Research News
Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts.
Book
Bee Chen Goh, Rob Garbutt and Baden Offord (eds.), Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts (Ashgate Press, London, 2012). ISBN 9781409430766, 270 pages
Website for book: Link
Includes articles by SASS scholars (names in bold text):
Baden Offord and John Ryan, 'Peace building education: enabling human rights and social justice through cultural studies pedagogy,' In Bee Chen Goh, Baden Offord and Rob Garbutt (eds.), Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts. (London, Ashgate: 2012). pp. 27-44.
Bee Chen Goh, Baden Offord and Rob Garbutt 'Activating Human Rights and Peace: Overview,' In Bee Chen Goh, Baden Offord and Rob Garbutt (eds.), Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts. (London, Ashgate: 2012). pp. 1-12.
Janie Conway-Herron, 'Voice of Hope: Storytelling and Human Rights,' In Bee Chen Goh, Baden Offord and Rob Garbutt (eds.), Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts. (London, Ashgate: 2012). pp. 79-90.
Rob Garbutt, 'Everyday Peace, Human Rights, Belonging and Local Activism in a 'Peaceful' nation,' In Bee Chen Goh, Baden Offord and Rob Garbutt (eds.), Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts. (London, Ashgate: 2012). pp. 143-158.
Baden Offord, Rob Garbutt and Bee Chen Goh, 'Activating Human Rights and Peace: Perspectives and Observations,' In Bee Chen Goh, Baden Offord and Rob Garbutt (eds.), Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts. (London, Ashgate: 2012). pp. 243-248.
Contact
A/Prof. Baden Offord
e: baden.offord@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Rob Garbutt
e: rob.garbutt@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
North of Hollywood North: Bowen Island and Screen Production Networks
Journal Article
'North of Hollywood North: Bowen Island and Screen Production Networks' Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures Volume 6, Number 1, 2012, pp 67-82.
Available via this Link
Associate Professor Rebecca Coyle
Pagan religiousness as 'networked individualism'
Book Chapters
Coco, Angela, 2012, Pagan religiousness as 'networked individualism', In Fowler, M, Martin, J.D. & Hochheimer, J.L. (eds). Spirituality: Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy. Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 125-136,ISBN: 978-1-84888-091-7, 374 pages.
Available via this Link
Dervin, B., Clark, Kathleen D.; Coco, A.; Foreman-Wernet, L.; Rajendram, C.P. & Reinhard,C.D. 2012 Sense-Making as methodology for spirituality theory, praxis, pedagogy, and research. In Fowler, M, Martin, J.D. & Hochheimer, J.L. (eds). Spirituality: Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy. Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 83-94, ISBN: 978-1-84888-091-7, 374 pages.
Available via this Link
Contact
Dr Angela Coco
e: angela.coco@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
One-22
Journal Article
Costello, Patricia and Costello, Moya 2012, 'One-22', Etchings melb: The Feminine, no 10, pp 31-38.
Available via this Link
Contact
Dr Moya Costello and Dr Denise Rall
e: moya.costello@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Activating cultural studies in the wilds of the knowledge economy
Guest Editors
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
Special Issue: A Scholarly Affair Guest Editors: Baden Offord, Grayson Cooke and Rob Garbutt Volume 26 Number 2, 2012. Available via this Link
Includes articles by SASS scholars:
Baden Offord, Grayson Cooke & Rob Garbutt (2012) 'A scholarly affair: Activating cultural studies in the wilds of the knowledge economy', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 26, 2, 187-190.
Kim Satchell, (2012) 'Sing Me Byron Bay,' Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 26, 2, 249-259.
Contact
A/Prof. Baden Offord
e: baden.offord@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Grayson Cooke
e: grayson.cooke@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Rob Garbutt
e: rob.garbutt@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Kim Satchell
e: kim.satchell@scu.edu.au
Into the borderlands
Journal Article
Rob Garbutt, Soenke Biermann & Baden Offord (2012). Into the borderlands: unruly pedagogy, tactile theory and the decolonising nation, Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies Volume 26, Issue 1, 62-81.
