Dr Freya Wright-Brough
Academic Division,
Education Portfolio,
QUT Academy of Learning & Teaching
Biography
Dr Freya Wright-Brough has recently commenced as a Lecturer in Learning & Teaching Development, Impact and Recognition within QUT’s Academy of Learning and Teaching (QALT). Prior to this, she taught in Film Screen and New Media in the School of Creative Practice and was a research assistant in the Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Faculty. Freya’s background is in scriptwriting, having worked as a screenwriter for clients in the USA, UK and Australia contributing to digital and factual content. She completed her PhD in 2019 and her research has focussed on representation and ethical co-creation in screen media, particularly in digital narrative practice. She is also committed to learning and teaching. She was finalist in the Sessional teaching and Reflection Showcase (2017) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2020). In 2019, her research team won a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for developing an arts-based post-school transition program pilot for increasing inclusion of refugee-background students in university.
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer, Learning and Teaching Development, Impact and Recognition
Academic Division,
Education Portfolio,
QUT Academy of Learning & Teaching
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
Teaching
KPB220 Factual Screens (Lecturer & tutor)
KPB315 Global Screen Studies (Lecturer & tutor)
KPB325 Screen Issues (Guest Lecturer & tutor)
KPB113 Screen Text Analysis (Tutor)
KPB116 Introduction to Screenwriting (Tutor)
KPB221 Screen Project Development (Tutor)
KPB121 Screen Business (Tutor)
Selected publications
- Hancox D, Browning Y, Whelan M, Wright-Brough F, (2020) The generous boys and the nice to meet you band: Students from migrant and refugee backgrounds as leaders in reshaping university values through creative arts-based programmes, International Journal of Inclusive Education.
- Wright-Brough F, (2020) Productive discomfort: negotiating totality in collaborative digital narrative practice, TEXT: journal of writing and writing courses, 24.
- Wright-Brough F, McGowan L, (2021) Kicking, not screaming: an examination of football (soccer) and female footballers in Australian screen-based narratives. In SR Millar, MJ Power, P Widdop, D Parnell & J Carr, Football and Popular Culture: Singing Out from the Stands, Routledge, pp. 71-86.
- Wright-Brough F, (2018) Working with Totalising Algorithms, The Writing Platform.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Freya, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).