She is a former curator with a background in history and cultural studies. Her research interests range across interpretation issues in both heritage sites and museums.Since her first book, Re-Imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum (Routledge, 2003), Andrea has become known for her work on contemporary approaches to interactivity in the museum context. More recently, she has been working on a history of the National Trust of Australia (WA). On the museum front she is increasingly interested in how museums are responding to the policy imperatives formed around discourses of social cohesion.