Michelle Evans is a PHD Scholar and a Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Social Impact Leadership Centre at the Melbourne Business School. Michelle is concentrating her research on Indigenous Leadership and will be developing an Indigenous Business Masterclass Series in 2012. Michelle holds a Bachelor in Communications (Theatre/Media), a Graduate Diploma in Arts Management and a Master of Creative Arts (Research) – with her thesis concentrating on long term investment and evaluation in community cultural development – Community Cultural Development: A Policy for Social Change? Michelle is an internationally accredited Partnership Broker by the Overseas Development Institute/International Business Leader Forum. Michelle was the founding Head of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the Victorian College of the Arts. Michelle comes from the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. Over the past fifteen years, she has worked across the arts and cultural sector, being instrumental in the establishment of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Network, Ngorekah Aboriginal Theatre, 3KND and the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development.
Indigenous Leadership in the Arts
Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Knowing: A case study of teaching Indigenous Arts Management, Forum on Indigenous Learning and Teaching (2009)
Bibididen Wilin: 'sparking' a fire, World Indigenous Peoples Conference: Education (2008)
The Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the Faculty of the Victorian...
Fan their flames: a collaborative model for information delivery to Indigenous students at the Victorian College of the Arts Library, University of Melbourne (with Georgina Binns) (2008)
In 2006, a new postgraduate course in Indigenous Arts Management was offered by the Wilin...
Growing Indigenous Arts Leadership (2008)
The arts inspire and express the many cultures and societies of the world. They reflect...
Indigenous Performing Arts
The Courage to Speak Out, Courageous Conversations (2010)
The Wilin Centre’s Courageous Conversations National Talking circle was held in April 2009, and its...
Review of Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre by MaryRose Casey (2005)
Casey has written this collection of stories/memories using a critical framework of contested social memory....
Partnership Brokering
Talking the Walk: A communication manual for Partnership Practitioners (2008)
Genuine partnership engagement requires clearly identifying those who may be marginalised or excluded. This identification...
Community cultural development
Community Cultural Development - A Policy for social change?, Unpublished Masters thesis (2003)
This thesis explores the area of Community Cultural Development (CCD) through a longitudinal Case Study....