Available via this Link
Contact
Dr Dr Rob Garbutt
e: rob.garbutt@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Soenke Biermann
e: soenke.biermann@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
A/Prof. Baden Offord
e: baden.offord@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Eulogy for a fisherman's village'
On-line Creative Arts Journal
Smith, John, 2012, Verity la
Contact
John Smith
e: john.smith@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Australasian Association of Writing Programs Conference
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Available via this Link
Includes articles by SASS scholars (names in bold text):
Conway-Herron Janie, Costello, Moya and Hawryluk, Lynda (eds) 2011, Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds papers – the refereed proceedings of the 16th conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Byron Bay, NSW., 23-25 November, Australian Association of Writing Programs.
Brien, Donna Lee & Wessell, Adele From "training in citizenship and home-making" to "plating up": Writing Australian cookbooks for younger readers"
Baker, Dallas J Creative and Critical Reflexivity: Queer Writing as an Ethics of the Self
Conway-Herron, Janie White Australia's Black History: Writing Australian cultural sensitivities
Cook, Nell Trauma, Botox and the burqa: in polyvalent gothic stories
Eales, Mic Researching Suicide via Empathic Inquiry: Speaking the silences
Gibbons, Sacha Violent Criticism
Nahrung, Nollie Unstraightening: Ethical adventures with queer heterosexuality in an open text
Contact
Dr Janie Conway-Herron
e: janie.conway@scu.edu.au
Australia: terra omnium, Slippery as a fish , and Travelling (east-west)
A Work in an Anthology
Costello, Moya 2012, 'Australia: terra omnium', 'Slippery as a fish' , and 'Travelling (east-west)', in Linda Godfrey and Julie Chevalier (eds) , Small Wonder: an anthology of prose poetry and microfiction. Spineless Wonders, Strawberry Hills, NSW, pp 37-47.
Contact
Dr Moya Costello and Dr Denise Rall
e: moya.costello@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Design Education and Institutional Transformation
Book Chapter
Computational Design Methods and Technologies: Applications in CAD, CAM and CAE Education
Ning Gu (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Xiangyu Wang (Curtin University, Australia)
Release Date: January, 2012. Copyright © 2012. 491 pages.
Available via this Link
Contact
Dr Dean Bruton
e: dean.bruton@scu.edu.au
Gambling Research
Research Projects
Sass scholar indicated in bold text
Substantive Grant. A comparative study of men and women gamblers in Victoria: Product preferences, styles of play and risk and protective factors - Prof. Nerilee Hing (CI), Dr Barry Tolchard (UNE), Dr Elaine Nuske (CGER), Dr Louise Holdsworth (CGER). $100,000.
ECR Grant. How significant life events, psychological co-morbidity and related social factors contribute to increased levels of gambling and gambling problems. CIs are Dr Louise Holdsworth and Dr Elaine Nuske with Dr. Nerilee Hing as official "Mentor". $25,000.
The effectiveness of self-exclusion programs in Queensland (Investigators: Hing,Holdsworth, Nuske, Tolchard; Research Assistance: Tiyce; QLD Department ofJustice and Attorney General ) $263,625
Contact
Dr Elaine Nuske
e: elaine.nuske@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Responding to problem gamblers in the venue
Journal Articles
Sass scholar indicated in bold text
Hing, N. & Nuske, E. (2012). Responding to problem gamblers in the venue: Role conflict, role ambiguity and other challenges for hospitality staff. Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism, 11, 1-19.
Hing, N. & Nuske, E. (2011) The Self-Exclusion Experience for Problem Gamblers in South Australia, Australian Social Work, DOI:10.1080/0312407X.2011.594955
Hing, N., & Nuske, E. (2011). Assisting problem gamblers in the gaming venue: An assessment of practices and procedures followed by frontline hospitality staff. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 30(2), 459-467
Hing, N., & Nuske, E. (2011). Assisting problem gamblers in the gaming venue: A counsellor perspective. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 9(6), 696-708.
Refereed Conference Presentations
Holdsworth, L, Nuske, E. & Breen, H. (2011). Only the lonely: An analysis of women's experiences of poker machine gambling. Paper presented at the 21st Annual National Association for Gambling Studies Conference, Crown Convention Centre, Melbourne, 23-25 November.
