Jonathan Sweet is a lecturer in the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies programs at Deakin University, Melbourne. He is an art and design historian and museologist, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, London. He has worked in public programs at museums including the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery. He has a long-standing interest in art gallery interpretation issues and was a presenter at Sites of Communication 1. Currently he is an investigator on two Australian Research Council funded projects, one of which is focused on issues of cross-cultural heritage interpretation in China and Australia. In 2004 he was Chair of the Museums Australia National Conference Program Committee.

Jonathan Sweet is the chairing the panel session Do audience expectations influence exhibition practice?