Practitioners Register
Oral History Western Australia (OHWA) members can apply for inclusion in our Practitioners Register. The register is provided for the information of those interested in engaging an oral history practitioner. OHWA does not, however, endorse individual practitioners.
Please note: OHWA recommends that those who use the register seek appropriate independent, professional advice before relying on or entering into any commitment based on material published here. The information on the register is based on that supplied by the practitioners and is purely for reference purposes.
Transcriber
KOPSEN, Margot
Address: 16A Maude Street, East Victoria Park WA 6151
Contact: 0477 005 268
Email: margot.dunner@gmail.com
Expertise: Transcribing
Qualifications: AHCILM404 Record and document community history, Goolarri Media Enterprises 2018; Bachelor of Arts (Librarianship and Corporate Information Management), Curtin University 2012.
Experience: Assisted with Oral History project at City of South Perth, recording and transcribing.
Special Interest: Local, community and family oral history; women’s oral history and LGBTQI+ oral history
Researcher, interviewer and transcriber
BALDWIN, Janet
Address: PO Box 131, Kalamunda WA 6926
Mobile: 0419 912 127
Email: oralhistorianjb@gmail.com
Expertise: Researcher, Interviewer and Transcriber
Qualifications: Bachelor of Social Science (History and Anthropology); First Class Honours (History); PhD (History) 2017; CELTA; Diploma of Project Management; Certificate in Oral History.
Experience: Oral History collection during PhD; Academic Lecturing; private/memoirs using Oral Histories; Oral History several community projects; Oral History of Perth Observatory and publication of three books, pertaining to the Observatory; Oral History workshop facilitator.
Special Interest: Medieval History; contemporary spiritual practices and histories; communities; workplaces; personal memories and histories.
CARGEEG, Leonard (Len)
Address: 3628 Beacon Bencubbin Road, Bencubbin WA 6477
Contact: 08 9685 1274
Email: len.cargeeg@bigpond.com
Expertise: Interviewing and Research
Qualifications: Diploma of Building and Construction; Statement of Attainment: Record and Document Community History; Basic Oral History, Doug Ayre, State Library recording oral history
Experience: Interview for Oral Histories in Mount Marshall’ Wyalkatchem, Kununoppin and Mukinbudin.
Special Interest: Farming, Early Wheatbeat history and Military history
PATTISON, Cate
Address: 38 Boreham Street, Cottesloe WA 6011
Mobile: 0401 525 960
Email: catepattisonresearch@gmail.com
Expertise: Interviewing, Researching and Transcribing
Qualifications: BA (Hons) Communications and Cultural Studies; Diploma ED (secondary English and Humanities).
Experience: Had a career in media in the UK (BBC). Has worked for the Grove Library producing oral histories since 2014. Is also currently working at UWA as a researcher and is currently developing a doctoral topic in Geography and Oral History.
Published Work: Published social Histories for North Cottesloe Primary School, Richmond Wellbeing and Casson Homes.
Special Interest: Cultural history, mental health, industrial heritage, geography and planning.
References: A full resume with up to date references can be provided upon request.
Rate Charged: Research, interviewing and transcribing is negotiable.
PRESTON, Naomi
Mobile: 0434 005 644
Email: naomi.preston@research.uwa.edu.au
Expertise: Interviewing, Researching and Transcribing
Qualifications, experience, Special interest: BA (Hons) History with English, University of South Australia, MRes History (Early Modern Medicine and Women’s Writing), PhD Candidature (current) Memorialisation and Interpretation of the WA Legacies of British Slavery, University of Western Australia.
Interests include memory, museums, national identity, incarceration, slavery, forced labour, punishment, history of mental illness, gender and women’s history.
Experience in research, interviewing and transcription as part of my PhD research, for which I have interviewed museum and heritage employees, artists, researchers and government employees. As an intern at Fremantle Prison I have transcribed interviews with ex-prisoners and prison employees. Whilst employed as a research assistant in Impact, I carried out transcription of interviews with government employees and refugees, and of group refugee ESOL classes. I also carried out oral history interviews with women of various ages regarding their life growing up in the South Wales valleys as a researcher for an independent theatre company.
WALLIS, Julia K.
27 Shenton Road,
CLAREMONT WA 6010
Home/Work: 9384 6767
Email: juliakay@highway1.com.au
Expertise: Interviewing, Research, Transcribing
Occupation: Historian (Research, Writing, Oral History Interviewing & Transcribing)
Qualifications: Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Heritage Studies, Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Curtin University of Technology (2002).
BA Hons (Major in History), University of Western Australia (2000).
Over 13 years’ experience in oral history projects. Over 20 years’ secretarial experience.
References: A full resume with up to date references can be provided upon request.
Rate Charged: As per OHAA(WA) and PHA(WA) Guidelines (all Rates are negotiable)
Practitioners Register – Request Form
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