Supervisors
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Architecture and Design |
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Eugenie Bell |
Primary research interests are in the history, theory and practice of architecture, decorative arts and design in Australia, the USA, Europe and Japan. |
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Elivio Bonollo |
Professor Elivio Bonollo PhD (Melb), CPEng MIE Aust, CEng MIET (London), Emeritus Professor (Industrial Design), is a registered researcher and PhD supervisor. Areas of research include design education and practice with reference to the industrial, graphic and engineering design professions, including industry-based product development projects. He is a member of the Space, Place and Object Research Cluster in the Faculty of Arts and Design. |
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Stephen Frith
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He also has supervised dissertations in the history and theory of urbanism.’ |
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Bill Green |
Research interests are predominantly human centred design and design history and theory. Major themes have included Inclusive Design and Applied Ergonomics. Books and publications have focussed on these areas. Current research supervision includes ergonomics futures, knowledge transfer from simulation to the real world, affective design and sustainable regional manufacturing. |
| Gevork Hartoonian Architecture |
My current research focuses on contemporary architectural history/theory, and the notion of modernity in Australian architecture. |
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Scott Heyes
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My research interests are in the following areas of landscape studies and cultural geography: Indigenous people and national parks/protected areas; Indigenous, cultural and heritage landscapes and seascapes; storytelling spaces; landscape/environmental perception; the poetics of coastal settings; landscape stories; Indigenous mapping and navigation/way-finding; mythical landscapes of Indigenous peoples; the spatial dynamics and lifestyle adaptations which result from the design and planning of remote indigenous communities. If you are interested in undertaking a Masters by Research Project or a PhD Project under my supervision, then please write to me at: scott.heyes@canberra.edu.au. Please see my website for further details of my research. https://sites.google.com/site/scottheyeswebsite/ |
| Michael Jasper Architecture |
Current research in architecture is structured around three poles: the art of city design; formal analysis, with an emphasis on problems and devices of composition in mid twentieth century architecture and on the diagonal in particular; modernist thought, and the evolution of the modernist project in relation to the historiography of Renaissance architecture. Recent studio or seminar topics: A 21st century Australian National Capital; an Urban Structure Plan for the Chinese City of Chángchun; Analyzing the Houses of Mies van der Rohe. |
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Carlos Montana Hoyos Industrial Design |
Research interests in multidisciplinary approaches to Design, mainly in the areas of Industrial Design (ID); Ecodesign; Design for Sustainability; Design, Handcrafts & Cultural Identity; Biomimicry & Bio-Inspired Design; Design Management; Innovation & Creativity; Strategic Design; Design Thinking and History of Industrial Design. |
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Andrew MacKenzie |
Research interests include (sub)urban landscape planning and regulation, landscape design and project management and landscape architecture practice. |
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Creative Writing and Media Research |
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Belle Alderman |
Dr Belle Alderman AM is an Emeritus Professor of Children's Literature. Interests include children's & young adult literature, especially Australian, publishing for young people, young adult novels, picture books and genre based literature for young people. |
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Stephen Barrass |
Physical computing, Tangible interfaces, Data sonification, Sociable objects and Wearable media. |
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Greg Battye |
Current funded research is on the use, meaning and understanding of visual imagery, including interactive visual information, in courts and other legal settings. More generally, my research interests centre on narrative interpretations of meaningful but seemingly non-narrative texts such as photographs, and on cognitive aspects of narrative theory in all narrative forms. |
| Scott Brook Creative Writing |
Cultural policy studies (inc. creative labour, cultural planning and cultural indicators), the Australian literary field, Pierre Bourdieu, governmentality studies, modern discourses on creativity (with a focus on the history of creative writing and post-War US ‘creative management’ literature); Vietnamese Australian cultural production. |
| Sandra Burr Creative Writing |
My creative writing interests include essays, short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and young adult fiction. I am also concerned with reviewing and creative practice research methods. Ongoing projects include interrogations of human-animal relations with particular a focus on horses and on visual representations of animals. |
| Peter Copeman Creative Writing |
Research interests encompass screenwriting and playwriting, as well as developmental dramaturgy and script editing. Particular focus areas in playwriting include community-specific, cross-cultural and location-specific theatre (such as museum performance). |
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Tony Eaton |
Currently working in the area of Childrens, Young Adult, and Crossover Fiction, both in creative practice and theoretical research. Website: http://www.anthonyeaton.com |
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Paul Hetherington |
My research interests include creativity, poetry and life writing. I am also interested in how visual artists understand and write about their creative practice. |
| Geoff Hinchcliffe Media Arts and Graphic Design |
My research centres around the practice and theory of interface aesthetics, with particular interest in poetic modes of digital communication. |
