Associate Professor
Janice Rieger
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Biography
Janice is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering at Queensland University of Technology. She is a Chief Investigator with the Centre for Justice and Design Lab at QUT. Janice has served as a faculty member at the University of Calgary, (Calgary, Canada), York University (Toronto, Canada), Mount Royal University (Calgary, Canada), and the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada). She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Hasselt (Hasselt, Belgium) and L'Université Catholique de Lille (Lille, France). Janice was recently elected to the National Council for the Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA). She is also a Board Member for the European Society for Disability Research in France, is on the Scientific Advisory Board for AHFE, USA and is a member of the European Institute for Design and Disability (EIDD) and the EIDD-DfA Academic Network (Acanet). Janice was a Fellow of the Canadian Federation of University Women, is a committee member of the Women in Leadership (QWIL) program at QUT and was awarded a Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She is an expert reviewer for the ARC, TEQSA and has created a national certificate program in accessible housing design (CSAHD) in Canada. Janice has been awarded for her leadership through a Mayor’s Award in Calgary, Canada and a State level award in Alberta. Janice is also a Senior Fellow with the Higher Education Academy (UK) and an Associate Fellow (Indigenous). Janice’s research and teaching encompasses issues related to spatial justice and creating cultures of inclusion, and has six broad themes:- Spatial Justice & Ableism
- Diversity & Inclusion Policies and Programs
- Co-design for Health, Wellbeing & Social Inclusion with people with disabilities
- Post-Qualitative Methodologies and Relational Ontologies
- Museum, Gallery and Curatorial Studies
- History and Theory of Spatiality & Material Culture
Janice’s work has been published in a range of international peer reviewed journals and books, she has created many NTRO’s with international partners, and has presented at a number of international conferences, inclusive of Keynotes. She has received national and international competitive grants, fellowships, contracts, consultancies and scholarships to conduct research in this area and has received over 1 million in funding. Janice has been creating cultures of inclusion since 1994 (specifically with the museum, gallery and cultural sector) and continues with this research program today
- PhD, Department of Human Ecology (Material Culture), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2013-2016
- Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (GCAP), QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 2016
- Doctoral School, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Hosted at Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
- MA, Master of Arts, Department of Art History and Visual Culture, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2000-2002
- Graduate Diploma, Curatorial Studies in Visual Culture, Department of Art History and Visual Culture, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2000-2002
- Post Secondary Teaching Practicum, CST, Centre of Support for Teaching, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2000-2002
- BID, Bachelor of Interior Design, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 1994 -1998
- BA, Bachelor of Arts, (prerequisite years) Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 1992-1994, 1999-2000
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Keywords
inclusive design, material culture, architecture & interior architecture, disability, museum & gallery studies, universal design, design education, art & architectural history, visual culture & curatorial practice, co-design
Discipline
Architecture, Curatorial and Related Studies, Design Practice and Management
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Alberta)
- Master of Arts (York University)
- Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Practice in Visual Culture (York University)
- Bachelor's of Interior Design (University of Manitoba)
Professional memberships and associations
Professional Memberships
- ALTER, European Society for Disability Research, 2014-present
- Canadian Disability Studies Association (CDSA), 2020-present
- Centre for Universal Design Australia (CUDA), 2016-present
- CAA, College Arts Association, USA, 2017-present
- EIDD-DfA, European Institute for Design and Disability, 2019-present
- AHFE, Scientific Advisory Committee, Design for Inclusion, Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, USA, 2020-present
- HERN, Higher Education Research Network, QUT, 2016-present
- IDEC, Interior Design Educators Council, 2009-2017
- IDEA, Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association, 2015-present
Teaching
Dr. Janice Rieger has taught, developed and co-ordinated 61 units, and 23 different units at 4 institutions in Canada and Australia over the past 15 years. She has completed a two year Post-secondary Teaching Practicum, a Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (GCAP) and is a member of the Higher Education Research Network (HERN), QUT.
Janice is a registered expert with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) with the Commonwealth of Australia. She also has an appointment to the University Curriculum Standards Committee (CSC) at QUT and is an Expert Peer Reviewer of Educational Practice (ExPREP) with QALT. Janice has completed curriculum development for several units, national certificates, accredited courses, graduate diplomas and bachelors degrees in Canada and Australia. She has experience with lecturing, studio tutorials, online learning, technology-enhanced learning (TEL), professional education and blended delivery.
