Key staff within research degrees
Portfolio Leaders
Please contact a Portfolio Leader for more information about research and research education within the School of Art, Architecture and Design.
- Portfolio Leader Research:
- Dr Kathleen Connellan (email Kathleen.Connellan@unisa.edu.au or phone +618 8302 0355)
- Portfolio
Leader Research Education:
- Dr Pamela Zeplin (email Pamela.Zeplin@unisa.edu.au or phone +618 8302 0329)
Research Support Officer
- Hazel Ryder, Room K3-20 (email hazel.ryder@unisa.edu.au or phone +618 8302 0426)
Research degree supervisors
Available research degree supervisors and their specific areas of expertise are provided below (in alphabetical order). You can also do search for a supervisor in the Directory of Research Expertise
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Di Barrett
Studio and theory; feminist theory -
Steven Carson
Contemporary Art and Craft media; improvisation and installation art; a -
Dr Kathleen Connellan
Critical race theory: power and control in designed environments, their relationship with social norms. How design reflects difference, hierarchy and hegemony. Design theory. Craft history: the status of craft in relation to art and design within varied socioeconomic contexts. Design and Art History and Theory Curricula. Art history and theory -
Dr Robert Crocker
History of the interior and the relationship between design and its past. History and theory of consumerism as it relates to technology, waste and sustainable design. The role of historical knowledge in the cultural construction and practice of design. Modern consumerism, identity and sustainability -
Dr Brenda Croft
Contemporary Indigenous art and culture; international Indigenous art and culture; Indigenous photomedia, new media and film -
Gregory
Donovan
Contemporary visual art and cultural theory; social inequality defined by space and framed by notions of landscape and cultural displacement; visual art studio practice incorporating painting, drawing and digital photographic reproduction. At present I am researching and exploring the kind of practices related to image production and their representations within public spaces and how it might be possible to subvert them. -
Dr Christine Garnaut
South Australian architects and their works; cultural heritage; architectural history, planning history, conservation and management of heritage places, urban design -
Stuart Gluth
Visual analysis -
Louise Haselton
Interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art intersections between art and design exploring and utilising everyday materials in sculptural form -
Andrew Hill
Contemporary cultural production; visual arts education; arts in a multicultural society; cultural pluralism; theory and practice of community production; the organisation of culture; cultural democracy -
Prof Donald Johnson
Settlement studies; planning and landscape history and theory -
Mark Kimber
Cultural identity and its relationship to photography. Digital photography. Contemporary analogue and digital photography, early photography. 19th century photographic techniques such as the Daguerreotype, Ambrotypes and Tintypes -
Prof Kay Lawrence
Gender identity, place and representation, developed through drawing, woven tapestry and text. The position of textiles within the visual arts and crafts. The development of the community tapestry movement in Australia. The development of an international network of artists, writers and theorists working in the area of woven tapestry -
Jim Moss
Medievalism and early European Renaissance. Photography: the evolution from the alchemy of early photographic media to the simulated ubiquity of televisual media. Issues of consumption and the globalism of television. Romanticism. Contemporary visual art theory -
Prof Ian North
Visual art; studio or theory (art); contemporary art; digital imaging; Relationship of Indigenous to non-Indegenous art; 'beauty' as an art historical and philosophical concern -
Dr Sean Pickersgill
Currently I am exploring the use and implications of game engines in the ontology of digital architecture. This has emerged from a Teaching and Learning Grant 2004, and a Divisional Research Performance Grant 2005 that enabled us to create a model of a commercial game, and to design and run an elective in Game Design. I completed a PhD in artefact and thesis at RMIT which focuses on the interrelationship between aspects of German critical theory and the idea of renovation/redemption in architecture -
Esther Ratner
Relationship between aesthetic theory and cultural beliefs; creation of visionary artefacts; form and material considerations as influenced by cultural, aesthetic, and theoretical factors -
Olga Sankey
Image and text in contemporary art practice, traditional and digital printmaking techniques, artist books -
Dr Linda Marie Walker
Writing as design; language-based writing; the body as/in space; the object/thought/voice; abandonment and ruined space, an archaeology of spaces; contemporary Australian visual arts and artists; curatorial practices -
Andrew Welch
Nexus between production processes and hand-making: how industrial production methods can be adapted and used in combination with hand-making to create forms that exploit the design potential of this way of making objects; artefacts as a wearable objects -
Dr Pamela Zeplin
Contemporary visual culture in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region; Asia-Pacific arts; race, place and culture in art history; Australian art; Aboriginal arts and visual culture