Research interests
Affiliations
Institute of Australian Geographers
Higher Education Research Group - Deakin University
Museums Australia
Units taught
AIM736 Museums, Heritage and Society, AIM735 Leadership in Museums and Heritage Organisations
Conferences
Professional activities
I have been involved in numerous committees that relate to cultural heritage issues, including: the Historic Shipwrecks Advisory Committee (a Statutory Committee reporting to the Victorian Heritage Council) 2007-2008; Australian Register of Historic Vessels Steering Committee, 2007-8; Victorian Cultural Tourism Forum Committee Member, 2007-8; Elected President Australian Maritime Museum Council, 2006-8; Elected Secretary Maritime Museum of Victoria Board of Management, 2005-7.
I am currently Course Director of the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies programs here at Deakin and also act as a reviewer for the Faculty of Arts and Education's Human Ethics Advisory
Committee.
I have recently been appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Winchester in the UK, attached to the Centre for Applied Archaeology and Heritage Management (CAAHM)
Publications
S Cooke
(2018), Vol. 24, pp. 445-465, Holocaust studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Using the historic urban landscape to reimagine Ballarat : the local context
K Buckley, S Cooke, S Fayad
(2016), pp. 93-113, Urban heritage, development and sustainability : international frameworks, national and local governance, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Affect and the politics of testimony in Holocaust museums
S Cooke, D Frieze
(2016), pp. 75-92, Heritage, affect and emotion: Politics, practices and infrastructures., Abingdon, Eng., B1
Visitor, contributor and conversationalist: multiple digital identities of the heritage citizen
S Cooke, H Lewi, W Smith, A Murray
(2016), Vol. 28, pp. 12-24, Historic environment, Carlton, Vic., C1
The Sweetland Project. Remembering Gallipoli in the Shire of Nunawading
S Cooke
(2015), Melbourne, Vic., A1
The interior of our memories: a history of Melbourne's Jewish holocaust centre
S Cooke, D Frieze
(2015), Ormond, Vic., A1
Imagination, performance and affect: a critical pedagogy of the Holocaust?
S Cooke, D Frieze
(2015), Vol. 21, pp. 157-171, Holocaust studies. a journal of culture and history, Middlesex, Eng., C1
'On the move'? Maritime heritage and urban redevelopment in Melbourne
S Cooke
(2015), Vol. 27, pp. 24-35, Historic environment, Melbourne, Vic., C1
On an ordinary suburban street: a brief history of Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre
S Cooke, D Frieze
(2015), Vol. 22, pp. 548-568, Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, [Australia], C1-1
Community museums and the creation of a 'sense of place': Holocaust Museums in Australia
S Cooke, A Alba, D Frieze
(2014), Vol. 9, pp. 1-1, reCollections, Canberra, ACT, C1
'Its still in your body': identity, place and performance in Holocaust testimonies
S Cooke, D Frieze
(2014), pp. 181-195, Travel and imagination, Surrey, England, B1
The National Museum of Scotland : a symbol for a new Scotland?
F McLean, S Cooke
(2003), Vol. 45, Scottish affairs, Edinburgh, Scotland, C1-1
Our common inheritance? : narratives of self and other in the Museum of Scotland
S Cooke, F McLean
(2002), pp. 109-122, Celtic geographies : old culture, new times, London, England, B1-1
Tales from the Riverbank: place-marketing and maritime heritages
D Atkinson, S Cooke, D Spooner
(2002), Vol. 8, pp. 25-40, International journal of heritage studies, London, England, C1-1
S Cooke, F McLean
(2002), Vol. 118, pp. 283-298, Scottish geographical journal, Oxon, England, C1-1
Your story too? The new Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum
S Cooke
(2001), pp. 590-606, Remembering for the future : the Holocaust in an age of genocides, New York, N.Y., B1-1
S Cooke, L Jenkins
(2001), Vol. 33, pp. 382-390, Area, London, England, C1-1
Communicating national identity : visitor perceptions of the Museum of Scotland
S Cooke, F McLean
(2000), pp. 147-160, Heritage and museums : shaping national identity : papers presented at The Robert Gordon University Heritage Convention 1999, Shaftesbury, England, B1-1
Negotiating memory and identity : the Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial, London
S Cooke
(2000), Vol. 26, pp. 449-465, Journal of historical geography, London, England, C1-1
Conceptualising private and public national identities : the case of the Museum of Scotland
S Cooke, F McLean
(1999), pp. 361-365, European advances in consumer research : Bridging the Atlantic, Jouy-en-Josas, France, B1-1
Beth Shalom : rethinking history and memory
S Cooke
(1999), Vol. 8, pp. 21-41, Journal of holocaust education, London, England, C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Citizen Heritage: Digital and Community-based Histories of Place - University of Melbourne
A/Prof Hannah Lewi, Dr Wally Smith, Prof Tom Kvan, Dr David Nichols, Dr Steven Cooke, Dr Dirk vom Lehn
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2015: $4,000
- 2014: $4,000
Other Public Sector Funding
City of Ballarat's Historic Urban Landscape
Ms Kristal Buckley, Dr Steven Cooke
- 2014: $5,000
- 2013: $9,000
Industry and Other Funding
Box Hill and the Centenary of the Gallipoli Landings
Dr Steven Cooke
- 2015: $13,000
- 2014: $13,000
- 2013: $18,580
Centenary of Box Hill RSL project
Dr Steven Cooke
- 2018: $24,250
- 2017: $15,750
- 2016: $15,000
Supervisions
Lorinda Cramer
Thesis entitled: Needlework and genteel identity in gold rush Victoria
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences