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Lynda Kelly

Jo Darbyshire and Mat Trinca worked together on The Gay Museum, an exhibition held at the Western Australian Museum from January 22 - May 30, 2003.

Lynda Kelly ( lyndak@austmus.gov.au ) is the Head of the Australian Museum Audience Research Centre (AMARC), and has worked in a variety of roles in the Museum since 1987. Lynda has extensive experience in planning and conducting quantitative and qualitative research for a variety of purposes. Lynda is particularly interested in Indigenous evaluation, visitor experiences and learning, young children's learning and how these can be measured, as well as the strategic uses of evaluation and visitor research in organisational change.

Lynda is a founding member of the Evaluation and Visitor Research Special Interest Group of Museums Australia, and served on the board of Museums Australia, NSW. As well she was on the advisory committee for the Partnerships in Humanities Research: An Evaluation of Collaborative Projects with Cultural Institution project (University of Western Sydney) and the editorial board of The Journal of Audience and Visitor Research, University of Sanford, UK. Lynda is currently completing a Ph.D on how adults describe learning through the University of Technology Sydney.

Papers in the omj:

» Museums as Sources of Information and Learning:
The Decision Making Process