Liz Gillroy has over 30 years’ experience working in museums, community history and regional outreach.
She worked with the Department of Social History curatorial staff in the development of the Powerhouse Museum after graduation from the University of Sydney. Liz was then appointed as one of the state’s first regionally based Museum Curators at the Newcastle Regional Museum in the development of a new museum. This was followed by a relocation to Port Macquarie, where she worked with ten volunteer-managed local museums and historical societies to create a working group which developed distributed exhibitions, improved collection documentation, and published thematic histories using the local collections. After returning to Sydney, she was appointed Project Officer for both Beyond 1914, the prize-winning World War I biographical website, and an associated national project Expert Nation: Universities, War and 1920s & 30s Australia.
Most recently, Liz has been working with the University of Sydney Archives identifying and recording World War II service people who studied at the University. In 2021, she commended a 3-year Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded project, which will identify and document university students across Australia who were funded under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme (CRTS).
Please join us this month to hear about Beyond 1914, Expert Nation, as well as Liz’s current work with the ARC project.
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