Janice is a Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) (UK) and an Associate Fellow (Indigenous) which recognises teaching and learning support in higher education as evaluated against the UK Professional Standards Framework.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES DEVELOPED & TAUGHT
Janice is a registered expert with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) with the Commonwealth of Australia. She also has an appointment to the University Curriculum Standards Committee (CSC) at QUT and is an Expert Peer Reviewer of Educational Practice (ExPREP) with QALT. Janice has completed curriculum development for several units, national certificates, accredited courses, graduate diplomas and bachelors degrees in Canada and Australia. She has experience with lecturing, studio tutorials, online learning, technology-enhanced learning (TEL), professional education and blended delivery.
Janice is a Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) (UK) and an Associate Fellow (Indigenous) which recognises teaching and learning support in higher education as evaluated against the UK Professional Standards Framework.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES DEVELOPED & TAUGHT
- Design Issues
- Spatial Histories
- Design in Society
- Design and Sustainability
- Universal Design
- Interior Design 3
- Interior Design 4
- Design I
- Design II
- Design III
- Design (Visual) Communications II
- Construction I
- Colour and Light
- History of Interiors
- History of Modern Art & Architecture I
- History of Modern Art & Architecture 1850 -1920
- History of Modern Art 1850 -1920
- History of Art & Architecture, 1920 to today
- Roads to Modernity
- Modernity
- Accessible Housing Design: Concepts and Art and Ideas
- Case Studies-Field Trip to New York
- Directed Reading Courses
Experience
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
Keynotes
Rieger, Janice, (2019) ‘Doing Dis/ordered Mappings: A New Method for Analysing Embodied and Relational Research’, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Conference (Juried Keynote) Brisbane, Australia, May 4-6.
Rieger, Janice and Allana Bianchi (QLD Government), (2019) ‘Invisible disabilities and self-disclosure in the workplace’, Government Summit of Diversity and Inclusion, Sydney, Australia, August 6-8.
Rieger, Janice with Jasmien Herssens, Design for All Europe (DfA) Lecture, The Cube, P Block, GP- QUT, Brisbane, Australia, April 10, 2019.
Rieger, Janice (2018) Keynote Speaker: Disability Action Week, “Cultures of Inclusion: International Case Studies”, invited by the Public Service Commission of the Queensland Government, Brisbane, QLD, Sept 14.
Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations
Strickfaden, Megan, Lara Pinchback, Jasmien Herssens and Rieger, Janice, ALTER Conference, (2019) ‘Seeing, Vision, the Body and Public Art: Experiencing Culture in the City’, Sept 5-6, Cologne, Germany.
Rieger, Janice, (2019) ‘Codesigning Access for Inclusion in Australian Art Museums’ Australian Museums and Galleries Association Annual Conference, Alice Springs, Australia, May.
Rieger, Janice, Herssens, Jasmien and Strickfaden, Megan (2018) “Reimagining Co-design through Ability and Techné”, 3rd Australian Universal Design Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Sept 4-5 (Poster).
Rieger, Janice and Rolfe, Annie (2018) “So Close and Yet So Far Away: Teaching Design Students to Design for Differences through Reflective Practice and Authentic Learning”, 3rd Australian Universal Design Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Sept 4-5 (Poster)
Franz, Jill, Rieger, Janice, Annie Rolfe and Jessop, Joanne (2018) “Housing Design for People with Prader-Willi Syndrome: A Review of National and International Literature, 4th Asia Pacific Prader-Willi Syndrome Conference, Brisbane Australia, October 18-20.
Rieger, Janice, Strickfaden, Megan and Van Assche, Kristof (2018), “Assemblages of Remembering and Forgetting Disability in Museums”, 7th Annual Conference of Alter - European Society for Disability Research/Société Européenne de Recherche sur le Handicap, Lille, France, July 5-7.
Herssens, Jasmien, Strickfaden, Megan and Rieger, Janice (2018), “Drawing Out Alternative Methods for Understanding the Material Culture of Disability, 7th Annual Conference of Alter - European Society for Disability Research/Société Européenne de Recherche sur le Handicap, Lille, France, July 5-7.
