Adjunct Professor
Paul Makeham
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice
Biography
PAUL MAKEHAM is an Adjunct Professor in QUT's School of Creative Practice. His previous leadership roles at QUT include Director of Corporate Education (Creative Industries); Head of School (Media, Entertainment & Creative Arts); and Portfolio Director (Drama, Film & TV, Creative Writing). He was Foundation Coordinator of QUT’s Bachelor of Creative Industries, the world’s first degree program of its type. Paul was Chair of the Board of La Boite Theatre Company (2012-15). He has an extensive record of achievement as a producer, writer, presenter and performer, and leads a range of commercial partnerships incorporating creative arts techniques. With a focus on leadership and professional development, this work commonly incorporates an original applied theatre model termed a ‘Prophetical’. Complementing this work, Paul collaborates with Queensland Health’s Clinical Excellence Division on an ‘Open Disclosure’ clinician training consultancy.
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice
Keywords
Australian theatre, performance studies
Discipline
Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Newcastle)
- PhD 'Discourses of Landscape in Contemporary Australian Dram (University of Newcastle)
Professional memberships and associations
- ADSA (Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies): http://www.adsa.edu.au/
- La Boite Theatre Company: www.laboite.com.au
Teaching
Experience
- Director of Corporate Education, Creative Industries Faculty (CIF) (2017 - 18) • CIF Executive Committee (2007 - 18) • Chair, CIF Advisory Committee (2017 - 18) • Graduate School of Business Senior Leaders' Group (2017 - 18) • Head of School - Media, Entertainment & Creative Arts, CIF (2012 - 2016) • CIF Academic Board (2003 - 16) • Chair, CIF Health, Safety & Environment Committee (2015 - 2016) • Chair, MECA Management Committee (2011 - 16) • Chair, CIF Additional Entry Committee (2013 - 16) • Digital Media Research Centre Advisory Board (2015 - 16) • CIF Advisory Committee (2015 - present) • CIF Philanthropy Working Group (2014 - 16) • Rainbow-Reid Endowment Advisory Committee (2013 - 16) • CIF Research and Innovation Committee (2012 - 16) • CIF Examiners’ Committee (2007 - 16) • Creative Industries Precinct Stage 2 Steering Committee (2015 - 16) • CIF R&D Lab Steering Committee (2015) • Portfolio Director - Drama, Creative Writing & Literary Studies, Film & TV (2007 - 11) • University Working Party on Individual Course Reports (2009 - 10) • CIF Strategic Research Group (2007 - 09) • CIF Subject Area Coordinators’ Committee (2007 - 09) • Head of Discipline - Drama (2006) • Course Co-convenor, Master of Arts (Research) (Playwriting) (2005 - 06) • Chair, Faculty Internationalising the Curriculum Committee (2004 - 05) • Faculty and Discipline Coordinator, Workplace Learning (2004 - 05) • Dean’s Advisory Committee (2004 - 06) • CIF Academic Coordinator, International (2004) • Discipline Coordinator, BCI (Honours) (Interdisciplinary) (2004 - 05) • CIF Marketing and Development Committee (2004 - 05) • University Working Party on Quality of Unit Outlines (2004) • CIF Course Coordinators’ Review Working Party (2004) • CIF Advisory Committee (2003 - 05) • CIF Liaison Officer, QUT International College (2003 - 05) • (Foundation) Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Creative Industries (Interdisciplinary) (2002 - 06) • Faculty Coordinator, CIF Core Units (2002 - 04) • CIF Representative, Coordinators of Large Units Reference Group (2002) • Member, CIF Promotion Committee (2002, 2005, 2007 - 14) • Member of the following CIF Working Parties: Unit Outline (2003); Graduate Capabilities (2003); Assessment (2002); Workload Formula (2002); Core Units (2001); and CIF Honours (2001) • CIF Teaching & Learning Committee (2001 - 06) • Course Coordinators’ Network (2001 - 06) • Coordinator, Theatre Studies Major (1997 - 2001) • Discipline Coordinator, Independent Study (1997 - 2002) • Discipline Coordinator, BCI (Honours) (1996 - 2003) • Member, Academy of the Arts Coordinators' Network (1997 - 2001) • Discipline Liaison Officer for Library (1995 - 2002); Q-Step (1997-2001); and ATSI students (1997-2004)
Professional Leadership:
Chair, La Boite Theatre Company Board (2012 - 15); Member, La Boite Board (2008 - 15); President, ADSA (Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama & Performance Studies) (2003 - 06); Executive Member, Association of Collaborative Theatre (1997 - 99); Education Sector representative, Theatre Arts Network of Queensland (1999 - 2001); Advisory Committee, Changing Faces Theatre Company (1998); Regular theatre reviewer, ABC Radio 4QR (1996 - 97)
Publications
- Makeham P, Hadley B, Kwok J, (2012) A 'Value Ecology' approach to the performing arts, M/C Journal, 15 (3) p1
- Gesche A, Makeham P, (2008) Creating conditions for intercultural and international learning and teaching. In A Reid & M Hellsten, Researching International Pedagogies: Sustainable Practice for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Springer p1
- Makeham P, (2005) Interview With Paul Makeham, Original 'Aftershocks' Cast Member, Dramactive: Book 2 p73
- Makeham P, (2005) Performing The City, Theatre Research International, 30 (2) p150
- Makeham P, (2001) Fear and Desire under the Big Sky, Siting the Other: Re-Visions of Marginality in Australian and English-Canadian Drama p141
- Makeham P, (2001) Fear and Desire Under the Big Sky: Brink Visual Theatre and the Post-colonial Australian Landscape. In , Siting The Other Re-visions Of Marginality In Australian And English-Canadian Drama, P.I.E. - Peter Lang p141
- Makeham P, (2000) 'The City's Surrounded by Fire': Michael Gow's The Kid, Australasian Drama Studies, () p73
- Makeham P, (1999) Narrative structure and the BLURRED landscape, Blurred: Creating Performance For Young People p19
- Makeham P, (1998) Community Stories: 'Aftershocks' and Verbatim Theatre. In , Our Australian Theatre In The 1990's, Rodopi Press, p168
- Makeham P, (1996) Singing the Landscape": Bran Nue Dae, Australasian Drama Studies, () p117
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Paul, explore their research on ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- FOUND IN TRANSLATION: Transcultural Performance Practice in the 21st Century (2017)
- Mending the Broken Heart: Using an ethnodrama to give voice to Hong Kong Chinese cancer caregivers (2016)
- Musicalising theatre, theatricalising music: writing and performing intermediality in Composed Theatre (2015)
- Staging Childhoods: Experiments in Authentic Theatre Making Practice with Children (2014)
- Stepping Outside the Circle: A Reflective Practice Framework for Creative Facilitators (2014)
- Using Digital Projection to Evoke Aesthetic Ideas in Performance (2014)
- The Practice of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Theatre (2012)
- From Ennui to Enthusiasm: a playwright's exploration of dramaturgy (2010)