Summary
Catherine Styles is a communications and engagement generalist with 10 years’ experience designing dialogue, digital experiences and governance-focused communications across cultural institutions and Indigenous organisations. Trained as a spatial thinker and researcher with a PhD in cultural studies and museum education, she blends storytelling, UX-minded digital design and editorial rigour to make complex systems legible and actionable. Her praxis-led work at Sembl emphasises relational thinking and the “spaces in-between,” a perspective she applies to projects from national museums to Aboriginal housing governance. Catherine has led digital programs, built learning games and guided web strategy while embedding culturally appropriate communications for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Currently at METIO and with recent leadership roles at AHNT, she moves fluently between strategy, hands-on production and stakeholder engagement. An unusual strength is her ability to translate archival and institutional knowledge into practical digital tools and engaging public narratives.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University