Beligatamulla, Gnanaharsha, Rieger, Janice and Franz, Jill (2018), “"Towards a design thinking pedagogy with phenomenography" SIG 9 Conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, September 16-18.
Rieger, Janice and Strickfaden, Megan (2018) “Enacting Assemblages of Care and Access in Museums”, CAA 106th Annual Conference, College Arts Association, Los Angeles, USA, February 21-24.
Rieger, Janice (2017) “Doing dis/ordered Mappings: Embodied and Material Explorations of Design” Object/Subject Conference, Canberra, Australia, Nov 10-11.
Strickfaden, Megan, Herssens, Jasmien and Rieger, Janice (2017) “Mappings Spatial Movements and Memories” The Idea of Place, Space and Culture 20th Anniversary Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, May 5-7.
Rieger, Janice (2016) “Beyond Imagined users: Designing with people with differing abilities. HERN 2016 Symposium, 29 November 2016, QUT, Brisbane, QLD.
Strickfaden, Megan and Rieger, Janice (2016) “Dis/ordered Mappings: drawing out embodied encounters for designing” ijade Conference 2016, Riverside Innovation Centre, Riverside Campus, University of Chester, Castle Drive, Chester, November 18-19, 2016.
Strickfaden, Megan and Rieger, Janice (2016) “Mapping the Representation of Disability in the Museum Environment, 5th Annual Conference of Alter - European Society for Disability Research/ Société Européenne de Recherche sur le Handicap, Stockholm, Sweden, June 30.
Rieger, Janice and Strickfaden, Megan (2016), “Representation as Multisensorial Inclusion in Museum Environments,” Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference, AHFE, Florida, USA, July 27-31.
Rieger, Janice and Strickfaden, Megan. (2016) “Moving beyond access: Translations from policy to practices in interior and architectural design.” Universal Design Conference, Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, Australia, Aug 30-31
Rieger, Janice and Strickfaden, Megan (2016) “Remembering and Forgetting: the Material Culture of Disability in Canadian National Museums,” Alberta Human Ecology and Home Economics Association (AHEA) Annual Conference, Lacombe, Canada, April 29. (Poster)
Read more
- Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 2021-present
- Faculty Research Ethics Advisor, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science, 2021-present
- Associate Professor, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 2020-2021
- Senior Lecturer, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 2017-2020
- Lecturer, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 2015-2017
- Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Architecture and Arts, UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium, 2018-2019
- Researcher in Residence, QUT Design Lab, 2019
- Faculty and School Research Ethics Advisor, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 2017-2021
- University Ethics Committee Representative, University Human Research Ethics Committee (UHREC), 2017-present
- Chief Investigator, QUT Centre for Justice, Brisbane, Australia, 2019-present
- Program Leader and Chief Investigator, QUT Design Lab, Brisbane, Australia, 2016-present
- Postgraduate Studies Coordinator, Interior Design, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 2016-2017
- Lecturer, Mount Royal University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Interior Design, Calgary, Canada, 2013-2015
- Co-Developer and Co-ordinator, National Certificate Program, CSAHD Canadian Specialist in Accessible Housing Design, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada, 2012-2015
- Lecturer, Mount Royal University, Faculty of Continuing Education, Calgary, Canada, 2014-2015
- Lecturer, University of Calgary Faculty of Arts, Department of Communication and Culture, Calgary, Canada, 2013
- Lecturer, Mount Royal University Faculty of Arts, Department of Interior Design & Art History, Calgary, Canada, 2010-2013
- Assistant Professor, (Term-Certain), Mount Royal University Faculty of Arts, Department of Interior Design & Art History, Calgary, Canada, 2009-2010
- Instructor, Mount Royal College Faculty of Arts, Department of Interior Design & Art History, Calgary, Canada, 2006-2009
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
Keynotes
Rieger, Janice, (2019) ‘Doing Dis/ordered Mappings: A New Method for Analysing Embodied and Relational Research’, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Conference (Juried Keynote) Brisbane, Australia, May 4-6.
