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Scenic Spectrums Pty Ltd

Register of Cultural Heritage Management Training Providers

Training provided

Non-accredited training delivered
Principles of cultural heritage management (Burra Charter basics) Management planning - process & key steps Developing conservation and management strategies Site recording and documentation Recording oral history Mapping skills and techniques	Setting up consultations about heritage with appropriate stakeholders Identifying management issues
Other: refer to areas listed under experience below.

Trainers

Mr Williamson is a non-Indigenous trainer.

Qualifications

Mr Williamson's relevant qualifications and experience:

• Senior Fellow in the Landscape Architecture Program, School of Design, University of Melbourne lecturer 2002-2006
• lecturer / guest lecturer at various universities in Australia and in P. R. China since 1977
• experience in various aspects of cultural heritage, including:
  • tourism planning, assessment, development and management, including product development and visitor market analysis and assessment
  • landscape assessment, management and protection (especially protected areas)
  • interpretation assessment, planning and design, including interpretive trail planning and design and visitor facility feasibility assessment and concept design

Training experience

Dennis Williamson has been involved in shared learning and training workshops and consultative meetings with Indigenous people located in Victoria, Queensland, Western Australian and minority nationality (Indigenous) people in P. R. China since the late 1980s. This has involved working with a range of Indigenous communities in Australia.

In addition, Dennis met and worked with Indigenous people in China while working on the South China Karst World Heritage Area during 2007. Only a small part of this involved formal lectures or training, however the two-way knowledge transfer led to excellent results in all cases, with Indigenous people being empowered and facilitated in their ability to assess, map, analyse, interpret, share, protect, develop and management their cultural heritage, often within the context of protected areas. In a number of cases, this work has identified the potential for Indigenous cultural tourism products or enterprises and capability building in the areas of tourism, interpretation and land/tourism management. Dennis respects and works well with Indigenous people. He would like to create better opportunities to pass on knowledge and skills to Indigenous people, and is able to develop specialised topics in his area of expertise.

Recent experience

Scenic Spectrums Pty Ltd has not delivered cultural heritage management training to an Indigenous group within the last 12 months (valid at October 2011).