Kate Oakley

Lisa Andersen managed research and legacy projects with the Creative Industries Innovation Centre from 2014 to 2015. She has worked in a variety of creative industry roles, managing the Empty Spaces Project that reimagines empty spaces for creative uses, and as senior researcher on the five-year Australian Research Council-funded CAMRA Project: Cultural Asset Mapping in Regional Australia. Lisa managed the NSW audience development program with Regional Arts NSW and the Australia Council, was marketing and sponsorship manager for the first ever Paralympic Arts Festival (as part of her work for the Sydney 2000 Olympics), and worked as a marketing consultant with the Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company. Her publications include All Culture is Local (UTS ePress, 2013, with Margaret Malone) and Making Meaning, Making Money: directions for arts and cultural industries in The Creative Age (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, with Kate Oakley). In 2014 Lisa was awarded a National Citation for her contribution to student learning for work over many years with University of Technology, Sydney's community program, UTS Shopfront.