About Katy

Katy Kirby is a historian, librarian, and digital innovator.

Interested in digital humanities, sports history, social history, GLAM sector innovations, information management, and user experience.

Experienced in delivering productive outcomes in P-12 schools, tertiary education, and local councils.

Mildly obsessed with Microsoft 365.

Qualifications

Currently studying

PhD in sports history, University of the Sunshine Coast

High-performance sport in regional Queensland, 1970-2020: a prosopographical analysis of drivers

Completed

Master of Information Technology, QUT

Graduate Diploma Library & Information Studies, QUT

Bachelor of Arts, UQ

Current Experience

Historian in Residence, Sunshine Coast Council

Research Assistant, UQ and USC

Undergraduate history tutor, USC

HIS100 History of Australian Popular Culture: The twentieth century and beyond
HIS200 Heritage: Australian and Global Contexts
HIS201 The uses and abuses of history
HIS240 Nationalism and Identity in the 20th Century

Previous Experience

Various GLAM, information technology, and information management roles at Board Member, Director, and Manager level, including:

Platform Engineer (Microsoft 356), Griffith University

Director of Information Services, St Andrews Anglican College

Project Manager Executive Projects, USC

Board Director, ALIA

Publications

English, P., Kean, B., Pearce, S, Peters, T., Kirby, K. & Calder, A. (2020) ‘Masters of your fate and the captains of your soul’: media representations of the 2018 Invictus Games, Sport in Society.

English, P., Calder, A., Pearce, S. & Kirby, K. (2019) A new sporting horizon: a content analysis of Super Netball newspaper coverage, Media International Australia, 171(1), 110-124.

Conference Presentations

Kirby, K. (2021) Prosopography and Australian history: uncovering social histories and microstoria. Australian Historical Association Conference, Online.

Clarke, A. & Kirby, K. (2019) The modern heraldry of Australian school sports houses: understanding national historical narratives on a local scale. Australian Historical Association Conference, Toowoomba.

Kirby, K. & Turley, J. (2018) Supporting Queensland Screenagers make the leap to University: moving from Year 12 to first year university research. APLIC Conference, Gold Coast.

Kirby, K. (2018) Digital Thinking in Libraries: more than just tech! APLIC Conference, Gold Coast.

Kirby, K. & Chapman, R. (2017) Integrating user experience in digital and physical library architecture. AIS ICT Conference, Canberra.

Kirby, K. & Harper, C. (2017) Managing Projects Hub: combining project management, intranets, and UX. StepTwo Intranets Conference, Sydney.

Memberships

The Australian Historical Association (AHA)

The Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH)