Area of study
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Staff member
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Research interests
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Anthropology
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Bryce Barker |
Australian prehistory, aspects of cultural anthropology |
| 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 |
| Celmara Pocock |
Environmental anthropology and history; the anthropology of tourism; Aboriginal history and heritage; cultural heritage tourism; human senses; emotion and museum interpretation; Great Barrier Reef and Tasmania |
Communication and Media Studies
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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 |
| 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 |
| Jill Lawrence |
Higher education; first year experience; transition and retention; cross-cultural communication; access and equity issues |
| Kelly McWilliam |
Film, media and cultural studies; uses and impact of digital media on youth; communities of media consumption and participation; representations and practices of gender and sexuality |
| Andrew Mason |
Theories related to the generation of meaning; a history of arts in the Toowoomba region; investigating epistemological applications of media |
| Creative Media |
John Hetherington |
Satellite TV; Interactive TV; community adoption of digital technologies; cyber documentary form |
| Leonie Jones |
Representation in film, film theory |
| Matthew Nielsen |
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| Stuart Thorp |
Video and animation |
| Editing and Publishing |
Peter Goodall |
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| Pamela Hewitt |
Online publishing and the influence of digital publishing onAustralian language style |
English Literature
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Laurie Johnson |
Shakespeare; early modern studies; cultural studies; phenomenology; psychoanalysis; literary theory |
| Chris Lee |
Australian and post-colonial literatures; the history of criticism; modernism; national mythology; regionalism; representations of conflict |
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History
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Libby Connors |
Queensland history; legal history; social movement history; environmental history |
| Catherine Dewhirst |
Australian migration and community-building histories; Imperialism, diaspora and transnational histories; renaissance history; women's history and gender experience; European and world histories; historiography; family history/biography |
| Maurice French |
Regional and local history, especially Queensland, Darling Downs, and Toowoomba |
| Robert Mason |
Multicultural and regional Australia; migration and refugee studies; legacies and memories of violence; Hispanic and Portuguese heritage in the Asia-Pacific |
Human Services
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Nathan Beel |
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| Eileen Edmonds |
The journey of counselling from its original spiritual/healing concept to that of today's psychotherapeutic intervention |
| John Solas |
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| Lauretta Wright |
Community welfare and development; community informatics; work integrated learning; university-community engagement |
Indigenous Studies
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| Bill McCann |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies; embedding Indigenous perspectives in tertiary curricula; bridging programs for Indigenous students; Indigenous mental health and well-being; social justice and equity issues |
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| Donna Moodie |
Traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, health and well-being, Indigenous indicators in natural resource management, sustainable development, business development, Indigenous art education pedagogies, contemporary Indigenous art, cultural pedagogies, social justice. |
| Myra Singh |
Australian curriculum: embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture into the curriculum, promoting further studies of Science and Mathematics for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, academic support and mentoring of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students through best teaching practice and pedagogy, keeping expectations high, enabling students to acheive outcomes, support structures. |
International Relations
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Richard Gehrmann |
Foreign relations; war and memory; Australian perceptions of Asia, migration and intercountry adoption, Australian cultural identity and cross cultural communication |
| 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 |
| Journalism |
Dianne Jones |
Journalism theory and practice; content analysis; gender representation in the mass media |
| Rebecca Te'o |
News reporting in a changing media landscape; development of layout and design principles for printed and online news pages; feature writing and investigative reporting |
| Caryn Coatney |
Leadership media strategies; political communication; the media and political representation of war; international news coverage; the media portrayal of race/ethnicity; journalism ethics; journalism history; new media |
Languages
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Gabriela Pohl |
Cross-cultural issues in education; strategies-based second language instruction |
| Yan Zhao |
Teaching Chinese as a foreign language; changes in contemporary China 1949 onwards; Falun Gong and its social impact |
| Media Production |
Ashley Jones |
Lecturer (TV and Radio Broadcast) |
| Daryl Sparkes |
Documentary production; children's television production; feature film production; Australian cinema; British cinema |
Music
|
Martin Crook |
Research and performance of contemporary violin, piano and clarinet repertoire; use of vibrato in contemporary reed playing |
| Melissa Forbes |
Contemporary commercial music vocal pedagogy; singing voice science; functional voice training; tertiary music education; group teaching of music; technology supported learning |
| Phillip Gearing |
Matters related to pipe organ music and performance; aural perception |
| Rhoderick McNeill |
Music history and theory; repertory studies; development of the Australian symphony |
| Professional Studies |
Luke Van Der Laan |
Professional practice and self-directed career development; futures research; foresight studies and strategic thinking; leadership and strategy |
| Public Relations |
Alison Feldman |
Organisational leadership; change management; community consultation and development; learning organisations; reputation management |
| Chris Kossen |
Phenomenology; discourse analysis; organisations and older workers; organisational communication; participative planning and decision-making; Corporate branding |
| Barbara Ryan |
Disaster and emergency communication; crisis communication and information seeking; leadership in disaster management; local government communication |
| Social Science |
Malcolm Brown |
Islam, Orientalism and Islamophobia; racism and ethnicity; 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'. |
| Darryl Chalk |
Shakespearean plays and production techniques; theatre and culture of the European Renaissance |
| Bernadette Meenach |
Theatre-making; Pedagogy; language in the training environment; vocal health |
| Janet McDonald |
Theatre for Regional Youth; masculinities and postcoloniality in drama-in-education and boy's education; critical pedagogy and master narratives in drama teaching; history of children's theatre/s in Australia |
| Michael Smalley |
Scenography and scenographic pedagogy; theatre as a site for regional engagement; community and capacity building; and theatre for and by young people |
| Visual Arts |
David Akenson |
German Idealism: 20th Century Continental philosophy: Lacaniian psychoanalysis: 20th Century avant-garde art and American formalist art |
| Beata Batorowicz |
Contemporary art; the role of narratives, fairytales and mythology within Western Art History; cultural theory; feminist theory; psychoanalysis |
| Kyle Jenkins |
Architecture; abstraction; furniture design |
| 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) |
| Stephen Spurrier |
Sequential imaging, in the form of the artist's book; printmaking; works on paper |
| Alexis Tacey |
Tableware specific for contemporary eating styles including Asian and French cuisine, wedding banquets; raw glazing; vases for specific flora |
