Experience

Park Trek Walking Holidays

• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Trek Guide

  • Mar 2021 - Present



University of Tasmania

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sessional lecturer & Tutor

  • Jul 2021 - Dec 2021

  Lecturing and tutoring students of Creative Writing Lecturing and tutoring students of Creative Writing



Aurora Expeditions

• Australia
• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Dec 1998 - Apr 2020

  Leading adventure tourism voyages to the Antarctic, Svalbard, East Greenland, Alaska, Scotland, Norway coast, PNG and remote natural regions of the world.

• • Feb 2019 - Jun 2019

• • Feb 2018 - Feb 2019

• • Apr 2010 - Jul 2015

  Writer and editor of Aurora Expeditions' regular newsletters to passengers and expedition teams.

• • Dec 1998 - Sep 2001

  My initial onboard role was as ship's bartender and Zodiac driver, learning all I could from team members, crew and passengers. This tremendous start proved to be an invaluable apprenticeship that held me in good stead when I moved into the role of Assistant Expedition Leader and polar guide.



Tasmanian Writers' Centre

• Hobart

• Writing Tutor: A Novel Journey 2016

  • Mar 2016 - Oct 2016



University of Tasmania

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sessional Lecturer & Tutor

  • Jul 2015 - Jun 2016

  Lecturing and workshopping in creative writing Lecturing and workshopping in creative writing



Tasmanian Writers' Centre

• Hobart

• Tutor: The Novel Journey 2015

  • Mar 2015 - May 2015

  http://www.tasmanianwriters.org/workshops http://www.tasmanianwriters.org/workshops



Edith Cowan University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Arts)

  • Oct 2011 - Oct 2014

  Research interests: Writing literary fiction and new adult fiction; Antarctic pioneers (Heroic Era of Exploration), natural history, photography and art. Research interests: Writing literary fiction and new adult fiction; Antarctic pioneers (Heroic Era of Exploration), natural history, photography and art.