation skills

·      Excellent and engaging written and verbal communication

·      Multi-disciplinary research approach

·      Extensive environmental policy, cultural development, community planning experience

·      Senior advice, workshops and consultancies in creativity, design, art, environment, culture

·      Outcome focused management using interdisciplinary and democratic processes

·      Enthusiastic practical and intellectual teaching and training skills

QUALIFICATIONS

PhD Griffith University 2006

“Conversations with the bunyip: The idea of the wild in imagining, planning, and celebrating place through metaphor, memoir, mythology, and memory” May 2001 – Aug 2006

‘A brave and inspired thesis that takes on a very large topic, and manages to bring it to life and provide some challenging, insightful, and ‘wild’ ways forward’ and ‘A passionate and engaging account… A brave and original contribution to the country.’ Examiners’ comments, Nov 2006

BSc Honours First class 1999

Community consultation and urban planning Griffith University July 1998 - June 1999

BSc (AES) Griffith University 1989

Political Economy and the Environment; Environment and Science Policy Studies

PUBLICATIONS 2000 – present Refereed publications marked with *

Journals and Magazines

Kerr, Tamsin Dec 2008 “Pamela Kouwenhoven: Dryland” in Eyeline contemporary visual arts #67: 68

Kerr, Tamsin Oct 2008 “If I say I love my place, what’s with the bags I’ve packed? The cultural changes required by landscape memoir and eco-regionalism” Art Monthly Australia #214: 5-8

*Kerr, Tamsin 2007 “Wild thing: you make our art sing! Reconciling Culture, Reinhabiting Nature” in International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations v6

*Kerr, Tamsin 2006 “Who speaks land stories? Inexpert voicings of place” in Limina A journal of Historical and Cultural studies, Vol 12, May: 40-51

*Kerr, Tamsin 2004 “As if Bunyips mattered… Cross-cultural mythopoetic beasts in Australian subaltern planning” in Elizabeth Hartrick et al (eds) new talents write/ up  (Journal of Australian Studies 80) Australian Research Institute and University of Queensland Press: 14-27

Books and chapters

Kerr, Tamsin 2008 Introductory essay ‘Landscape memoir of a fine furniture artisan’ in Kerr and Annels, The Contemporary Design of Ross Annels, Cooroora Institute Press, Queensland.

*Kerr, Tamsin 2003 Community Cultural Development frameworks QCAN Brisbane

*Kerr, Tamsin 2002 “The woman who planted souls” in Songs of Unsung Heroes: Stories and Verse Celebrating Australian Women and their Work Queensland Council of Unions: 110-113

*Kerr, Tamsin 2001 “Social Impact Assessment in the Australian Capital Territory” in Dale, Taylor, & Lane (eds) Social Assessment in Natural Resource Management Institutions CSIRO publications, Melbourne: 165-175

Conference and seminar papers

*'Peaceful space: sound, place, and the environment' in Creative Conservation 3, University of Queensland, September 2008

*‘If I say I love my place, what’s with the bags I’ve packed?’ ANU Symposium on Climate Change and the Crisis of Reason, June 2008.

*“Landscape’s dreaming the wild. Living Country and methodologies of Place Thinking; from poetry to madness and back again” Two Fires Braidwood, NSW March 2007

*Key speaker “The wilder memory of a bunyip” Putting Memory in Place Bloomington, Indiana USA Feb 2007

*”A Place for the Wild: Reconciling Culture and Reinhabiting Nature” Transformations Conference, ANU Canberra November 2006

General rapporteur, closing forum, Creative Conservation (Environment, Culture & Community 2) University of Queensland November 2005

*“Pan place, Coyote space, and Bunyip country: planning for wild-ness and ecological imagination in the creative city” ISOCARP Congress Bilbao, Spain Oct 2005

*“Bunyip festivals: ways to track and celebrate the non-human in our cities and regions” National Museum of Australia July 2005

*“1842, subaltern studies, and the bunyip” Thesis presentation to Environmental History Group, Australian National University October 2004

*“Who speaks land stories? Inexpert voicings of place” Memory and History Symposium, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas Griffith University August 2003

*“As if bunyips mattered…” Inter-Cultural Studies Conference University of Newcastle June 2002

Newspapers

Kerr, Tamsin, Oct 2008 “Art and Environment” opinion piece in G Magazine

*Kerr, Tamsin Mar 2008 “Val Plumwood: an inspirational life” Canberra Times

Kerr, Tamsin June 2005 "Devour Dva" (music review of Linsey Pollack) Sunshine Coast Daily

Kerr, Tamsin Oct 2003 “Hats off to the Council and the Community: the Cooroy Arbor is our future” (Arts, Research and Business on futures for forests) Cooroy Rag

Kerr, Tamsin Jan 2001 “I came, I saw, I partied” (! review of Woodford Folk Festival’s community cultural development) in BAM (Books, Art, Music) section, Courier Mail

Kerr, Tamsin Sept 2000 “My view” (contemporary furniture exhibition) in BAM, Courier Mail