Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice 1 - Sunday 11 August 2024 10.00am (AEST)
Education - Undergraduate programs, Fine Arts and Creative Industries (including Doctoral)
- Presiding Officer: Professor Margaret Sheil AO
- Ceremonial Host: Mr Neil Ainsworth
- Presenting Officer: Professor Lori Lockyer
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Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
JACOBSON, Anna Lee
Thesis Title
Braided Memoir, Twine, and Psychiatric Survivor Storytelling: Converging Narrative Medicine, Mad Studies, and Transmediality
Supervisors
- Professor Kari Gislason (Principal Supervisor)
- Associate Professor Lesley Kathryn Hawkes (Associate Supervisor)
Citation
This thesis includes a braided memoir and interactive memoir from my practice-led creative project 'How to Knit a Human' and an exegesis highlighting how Narrative Medicine can converge with Mad Studies and Transmediality to achieve an in-depth representation of psychiatric survivors’ experiences and stories. My convergence of these fields provides a method for giving voice to a range of experiences. My original contribution is in the interplay of these fields. Including three case studies: Robert Pirsig, Dakoda Barker, and Ellen Forney, the exegesis gives context to my creative work.
Doctor of Creative Industries
JENKINS, Gregory Thomas
Thesis Title
Continuums of Creative Practice Curricula: Frameworks for Learning and Teaching
Supervisors
- Associate Professor John Anthony Lee Banks (Principal Supervisor)
- Professor Sandra Jane Gattenhof (Associate Supervisor)
Citation
This thesis examines creative practice learning in higher education using a case study of student experiences coupled with critical reflection of the researcher’s practice as a tertiary educator. It presents a framework for the analysis of creative practice learning and teaching that shows how disciplinary skills are ways of knowing that can be transferred across diverse contexts. The framework assists educators and students to consider how disciplinary skills can be used both for professional advancement within a specific disciplinary field and to make meaningful contributions to a graduate’s ongoing life as their priorities and motivations change.
Doctor of Philosophy
BOMAI, Dick Witne
Thesis Title
Understanding Indigenous Responses to Sorcery Accusation Related Violence: Peacebuilding by the Yuri People of Papua New Guinea
Supervisors
- Professor Marianella Chamorro‑Koc (Associate Supervisor)
- Professor Sandra Jane Gattenhof (Principal Supervisor)
- Jackie Kauli (External Supervisor)
- Dr Christina Louise Spurgeon (External Supervisor)
- Verena Thomas (External Supervisor)
Citation
Witne Dick Bomai explored Indigenous responses to sorcery accusation related violence (SARV) through peacebuilding by the Yuri people of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Witne integrated arts-based research, participatory action research and Indigenous research methods of semi structure interviews, kapori (local form of storytelling) and photovoice. The interface of these methods offers insights to locally relevant and sustainable practices of addressing SARV and conducting Indigenous social research in PNG and elsewhere. The findings add new perspectives to local and international conversations of SARV. An important outcome was the photovoice booklet, a resource to educate and sustain advocacy against SARV in PNG.
JESSEN, Rebecca
Thesis Title
'A presence that can't be seen': Poetry, Digital Media and Lesbian Identity Made Visible
Supervisors
- Professor Sarah Jane Holland‑Batt (Principal Supervisor)
- Dr Rohan David Wilson (Associate Supervisor)
Citation
This practice-led creative writing project asks how contemporary Australian poetry can interrogate and respond to the performance of lesbian identity on digital media. The thesis comprises an exegesis that challenges historically negative depictions of lesbian identity through analysis of the internet meme, and a collection of poems, Girl on Girl, which embraces the joys of collective identity, while recognising the ways that selfhood is often more interesting and complex. Together, this research furthers understanding of lesbian representation in Australian poetry, asking how poetry that engages with digital media can offer visible futures while balancing collective and individual expression.
LARIN, Genine Marie
Thesis Title
Empathic Gestures: Exploring Emergent States of Being as an Aesthetic Practice of Existence
Supervisors
- Dr Kiley Gaffney (Principal Supervisor)
- Dr Courtney Brook Pedersen (Associate Supervisor)
- Adjunct Professor Robert Schweitzer (Associate Supervisor)
Citation
This project explores somatic feelings, emotions, and behaviour patterns through sculpture, installation, video, and performance. In addition to studying the principles of writing the body and the concept that the personal is political from feminist discourse, I consider the work of four key feminist visual artists from the 1970s who exemplify contemporary understandings of trauma and somatic approaches to healing. By identifying feminist creative methods and key observable actions, I demonstrate how engaging in creative practice can provide a safe and supportive therapeutic space that is responsive to the effects of distress and trauma, supporting the creative practitioner.
MAHER, Richard Brooke
Thesis Title
Tinker Tailor Soldier Dancer: The Role of Dance in Enhancing Quality of Life for Australian Veterans with a History of Trauma‑Related Psychological Injury
Supervisors
- Professor Gene Margaret Moyle (Principal Supervisor)
- Adjunct Professor Robert Schweitzer (Associate Supervisor)
- Dr Sarah Wilbur (External Supervisor)
Citation
This study significantly advances our understanding of how dance can effectively improve the quality of life for Australian veterans suffering from trauma-related psychological injuries. The program of research led to the creation, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive, dance-based intervention model with capacity for replication. Through a detailed case study analysis, the feasibility of this intervention program was demonstrated, focusing on its impact on veterans' perceived quality of life and their therapeutic relationships with mental health clinicians.
MALONEY, Kristen Leigh
Thesis Title
Augmented Performance: Creating Authentic Narratives Through the Integration of Augmented Reality via a Smartphone Application in Live Performance
Supervisors
- Dr Kathryn Louise Kelly (Associate Supervisor)
- Dr David Robert Megarrity (Principal Supervisor)
Citation
In contemporary theatre and performance, the transformative impact of digital technologies is undeniable, yet the integration of augmented reality through a smartphone application in live performance remains relatively unexplored. Coining the term ‘augmented performance’, this research addresses the challenge of blurring the binaries of live and virtual, authenticity and spectacle to create authentic narratives that evoke wonder, curiosity, and meaning-making. Guided by creative practice, the research identifies key components of augmented performance and establishes an Authenticity Framework. The framework serves as a valuable tool for artists and researchers, facilitating the creation and analysis of augmented performances.
NARAIN, Natasha
Thesis Title
Living Kantha: A Creative Interpretation of Bengali Women's Traditional Practices
Supervisors
- Dr Leah King‑Smith (Principal Supervisor)
- Dr Courtney Brook Pedersen (Associate Supervisor)
Citation
This project rectifies the oversimplification and loss of my maternal storytelling heritage of the Bengali Kantha by integrating lesser-known cultural, economic, historical, and personal aspects revealed through a detailed study of select kanthas from the Philadelphia Museum of Art by deploying a practice-led, auto-ethnographic, feminist, and decolonial lens. My creative processes address the silenced voices of women who spoke through kanthas and contribute to an enduring heritage transcending textiles and geographical boundaries. I do so by redefining and expanding the kantha tradition into diverse media forms for a diverse local and transnational audience.