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Dr Catherine Cole has taught and co-ordinated a number of writing subjects at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Sydney, New South Wales, and has supervised post graduate writing students. Dr Cole has also been on the Committee of Management of the Australian Society of Authors. She conducted research in Paris, while a recipient of the Keesing Studio, Cite Internationale des Arts, and in Hanoi, as a recipient of a residential Asialink Centre Fellowship (2001). She has also engaged in a number of research projects in the areas of contemporary Aboriginal writing and Australia's literary connections with Vietnam. In 2009, Cole was Chair of Creative Writing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT).

Two of Coles's unpublished novels were commended for awards for manuscripts - 'For Reasons of Their Own' commended in the Angus and Robertson Literary Award (1994) and 'Sleep' commended in the Jim Hamilton Manuscript Award (1996). Cole has published poetry, short fiction, crime novels and non-fiction examinations of crime writing.

(Source: University of Technology Sydney website, http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/oth/newwriting/people/committees.html)