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People

Members of the Centre come from diverse disciplines and specialties across the Faculty of Arts and Design, and also include Higher Degree Research candidates.

Research Leaders

Paul Magee

Paul Magee

Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literary Studies

Director CCCR

Paul.Magee@canberra.edu.au

  • Philosophy, History and Ethnography of Poetic Composition
  • The Relationship between Art and Knowledge
  • Creative Research
  • Postcolonial Studies of Nation, Travel and Boundaries
Bethaney Turner 

Bethaney Turner

Associate Professor, International Studies

Associate Dean, HDR

Research Lead—Creative, Sustainable Communities

Bethaney.Turner@canberra.edu.au

  • Alternative food networks (Community Gardens, Farmers' Markets etc)
  • Human/More-than-Human relationships
  • Digital food cultures
  • Creative ecologies
  • Social Movements
Tracy Ireland 

Tracy Ireland

Professor, Cultural Heritage

Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts & Design

Research Lead—Future Heritage

Tracy.Ireland@canberra.edu.au

  • interpretation, conservation and ethics of archaeology
  • the cultural politics of the past
  • heritage management
  • cultural landscapes
 

Tony Eaton

Associate Professor, Creative Writing

Research Lead—Arts and Health

Tony.Eaton@canberra.edu.au

  • children's, young adult, and crossover fiction
  • understanding creative practice
  • young and emergent writers
Jen Crawford 

Saeed Banihashemi

Associate Professor, Design & Built Environment

Saeed.Banihashemi@canberra.edu.au

  • BIM
  • Digital and Sustainable Built Environment
  • Sustainable Project Management
  • Data Analytics in Construction
  • Parametric Design
  • Digital Engineering and Industry 4.0 in SMEs

Ursula Frederick

Senior Research Fellow, Art and the Activation of Heritage

Ursula.Frederick@canberra.edu.au

  • contemporary art and creative practice-based research
  • contemporary archaeologies and future heritage
  • photography
  • inscription, graffiti, and mark-making practices
  • the role of creativity in value creation and material transformation
  • visual methods of knowledge production and dissemination
  • mobilities

Cathy Hope

Associate Professor, Communication

Cathy.Hope@canberra.edu.au

  • the history of Australia's alternative media   institutions
  • play and creativity

Michael Jasper

Michael Jasper

Professor, Architecture

Michael.Jasper@canberra.edu.au

  • problems and devices of composition in mid twentieth century architecture
  • historiography of Renaissance architecture
  • The art of city design
  • modernist thought
Denise Thwaites 

Denise Thwaites

Assistant Professor, Digital Art and Humanities

denise.thwaites@canberra.edu.au

  • Digital Humanities
 

Alison Wain

Assistant Professor, Heritage Conservation

Alison.Wain@canberra.edu.au

  • development of materials conservation practice and conservation science
  • laser in analysis and cleaning of material culture
  • preservation of intangible and digital heritage
  • significance and values of heritage

Jen Webb

Distinguished Professor, Creative Practice

Jen.Webb@canberra.edu.au

  • relationship between the field of artistic production and the wider social domain
  • connections between creative practice and human rights; globalisation
  • links between creative practice and research

Research staff

Ben Ennis Butler 

Ben Ennis Butler

Senior Lecturer, School of Built Environment and Design

  • Data visualisation
  • Digital humanities
  • Interface design
  • User experience
  • Web design and development
Steve Brown 

Steve Brown

Visiting Fellow and Sessional Staff

Steve.Brown@canberra.edu.au

  • World Heritage
  • Archaeology
Owen Bullock

Owen Bullock

Lecturer, Creative Writing

Owen.Bullock@canberra.edu.au

  • poetry and process
  • semiotics and poetry
  • prose poetry
  • creative arts and wellbeing
  • haikai literature

Jen Crawford

Jennifer Crawford

Associate Professor, Journalism and Creative Writing

Jen.Crawford@canberra.edu.au

  • contemporary creative and experimental writing
  • poetics, environment and the body
  • poetry
 