Milner, L. & Nuske, E. (2011) Laying your Cards on the Table: Representations of Gambling in the Media. National Association for Gambling Studies (NAGS) Conference, Melbourne, 23 – 25th Nov. 2011
Research report
Hing, N., Nuske, E. & Gainsbury, S. (2011) Gamblers at-risk and their help-seeking behaviour. Final Report for Gambling Australia
Contact
Dr Elaine Nuske
e: elaine.nuske@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Aboriginal organizational response to the need for culturally appropriate services in three small Canadian cities
Journal Article
Sass scholar indicated in bold text
Dixon Sookraj, Peter Hutchinson, Michael Evans, Mary Ann Murphy, and The Okanagan Urban Aboriginal Health Research Collective, "Aboriginal organizational response to the need for culturally appropriate services in three small Canadian cities" Journal of Social Work 2012;12 136-157
Available via this Link
Contact
Prof. Mike Evans
e: sasshos@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Cultural Literacy and Social Justice
Journal Article
Sass scholar indicated in bold text
Baden Offord and John Ryan, 'Cultural Literacy and Social Justice: Enabling Human Rights in and Beyond the Classroom,' Learning and Teaching: an international journal in classroom pedagogy. Vol. 4, no. 1, 2011, pp. 27-40.
Contact
A/Prof. Baden Offord
e: baden.offord@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
A Scholarly Affair: Activating Cultural Studies
Guest Editors - Journal Articles
Special double issue of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies (Vol 34, Iss 1-2)
Available via this Link
Edited by Dr Rob Garbutt and Associate Professor Baden Offord, this special issue is a product of the 2010 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference held at Byron Bay and organised under the auspices of the School of Arts and Social Sciences and the Centre for Peace and Social Justice.
Contains papers by five SASS staff:
A Call for Slow Scholarship: A Case Study on the Intensification of Academic Life and Its Implications for Pedagogy
by Yvonne Hartman and Sandy Darab
A Scholarly Affair: Activating Cultural Studies
by Rob Garbutt and Baden Offord
Outback and Beyond: Live Media as Live research
by Grayson Cooke
Contacts
Dr Dr Rob Garbutt
e: rob.garbutt@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
A/Prof. Baden Offord
e: baden.offord@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Yvonne Hartman
e: yvonne.hartman@scu.edu
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Sandy Darab
e: sandy.darab@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Grayson Cooke
e: grayson.cooke@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
The Productivity Commission Inquiry into Aged Care: A Critical Review
Journal Article
In journal: Australian Social Work, 64:4, 526-536
Available via this Link
Contact
A/Prof. Mark Hughes
e: mark.hughes@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Using communication theory to explore emergent organisation in Pagan culture
Journal Article
In Journal: Australian Religion Studies Review
Available via this Link
Contact
Dr Angela Coco
e: angela.coco@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Screening Unions:Assisting Problem Gamblers in the Gaming
Journal Article
A Counsellor Perspective, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Available via this Link
Contact
Dr Elaine Nuske
e: elaine.nuske@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Screening Unions: Representations of Worker-citizenship in Australian Films
Journal Article
International Journal of the Arts in Society, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp.139-150.
Available via this Link
Contact
Dr Lisa Milner
e: lisa.milner@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Musical Modernism in Brian May's Australian Film Scores
Journal Article
Screening the Past (32).
Available via this link www.musical-modernism-in-brian-may
Associate Professor Rebecca Coyle
Michael Hannan
e: michael.hannan@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Regions of Refuge: research into the settlement of refugees in the Northern Rivers and Mid-North Coast
Research Project
This is new research working under the auspices of the Centre for Children and Young People. We are investigating various aspects of refugee settlement. In 2012, we are working in partnership with Sanctuary Northern Rivers and establishing a community reference group. This is community engaged research in which community groups and researchers collaborate on groups' areas of research need. Key informant interviews have been conducted and 2 projects are being mounted in 2012. An Honours candidate from the Media program is working on one of these projects. A spin-off from this activity is that the inter-disciplinary research team haveengaged in action research with IT services at SCU to secure and implement the NVivo 9 server which is now available for researchers SCU wide to facilitate use of NVivo in managing their projects and research data.
