Professor Greg Battye is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design. He came to the University to teach in Media Production after a decade of work in the Public Service, and specialised initially in teaching photography, at both practical and theoretical levels. His interests gradually extended into media production more widely, picking up on a life-long interest in film and video, also in both practical and theoretical domains, and extending into audio and multimedia. Since completing his Doctorate at Wollongong in 2001 on connections between photography and narrative theory, he has branched out further into explorations of narrative forms and structures, in both conventional and non-conventional writing and in areas of cultural production not ordinarily seen as narrative. He still finds rare moments in which to indulge his love of photography; five of his photographs are held in the Australian National Gallery, and others are included in the holdings of Wollongong University, the Australian Defence Force Academy and in private collections.

Greg has supervised and co-supervised a wide range of Masters and PhD students in areas as diverse as video production, sports history, creative writing (novels and screenplays), classics, psychophysics, and interface design. He has published in cultural studies and cultural theory as well as in his areas of primary experience as described above.  

Professor Battye is currently a CI on two ARC-funded research projects connecting law and imagery, investigating empirical and theoretical questions about the uses, presentation contexts and understanding of images (still, moving, and interactive) in formal courtroom evidence. Greg's recent conference presentations, and current writing activities, are concentrated in this area. His current personal research pursuits — partly related to the law-based research projects — are centred on adapting recent developments in cognitive literary theory to the interpretation of pictures in general, and photographs in particular.

Beyond the constraints of formal teaching and research, Greg's creative activities are fed by a broad interest in the world at large. He is a [self-taught, amateur] builder, and a member of the World Bamboo Organization, The Commercial Traveller's Club (NSW), and the Cloud Appreciation Society (UK).

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