Assoc. Prof. Helen Klaebe
Dr Helen Klaebe is Head of Postgraduate Coursework Studies at the Creative Industries Faculty, QUT, which encompasses Animation; Interactive & Visual Design; Creative Advertising; Creative Partnerships; Creative Writing; Creative Production & Arts Management; Dance; Music & Sound; Journalism; and Professional Communication.
Dr Klaebe is also a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage grant, Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future: Embedding Narrative and New Media in Urban Planning (LP0882274). This work develops on from her PhD that examined new approaches to participatory public history using multi art form storytelling strategies to engage the community with their local history. Her public history work pioneered new development methods towards the application of using digital storytelling in community history projects, as part of a socially sustainable approach to urban development. Public history projects include:
Her other contributions to research are in the areas of IP, copyright and ethical considerations regarding public participation and multiple stakeholders and blending traditional and social history together, building on her reputation for implementing creative ways of writing popular historical non-fiction for organizations and collaborative partnerships between tertiary institutions and industry.
Dr Klaebe regularly consults as a public historian, particularly focusing on engaging communities, and regularly designs and manages co-creative media workshops for a range of commercial and public sector organisations. She is also the author of: Onward Bound: the first 50 years of Outward Bound Australia (2005); Sharing Stories: a social history of Kelvin Grove (2006), as well as co-authoring with Dr Jean Burgess two recent reports for the State Library of Queensland: Oral History and Digital Storytelling Review (2007), and Family History Centre Report (2008).
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