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 MageeProfessor, Creative Writing and Literary Studies Director CCCR |
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 | Bethaney TurnerAssociate Professor, International Studies Associate Dean, HDR Research Lead—Creative, Sustainable Communities |
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 | Tracy IrelandProfessor, Cultural Heritage Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts & Design Research Lead—Future Heritage |
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| Tony EatonAssociate Professor, Creative Writing Research Lead—Arts and Health |
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 | Saeed BanihashemiAssociate Professor, Design & Built Environment |
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 | Ursula FrederickSenior Research Fellow, Art and the Activation of Heritage |
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 | Cathy HopeAssociate Professor, Communication |
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| Michael JasperProfessor, Architecture |
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 | First Nations Australian Post-Doctoral Research Fellow |
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 | Denise ThwaitesAssistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts |
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| Alison WainAssistant Professor, Heritage Conservation |
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| Jen WebbDistinguished Professor, Creative Practice |
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Research staff
 | Ben Ennis ButlerSenior Lecturer, School of Built Environment and Design |
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 | Steve BrownVisiting Fellow and Sessional Staff |
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 | Owen BullockLecturer, Creative Writing |
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| Jennifer CrawfordAssociate Professor, Journalism and Creative Writing |
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| Raghavendra GudurLecturer, Graphic Design |
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 | Sam HintonAssociate Professor, Media Arts & Production |
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 | Annie McCarthySenior Lecturer, Arts and Communication |
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 | Tahmina RashidAssociate Professor, International Studies |
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| Tim SherrattAssociate Professor, Digital Heritage |
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 | John TingAssistant Professor, Design and Built Environment |
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Greg BattyeAdjunct Professor Greg.Battye@canberra,edu.au |
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Tracey BensonProfessional Associate, IAE Tracey.Benson@canberra.edu.au |
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Sally BrockwellARC Research Associate, Heritage of the Air Project Sally.Brockwell@canberra.edu.au |
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Stephen CassidyAdjunct Professional Associate |
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Paul CollisAdjunct Professional Associate paul.collis@canberra.edu.au |
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Dianne FirthAdjunct Associate Professor Dianne.Firth@canberra.edu.au |
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Caren FloranceAdjunct Assistant Professor Caren.Florance@canberra.edu.au |
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Brett HolmanAdjunct Professional Associate |
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Siew Imm TannAdjunct Professional Associate Siew.Tan@canberra.edu.au |
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Subhash JairethAdjunct Professor |
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Rina KikuchiAdjunct Associate Professor |
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Patrick MullinsAdjunct Professional Associate |
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Paul MundenAdjunct Paul.Munden@canberra.edu.au |
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Satendra NandanEmeritus Professor satendra.nandan@canberra.edu.au |
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Barbara NormanProfessor, Design and Built Environment Barbara.Norman@canberra.edu.au |
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Vahri McKenzieResearch Fellow, Arts and Health |
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Jordan WilliamsAssociate Professor Jordan.Williams@canberra.edu.au |
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Hakim Abdul RahimPhD candidate, Cultural Heritage & Museums Studies | Through a Viridian Lens: Autonomy and Agency in Academic Botanical Collections |
Emma AllenPhD candidate | |
Louise AllertonPhD candidate, Creative Practice | 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 AndrewPhD candidate, Cultural Vocations and Creative Communities | The potential contribution of needlecraft skills to clothing and textile sustainability. |
Rhonda Ayliffe | Ash Alchemy - Transforming community trauma to resilience with creative arts |
Elizabeth BellamyPhD candidate, Creative Writing and Cultural Theory | Escaping the maelstrom: What feminist informed creative practice led research can reveal about the generative capacities of shame |
Tessa BellPhD candidate, Creative and Cultural Practice | An exploration of the relationship between materiality and digital preservation. |
Julia BrandPhD candidate, Creative and Cultural Practice | Cleaning the Sydney Harbour Bridge: studying the effects of innovative fast and ultrafast lasers for large scale processing of dirt-encrusted stone surfaces |
Lauren BriggsMasters of Applied Arts and Humanities (Research) | How do intertextual references to non-Australian literature in Australian Young Adult fiction function in relation to national identity and representation in literature? |
Kate ClarkPhD Candidate, Heritage Studies Australia ICOMOS/University of Canberra Heritage Studies Scholarship | |
Lisa FullerPhD candidate | |
Thomas GibsonPhD candidate, Creative Writing | 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 GreyPhD Candidate, Cultural Vocations and Creative Communities | The effects of creativity on psychosocial wellbeing for building resilience through improved emotional health in Australian Defence Force (and Emergency Services) personnel. |
Donna HansonPhD candidate, Creative Writing | 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 HarrisonPhD candidate, Cultural and Creative Practice | Flight across Country: Visualising connections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities to aviation in Australia (Heritage of the Air) |
Elliot HartmanPhD candidate | Emotion, perception, and communication: exploring moral perception as a discourse ethic |
Rebecca HawcroftPhD candidate, Digital Treasures | My PhD is focused on digitised collections and their ability to connect to places and place values |
Christopher HoldenPhD candidate, Cultural and Creative Practice | The role of Information Architecture in developing sustainable online cultural resource collections |
Kerrianne MarkulinPhD candidate | 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 MartinPhD candidate | 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 MelrosePhD candidate | |
Lisa RussPhD candidate, Creative and Cultural Practice | |
Fiona ShanahanPhD candidate, Cultural and Creative Practice | The Northern Territory’s Heritage of the Air |
Maggie ShapleyPhD candidate | Gwen Harwood and Margaret Scott: Tasmanian exiles |
Asti SherringPhD candidate, Creative and Cultural Practice | |
Andraya Stapp-GauntPhD candidate | Rabbit Island: Using 5 ways of thinking and the protocols for sustainable agents to negotiate a literary homecoming. |
Carmel SummersPhD candidate | The silence of Elizabeth Cook: Is truth in poetic biography compromised by the poetic “I”? Poetic biography of Eliza Cook. Exploration of the impact on truth by a poetic biography. |
Anna TitoPhD Candidate | 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 WesternPhD candidate, Cultural and Creative Practice | Exploring the creative and meaning-making potential of short-term, spasmodic or noncumulative engagements with heritage. |
Kimberly WilliamsPhD candidate | 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 WilsonPhD candidate, Creative Writing | Poetry writing practice and cultural adjustment: investigating experiences of settling in. |
Sharpay WuPhD Candidate, Cultural Studies | 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
- Wendy Somerville
Zora PangResearch Development Officer, Acting (Mon, Tuesday, Thursday) |
Katie HayneResearch Development Officer (on leave) cccr@canberra.edu.au |
Kimberly WilliamsShort Course Co-ordinator |