Raghavendra Gudur

Lecturer, Graphic Design

Raghavendra.Gudur@canberra.edu.au

  • cognitive aspects of ageing, older users and interface design
  • designing for diversity/inclusive design methodologies
  • design methodologies for intuitive interaction
  • design pedagogy

Sam Hinton

Associate Professor, Media Arts & Production

Sam.Hinton@canberra.edu.au

  • computer games and playful media
  • interactive data visualisation
  • social uses of mobile apps
  • cultural interfaces
  • network histories
  • social media
 

Annie McCarthy

Senior Lecturer, Arts and Communication

Annie.McCarthy@canberra.edu.au

  • storytelling and performance in development programs
  • children’s agency and creativity
  • history and ethnography of children’s participation in development
  • empathy, simulation, and pedagogies of development
  • temporality and growth
Tahmina Rashid 

Tahmina Rashid

Associate Professor, International Studies

Tahmina.Rashid@canberra.edu.au

  • Gender & Development Studies
  • Feminism
  • Poverty & Microcredit
  • Migration & Identity
  • Radical Islam
  • Peace & Conflicts
  • South Asian Culture & Politics

Tim Sherratt

Associate Professor, Digital Heritage

Tim.Sherratt@canberra.edu.au

  • using digital tools to create new cultural experiences and new forms of publications
  • exploring how digitisation projects change our relationship with the past
  • digital heritage
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John Ting

Assistant Professor, Design and Built Environment

John.Ting@canberra.edu.au

  • History of architecture in Southeast Asia
  • Conservation and Heritage in Australia and Malaysia
  • Vernacular architecture and migration
  • Indigenisation in the built environment
  • Prefabrication in construction and architecture
  • Sustainability and construction

Greg Battye

Adjunct Professor

Greg.Battye@canberra,edu.au

  • creative arts
  • photography

Tracey Benson

Professional Associate, IAE

Tracey.Benson@canberra.edu.au

  • STEAM
  • Behavioural insights and user engagement
  • Cross-cultural collaboration
  • Art, nature and wellbeing

Sally Brockwell

ARC Research Associate, Heritage of the Air Project

Sally.Brockwell@canberra.edu.au

  • Cultural heritage studies, Australian civil aviation
  • Cultural heritage studies, Kakadu National Park NT
  • Wetlands archaeology
  • Archaeology of northern Australia and Island Southeast Asia

Stephen Cassidy

Adjunct Professional Associate

  • community arts and Community Cultural Development (CCD)
  • creative industries and innovation
  • Indigenous culture

Paul Collis

Adjunct Professional Associate

paul.collis@canberra.edu.au

  • Indigenous culture
  • creative writing

Dianne Firth

Adjunct Associate Professor

Dianne.Firth@canberra.edu.au

  • theory and practice of landscape architecture
  • heritage landscapes
  • landscape and art
  • textile arts

Caren Florance

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Caren.Florance@canberra.edu.au

  • Artist Books in Australia
  • Letterpress in Australia
  • Creative publishing
  • Cross-disciplinary collaboration
  • Material poetics
  • Text art/visual poetry intersections.

Brett Holman

Adjunct Professional Associate
bholman2@une.edu.au

  • history and aviation heritage

Siew Imm Tann

Adjunct Professional Associate

Siew.Tan@canberra.edu.au

  • contact, corpus and historical linguistics
  • world and Aboriginal englishes
  • second-language acquisition
  • educational sociolinguistics
  • corpus-based lexicograph

Subhash Jaireth

Adjunct Professor

  • Russian language and literature
  • creative writing
  • cultural studies

Rina Kikuchi

Adjunct Associate Professor

  • comparative literature
  • modern and contemporary women's poetry
  • European literature
  • contemporary Irish poetry

Patrick Mullins

Adjunct Professional Associate

  • creative non-fiction

Paul Munden

Adjunct 

Paul.Munden@canberra.edu.au
  • development of creative writing as a discipline in UK universities
  • Poetry as a medium for biographical study
  • work of poets and other writers in schools
  • Poetry in partnership with other arts

