Deborah Tranter has been the Director of the Cobb+Co Museum in Toowoomba since 1987 and currently is also the Director of the Queensland Museum’s Regional Services Program. She has spent all her working life in regional Queensland involved in museums, education and learning, tourism, regional development and community capacity building. In 2000, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her services to cultural heritage and cultural tourism in regional Queensland. Her work in developing a methodology for assessing how visitors and non-visitors value museums is part of her PhD research.
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