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Queensland Heritage Register Fellowship
About the Fellowship
The Queensland Heritage Register is a list of places that have state cultural heritage significance. Entry in the Queensland Heritage Register means a place is of importance to the people of Queensland and enriches our understanding of the state’s history.The register includes diverse sites representing many aspects of the state’s history, such as buildings, parks, gardens, recreational venues, sporting arenas, landscapes, precincts, monuments, memorials, cemeteries, homestead complexes, industrial sites, institutions, bridges, roads, lighthouses, natural features, and trees.
The Queensland Heritage Register Fellowship supports research using the John Oxley Library and State Library collections to generate new knowledge about the lesser-known sites listed on the Queensland Heritage Register, to inform Queensland’s recorded history.
The fellowship recipient will receive a $20,000 stipend, a shared workspace in the Neil Roberts Research Lounge, and special access to State Library’s extensive collections and expert staff.
The Queensland Heritage Register Fellowship is generously supported by the Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation.
2025 Queensland Register Fellow
The 2025 Queensland Heritage Register Fellowship was awarded to Dr Kate Kirby for her project, 'Patterns of Queensland’s sport and recreation heritage: enhancing community access to sport history knowledge via the Queensland Heritage Register'.
This project aims to enhance how Queensland’s sport and recreation heritage is presented in Queensland Heritage Register entries. Heritage links past sporting achievements with today’s social and cultural values, and the Register highlights places of notable sporting importance. However, metadata gaps and inconsistencies in historical and significance statements currently limit community access to Queensland’s sport heritage.
Based on prior research, Kate has identified 76 entries in the Queensland Heritage Register with potential sport and recreation heritage value. This project will investigate these sites, uncovering their sporting histories and deepening their heritage significance. It will also analyse metadata challenges and provide recommendations for improvement, ultimately enhancing community engagement with Queensland’s rich sport heritage.
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2025 Queensland Heritage Register Fellow Dr Kate Kirby.
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