I wrote a piece for the latest issue of NiTRO, an Australian publication interested in the creative arts and how they fit within and outside of academia. There’s been some great articles in there over the years and I am pleased to join in! My piece is titled: Interdisciplinarity in practice: Casual academics, regional universities and doctoral supervision.
I am really excited about an upoming publication that is now available for pre-order: The Doctoral Experience: Student stories from the Creative Arts and Humanities (Brien, Batty, Ellison, Owens).
This book is the product of a surprisingly fruitful project that I was part of with my exceptional colleagues – Donna Brien, Craig Batty, and Alison Owens – and a host of generous, interesting research students. This book features their stories and it was really important to us to make sure we highlighted their voices.
Back in December, as I was preparing for a brief island holiday, I managed to sneak in this article for The Conversation, called ‘Ten great Australian beach reads set at the beach‘. While it is by no means a definitive list, it certainly includes some that I think are really significant beach books but also ones that showcase some of the diversity of beach writing in Australia. Continue reading
This post is more personal than anything else on this site. Please be aware this post mentions cancer.
I had the pleasure of chatting again with Jonathan Green and a panel of guests on Radio National’s Blueprint for Living. The session was all about serenity, and I was alongside two other presenters based in Melbourne: one discussing the Japanese garden, and the other architectural design. You can find the download link here.
On Friday (August 18), I ran my first ever symposium! It was a really enjoyable day, with some excellent papers and ongoing conversations about the Australian beach and what it means to us as a country, in our fiction, on our screens, and under our feet. The original call for papers can be found here.
I wanted to capture some of the day in a blog post while it is still fresh in my mind, and also acknowledge and thank the enthusiasm and generosity of all the attendees. It was a day with wide ranging levels of experience from professor level through to very early emerging scholars. Regardless, it was a collegial atmosphere and an exciting day.
You might have heard me recently chatting with the personable and engaging Jonathan Green on Radio National’s Blueprint for Living! It was such a fun experience to be able to talk about the ‘dark side of the beach’ for a national audience.