Rieger, Janice and Allana Bianchi (QLD Government), (2019) ‘Invisible disabilities and self-disclosure in the workplace’, Government Summit of Diversity and Inclusion, Sydney, Australia, August 6-8.
Rieger, Janice with Jasmien Herssens, Design for All Europe (DfA) Lecture, The Cube, P Block, GP- QUT, Brisbane, Australia, April 10, 2019.
Rieger, Janice (2018) Keynote Speaker: Disability Action Week, “Cultures of Inclusion: International Case Studies”, invited by the Public Service Commission of the Queensland Government, Brisbane, QLD, Sept 14.
Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations
Strickfaden, Megan, Lara Pinchback, Jasmien Herssens and Rieger, Janice, ALTER Conference, (2019) ‘Seeing, Vision, the Body and Public Art: Experiencing Culture in the City’, Sept 5-6, Cologne, Germany.
Rieger, Janice, (2019) ‘Codesigning Access for Inclusion in Australian Art Museums’ Australian Museums and Galleries Association Annual Conference, Alice Springs, Australia, May.
Rieger, Janice, Herssens, Jasmien and Strickfaden, Megan (2018) “Reimagining Co-design through Ability and Techné”, 3rd Australian Universal Design Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Sept 4-5 (Poster).
Rieger, Janice and Rolfe, Annie (2018) “So Close and Yet So Far Away: Teaching Design Students to Design for Differences through Reflective Practice and Authentic Learning”, 3rd Australian Universal Design Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Sept 4-5 (Poster)
Franz, Jill, Rieger, Janice, Annie Rolfe and Jessop, Joanne (2018) “Housing Design for People with Prader-Willi Syndrome: A Review of National and International Literature, 4th Asia Pacific Prader-Willi Syndrome Conference, Brisbane Australia, October 18-20.
Rieger, Janice, Strickfaden, Megan and Van Assche, Kristof (2018), “Assemblages of Remembering and Forgetting Disability in Museums”, 7th Annual Conference of Alter - European Society for Disability Research/Société Européenne de Recherche sur le Handicap, Lille, France, July 5-7.
Herssens, Jasmien, Strickfaden, Megan and Rieger, Janice (2018), “Drawing Out Alternative Methods for Understanding the Material Culture of Disability, 7th Annual Conference of Alter - European Society for Disability Research/Société Européenne de Recherche sur le Handicap, Lille, France, July 5-7.
Beligatamulla, Gnanaharsha, Rieger, Janice and Franz, Jill (2018), “"Towards a design thinking pedagogy with phenomenography" SIG 9 Conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, September 16-18.
Rieger, Janice and Strickfaden, Megan (2018) “Enacting Assemblages of Care and Access in Museums”, CAA 106th Annual Conference, College Arts Association, Los Angeles, USA, February 21-24.
Rieger, Janice (2017) “Doing dis/ordered Mappings: Embodied and Material Explorations of Design” Object/Subject Conference, Canberra, Australia, Nov 10-11.
Strickfaden, Megan, Herssens, Jasmien and Rieger, Janice (2017) “Mappings Spatial Movements and Memories” The Idea of Place, Space and Culture 20th Anniversary Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, May 5-7.
Rieger, Janice (2016) “Beyond Imagined users: Designing with people with differing abilities. HERN 2016 Symposium, 29 November 2016, QUT, Brisbane, QLD.
Strickfaden, Megan and Rieger, Janice (2016) “Dis/ordered Mappings: drawing out embodied encounters for designing” ijade Conference 2016, Riverside Innovation Centre, Riverside Campus, University of Chester, Castle Drive, Chester, November 18-19, 2016.
Strickfaden, Megan and Rieger, Janice (2016) “Mapping the Representation of Disability in the Museum Environment, 5th Annual Conference of Alter - European Society for Disability Research/ Société Européenne de Recherche sur le Handicap, Stockholm, Sweden, June 30.
Rieger, Janice and Strickfaden, Megan (2016), “Representation as Multisensorial Inclusion in Museum Environments,” Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference, AHFE, Florida, USA, July 27-31.
