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Mr
Maziar
Yazdani
Faculty/Unit:
School of Built Environment
Keywords:
construction management, disaster planning, optimisation, metaheuristics, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, artificial neural network, heuristic optimisation
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Ms
Melinda
Young
Faculty/Unit:
School of Art & Design
Research areas:
Contemporary Jewellery (Australia and International)Contemporary Craft (Australia)
Keywords:
contemporary jewellery, craft, cultural geography, material geography, cultural landscapes, art & design, australian design, textiles, human geography
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Dr
Kasia
Jezowska
Faculty/Unit:
School of Art & Design
Keywords:
Cold War, design exhibitions, eastern europe, design history & theory, teaching design history, industrial design, art & design, visual culture
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Associate Professor
Mary
Zournazi
Faculty/Unit:
School of Social Sciences
Research areas:
Film & Documentary, Culture & Emotion, Hope, Visual Cultures, Justice, Peace, Human & Non-Human relations, Animal StudiesTechnological cultures & change, Sociologies of Ageing and Culture, Social Theory , Digital and Screen Media, Experimental Theatre and Writing, Migration Postcolonial Studies
Keywords:
hope, peace, democracy, emotions, justice, cinema, visual culture, dogs, love, documentary, care
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Professor
Michael
Balfour
Faculty/Unit:
School of the Arts and Media
Research areas:
Michael Balfour's research explores applied theatre and performance work in a range of social contexts. He has extensive experience in prison theatre, refugee performance, performance in sites of war, and with returning servicemen managing mental health issues. His recent research extends to arts and health, where he has completed major studies with play based approach to working with people with mid to late stage dementia, and more recently co-designed virtual reality projects with adolescents with a serious illness in hospital.
Keywords:
creative and performing arts
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Dr
Michael
Hooper
Faculty/Unit:
School of the Arts and Media
Research areas:
My primary areas of expertise are musicology, including the history and analysis of music. I have particular expertise in Australian and British music since the late 20th century.
Keywords:
music, history of music
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Dr
John
Carr
Faculty/Unit:
Humanities & Languages
Research areas:
Urban Geography: Nature and built environments; urban and land planning and politics; globalization and the city; young people in public space; flexible space, urban trauma and built environments Political Ecology: Environmental law and political ecology; political identity and ecological capacity; resilient alternatives to post-Enlightenment modes of production. Legal Geography: Property and environmental law; spatial justice; urban governance; regulation of subaltern populations; geospatial data privacy and ethics
Keywords:
urban geography, environmental law - environmental studies, legal geography, urban politics, city and urban planning, poststructural/postmodern/critical theory, globalization, environmental sustainability, data privacy
Dr
Gail
Kenning
Faculty/Unit:
Nat Inst Experimental Arts
Research areas:
My expertise is in the area of arts and design engagement, psychosocial wellbeing and exploring how creativity supports mental and physical health. Specifically in the area of immersive media and emotion. My particular focus is in the area of ageing and dementia.
Keywords:
art, design, technology, ageing, dementia, psychosocial
Associate Professor
Yi
Zheng
Faculty/Unit:
Humanities & Languages
Research areas:
Chinese literature and culture, Comparative intellectual and cultural history, Contemporary Chinese culture and society
Associate Professor
Ping
Wang
Faculty/Unit:
Humanities & Languages
Research areas:
Classical Chinese literature and philosophy; Chinese language and culture