Emeritus Professor
Brad Haseman

Biography

Brad Haseman is an Adjunct Professor Professor with the Creative Industries Faculty. In July 2016 Brad completed thirty years of service with QUT. During that time he was Professor and Assistant Dean (Academic) for the Creative Industries Faculty and from 2006 to 2011 he was the Assistant Dean (Research).  He held the position of Head of Postgraduate Research Studies (2001 to 2005) and served as Head of Drama in the Academy of the Arts from 2004-2007.   For forty years, first as a drama teacher and advisor in Queensland secondary schools, Brad has worked  as a teaching artist, academic and researcher pursuing his fascination with the aesthetics, forms and affordability of arts based learning. He is known as a passionate advocate for the arts in Australian schools and served for more than a decade on committees concerned with the provision and delivery of the arts in Queensland schools. Brad is recognised for his contribution to the fields of educational drama, process drama and applied performance. In recent years he has been an invited keynote speaker and workshop leader in Singapore, Canada, Norway, The Netherlands, South Korea and the US. His work also takes him throughout the Pacific where he has taught and given workshops in the Solomon Islands, PNG and Kiribati in the Central Pacific. Research interests Brad has also had a longstanding interest in the forms and purposes of process drama and his paper ‘Improvisation, Process Drama and Dramatic Art’ in National Drama, Journal of the National Association of Drama Teachers UK, July 1991 is seen as a foundational paper in defining the field. Brad maintains his practice as a drama educator in university and corporate settings. He has received a number of teaching awards in recognition of his role as a consultant to business and community groups engaged in experiential learning and he continues to conduct management and leadership programs with Queensland Health and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. He is currently leading a research project in Papua New Guinea developing applied performance programs for HIV and AIDS education. Brad Haseman is known as a leading proponent of Practice-led Research. His paper ‘A manifesto for performative research’, (Haseman, B. 2006, Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, theme issue, Practice-led Research, No 118: 98-106) is seen as a call-to-arms proposing a non-traditional research methodology for the arts. In keeping with his research into the Creative Industries in 2008 Brad co-authored the Occasional Paper The arts and Australia’s national innovation system 1994–2008 for the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). Awards

• 2007: Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, Queensland Health Leadership Project, QUT
• 2004: Distinguished Teaching Award for Postgraduate Supervision, QUT
• 2001: Outstanding Contribution Award for Teaching Leadership and Scholarship, QUT
• 2000: Awarded life membership of the Queensland Association for Drama in Education in recognition of an outstanding contribution to Drama Education

Professional outputs Brad is the co-author, with John O’Toole, of Dramawise (Heinemann, Melbourne, 1987), which was in print after more than 25 years and has been translated into Italian, Danish and Cantonese. Their new book, Dramawise Reimagined, is to be published by Currency Press in March 2017. He has co-authored 2 books, written 20 book chapters, 27 refereed journal articles and delivered over 200 conference presentations, papers and workshops. Postgraduate supervision Brad has supervised eleven PhD candidates and nine Master of Arts (Research) candidates to completion. Twelve of these candidates adopted practice-led research as their principal research strategy. Currently, Brad is supervising eight PhD candidates with six using a practice-led research methodology. Real world engagement Brad was member of the Australia Council for the Arts from 2007-2001 where he chaired the Community Partnerships Committee which offers a range of programs to support community based arts and culture, including community cultural development. In this role Brad was actively involved with the Australia Council’s strategic priorities for the Arts in Education, Artist in Residence programs for Australian schools and communities and building a knowledge hub for the arts in Australia. In 2014 and 2015 Brad was Chair of the Capacity Building Panel of the Australia Council fr the Arts. Conference leadership Brad was co-convenor of the 2nd International Teaching Artist Conference which was held in Brisbane, 1-3 July 2014. Co-hosted by QUT and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), and in association with QPAC’s Out of the Box Festival for Children 2014 and has served on the International Advisory Committee for the 3rd International Teaching Artist Conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2016. In 2005, Brad co-convened the conference ‘Speculation and Innovation: Applying Practice-Led Research in the Creative Industries’ at the Creative Industries Precinct at QUT. This conference featured 110 presenters from across 14 disciplines including all of the arts as well as the media and design disciplines. Delegates and presenters attended from around Australia as well as from Britain, New Zealand and the US. Refereed conference proceedings were published in association with Real Time, Australia in 2006. In 1995, Brad was co-convenor of the second International Drama and Education Congress in Brisbane – IDEA ‘95. The Congress brought 1,200 drama educators together from all parts of the world. Haseman chaired the format committee which scheduled over three hundred presentations for the Congress. Editorial leadership Brad is an active editor having co-edited a variety of journals including:

• Current Drama/Theatre Editor, International Journal for Education and the Arts
• Member, Review and Advisory Board, Applied Theatre Research
• Haseman, B. and Winston, J. (eds) (2010) (Forthcoming) RiDE The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. 'The Aesthetics of Drama Education and Applied Performance'.
• Green, L. and Haseman, B. (eds) (2006) Media International Australia incorporating Culture & Policy, no. 118, February. 'Practice-led Research'.
• Bourke, N, Haseman, B., Mafe, D. and Vella, R, (eds) (2006), Conference Proceedings, 'Speculation and Innovation: Applying Practice-led research in the Creative Industries', in Association with Real Time, Australia.