Satendra Nandan

Emeritus Professor

satendra.nandan@canberra.edu.au

  • Fijian culture and politics
  • creative writing

Barbara Norman

Professor, Design and Built Environment

Barbara.Norman@canberra.edu.au

  • Urban and regional design
  • Former national president of the Planning Institute of Australia
  • Climate change and sustainable urban planning research

Vahri McKenzie

Research Fellow, Arts and Health

Vahri.McKenzie@canberra.edu.au

  • Artistic research design and methodologies
  • Theories and practices of contemporary performing arts
  • Theories and practices of writing
  • Relationality and agency in creative practice
  • Artistic responses to science and technology

Jordan Williams

Associate Professor

Jordan.Williams@canberra.edu.au

  • Digital poetry and poetics
  • Writing and wellbeing

Hakim Abdul Rahim

PhD candidate, Cultural Heritage & Museums Studies

Hakim.AbdulRahim@canberra.edu.au

Through a Viridian Lens: Autonomy and Agency in Academic Botanical Collections

Emma Allen

PhD candidate 

Emma.Allen@canberra.edu.au

 

Louise Allerton

PhD candidate, Creative Practice

Louise.Allerton@canberra.edu.au

Co-Creative Explorations of Sign Language, Abelist Pressures and Performing Defiance

The project investigates the historic and ongoing impact of western scientific paradigms of photo-documentation on two Australian sign languages, Pitjantjatjara from the Western Desert and Auslan.

Monica Andrew

PhD candidate, Cultural Vocations and Creative Communities

Monica.Andrew@canberra.edu.au  

The potential contribution of needlecraft skills to clothing and textile sustainability.

Rhonda Ayliffe

Rhonda.Ayliffe@canberra.edu.au

Ash Alchemy - Transforming community trauma to resilience with creative arts

Elizabeth Bellamy

PhD candidate, Creative Writing and Cultural Theory

Elizabeth.Bellamy@canberra.edu.au 

Escaping the maelstrom:  What feminist informed creative practice led research can reveal about the generative capacities of shame

Tessa Bell

PhD candidate, Creative and Cultural Practice

Tessa.Bell@canberra.edu.au

An exploration of the relationship between materiality and digital preservation.

Julia Brand

PhD candidate, Creative and Cultural Practice 

Julia.Brand@canberra.edu.au

Cleaning the Sydney Harbour Bridge: studying the effects of innovative fast and ultrafast lasers for large scale processing of dirt-encrusted stone surfaces

Lauren Briggs

Masters of Applied Arts and Humanities (Research)

Lauren.Briggs@canberra.edu.au 

How do intertextual references to non-Australian literature in Australian Young Adult fiction function in relation to national identity and representation in literature?

Kate Clark

PhD Candidate, Heritage Studies

Australia ICOMOS/University of Canberra Heritage Studies Scholarship

Kate.Clark@canberra.edu.au

 

Lisa Fuller

PhD candidate

 

Thomas Gibson

PhD candidate, Creative Writing

Thomas.Gibson@canberra.edu.au

Exploring the concepts of psychological theories of identity development, in particular, the theories of narrative identity and the life story model, to deconstruct the presentation of identity in fiction read by Australian adolescents.

Geoff Grey

PhD Candidate, Cultural Vocations and Creative Communities

Geoff.Grey@canberra.edu.au

The effects of creativity on psychosocial wellbeing for building resilience through improved emotional health in Australian Defence Force (and Emergency Services) personnel.

Donna Hanson

PhD candidate, Creative Writing

Donna.Hanson@canberra.edu.au

My research examines feminism in popular romance fiction and will focus on key themes of agency and/or equality in popular romance fiction from the 1970s, 1980s to the present (realist fiction).