Contact
Dr Angela Coco
e: angela.coco@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Women's leadership in culinary culture
Research Project
This research contributes to an ARC linkage grant led by Patricia Grimshaw documenting the extent and nature of women's leadership within democratic change. Adele's contribution will be to discuss the patterns, themes and achievements around women's leadership in culinary culture. A forthcoming article in Write4Children co-authored with Donna Brien includes research on individual women, such as Flora Pell and Lucy Drake, which is ongoing.
Contact
Dr Adele Wessell
e: adele.wessell@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Stories from New Italy and the Region
Research Project
These projects will identify and celebrate influences of Italy in Richmond River food, narratives and landscape, beginning in the 1880s with the first arrival of Italians at New Italy and continuing through to the 1950s with the continuing migration of people from Italy across the Richmond Valley region. The project will culminate in a cookbook and interpretive displays for the New Italy Museum Complex.
Contact
Dr Adele Wessell
e: adele.wessell@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Leonie Lane
e: leonie.lane@scu.edu.au
Wedding Cakes: A slice of history
Research Project
This research on the history of wedding cakes in Australia complements the Bendigo Art Gallery exhibition, "The White Wedding Dress" and will contribute to an edited collection on the popular culture of romantic love in Australia, led by Dr Hsu-Ming Teo at Macquarie University. The aim of the research is to understand how Australian's beliefs and ideals around romantic love have changes over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Wedding cakes are examined as a popular cultural practice that reflects ideas about romantic love to Australians.
Contact
Dr Adele Wessell
e: adele.wessell@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Land Histories
Research Project
This project is in collaboration with farm families to develop a series of case studies of land histories in the Northern Rivers. Each case study will be an intensive examination of the development of farming practices and attendant transformations of local ecologies of defined blocks of land. Through these biographies of particular plots of land we will develop localized analyses of the wider historical trends in the political economy/ecology of the area.
Contact
Dr Adele Wessell
e: adele.wessell@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Prof. Mike Evans
e: sasshos@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Hazel Ferguson
e: hazel.ferguson@scu.edu.au
Older lesbians and work in the Australian health and aged care sector (with Sujay Kentlyn)
Research Project
This project involves an analysis of older lesbians' relationships to work, primarily within the context of health and aged care settings. It is based on narrative research with older lesbians talking about their experiences of work and expectations for care in later life. Completion date is 2012.
Contact
A/Prof. Mark Hughes
e: mark.hughes@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Diversity and older lesbian and gay people's care networks (with Sujay Kentlyn)
Research Project
This project involves the identification of networks of care provided to older lesbian and gay people and the ways in which sexual identity is acknolwedged and negotiated within these networks. Interviews have been conducted with older lesbian and gay people, as well as formal and informal carers. Completion date is 2011.
Contact
A/Prof. Mark Hughes
e: mark.hughes@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Analysis of the Productivity Commission Report on Aged Care
Research Project
This study involves a critical policy analysis of the Productivity Commission's Report on Aged Care, identifying the ideological and other drivers for reform, the likely impact on the quality of care provided, and the implications for professions such as social work. Completion date is 2011.
Contact
A/Prof. Mark Hughes
e: mark.hughes@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Live Audio-Visual Performance in Australia
SCU Recruitment Grant 2011-12
Research Project
The aim of this project is to contribute to knowledge regarding the status and practices of live audio-visual performance in Australia; to explore the ideas and assumptions underpinning these practices, and to tease out both the history and uniqueness of live audio-visual performance in Australia, and the limitations facing this practice in this country. Filmed interviews are being conducted with practitioners of live a/v performance, with a view to publishing analyses of the interviews in appropriate public fora, in print and online.
