DrSteven Cooke

Australian Museums and Galleries Association

Museums Association (UK)

Australia ICOMOS

Vice Chancellors Award Outstanding Contribution to Global Experiences for the development of a new Dual Award Postgraduate Degree Program with Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany (team award) 2016

Commendation for outstanding non-fiction publication on Victorian History in the 2016 Victorian Community History Awards for "The Interior of our Memories": a history of Melbournes Jewish Holocaust Centre (Melbourne, Hybrid)

Commendation for outstanding work or project on the impact of World War One on Victoria or Victorians in the 2015 Victorian Community History Awards for The Sweetland Project: Remembering Gallipoli in the Shire of Nunawading (Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing)

Recent Conference Presentations

Somehow the ill winds of war have been favourable to me: travel, training, and trauma in the life and works of Louis Kahan, Imaging EmigrationTranslating Exile: Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror in/via Austria, Vienna, April 2019 (with Anna Hirsh)

Understanding emotional engagement: using visual research methodologies for visitor research Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Hangzhou, China, September 2018 (with Kristal Buckley)

Crossing Geographical and Professional Boundaries: Temporary Holocaust Exhibitions, Jewish Emigre Designers and new Museum Topologies, Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Hangzhou, China, September 2018

Understanding engagement: using visual research methodologies for visitor research, Museums Galleries Australia Annual Conference, June 2018

Invited speaker Jewish Emigres Conference, Victorian and Albert Museum, London, November 2017

Before Eichmann: Holocaust Exhibitions and the Myth of Silence- Department Seminar, University of Brighton, June 2017

Invited speaker The social agency of museums in civic engagement: investigating the impact of education programs at Holocaust Museums Reverberations: the Holocaust, Human Rights and the Museum, Sydney February 2017 (with Donna-Lee Frieze)

Cultural Tourism Victoria (Board Member) 2015 - 2019

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - member of the Australian delegation and member of the Memorial and Museums Expert Working Group. https://www.holocaustremembrance.com

I have been involved in numerous committees that relate to cultural heritage issues, including: the Historic Shipwrecks Advisory Committee (a Statutory Committee reporting to the Victorian Heritage Council) 2007-2008; Australian Register of Historic Vessels Steering Committee, 2007-8; Victorian Cultural Tourism Forum Committee Member, 2007-8; Elected President Australian Maritime Museum Council, 2006-8; Elected Secretary Maritime Museum of Victoria Board of Management, 2005-7.