Ashley Harrison

PhD candidate, Cultural and Creative Practice

Ashley.Harrison@canberra.edu.au

Flight across Country: Visualising connections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities to aviation in Australia (Heritage of the Air)

Elliot Hartman

PhD candidate 

Elliot.Hartman@canberra.edu.au

Emotion, perception, and communication: exploring moral perception as a discourse ethic

Rebecca Hawcroft

PhD candidate, Digital Treasures

Rebecca.Hawcroft@canberra.edu.au

My PhD is focused on digitised collections and their ability to connect to places and place values

Christopher Holden

PhD candidate, Cultural and Creative Practice

Christopher.Holden@canberra.edu.au

The role of Information Architecture in developing sustainable online cultural resource collections

Kerrianne Markulin

PhD candidate 

Kerrianne.Markulin@canberra.edu.au

My area of study is to produce the life stories of a well-respected Wiradjuri Elder, Aunty Flo Grant, using her voice and the voices of those she has enabled and mentored. The exegesis will examine if/how a non-Indigenous woman can represent the life stories of an Indigenous Elder, whilst leaving the power, privilege and voice with the person being represented.

Kerry Martin

PhD candidate

Kerry.Martin@canberra.edu.au

The Materialisation of Testament: the capacity of a textiles based reparative aesthetic to promote thoughtful debate around shameful social histories, with a specific focus on abuse within the Catholic Church

David Melrose

PhD candidate

 

Lisa Russ

PhD candidate, Creative and Cultural Practice

Lisa.Russ@canberra.edu.au

 

Fiona Shanahan

PhD candidate, Cultural and Creative Practice

Fiona.Shanahan@canberra.edu.au

The Northern Territory’s Heritage of the Air

Maggie Shapley

PhD candidate

Maggie.Shapley@canberra.edu.au

Gwen Harwood and Margaret Scott: Tasmanian exiles

Asti Sherring

PhD candidate, Creative and Cultural Practice

Asti.Sherring@canberra.edu.au

 

Wendy Somerville

PhD candidate

Wendy.Sommerville@canberra.edu.au

Rummaging for Histories/Stories through Place, Archives and Memories

Andraya Stapp-Gaunt

PhD candidate

Andraya.Stapp-Gaunt@ed.act.edu.au

Rabbit Island: Using 5 ways of thinking and the protocols for sustainable agents to negotiate a literary homecoming.

Anna Tito

PhD Candidate

Anna.Tito@canberra.edu.au

Computer games as a tool for social change, interactive narrative and narrative system development,  relational and restorative practices, ethics in game design and industry practices, diversity in games and engineering.

Jessica Western

PhD candidate, Cultural and Creative Practice

Jessica.Western@canberra.edu.au

Exploring the creative and meaning-making potential of short-term, spasmodic or noncumulative engagements with heritage.

Kimberly Williams

PhD candidate

Kimberly.Williams@canberra.edu.au

This thesis seeks to answer the following research question: How can the
hybridization of form in poetry and the use of mixed modes push narrative and lyrical
boundaries to foster the representation of traditionally underrepresented female voices?

Claire Wilson

PhD candidate, Creative Writing

Claire.Wilson@canberra.edu.au

Poetry writing practice and cultural adjustment: investigating experiences of settling in.

Sharpay Wu

PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies

Sharpay.Wu@canberra.edu.au

Understanding Chinese Animation and Cultural Policy 2010 to 2020

This PhD project will focus on Chinese animation production and animation professionals from 2010 to 2020. The research investigates how mainstream and independent animation talents are influenced by Chinese cultural policy and how government pursuit of 'soft power' impact them.

Recent Graduates

  • Ian McHugh
  • Louise Curham
  • Wayne Applebee
  • Owen Bullock
  • Monica Carroll
  • Paul Collis
  • Macarena de la Vega de León
  • Niloofar Fanaiyan
  • Caren Florance
  • Kirsten Krauth
  • Mona Soleymani
  • Tim Napper
  • Olga Walker
  • Martin Dolan

Zora Pang

Research Development Officer, Acting (Mon, Tuesday, Thursday)

cccr@canberra.edu.au

Katie Hayne

Research Development Officer (on leave)

cccr@canberra.edu.au

Kimberly Williams

Short Course Co-ordinator

Kimberly.Williams@canberra.edu.au