Stuart Read

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Heritage, Conservation, Landscape Planning @ Workers' Educational Association
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Greater Sydney Area, Australia
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Over 30 years experience in private sector and government (federal, state and local) working in planning, policy and programs on landscape, parks & recreation, horticulture, planning, urban design and in conserving, educating, assessing and managing natural and cultural heritage.In Heritage NSW, part of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), preparing nominations for NSW State Heritage listings and Aboriginal Place declarations, advice on management, grants, education and training for advisers, planners, developers and the community through lectures, talks, seminars, assisting managers, owners and stakeholders. Input into diverse publications.Advice on adaptive reuse, managing change ensuring heritage has an viable, active economic present and future. Key goals are more management experience, research, publication and teaching.Specialties: Landscape heritagegarden historyUrban DesignLandscape PlanningCollaborative workLandscape designHorticulture, Plants & botany

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Workers' Educational Association

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Heritage, Conservation, Landscape Planning
Stuart Read Work Experience Details
  • Australia Icomos National Scientific Committee On Cultural Landscapes And Cultural Routes (Nscclcr)
    Executive Committee Member
    Australia Icomos National Scientific Committee On Cultural Landscapes And Cultural Routes (Nscclcr) Dec 2022 - Present
    Australia
    Helping organise meetings, seminars, tours, presenting / hosting sessions at meetings, coordinating Practice Notes (e.g. on Cultural Landscapes: due for launching 10/2/2023) across Australia ICOMOS colleagues interested in both cultural landscapes and cultural routes.
  • Heritage Nsw
    Senior Heritage Officer, Heritage Operations, South
    Heritage Nsw Jan 2022 - Present
    Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
  • Icomos-Ifla International Scientific Committee On Cultural Landscapes
    Honorary Member
    Icomos-Ifla International Scientific Committee On Cultural Landscapes Sep 2021 - Present
    International
    8/9/2021 I was (thanks, colleagues!) elected an Honorary Member of the ISCCL, for 'his long time contribution to the Committee and even longer time contribution to cultural landscapes and designed landscapes in general; for his enormous knowledge of these topics; and for his work with communities (including the Australian Garden History Society).'
  • Icomos-Ifla International Scientific Committee On Cultural Landscapes
    Expert Contributing Member
    Icomos-Ifla International Scientific Committee On Cultural Landscapes 2008 - Present
    Australia, Singapore, Italy, Korea, Worldwide
    Contributing member to the ISC working on initiatives such as the World Rural Landscapes Initiative; Cultural Landscapes Bibliography; Historic Urban Parks Declaration. I helped organise and run the 10/2014 ICOMOS-IFLA ISC Symposium and meetings, held in Sydney & Canberra, Australia.
  • Dry Stone Walls Association Of Australia (Dswaa)
    Secretary
    Dry Stone Walls Association Of Australia (Dswaa) Feb 2021 - Present
    Minutes of monthly meetings, correspondence in and out, advocacy letters, lodging annual reports and audits with Community Affairs Victoria, administration of Annual General Meetings, handling and referring, as well as answering, public and stakeholder enquiries.
  • Heritage Nsw
    Senior Heritage Officer, Heritage Programs, South
    Heritage Nsw Jan 2022 - Present
    Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
  • Camden Park Preservation Committee
    Member
    Camden Park Preservation Committee Apr 2018 - Present
    Camden Park, South Camden / Menangle
    Set up in the 1980s to advise the Macarthur-Stanham family who own and run Camden Park, a farm from 1805, garden from 1820 and mansion from c1830, still in that same family;s ownership. The property was influential in establishing Australia's fine wool, wine, nursery and other industries. The committee advise, provide support, assist in fund-raising and supervising conservation priority projects to restore and maintain the property's rich built and landscape heritage, while adapting it for the future. With a majority of independent expert representatives, we have seen significant improvement in conservation and interpretation, which the community enjoys at annual open weekends and in special tours. https://www.camdenparkhouse.com.au and www.hortuscamden.com tell you more...
  • Dry Stone Walls Association Of Australia
    Committee Member, Dry Stone Walls Association Of Australia (Dswaa)
    Dry Stone Walls Association Of Australia Sep 2014 - Present
    Australia
    Administration of the Society, assisting in organising field trips, workshops, preparing articles for newsletter, advocacy, education, website updating
  • None
    Independent Scholar
    None Aug 1997 - Present
    Sydney, Australia
    Chipping away at several research interests: Avenues of Honour, War Memorial Avenues, Groves and Lone Pines in Australia and NZ; NZ plants in Australian gardens (& the world); garden designer Paul Sorensen's life, works and legacy; better design for drying climate SE Australia; Place & Identity; Aboriginal names for and uses of plants; Chinese and Japanese style gardens in Australia.
  • Workers' Educational Association
    Student