View the online documentary via this Link
Contact
Dr Grayson Cooke
e: grayson.cooke@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Outback and Beyond: A Live Australian Western
SCU Recruitment Grant 2011-12
Live Audio-Visual Performance
"Outback and Beyond" is a collaboration between Rome-based sound artist Mike Cooper, and Grayson Cooke. To Mike's soundtrack of deconstructed Blues, lap-steel guitar and processed electronics, Grayson performs a live re-mix of archival footage of the Australian outback, from titles held by the National Film and Sound Archive. Mike recites a libretto that meditates on the adventures and misadventures of Charles Todd, the engineer who built the Trans-Australian telegraph in 1871. The unique result is a live "Australian Western," a meditation on Australian iconography and mythography, the dusty, hard-bitten DNA of national identity. With an outback road-movie soundtrack, and footage from docu-dramas, documentaries and feature films from the 1920s to the 1950s, "Outback and Beyond" presents the audience with a series of micro-narratives reminiscent of the themes and aesthetics of the Western film genre, but crucially, it is a Western set in Australia's outback, reflecting Australia's own relationship to its land, its history and its peoples. This project has so far been performed at the Byron Bay Film Festival and the Griffith Conservatorium in Brisbane.
Contact
Dr Grayson Cooke
e: grayson.cooke@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Kellerman: EXPANDED
Live Audio-Visual Performance and Journal Article
"Kellerman: EXPANDED" is a live audio-visual performance produced for and performed at the 2011 SICRI Conference in the Whitsunday Islands region of Queensland, Australia. It has also been performed in Lismore at the NORPA "Experiments in the Dark" event and the "Jurassic Lounge" performance series at the Australian Museum, Sydney. The performance is a live remix of film footage by or about Australian champion swimmer and silent film star Annette Kellerman. In this performance, undersea footage is mixed in with the Kellerman films to produce an undersea fantasia, a meditation on the expanded temporality and fantasy of the island paradise. Audience members are invited to interact live with the performance, by submitting silent-film inter-titles as blog comments, which were mixed into the performance via RSS feeds. As well as being a meditation on the temporality of the underwater experience, the performance, and the research around it, represents an enquiry into audience interactivity and narrativity in live a/v performance.
'Kellerman: EXPANDED. A Live Audio-Visual Performance in the Whitsundays.' Shima, vol 6 no. 1 (2012): 147-155.
View via this Link
Contact
Dr Grayson Cooke
e: grayson.cooke@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia: Arrested Development
Book Chapter, Baden Offord
'Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia: Arrested Development,' In - The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Tremblay, Paternotte and Johnson (eds.), (London:Ashgate Press), 2011.
For more information: Ashgate Press webpage
Contact
A/Prof. Baden Offord
e: baden.offord@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Labour biography on screen: the case of Freda Brown
Research Project
The written biographies and memoirs of activists and leaders have long been core components of labour history. But biography is not only a literary genre – it is also a type of audio-visual production. The popular, and rapidly expanding, industry of screening history incorporates film and television biography, and this has been acknowledged in labour history. However, whilst scholars have analysed the representation of workers in Australian films, the interpretation and the implications of screen productions as biography, for Australian labour history, have been to date relatively unexplored. The ways in which history and politics become visualised are the ways in which history and politics becomes a part of our lives. Thus, an important area of interest for this research is visual citizenship, that is, the representation on screen of an individual's community, citizenship, nationality, even belonging. This research analyses the 1995 episode of the documentary series Australian Biography (SBS 1992-2007) which focused on communist and women's activist Freda Brown (1919-2009). It investigates the historical and political process of compiling a filmic biography, and explores how this particular production deals with biography, notably with the collaborative, networking aspects of Brown's career highlights. This research is associated with the commissioning of Dr Milner to write Brown's biography.
Available at this Link
Contact
Dr Lisa Milner
e: lisa.milner@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Rosemary Webb
e: rosemary.webb@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Innovative Models for Regional Creative Industries
Research Project
This project will involve undertaking specific field work in regional creative industries and innovation in British Columbia (BC) and conducting a comparative study of policies and practices in Australia and Canada in relation to regional creative industries, with particular emphasis on screen production. It will enable an investigation of how policies can translate into sustainable practices in creative industries operating in regional contexts. A case-study of screen production networks in BC will provide a focused component of a broader investigation of creative industries. A network of relevant research collaborators will build a team for future projects.
