Nicola Brackertz

BA, PgradDip Arts, MA (Melb)

Nicola worked on the Community Consultation and the Hard to Reach: Local government, social profiling and civic infrastructure project. This three year collaborative research project looked at the issues faced by local governments when trying to engage hard to reach communities. The Cities of Boroondara, Darebin, Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Moreland, Nillumbik, Port Phillip and Whittlesea, as well as the Victorian Local Governance Association (VLGA) were partners in the research, which also received funding from the ARC.

Nicola continued to be the primary researcher on the Logometrix initiative. Logometrix provides performance indicators and benchmarking for Local Government Authorities in Australia and New Zealand, focusing especially on the service performance of community facilities. If you wish to find out more about the project, please visit the website at www.logometrix.net.

Nicola is also interested in the history of circus, which she teaches at the National Institute for Circus Arts on Swinburne’s Prahran campus.

Publications in the Swinburne Research Bank

Previous publications

Brackertz, N., "The Battle for Colonial Circus Supremacy: John Bull, Uncle Sam and their 'Chariots of Fire'", Australasian Drama Studies, no. 35, October 1999, pp 145-154

Brackertz, N., "Britain vs. America in the 'Greatest Open Air Fete Ever Presented to the Australian Public'" or "British and American Influences on the Emergence of the Circus in Australia", M. Crotty and D. Scobie (eds), Raiding Clio's Closet: Postgraduate Presentations in History 1997, Melbourne University History Conference Series, Department of History, The University of Melbourne, 1997, pp 130-141

Email: nbrackertz@swin.edu.au