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Sam Hinton |
Assessment and feedback in creative arts; computer and video games; Australian games industry; Internet and network histories; and, critical approaches to emerging entertainment technologies. |
| Paul Magee Poetry, psychoanalytic and Marxist theory |
My current major project is the relation between poetry and knowledge. This draws in perspectives from Marxism, psychoanalysis, the philosophy of knowledge, and the philosophy and history of aesthetics. I publish regularly in political theory and cultural studies as well. I am also involved in placing poems in storey-high lettering on the sides of buildings. |
| Felicity Packard | My research interests currently involve the nexus between creativity, research and process and the contested issue of “true” stories and how their “truth” is understood by the writer and the audience or reader. |
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Ana Sanchez Laws |
I am interested in the intersection between analysis and design, between theory and practice, and how these are both fundamental tools to enhance our understanding of social life. I work primarily with museum design and digital heritage, within a Participatory Design / Communication Design framework. Areas of research and practice: New Media (Social Media and Emerging Online Audiovisual Forms), Museums, Multi-touch Technologies, Mobile Technologies, Interaction Design, Ubiquitous Computing. More information, publications and projects at http://www.analaws.com |
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Lisa Scharoun |
My research focus is on global graphic design strategy, emotions and value sets in visual communications and global concepts of utopia in contemporary graphic design strategy. |
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Jennifer Webb |
My current research includes a project on contemporary war art; another on post September 11 novels and human rights issues; and a third (with Jordan Williams) on embodiment. My creative writing focuses on prose fiction and poetry. |
| Mitchell Whitelaw Media Arts and Graphic Design |
My current research is in the theory and practice of digital media in art and design, focusing on generative techniques and data visualisation.http://creative.canberra.edu.au/mitchell |
| Jordan Williams Creative Writing and Literary Studies |
The relationship between reading literature and creative writing; embodiment; new forms of reading and writing with a focus on graphic novels and new media (including new media poetry). |
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Journalism and new media, political communication and new media, data journalism and data visualisation, the online public sphere, Australian political media/communication, e-democracy, citizen journalism. My PhD was on digital cultural history (videogames) and I’ve also published on Australian television! |
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Communication, Strategic Communication and Journalism |
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| Tatiana Anisimova Advertising and Marketing Communications |
Tatiana’s main research interests lie in the area of brand management, stakeholder management and integrated marketing communications in various cultures and contexts. Related areas of her research include brand exploration and advertising evaluation research. Another stream of her research interests examines international business and innovation-led internationalisation. |
| Warwick Blood Communication |
Risk theory and risk communication in the contexts of news portrayals of health issues, and images of war, terror and risk. |
| Sally Burford Information Studies |
My research interests are in knowledge and information work especially in the digital environment. Using complexity and practice-based theories I am interested in the gap between the nature of practices and the strategic intent of organisations. The practice of web information architecture is of particular interest to me. |
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Stuart Ferguson |
Application of the Australian knowledge management standard; information ethics (specifically the application of Radio Frequency Identification technologies in libraries); and information literacy and knowledge management approaches to organisational learning. Currently one PhD student, researching The Screensound Syndrome: Repositioning a Cultural Icon |
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Julie Freeman |
My research interests include e-government, the broader policy contexts of government 2.0, digital democracy, public opinion, and civic participation. |
| Joanna Henryks Advertising & Marketing Communication |
Aspects of food I am particularly interested in are organic food, farmers’ markets, alternative food distribution systems and healthy eating. |
| Kate Holland Communication |
Research interests include health communication, health activism, social movements, postpsychiatry, critical realism, disability studies, research ethics. |
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Cathy Hope |
Research interests include the history of Australian culture industries; the history of cultural policy and its impact on cultural institutions; Festivals and events and their relationship with communities. |
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Kerry McCallum |
Australian public opinion, Indigenous representation and policymaking, media history, journalism practice and news framing of mental health, war, politics, diversity and Indigenous issues |
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David Pearson |
This includes peri-urban agriculture and its associated local markets and organic food as well as action in civil society through community gardens and household production. |
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Peter Putnis |
History of international news networks including the development of news agencies. |
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Matthew Ricketson |
Matthew has a particular interest in narrative journalism, a practice that goes by various names including literary journalism, literary non-fiction, creative non-fiction and book-length journalism. |
| Sora Park Communication and Media Studies |
Research interests are in digital media users and audience studies, media industries and policy, and media convergence. |
