Area of study
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Staff member
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Research interests
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| Anthropology |
Bryce Barker |
Australian prehistory, Aspects of cultural anthropology |
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Lara Lamb |
Australian stone tool technologies; Changing technologies economies and settlement patterns in pre-European contexts in the Whitsunday region; incorporation of 'devout imagery' as body adornment in historical and contemporary cross-cultural settings |
| Communication and Media Studies |
Karey Harrison
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Philosophy of language and science, epistemology, models and metaphor, feminist and political theory, discourses on media, education, environment, economics and power |
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Andrew Mason |
Theories related to the generation of meaning; a history of arts in the Toowoomba region; investigating epistemological applications of media |
| Editing and Publishing |
Peter Goodall |
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| English Literature |
Laurie Johnson |
Cultural studies; literary theory, psychoanalysis, renaissance literature, 18th century literature |
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Chris Lee |
Australian and post-colonial literature; the history of criticism; space, place and Identity; representation of war; Australian studies, popular literature |
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Brian Musgrove |
Victorian and modernist literature; cultural studies |
| History |
Libby Connors |
Queensland history; legal history; social movement history; environmental history |
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Catherine Dewhirst |
Italian immigration history; Italian notables; ethnic identity |
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Maurice French |
Australian 19th century history, Australian regional history; Queensland history; Darling Downs history |
| Human Services |
Ian Richards |
Community Development; Ethics Sustainability; Telecommunications; Software Engineering |
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Lauretta Wright |
Community welfare and development; community informatics |
| International Relations |
Richard Gehrmann |
Australians in colonial Asia; international relations; Australian foreign relations; Southeast Asian politics and history |
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Anna Hayes |
Chinese history; gender issues in the PRC; gendered perspectives of human security, and the threats posed by pandemic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS on global human security |
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Don McMillen |
Asia/China history, policies; international relations |
| Journalism |
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Dianne Jones |
Journalism theory and practice; content analysis; gender representation in the mass media |
| Languages |
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Gabriela Pohl |
Cross-cultural issues in education; strategies-based second language instruction |
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Yan Zhao |
Teaching Chinese as a foreign language; changes in contemporary China 1949 onwards; Falun Gong and its social impact |
| Media Production |
John Hetherington |
Satellite TV; Interactive TV; community adoption of digital technologies; cyber documentary form |
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Leonie Jones |
Representation in film, film theory |
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Daryl Sparkes |
Documentary production; children's television production; feature film production; Australian cinema; British cinema |
| Multimedia |
David Boreham |
Multimedia; Interactivity |
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Stuart Thorp |
Video and animation |
| Music |
Judith Crispin |
Composition: Acoustic or electro-acoustic composition folios; Musicology: Australian Music, 20th/21st century music, Modernism, Serialism, Alternate tunings, Micro-tonality, Mechanical Musical Instruments, Music and Mysticism, Music and the Western Esoteric Tradition, Second Viennese School, Ferruccio Busoni, Larry Sitsky |
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Martin Crook |
Research and performance of contemporary violin, piano and clarinet repertoire; use of vibrato in contemporary reed playing |
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Philip Gearing |
Matters related to pipe organ music and performance; aural perception |
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Rhoderick McNeill |
Music history and theory; repertory studies; development of the Australian symphony |
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Marilyn Meier-Kapavale |
Piano technique; The music of Frederic Chopin; Performance practices; Tongan music |
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Alison Feldman
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Organisational leadership; change management; community consultation and development; learning organisations; reputation management |
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Chris Kossen |
Phenomenology; discourse analysis; organisations and older workers; organisational communication; participative planning and decision-making; Corporate branding |
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Barbara Ryan |
Organisational reputation; reputation in local government and its effect on the way local governments service their communities; the value of communication to local government and their communities |
| Social Science |
Malcolm Brown |
Islam, Orientalism and Islamophobia; racism and ehtnicity; sociology of religion; religious conversion; pacifism; humour studies; comparative methodology. |
| Theatre |
Scott Alderdice |
Investigating multimedia and multi-discipline approaches to learning through creative and performance arts; exploring the development and release of individual creativity through approaches to clown and 'player'. |
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Darryl Chalk |
Shakespearean plays and production techniques; theatre and culture of the European Renaissance |
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Kate Foy |
Actor training, voice and speech for the performer; cross cultural theatre development; modern Australian theatre and drama |
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Robert Ketton |
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Bernadette Pryde |
Theatre-making; Pedagogy; language in the training environment; vocal health |
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Janet McDonald |
Theatre for Regional Youth; masculinities and postcoloniality in drama-in-education and boys education; critical pedagogy and master narratives in drama teaching; history of children's theatre/s in Australia |
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Chris Willems |
Interdisciplinary arts practice; application of performance skills in the corporate communication context |
| Visual Arts |
Uros Cvoro |
Contemporary art and politics, Museology, nationalism, Australian national politics |
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Kyle Jenkins |
Architecture; abstraction; furniture design |
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Simon Mee |
18th century French painting (Boucher, Fragonard etc.); the uses of the figure in contemporary art, with a focus on the two dimensional art works. (Walton Ford, John Currin, Marcel Dzama and Amy Cutler for example) |
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Ann-Maree Reaney |
Sculpture, installation and public art; public art commissioning and curating; Australian and international cross-cultural textiles sculptural practice; new media-video installation |
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Stephen Spurrier |
Sequential imaging, in the form of the artist’s book; printmaking; works on paper |
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Robyn Stewart |
Visuality; Australian and postcolonial contemporary art theory and praxis; research processes for the creative artist; cultural pedagogies and regionality; autobiography, memory and praxis; art education pedagogies |
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Alexis Tacey |
Tableware specific for contemporary eating styles including Asian and French cuisine, wedding banquets; raw glazing; vases for specific flora |
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Kerry Zerner |
Textiles, installation art |
| Core Courses |
Eleanor Kiernan |
The use of multimodal design in hybridised e-learning environments; indigenous students' retention and progression in first year university courses; pedagogy for first year university students; organisational communication |
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Jill Lawrence |
Higher education; first year experience; transition and retention; cross-cultural communication; access and equity issues |