Associate Professor Rebecca Coyle
Wood for the trees
Research Project
This project, inspired by the exhibition Wood for the Trees curated by Brett Addlington from Lismore Regional Gallery, explores the role of trees and wood in the historical and cultural context of the far north coast of New South Wales.
The project team comprises Dr. Moya Costello and Dr. Rob Garbutt.
Contact
Dr Dr Rob Garbutt
e: rob.garbutt@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
The role of religions in supporting refugees and the ways this contributes to community development
Research Project
This is new research in the area of 'The role of religions in contributing to community development' under the auspices of the Regional Futures Institute research cluster. The aim is to develop community engaged research in which community groups and researchers collaborate on groups' areas of research need. Key informant interviews have been conducted and 2 projects will be mounted in 2012. We aim to secure an Honours candidate to work on at least one of these projects. A spin-off from this activity is that the inter-disciplinary research team are engaging in action research with IT services at SCU to secure and implement the NVivo 9 server which will facilitate group's use of NVivo in managing their projects and research data.
Contact
Dr Angela Coco
e: angela.coco@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Murray Bail
Research Project
A paper developed from Murray Bail and other manuscript collections from the National Library, Canberra.
Contact
Dr Moya Costello
e: moya.costello@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Federal Election Media: Australia Votes
Research Project
A For decades, the media has been increasingly central to the conduct of elections. Politicians have made their marks in highly produced radio, film and television advertisements to further their cause, educate voters, and contribute to informed decision-making at the ballot box. Well before the advent of television, politicians were massaging the media. Since the 1920s and the days of valve radios and silent film, election campaign media has set the agenda for pre- and post-election debate, helped to define the experience of citizenship for the voter, and reflected carefully selected images of the voting nation to themselves. Lisa Milner has been awarded a Fellowship at the National Film and Sound Archive's Scholars and Artists in Residence program, to compile and analyse a history of Australian screen election advertisements. This project has a number of anticipated research outcomes connected with the holdings of the NFSA. The postfellowship research will detail the ways in which the development of narratives and stylistic tropes in these campaigns provide a unique window into exploring the changing relationship between the representational powers of media and citizenship, and how popular media has informed Australians' engagement in the democratic process.
Contact
Dr Lisa Milner
e: lisa.milner@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
A Measure of Instinct: recent paintings and drawings
Research Project
This is a practice-based research project that encompasses abstract and figurative formats of acrylic painting and mixed media that investigates performative gestural mark making as a basis for developing a sustainable painting practice. The strategy engages with ideas spanning embodied subjectivity and 'physical thinking' deployed against a background of Art Brut stylistic approaches and Somaesthetics. The resultant exhibition and previous shows can be viewed at:
www.wattersgallery.com/artists/SMITH/smith.html
Contact
John Smith
e: john.smith@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Fisherman's Village: A multi layered cultural heritage retrieval project interfaced with creative arts production
Research Project
This project investigates the site of a defunct fishing community on the north shore of Botany Bay, it's history and culture over 150 years and employs a range of cultural heritage and creative arts strategies to develop a model for community engaged cultural heritage retrieval. Outcomes have included oral histories, museum display, art exhibition, public interactive sculptural installation, primary and secondary school workshops, archival historical documentation and creative non-fiction writing. Available via this link www.botanyfishingvillage.org
Contact
John Smith
e: john.smith@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Single, older women and housing in the Northern Rivers
Research Project
This project aims to undertake longitudinal, qualitative research to investigate the housing situation for single older women in the Northern Rivers region. This is an under-researched area but indicators suggest a looming housing crisis for this group. Completion date is projected to be 2014.
Contact
Dr Sandy Darab
e: sandy.darab@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Yvonne Hartman
e: yvonne.hartman@scu.edu
Personal Researcher Page
Framing the Unions: The Changing Images of Unionists on Screen
Research Project
Amongst the oldest holdings of the National Film and Sound Archives is a newsreel segment showing the 1917 General Strike, a mass action that was arguably the biggest class conflict in Australian history, involving around 100,000 workers for three months. Since that era, strikes, demonstrations and industrial disputes have been a regular feature of Australian working life, despite the power and membership of unions fluctuating substantially over the course of the 20th century. However Australian screen producers have continued to depict strikes and other actions of trade union members on film, television and now on the internet. In focusing on a selection of screenworks over the past century, from silent newsreels through feature films and union documentaries to YouTube posts, this research project examines the ways that industrial disputes have been represented to their audiences, and discusses how they provide a unique window into exploring the relationships between media and identity. It considers how various screen discourses of unionist representation reflect changing national values, identities, and socio-economic trends.