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Parves Sultan |
Sultan’s research interest is in the field of Marketing. He has research expertise both in qualitative and quantitative research methods. His current research focuses on marketing approach to higher education, consumer behaviour in the context of services marketing, tourism marketing, and social and sustainable marketing, development studies, branding, marketing communications, internationalisation of firms and international trade. |
| Joelle Vandermensbrugghe | My research interests are representation of minority groups in the media, community broadcasting, ethnic media. |
| Sally Webster Advertising & Marketing Communication |
My professional expertise and research interest (especially in practice-led research) is in: marketing communications, place branding, publications, strategic communication planning, government and political communications, creative marketing, tourism marketing, Spanish regional tourism, cultural tourism, cultural education, educational tourism, literary tourism, tourism writing especially for youth / young people, and the influence of young people as consumers. |
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Humanities - including cultural heritage and international studies |
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| Elizabeth Bonshek Museum Studies |
My research interests focus on anthropology and material culture studies; museums as ethnographic sites or “contact zones ”, and issues relating to museum objects and the indigenous peoples especially in Melanesia. If your are interested in research under my supervision please email at elizabeth.bonshek@canberra.edu.au |
| Jeff Brownrigg Cultural Heritage |
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Adam Dickerson |
History of philosophy, philosophy of language, epistemology, comparisons between Eastern and Western philosophy. |
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Jason Flanagan |
My research cuts across the fields of security, peace and conflict studies, and United States political and diplomatic history, with a particular focus on the role of rhetoric and language in the outbreak, evolution, and resolution of international conflict. |
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John Greenwood |
Community engagement in conservation
Archaeological conservation in situ
Conservation in extreme climates
Conservation learning and teaching
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Research focus is on depictions of youth in American film, which encompasses research into the idea of 'youth', American frontier mythology, Hollywood film, Classical Hollywood Narrative, and teen and youth film genres. Other areas of interest are critical theory, particularly semiotic theory and the work of Foucault. |
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Tracy Ireland |
Tracys research interests include all aspects of historical archaeology and heritage management, ethics in archaeology and conservation, the cultural politics of the past, the conservation and interpretation of archaeological sites, cultural landscapes and landscape archaeology. |
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Tahmina Rashid |
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| Naikan Tao Chinese Studies |
Chinese literature and culture, Eastern and Western cultural relations, Chinese and English translation (theory and practice) |
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Bethaney Turner |
My current research investigates the role of cultural identity in relation to issues of food security and food sovereignty. I have an ongoing research interest in social revolutionary movements in developing nations. |
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Auriol Weigold |
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Language, Linguistics and TESOL |
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Nicolette Bramley |
My current research activities are in children’s language, in particular how identity is expressed. I also have an ongoing interest in Japanese language education. |
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Peter Copeman |
Main research focus is the application to TESOL of theatre and drama techniques, particularly the adaptation of actor voice training techniques to the teaching and improvement of pronunciation and speaking skills. |
| Jose Antonio Gonzales Spanish Language |
• Arts • Literature • History • Cultural and Critical theory • The culture of urban modern spaces • Hispanic Studies (including Culture and linguistics, especially semantics) • Application of technology and computers to the culture and language learning process |
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Debbie Hill |
Research interests in Oceanic linguistics, lexicography, semantics and pragmatics, and grammar teaching. |
| Jeremy Jones TESOL and Foreign Language Teaching |
My research interests include academic writing, discourse studies, language teaching methodology, qualitative aspects of language assessment, and language and social identity. |
| Yuko Kinoshita Japanese Language |
Research interests are in linguistic and acoustic phonetics, particularly in the application of acoustic phonetics to speaker classification, and to forensic evidence investigation and presentation. |
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Eleni Petraki |
Language teacher education, TESOL/FLT, grammar teaching, intercultural communication and discourse analysis. |
| Research interests include language policy and planning, bilingual education, community/local language maintenance, literacy, and academic writing. | |
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Elke Stracke |
My key research activities are located in the field of second/foreign language learning and teaching: Blended language learning; Independent learning and learner autonomy; Students' and teachers' beliefs/views; Postgraduate supervision practice; Teacher training. |
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Laura Tolton |
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Felicia Zhang |
Currently engaged in the application of active learning strategies in language and science education, the use of information communication technology in education, Chinese language teaching pedagogies. |
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Yanyin Zhang |
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