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Resume, awards and
memberships
Qualifications
- B.Sc. (Hons.)
- University
of Melbourne, Australia
- M.Sc. - University
of Melbourne, Australia
- Cert.
Zookeeping - Box Hill College of
Technical and Further Education, Melbourne, Australia
- Short
courses on Writing Children's Picture Books (2008, Victoria
University), Writing for Children
(2006), Writing (general) (2003), First Aid for Children (2006) and
Customer Service (1998)
Employment
History
Now a
freelance writer, I have previously been employed as a
Zookeeper, Consultant
Lecturer and Conservation
Biologist.
Awards/Memberships
- Member
of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Vic.) Inc., the
Society
of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the Copyright Agency
Limited.
- Former member
of local city council’s Environmental Reference Group, and the
Australasian Society of Zookeepers.
- Shortlisted
for the D. J. (Dinny) O’Hearn Memorial Writer’s
Fellowship in 2000.
- Grants
received:
the Australasian Society of Zookeepers Conservation Grant
(1996), the
Postgraduate Student Award (Zoology) (1991), a
Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award (1989 - 1991) and the Margaret
Catto Scholarship for Zoology (1989).
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