2019 CLIENT PROJECTS
Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM):
- Audience Research Gap Analysis – Desk research, staff interviews/workshops to determine reporting requirements
- Front-end evaluation , South Gallery – focus groups and workshops
- Art Pathways Plus Program Evaluation – Research with teacher, students and artist participants about Art Pathways Plus 2019 program; prepare combined report for three years program
- Strategic Planning and develop MOU, West Wallsend Historical Society (two museums)
- User testing, Permanent Galleries (front-end evaluation)
National Parks and Wildlife Service (NSW):
- Working under the direction of MayvinGlobal, undertake market sounding and stakeholder analysis for Hill End Historic Site
Northern Territory Major Events Corporation (NTMEC):
- Working in partnership with IER Customer Research, evaluating ten major NT Festivals focussing on social and cultural impacts on both Territorians and non-Territorians using combination of surveys, telephone interviews and online focus groups
Questacon – the National Science and Technology Centre:
- Program and Impact evaluation – desk research; workshops with staff to identify and develop program impact measures and logic tool to evaluate a range of outreach programs with students and teachers
2018 CLIENT PROJECTS
Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM):
- Audience Research Training– undertake staff training in how to best conduct surveys and tracking / observation studies on a tight budget, including using Survey Monkey
- Front-end evaluation , Bligh exhibition – focus groups and workshops
- Art Pathways Plus Program Evaluation – Research with teacher, students and artist participants about Art Pathways Plus 2018 program
Association of Australian Convention Bureaux:
- Working under the direction of MayvinGlobal, develop and analyse industry survey to inform future planning
Barangaroo Development Corporation:
- Developing the Indigenous Education Program – research with teachers, market scan / competitor analysis, curriculum review / program updates, tourism analysis, training and development work with visitor guides
- Working with Mayvin Global and Helen Wheeler Consulting
- Working with Environmetrics undertake research into exhibition venues across the GLAM industry, and compile a set of different programming ideas (beyond an exhibition) for a concept around the bible
Exploratorium (San Francisco):
- Evaluation of COMPASS conference on Mobile Position Awareness Systems and Solutions
- Heritage Collection Auditand Strengths
- Key Heritage Engagement and Interpretation Recommendations
Museums and Galleries of the Northern Territory (MAGNT):
- Review current audience research reports and prepare summary report addressing exhibition visitors and general audiences
- Produce Excel template to produce future data summaries to enable comparisons across data sets more easily
- Research different types of audience segmentation and recommend a way forward for MAGNT
- Assist with Strategic Planning and Audience Research implementation working with Brocade Studio
- Facilitate staff workshop around developing focus exhibitions, write report and recommendations
Northern Territory Major Events Corporation (NTMEC):
- Working in partnership with IER Customer Research, evaluating four major NT Festivalsfocussing on social and cultural impacts on both Territorians and non-Territorians using combination of surveys, telephone interviews and online focus groups
Public Works Advisory Department, Hunter Region:
- Desk research / prepare professional reports around audiences and collections for a number of Aboriginal / Indigenous organisations
Questacon – the National Science and Technology Centre:
- Transformative Learning (TL) in STEM – desk research; workshops with staff to identify TL indicators for visitors
- Co-creation – desk research; workshop with staff in how to co-design with audiences; identify suitable projects for testing process
- Feasibility Study, Visitor Snapshot and Sector Census for NSW heritage rail operators and rail / bus / tram museums, working with Environmetrics
2017 CLIENT PROJECTS
Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM):
- Audience Research Summary – meta-analysis of 45 audience research studies conducted 2014-2016 for the Director to obtain an overall picture of ANMM audiences
- Volunteer Research – survey of volunteers; data collection and analysis; report writing and recommendations
- Brand Research Management – manage procurement process; work with contractors on focus group recruitment and discussion guide; organise and attend fieldwork; undertake focus groups with ANMM Members; debrief creative agencies; analysis and final reporting, including making vox-pop films
- Exhibition Topic Testing – focus groups to test out five exhibition concepts with range of audiences
- Teacher Research – desk research; focus groups with teachers; analysis and reporting
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS):
- Public Program Strategy – document review; staff interviews and workshops; audience research (focus groups Canberra and Parramatta); write strategy – present to Executive
Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD):
- Transformative Learning (TL) – desk research; workshops with staff to identify TL indicators for visitors and what a “call to action” looks like
- Teacher Research – what teachers want from a visit to MoAD (either onsite or digital; survey of teachers Australia-wide to test out programs ideas; workshop to identify TL indicators for students
- Audience Research – develop concept for an “Ideas Room”; onsite visitor research to develop segmentation
Questacon – the National Science and Technology Centre:
- Transformative Learning (TL) in STEM – desk research; workshops with staff to identify TL indicators for visitors
- Co-creation – desk research; workshop with staff in how to co-design with audiences; identify suitable projects for testing process
- Art Pathways Plus Program Evaluation – Research with teachers and students about responses to the Art Pathways Plus program 2017-2018
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