    Workers' Educational Association 1997 - Present
    Bathurst Street, Sydney
    Active student
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  • Sydney Local Health District, Nsw Health
    Member, Yaralla Parkland Community Consultative Committee
    Sydney Local Health District, Nsw Health Dec 2013 - Present
    Http://Www.Slhd.Nsw.Gov.Au/Yarallaparklands.Html
    Advise the Trustee on compatible future uses, conservation needs and heritage values of Yaralla Parklands, NSW State-Heritage Register-listed rare Victorian/Edwardian rural estate and convalescent hospital landscape in the heart of Sydney, now opening up to the community for wider visitation and enjoyment.
  • Australian Garden History Society
    Co-Chair (With Bronwyn Blake)
    Australian Garden History Society Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
    Sydney, Australia
    With my wonderful colleague Bronwyn Blake, we were elected (in Wellington, NZ at AGHS's first offshore conference) as the Society's Co-Chairs: the first time this role has been shared. We saw broad opportunities in this. It's for a one year term and the National Management Committee will vote again on roles at next year's AGM - in Sydney. We were re-elected and as the National Management Committee has a maximum tenure of 3 years, extendable by another 3 years, both of us stood down at the annual general meeting in Hobart in November 2022. We wish new Chair, Lynne Walker and new Vice-Chair Prue Slatyer well and will continue to mentor, as and when helpful.
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  • Australian Garden History Society
    Elected Nsw Representative, National Management Committee
    Australian Garden History Society Oct 2016 - Nov 2022
    New South Wales, Australia
    Ensuring the ongoing health, vigour and rigour of the Society, through forward planning, advocacy, delivering high quality conferences, events and publications. Encouraging wider public awareness, engagement, membership and the retention of existing members. Fostering projects and collaborations for funding, works, events. Championing oral history project, Garden Recording booklet and the widest net of 'garden history' in all the Society does. Revising the Society's constitution to be fit-for-purpose in 2022. Shepharding the Society's first Strategic Plan and its first Climate Adaptation Policy and Tool Kit, encouraging gardeners to take small positive steps to adapt to changing climatic conditions.
  • Nsw Dept. Of Premier & Cabinet, Community Engagement
    Senior Heritage Operations Officer, Metro South, Heritage Nsw
    Nsw Dept. Of Premier & Cabinet, Community Engagement Dec 2017 - Jan 2022
    Parramatta And Hurstville, Nsw
    New role in a geographically-dispersed team delivering heritage initiatives, programs and services at a regional level for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. I contribute to delivering Listings and Aboriginal Places Programs, work with communities to understand the significance of places, prepare and present reports to the Heritage Council and delegates, contribute to on-site practical conservation programs working with land owners, managers and communities and work with Aboriginal communities and other stakeholders to bring about repatriation of ancestral remains back 'on country'.
  • University Of Sydney
    Guest Lecturer
    University Of Sydney Oct 2007 - Nov 2021
    Camperdown Campus, Nsw
    Lecture/workshop - Recording Landscape & Gardens, Heritage Documentation Methods, ARCH 9076, Master of Heritage Conservation Program, Architecture Faculty, 13/10/2007
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  • International Dendrology Society (Ids)
    Editor, Australian Members' Newsletter
    International Dendrology Society (Ids) 2009 - Apr 2019
    Www.Dendrology.Org (Members Only Section)
    Compile, edit and write for Australian IDS members' newsletter, featuring articles on research, discovery / introduction, cultivation in collections (arboreta, parks, gardens, bush/natural), diseases/management issues, science and beauty of trees and woody plants. Features on Australian members' gatherings, properties, arboreta and more. Posted online to IDS members only.
  • University Of New South Wales
    Guest Lecturer
    University Of New South Wales Sep 2010 - Oct 2018
    Kensington Campus, Sydney
    Heritage Landscapes - overview: assessing, managing change: tools & sources: lectures to Honours & post-graduate students in architecture, landscape architecture, Bachelor of Town Planning, 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014 and intended for spring 2015.
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  • Tafe Nsw- Sydney Institute
    Guest Lecturer, Ryde Tafe School Of Arboriculture And Horticulture, Senior Year Arboriculture Class
    Tafe Nsw- Sydney Institute Oct 2006 - Apr 2018
    Ryde, Sydney, Australia;
    Overview on heritage values of trees - what kind, how to assess, practical issues in heritage approvals - sources of information. Significance definition exercise(s). References. 'Can trees be heritage, and what's it got to do with me?', applying criteria (7) in assessments, preparing statements of significance and conservation policies (not just condition reports), reinstating and replacing aging heritage trees. Conservation management policies to retain, prolong life of and proactively manage significant trees.
  • Office Of Environment And Heritage (Nsw), Heritage Division
    Assessment Officer (Landscape Specialist), State Heritage Assessments Team
    Office Of Environment And Heritage (Nsw), Heritage Division 1997 - Dec 2017
    Parramatta, Sydney
