Supervisors

image of research supervisors At the University of Canberra (uc) research students are regarded as full members of the research community. They are expected to produce work of an international standard and it is UC policy to provide all research students with appropriate support to achieve this. Browse the Faculty of Arts and Design research supervisor profiles (including biographies, qualifications, publications, grants and awards) from the disciplines below.

Faculty Research Coordinator

E-mail: artsanddesignhdr@canberra.edu.au

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE DESIGN & INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

Name	Research Areas

Stephen Frith Adjunct Professor	The history and theory of urbanism.

Michael Jasper Associate Professor, Architecture	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.
Hitomi Nakanishi Associate Professor	Urban design, transport planning, urban disaster management, urban modelling
Milica Muminović Assistant Professor, Architecture	Contemporary Architecture and Urban Theories, City Analysis, Morphology, Public Space, Place Identity, Public Private Interface, Sustainable Architecture and Evaluation Methods, Japanese Architecture and Cities

BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

Name	Research Areas
Charles Lemckert Professor, Head of School	Sustainable built environment, Water in the environment, Water systems engineering and sciences, Built environment education, Coastal environment systems, Human and environment interaction, Waste management.
Saeed Banihashemi Assistant Professor in Building and Construction Management	Building Information Modelling (BIM), Digital-parametric design and construction, Sustainable built environment, Project management, Industry 4.0; Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Twin and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in built environment
Hamed Golizadeh Assistant Professor	Digital Engineering (DE); Construction Workplace Health and Safety (CWHS); Virtual Reality (VR); Augmented Reality (AR); Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA)

DESIGN

Name	Research Areas
Elivio Bonollo Emeritus Professor, Design	Design education and practice with reference to the industrial, graphic and engineering design professions; industry-based product development projects.
Bill Green Emeritus Professor, Design	Human centred design and design history and theory, including Inclusive Design and Applied Ergonomics.
Raghavendra Gudur (Raghu) Assistant Professor, Interaction and Visual Communication Design	Interaction design, Embodied and Tangible interaction design, Visual communication and persuasion, Information design, Experiential design, Inclusive design, Ageing and technology use, Accessibility, Intuitive interaction, Adaptive and adaptable interface design, Design thinking and design cognition, Design pedagogy
Fanke Peng Assistant Professor, Fashion, Visual Communication and Interactive Media Design	Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to research and practice, with a research focus on digital fashion and health in the global creative economy, wearables, internet of thing (IoT), augmented reality (AR), virtual Reality (VR), near field communication (NFC), design strategy, design thinking and seamless online and offline shopping experience
Eddi Pianca Assistant Professor Industrial Design	Industrial Design, Advanced 3D digital design, digital and traditional manufacturing, materials and processes including composites design and manufacturing, Industrial design education.

COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION, JOURNALISM

Name	Research Areas


Glen Fuller Associate Professor, Journalism	The shifting role of specialist media in scenes and the relation between media and enthusiasm; media and cultural studies, influenced by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze; the cultural infrastructures of non-institutional intellectual cultures.
Kate Holland Senior Researcher, Communication	Health communication; health activism; social movements; postpsychiatry; critical realism; disability studies; research ethics.

Kerry McCallum Professor, Communication	Australian public opinion; Indigenous representation and policymaking; media history; journalism practice and news framing of mental health, war, politics, diversity and Indigenous issues.
Mathieu O'Neil Associate Professor, Communication	Online communities, fields, and social movements. Diffusion of innovation and activism on the Internet, work in the digital economy, and organizational and environmental communication.
Sora Park Associate Professor, Communication & Media Studies	Digital media users and audience studies; media industries and policy; and media convergence.

CREATIVE WRITING, SCREEN STUDIES, DIGITAL ARTS

Name	Research Areas
Jen Crawford Assistant Professor, Creative Writing	Creative writing, especially approaches to poetry and fiction that expand conventional forms (visually, aurally, in genre terms). The poetics of place, including postmodern and postcolonial takes on subject/site/language relationships. Contemporary Australian poetry. Literature of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Singapore, the Pacific.
Anthony Eaton Associate Professor, Creative Writing & Literary Studies	Childrens, Young Adult, and Crossover Fiction, both in creative practice and theoretical research.
Paul Hetherington Professor, Creative Writing & Literary Studies	Creativity, poetry and life writing; how visual artists understand and write about their creative practice.
Sam Hinton Assistant Professor, Design & Media Arts and Production	Assessment and feedback in creative arts; computer and video games; Australian games industry; Internet and network histories; critical approaches to emerging entertainment technologies.
Ross Gibson Centenary Professor Creative & Cultural Research	Narrative and memory in placemaking; film studies, digital media and large-screen environments. Recent works include the books 26 Views of the Starburst World (UWAP) and Stone Grown Cold (Cordite Books) and the co-production of the ABC Radio National Feature 'Energy Grids'.
Paul Magee Associate Professor, Poetry, Psychoanalytic and Marxist Theory	The relation between poetry and knowledge, with perspectives from Marxism, psychoanalysis, the philosophy of knowledge, and the philosophy and history of aesthetics; political theory and cultural studies; placing poems in storey-high lettering on the sides of buildings.
Jennifer Webb Distinguished Professor, Creative Writing & Cultural Theory	Contemporary war art; post September 11 novels and human rights issues; embodiment; creative writing focusing on prose fiction and poetry.
Jordan Williams Associate Professor, 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).

HUMANITIES, CULTURAL HERITAGE, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Name	Research Areas
Ross Gibson Centenary Professor Creative & Cultural Research	Narrative and memory in placemaking; film studies, digital media and large-screen environments. Recent works include the books 26 Views of the Starburst World (UWAP) and Stone Grown Cold (Cordite Books) and the co-production of the ABC Radio National Feature 'Energy Grids'.
Tracy Ireland Associate Professor, Cultural Heritage	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.
Tahmina Rashid Associate Professor, International Studies	Gender & Development; Community Sustainability; Human Trafficking; Human Rights; Women's Rights Movement; Women's Empowerment; Religious Extremism; Migration, Identity & Citizenship; Geographical interest South Asia and South Asian Diaspora in Australia.
Tim Sherratt Associate Professor, Digital Heritage	Using digital tools to expose alternative voices and experiences from within the cultural record; Exploring how digitisation projects change our relationship with the past; Developing new forms of online publication that integrate historical writing and cultural collections.
Bethaney Turner Assistant Professor, International Studies	The role of cultural identity in relation to issues of food security and food sovereignty; social revolutionary movements in developing nations.
Alison Wain Senior Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Conservation	Materials conservation, conservation of intangible heritage, conservation science, ethics in heritage and conservation, significance and values in heritage, museum and collections management, curatorial studies.