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Professor Sandra Gattenhof
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Arts
Biography
Sandra Gattenhof isProfessor and Academic Lead, Learning and Teaching in the School of Creative Arts, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice (CIESJ) at Queensland University of Technology. She has previously been Discipline Leader Dance, Drama, Music. Sandra research centres on cultural evaluation, understanding the social impact arising from arts engagement and creative community consultation.
Over the past ten years Sandra has led major arts impact and evaluation consultancies for Australian and Pacific cultural organisations including Australian Research Council Linkage Project The Role of the Creative Arts in Regional Australia: a social impact model (2019-2022), Social Impact Research and Evaluation Strategy for the Puuya Foundation in Lockhart River (2021-2023), and Valuing the Arts Australia and New Zealand (2020). A life-long arts educator, Sandra is recognised as a leader in arts and creative learning and has published high profile outputs in the fields of arts and cultural evaluation, arts education, and contemporary performance.
Sandra is currently chair of the board for the award-winning Dead Puppets Society, advisory group member for Education Program and Queensland Performing Arts Centre, board member for Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), board member of technology-led performance company Counterpilot. Sandra is an observer on National Advocates for Arts Education having previously been Drama Australia’s representative for ten years. In 2012 Sandra was awarded Drama Queensland Life Membership and in 2021 was award the Drama Australia President's Award. Sandra is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Sandra has been at the forefront of the development of The Arts national curriculum serving as an Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Advisory Group Member and Drama consultant.
Sandra has been a recipient of many awards: Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) Excellence in Research Award, QUT Creative Industries Faculty Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation, Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Award (in recognition of a significant and superior contribution to the work of the University), Carrick Awards Citation Nominee for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning; and 2006 QUT Creative Industries Faculty Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (Early Career). Her creative practice and research centres on theatre for children and young people, contemporary performance primary drama education and new media/interactive teaching environments.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Arts
Keywords
arts education, arts and cultural evaluation, contemporary performance, drama education, theatre for young people, creativity education
Research field
Performing arts, Curriculum and pedagogy, Policy and administration
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master of Arts (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Arts (University of Queensland)
- Diploma of Teaching (Brisbane College of Adv. Ed.)
Professional memberships and associations
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy through the QUT Academy of Learning and Teaching (QALT). Board Chair of Dead Puppet Society. Board member of National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE). Drama Queensland Life Member awarded for Longstanding Contribution to the Drama Community.
Publications
Filter publications:
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/s.gattenhof
Selected research projects
- Title
- The Role of the Creative Arts in Regional Australia: A Social Impact Model
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP180100477
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Creating the Conditions for Community Care and Connection Through the Lullaby Project
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Donna Hancox - Cultural Value in Creative Learning Experiences: The Role of the Teaching Artist
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Kristina Kelman, Dr Courtney Pedersen - Developing an Independent Workflow for 3D Asset Acquisition in InCamera VFX
MPhil, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Mr Paul Van Opdenbosch - Strange Soup: Approaches to multilingual theatre-making for young audiences to enhance social inclusion and cultural diversity
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Kathryn Kelly - The Impact of Puppet Material Choices on Narrative Expression in Stop Motion Animation
MPhil, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Maria Zelenskaya
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Secondary Arts Education and 21st Century Skills: Educating the Whole Person in the Service of Life (2026)
- The Creative Impact of the Symbiosis between Funding Agencies and Arts Sector: A Comparative Case Study of Hong Kong and Australia (2024)
- Understanding Indigenous Responses to Sorcery Accusation Related Violence: Peacebuilding by the Yuri People of Papua New Guinea (2024)
- Big hART's 30 Years of Practice: Cultural Justice and the Right to Thrive (2022)
- Creative insights: Senior school teachers' experience of creativity in Queensland across the curriculum (2022)
- Entrepreneurship and Career Development in Higher Music Education Within the Context of the Creative Industries in Colombia (2022)
- Embodied Futures: Weaving Futures Thinking, Applied Theatre and Community Development in Creative and Participatory Embodied Practice (2020)
- The Mathematics of Longing: Exploring the Interface between Science and Theatre by Translating Mathematical Theorems into a Play Script (2020)
- Envisaged, Invited and Actual Audiences: A New Model to Approach Audience Research in Australian Community-Engaged Performance Projects (2019)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Continuums of Creative Practice Curricula: Frameworks for Learning and Teaching (2024)
- Sasi, Pera, Lagi - Of Ocean, Land, and Sky: Revitalising Creative Confidence and a Connection to Place Through the Awakening and Renewal of Rotuman Creative Practice (2024)
- waganha winhanga-gigu Dancing for the Purpose of Remembering (2024)
- Always Was, Always Will Be: Continuing Ancestral Connectivity Through Performance (2022)
- NAIDOC and me: A personal narrative journey exploring NAIDOC and lived experience (2022)
- The Arts as a Networked Ecosystem: Visualising Relationships in Brisbane's Performing Arts Sector (2021)
- Aural Scenography: Towards an Environmentally Aware Sonic Arts Praxis (2019)
- Making Futures: The Role of Agency and Possibility Thinking in the Creative Lives of Young People (2018)
- The Effect of Embodied Metafiction in Contemporary Performance (2018)
- An Integrated Approach to Evaluation: A Participatory Model for Reflection, Evaluation, Analysis and Documentation (the 'READ' model) in Community Arts (2016)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.