Contact
Dr Lisa Milner
e: lisa.milner@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Drawn To Sound: Animation Film Music and Sonicity, edited by Rebecca Coyle
Research Project
Animation films are produced around the world and attract sizeable audiences and much critical acclaim. No longer marginalized in genres such as children's or propaganda films, they are increasingly the subject of academic study. At the same time, attention has turned to the music and sound, which contribute to both the emotional impact and the narrative drive, as well as the marketing appeal, of such films. This ground-breaking volume bridges these two fields and also positions animation-film sound and music in the context of the screen and music industries. Drawn to Sound focuses on feature-length, widely distributed films released in the period since World War II, from producers in the USA, UK, Japan and France. It spotlights important studios, including Disney, DreamWorks, Aardman Animation and Studio Ghibli, and composers, both those who collaborate personally with directors and those whose music is used to provide period or mood atmospheres.
Contact
Associate Professor Rebecca Coyle
Fabric and Affect
Research Project
A research project of making an art work and a paper delivered at the 2011 POPCAANZ NZ annual conference now seeking publication.
Contact
Dr Moya Costello and Dr Denise Rall
e: moya.costello@scu.edu.au
Personal Researcher Page
Dr Dr Denise Rall
e: denise.rall@scu.edu.au
Telling Tales on the Weekend: Converged Delivery of Production Units
Research Project
One of the promises held by the role of new media technologies in education is to promote "converged delivery" learning, in part to collapse divisions between external and internal enrolments, but also to strengthen student engagement with emerging online and collaborative technologies. In 2009 a pilot project to remodel a core media unit in converged delivery mode was undertaken at Southern Cross University. The unit, titled "Telling Tales: Introduction to Digital Storytelling," was designed to introduce students to audio-visual production processes and technologies within the context of narrative design and storytelling. This research investigates the collaborative process of unit development, notes the technological and human impacts of the project, and assesses the effectiveness and student experience of the first rollout. It analyses the impact of developing digital technologies on the learning and teaching experience in this pilot project, and reflects on the curriculum design, learning outcomes, and pedagogical opportunities that such a project can offer.
Contact
Dr Lisa Milner
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Dr Grayson Cooke
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Laying your cards on the table: representations of gambling in the media
Research Project
This research project investigates how gambling is portrayed in the Australian media. Taking a survey approach, it describes the ways in which one day's exposure to multiple forms of Australian media present gambling from a polarised and often contradictory number of perspectives. Learning from the media studies field, researchers in the gambling field can benefit from new insights into media's potential to realistically, or otherwise, represent a wide spectrum of gambling behaviours. Recognising the value of media for their strength of effects and relevance for the treatment and policy allows for a sustained and critical engagement with their functions.
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Dr Lisa Milner
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Dr Elaine Nuske
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To Drink Wine from One's Own Region
Research Project
A paper on local wine drinking comparing Adelaide with the Northern Rivers.
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Dr Moya Costello
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From Bananas to Bollywood: the marketing of Coffs Harbour Foodways and the Woolgoolga Curry Festival
Research Project
From the end of World War II, a Punjabi Sikh subculture has been a part of the Coffs Harbour community of NSW, beginning with immigration to farm bananas. Today the area is still the largest Sikh settlement in Australia, and bananas aren't the only thing on their minds. In an area with a growing regional population and an economy largely centred on services and tourism, the town of the Big Banana now looks to expand its tourism and culinary experiences. In 2006 the first Woolgoolga Curry Festival was held, an event that was established by the Woolgoolga Chamber of Commerce. Six years on, the festival attracts an increasing amount of locals and visitors to the area. This research considers the festival as a case study in the expansion of regional food cultures, marketing and tourism.
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Dr Lisa Milner
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Updated: 27 March 2013