    Advice on managing change to State Heritage Register-listed items and areas, state-significant development projects, grants for works and studies, nominations for future listings, town & landscape planning, urban design and renewal, support to local government & heritage advisers, owners of heritage properties and public education.
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  • Public Sector Association (Union)
    Workplace Psa Union Delegate, Heritage Division, Oeh
    Public Sector Association (Union) 2001 - Oct 2016
    Sydney
    Represent workplace union members to bring concerns and issues to management and the union, mentor and support for members where needed, organize and run member meetings, attend portfolio union delegates' meetings, attend and advocate for members at union and management Joint Consultative Committees.
  • Australian Garden History Society
    Chair, Sydney & Northern Nsw Branch
    Australian Garden History Society 2006 - Aug 2016
    Sydney And Nsw
    Organised or facilitated talks, walks, seminars, funding projects, wrote branch reports to National Management Committee, represented NSW matters nationally, guided and oversaw advocacy and education activities. Gave talks, ran walks for branch events. Ran and mentored branch committee and Northern NSW sub-branch committee. Funded conservation projects, publications, exhibitions, Oral History recordings.
  • Australian Garden History Society
    Ex-Elected Nsw Representative, National Management Committee
    Australian Garden History Society 2009 - 2015
    Around Australia
    Advice, guiding publications, studies, national conference and tour planning, website and other publications direction and content, grant funding research, publications, events and other projects (two of my personal projects are publications on Avenues of Honour/Memorial Avenues and progressing Oral Histories of notable people for Australian garden history, landscape design and the environmental movement),
  • Independent Scholars Association Of Australia
    Author; Mc At Event
    Independent Scholars Association Of Australia 2012 - 2015
    Sydney
    Independent author
  • 20Th Century Heritage Society Of Nsw
    Ex-Committee Member
    20Th Century Heritage Society Of Nsw 2006 - 2013
    Sydney And Around Nsw
    Organised tours (Mudgee, 2012)(Goulburn (co-organised, 2013), guided walks, wrote articles for newsletter, planned and helped deliver Society projects and advocacy, helped revise Society's constitution.
  • University Of Technology, Sydney
    Guest Lecturer
    University Of Technology, Sydney Mar 2010 - Apr 2010
    Ultimo Campus, Nsw
    Lecture on Heritage Landscapes - overview, assessing and managing change, tools & sources - to Heritage & Conservation Course, for Property Developers, Post-Graduate Property Course
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  • Walter Burley Griffin Society (Australia)
    Ex-Committee Member
    Walter Burley Griffin Society (Australia) 2004 - 2010
    Sydney
    Organised, contributed to events (tours, talks, walks) of the Society; assisted with advocacy and education issues, wrote/co-wrote/edited parts of the Society's website.
  • International Specialised Skills Institute
    Pratt Foundation Overseas Fellow
    International Specialised Skills Institute Apr 2004 - May 2005
    Eastern, Central And Southern Spain, Majorca
    I travelled Spain interviewing heritage place managers about change to write a report with lessons for Australia. Questions included: who makes it, how are decisions on change taken, are the public involved and how?. How are new works done in old parks/ gardens, beside/near heritage sites? What impacts does mass tourism have on such sites and how are these managed?How is water and scarcity of it managed? What about plant species and fabric? Are there lessons for Australia in water-scarce and variable climatic times. My report is below - also downloadable off ISSI's website www.issinstitute.org.au.
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  • Parks & Gardens Classification Committee, National Trust Of Australia (Nsw)
    Ex-Committee Member
    Parks & Gardens Classification Committee, National Trust Of Australia (Nsw) 1997 - 2002
    Sydney And Around Nsw
    advised on classifications and management of parks and gardens by the National Trust, co-authored a publication on 'Interwar Gardens - a guide...', advised owners, Trust, Regional branches and site managers on better management of parks and gardens around NSW.
  • Federal Environment Department
    Administrative Officer, World Heritage Unit
    Federal Environment Department 1994 - 1997
    Canberra But Work Was National In Scope
    management plans for and nominations of World Heritage Areas including Sydney Opera House, subantarctic islands
  • Australian Heritage Commission (Former)
    Historic Environment Officer
    Australian Heritage Commission (Former) 1991 - 1997
    Canberra But Work Was National In Scope
    Liaison and negotiation with private owners, public agencies, governments at all levels re heritage places. Assessing, advising on listings, management of listed items Australia-wide and grants. Input into grants for projects and into publications.
  • Federal Department Of The Environment, Sport & Territories
    Administrative Service Officer, Biodiversity Section, Nature Conservation Branch
    Federal Department Of The Environment, Sport & Territories 1992 - 1993
    Canberra But Work Was National In Scope
    reseaching and co-drafting the National Biodiversity Strategy, secretariat work, writing/editing/publishing newsletters, stakeholder liaison and promotion.

