Catherine Love, PTW

The Last Mile

Sponsorship allows people to explore outside the boundaries of a traditional career trajectory. Catherine examines alternative approaches to sponsorship that can have a positive impact, especially for women in part-time roles. In analysing these approaches, she talks about the importance of open and honest communication between the sponsor and sponsee.
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Catherine Love is a Director, Sector Lead Hospitality of PTW. Her expertise in a diverse range of building types from hospitality, mixed use including high rise residential and retail; social housing, educational and health is well recognised. Appointed a PTW Director of the Sydney and Ho Chi Minh office in 2016 and Sector Lead Hospitality, Catherine was previously Design Director of the Shanghai office and Deputy General Director for Vietnam.

Catherine regularly contributes to industry forums such as Women in Construction and Design (WIDAC), Design Inn, Australia Build Week Online and has participated as a tutor, lecturer and guest critic in a range of architectural education courses at UNSW and other Sydney universities and TAFE programmes.
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The Last Mile is an initiative of the Sponsorship Action Group of the Champions of Change Architecture Group. BVN, nettletontribe, Bates Smart, PTW and Woods Bagot were all involved.
Interviews were conducted by Brian Clohessy, Isabella Aliberti, Tia Soulakellis and Sam de Jongh and are published in collaboration with Parlour.