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Higher Degrees By Research
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Areas of Investigation
Name | Research Areas |
|---|---|
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. |
Associate Professor | Urban design, transport planning, urban disaster management, urban modelling |
| Contemporary Architecture and Urban Theories, City Analysis, Morphology, Public Space, Place Identity, Public Private Interface, Sustainable Architecture and Evaluation Methods, Japanese Architecture and Cities |
Name | Research Areas |
|---|---|
Assistant Professor | Digital Engineering (DE); Construction Workplace Health and Safety (CWHS); Virtual Reality (VR); Augmented Reality (AR); Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) |
Name | Research Areas |
|---|---|
| Bill Green Emeritus Professor, Design | Human centred design and design history and theory, including Inclusive Design and Applied Ergonomics. |
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 |
Eddi Pianca | Industrial Design, Advanced 3D digital design, digital and traditional manufacturing, materials and processes including composites design and manufacturing, Industrial design education. |
| Name | Research Areas |
|---|---|
| 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. |
Senior Researcher, Communication | Health communication; health activism; social movements; postpsychiatry; critical realism; disability studies; research ethics. |
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. |
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. |
| Associate Professor, Communication & Media Studies | Digital media users and audience studies; media industries and policy; and media convergence. |
| Name | Research Areas |
|---|---|
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. |
Associate Professor, Creative Writing & Literary Studies | Childrens, Young Adult, and Crossover Fiction, both in creative practice and theoretical research. |
Professor, Creative Writing & Literary Studies | Creativity, poetry and life writing; how visual artists understand and write about their creative practice. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
| Name | Research Areas |
|---|---|
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. |
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. |
| 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. |
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. |
| Materials conservation, conservation of intangible heritage, conservation science, ethics in heritage and conservation, significance and values in heritage, museum and collections management, curatorial studies. |