Stuart Read Skills

Landscape Architecture Urban Design Policy Research Cultural Heritage Sustainability Landscape Design Conservation Issues Environmental Awareness Government Historic Preservation Public Speaking Urban Planning Community Engagement Sustainable Development Strategic Planning Environmental Planning Horticulture Garden Sustainable Architecture Land Use Planning Sustainable Design Stakeholder Engagement Writing History Editing Environmental Impact Assessment Local Government Project Planning Parks Photography Urban Regeneration Garden Design Community Development Teaching Gardening Comprehensive Planning Plant Identification Art History Architectural History Architecture Arboriculture Cultural Relations Landscape History Environmental Policy Collaborative Working Government Liaison Planning Government Relations Report Writing

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Stuart Read works for Workers' Educational Association

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Stuart Read's current role is Heritage, Conservation, Landscape Planning.

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Stuart Read attended Lincoln University (Nz), Lincoln University (Nz).

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Stuart Read has interest in Social Services, Writing, Landscapes, Landscape/architectural Design, Landscape, Civil Rights And Social Action, Politics, Education, Environment, Economic And Horticultural Botany.

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Stuart Read has skills like Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Policy, Research, Cultural Heritage, Sustainability, Landscape Design, Conservation Issues, Environmental Awareness, Government, Historic Preservation, Public Speaking.

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