Steven Cooke (Steve)

Trainer | Deakin University, Australia

Steve Cooke is an Associate Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. Before joining Deakin he worked for 10 years in the heritage sector in Melbourne – including senior leadership positions at some of Australia’s most significant heritage places such as the Melbourne Maritime Museum – home of Polly Woodside, and the Shrine of Remembrance. He ran an Australia Awards Fellowship program in 2015-16 on ‘Capacity Building in the Indonesian Museum Sector’ and was fortunate enough to work with Indonesian colleagues and visit some of their museums. His teaching and research interests include thinking about new ways of telling difficult histories in museums.