CCAT supervision projects
Members of the Centre have a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise in the humanities and social sciences. CCAT especially welcomes graduate students wishing to pursue research higher degrees across its programs: Cultural Science, Creative Productivity, Digital Culture & New Media, Indigenous Knowledge Networks, New Models of Publishing, International Programs.
Members also welcome individual research proposals across a broad range of topics related, for instance, to the creative economy, internet studies, new media and philosophy, narrative and technology, Indigenous media, the creative workforce, creative cities, science fiction, user-created content, digital media (including publishing, music, TV and journalism), creative industries in developing and emerging economies (e.g. China, Indonesia), and the relations among culture, technology, the economy and education.
Members have recently graduated PhDs with topics in digital storytelling, video spoofs in China, inter-language relations on the internet, fashion journalism, creative cities, propaganda archives, transmedia entertainment, advertising campaigns, TV drama, user-created content on YouTube, copyright in Chinese creative industries, and a history of the swimsuit.
Anne Aly
- Anne Marie Balbi, ‘Constructing counter-narratives to terrorism: A comparative analysis of collective resistance in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Bali and Norway’
- Scott Farris-White, ‘Assessing the ongoing relevancy of the International Criminal Court in the wake of the Arab Spring’
- Jason Thomas, ‘Exploring home grown terrorism: The OODA Loop, non-state actors and asymmetric warfare’
- Maysoon Saleem, ‘Collaboration between academic libraries in Australia and Iraq to address the information gap in Iraq’
- Akram Shareef, ‘Translating Stow’s Merry Go Round in the Sea for an Iraqi audience’
- Alusine Kamara, topic TBC.
Dawn Bennett
Key research supervision interests: Creative labour markets, the role of identity development in student learning, music education, and the impact of research policy frameworks on academic work
Principal supervisor
- Laura Kittel, PhD candidate: ‘Happiness in human rights: Spiritual empowerment for social change’
Associate supervisor:
- Diana Roberts, PhD candidate: ‘South West contemporary visual art and design practice: An expression of the intellectual and imaginative life of the region’
- Susan Waller, PhD candidate: ‘Artists as change agents: How visual artists can contribute to sustainability’
Robert Briggs
Key research supervision interests: Cultural and literary theory (particularly post-structuralism); continental philosophy (particularly Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Hegel and Nietzsche); new media and digital culture; theories and technologies of writing; popular narrative and popular media; creative criticism; sound studies; twentieth century literature
Principal supervisor:
- Dylan Hewson, PhD candidate: ‘The isolation and exploration of unthought’
- Yaya Mori, PhD candidate: ‘Search for the political in the public sphere in an age of consumerisation’
- Francis Russell, PhD candidate: ‘Technics and Phenomena: The technical enframing of the human and the speculative elimination of the given’
- Paul Sommers, PhD candidate: ‘The perception of time in film: Implications for the study of cinema in secondary schools’
Associate supervisor:
- Danny Jennings, PhD candidate: ‘Enchanted Motion: Exploring the infinite geometric nature of space and time as seen through the flow and growth of natural phenomena’
Scott Fitzgerald
Principal supervisor:
- Nick Pendergast, PhD candidate: ‘Sociological examination of the contemporary animal advocacy vovement: Organisations, rationality and veganism’
Sean Gorman
Key research supervision interests: Indigenous history, social justice issues, Australian sport history, local history, biography/autobiography
Associate supervisor:
- Jess Coyle, PhD candidate: ‘Connecting the dots: Case studies into the “invisible presence” of Aboriginal people living in Victoria’
- Paul Oliver, PhD candidate: ‘The power of sport: Building social bridges and breaking down cultural barriers’
- Renee Parnell, PhD candidate: ‘Culturally considerate procurement and design of educational spaces for Indigenous Western Australians’
John Hartley
Key research supervision interests: Media and communication, cultural studies, journalism studies, cultural science
Principal supervisor:
- He (Jan) Zhang, PhD candidate: ‘Entering the digital age: D.H. Lawrence in China’
Associate supervisor:
- Allan Vickers, PhD candidate: ‘Looking over the cognitive horizon: Understanding the relationship between creativity, genius and intellectual property in small internet media business start-ups’
Tama Leaver
Key research supervision interests: Social media, online identities, digital media, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, social and casual gaming, media distribution, copyright (in particular the Creative Commons and other alternative copyright arrangements), cultural studies, embodiment, film studies, science fiction, flexible delivery, open educational resources (OERs), and teaching and learning in higher education’
Primary supervisor:
- Salim Said Al-Kindi, PhD candidate: ‘Shaping internet innovation for teaching and learning: A case study of Information Studies Department at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman’
Associate supervisor:
- Amelia Beare, PhD candidate: ‘Conditional access and systems of narrative management and mediation: Applying interactivity to storytelling’
- Paul McLaughlan, PhD candidate: ‘Beyond the eBook: Digital ecologies and the future of the author-publisher relationship, and bibliotek: A novel’
- Karen Murphy, PhD candidate: ‘The Australian suburban archetype: Utilising the convegence of narrative poetry and blog fiction using metafictional techniques’
- Diane Spencer-Scarr, PhD candidate: ‘Digital network engagement: An investigation of the tool ecology of humans and computing in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry’
- Erin Stark, PhD candidate: ‘Re-placing the networked self: An exploration of place and identity in Perth’s online social networks’
Henry Siling Li
Key research supervision interests: Social media, political participation, and popular culture
Associate supervisor:
- He (Jan) Zhang, PhD candidate: ‘Entering the digital age: D.H. Lawrence in China’
Steve Mickler
Principal supervisor:
- Jess Coyle, PhD candidate: ‘Connecting the dots: Case studies into the “invisible presence” of Aboriginal people living in Victoria’
Michele Willson
Key research supervision interests: Communication and media, community theory, online communities, social networks, Facebook, social and casual gaming, social media, online identities, actor network theory, social theory, technology theory and philosophy, internet studies, continental philosophy
Principal supervisor:
- David Cake, PhD candidate: ‘The multi-stakeholder model in global internet governance institutions’
- Barbara Combes, PhD candidate: ‘Tech savvy or tech oriented? Information-seeking behaviour and the Net Generation’
- Gerard Gill, PhD candidate: ‘Shifting landscapes of power in activism?’
- Shafiq Gopee, PhD candidate: ‘The digital inequality: Internet in Mauritius’
- Mark Perkins, Masters’ candidate: ‘Rural internet: The uses of ICTs and its effects on perceptions of isolation in Australian rural and remote communities’
- Deviani Setyorini, PhD candidate: ‘Internet policy in Indonesia: establishing universal access in a democratic society’
- Mescal Stephens, PhD candidate: ‘Translation of national environmental management programs by the State of Western Australia, the Commonwealth Government, and Perth Region NRM, a citizen group’
- Nicki Wragg, PhD candidate: ‘Professional web design and interactivity: a study of web designers’ understanding and practice of interactivity’
Associate supervisor:
- Cynthia Verspaget, PhD candidate: ‘Unruly bodies: Monstrous readings of biotechnology’