Rieger, Janice and Strickfaden, Megan. (2016) “Moving beyond access: Translations from policy to practices in interior and architectural design.” Universal Design Conference, Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, Australia, Aug 30-31
Rieger, Janice and Strickfaden, Megan (2016) “Remembering and Forgetting: the Material Culture of Disability in Canadian National Museums,” Alberta Human Ecology and Home Economics Association (AHEA) Annual Conference, Lacombe, Canada, April 29. (Poster)
Publications
- Rieger J, Rolfe A, (2021) Breaking Barriers: Educating Design Students about Inclusive Design through an Authentic Learning Framework, International Journal of Art and Design Education, 40 (2) p359
- Hadley B, Rieger J, (2021) Co-designing choice: objectivity, aesthetics and agency in audio-description, Museum Management and Curatorship, 36 (2) p189
- Rieger J, Herssens J, Strickfaden M, (2020) Spatialising differently through ability and techné, CoDesign, 16 (2) p135
- Rieger J, (2020) Moving Beyond Visitor and Usability Studies: Co-designing Inclusion in Museums and Galleries, Advances in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Design for Inclusion, Affective and Pleasurable Design, Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, Kansei Engineering, and Human Factors for Apparel and Textile p167
- Rieger J, (2020) Right to Participate: Co-designing Disability Policies in Australia, QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Paper p1
- Rieger J, Strickfaden M, (2019) Dis/ordered assemblages of disability in museums. In B Hadley & D McDonald, The Routledge handbook of disability arts, culture, and media, Routledge p48
- Rieger J, Kessler C, Strickfaden M, (2019) Doing Dis/ordered Mappings: Shapes of Inclusive Spaces in Museums, Space and Culture, () p1
- Rieger J, (2019) Doing Dis/ordered Mappings: A New Method for Analysing Embodied and Relational Research, Presented at: Qualitative Methods Conference p
- Rieger J, Strickfaden M, (2016) Taken for granted: Material relations between disability and codes/guidelines, Societies, 6 (1) p1
- Williams W, Rieger J, (2015) A design history of design: Complexity, criticality, and cultural competence, RACAR, 40 (2) p15
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Fellowship Award (13% success rate nationally)
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Awarded Nationally Competitive Fellowship from the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Fellowship, part of the United Nations (ECOSOC), Graduate Women International and UNESCO, Ottawa, Canada
- Type
- Recipient of an Australia Council Grant or Australia Council Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- The Evolution of Disability Arts in Australia
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
ARC SR200200003
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- EU Commission Erasmus Grant for international research with the Faculty of Architecture & Arts, University of Hasselt, Belgium
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- Elected to National Council in Canberra for the Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA)
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Commonwealth of Australia, National Expert Accessor, TEQSA
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Visiting Fellowship, University of Hasselt, Belgium
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction, University of Alberta
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Government of Alberta (State Award), Dr. Gary McPherson Leadership Award, Government of Alberta, Canada 2015 (1 state-wide individual annual award out of over 4 million people)
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- Appointed to Scientific Advisory Board, Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, AHFE, USA
Research projects
- Title
- The Evolution of Disability Arts in Australia
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- SR200200003
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Codesigning sensory spaces for neurodiverse children: A model for inclusive play spaces
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Jeremy Kerr, Associate Professor Debra Cushing - Enabling Sustainability-Centred Design Curriculum in Higher Education: A Capability-Focused Framework
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jill Franz, Professor Gavin Sade - Co-Designing with Older Adults: A Tech-enhanced Environmental Eudaemonic Experience (E3) Framework
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Deanna Grant-Smith - Barriers and Opportunities for Inclusive Design in Developing Countries: A Case Study of the Library
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jill Franz, Associate Professor Connie Susilawati - Understanding of place and identity in regional and remote Queensland communities through socially engaged visual arts practice
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Sandra Gattenhof, Associate Professor Donna Hancox - Contested spaces: Meeting divergent community needs through public toilet provision
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Deanna Grant-Smith
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Border Nomads: An Architectural Investigation of Transient Public Urban Place (2021)
- Design Thinking Pedagogy: A Phenomenographic Study of Design Thinking Teaching in the Higher Education Context (2021)
- Enhancing Ecologies of Care for CALD Women through Care-full Creative Engagement (2021)
- Architectural Lifeworld: Exploring Meanings of Spatial Environments for Residents in Dementia Care (2020)