Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice 4

Doctor of Creative Industries

MASON, Jennifer Lee

Thesis Title

NAIDOC and Me: A Personal Narrative Journey Exploring NAIDOC and Lived Experience

Supervisors

• Professor Sandra Jane Gattenhof (Principal Supervisor)
• Dr Leah King-Smith (Associate Supervisor)

Citation

This study connects early Aboriginal activism to the provocation of systemic racism—exposing connections of Indigenous strength—to the historical timeline of NAIDOC. The film NAIDOC and Me, created as an output of the study and exegesis link academic, public and private resources, promoting Indigenous leadership. Adopting an Indigenous Yarning methodology the study shares learnings from Elders in Indigenous communities demonstrating the themes of pride, racism, education and leadership within the NAIDOC continuum. The research demonstrates that cultural engagement at NAIDOC events shifts negative cultural memories, challenges the current racial status quo, and counters the settler-colonial version of Australian history.

MCQUEENIE, John Michael

Thesis Title

Intermediation as Practice: Joining the Dots Between Community, Culture and Commerce

Supervisors

• Professor Marcus Foth (Principal Supervisor)
• Professor Gregory Neil Hearn (Associate Supervisor)

Citation

This thesis examines the role of the intermediary in the design of creative cross sector projects. By deploying and documenting two field work projects, the study critically reflects on the “3C – Community, Culture, Commerce” project design methodology, which is situated at the intersection of industry and research. Findings demonstrate how the 3C’s processes of creative community and industry engagement can contribute to social inclusion, add value to corporate social investment and provide jobs and professional development opportunities. The thesis advocates for the recognition of intermediation as a novel method in design practice that others can learn, use, and improve upon.

Doctor of Education

CHOEGYAL, Sonam

Thesis Title

A Study of Emotions and Social Bonds During Transformative Pedagogy in a Bhutanese 10th-Grade Physics Class

Supervisors

• Alberto Bellocchi (Principal Supervisor)
• Dr James Patrick Davis (Associate Supervisor)

Citation

This study explored students’ emotional engagement (i.e., emotions and social bonds) in a Bhutanese 10th-grade physics class during classroom instruction that includes transformative pedagogy. Data for this study were generated through diaries, video recordings, and interviews. A combination of ethnomethodology and interpretive techniques were employed to analyze the data. The findings of this study revealed that cooperation and mindful interactions during transformative pedagogy elicited pleasant experiences in the teacher and students. This study has generated a conceptual framework for interpreting emotions and social bonds from Bhutanese perspectives. The implications of this research are relevant to methodology and teaching practice.

EGLE, Caron Ann

Thesis Title

Understanding Complex Change in a Federal Policing Environment Through a Post-Conventional Lens

Supervisors

• Denise Ann Beutel (Principal Supervisor)
• Dr Leanne Judy Crosswell (Associate Supervisor)

Citation

This qualitative study explored how six post-conventional police leaders in the Australian Federal Police (AFP) understand complex change. It identified the challenges facing policing organisations with the increasing complexity of the global environment, the increasing sophistication of criminality, as well as cultural legacy issues. The results show that these post-conventional leaders hold an acute and insightful understanding of the intricacies and interconnectedness of the complexities facing the AFP, while holding deep empathy, compassion and commitment to growth as leaders. This study contributes to the development of police leaders to include adult vertical development.

MORRIS-CAMPBELL, Andrea Lois

Thesis Title

Developing Singing Competence, Confidence, Motivation and Self-Identity for Teaching Music in the Primary School

Supervisors

• Professor Michael Luigi Dezuanni (Principal Supervisor)
• Dr Andy Ju-Chih Yeh (Associate Supervisor)

Citation

Research shows that preservice education students tend to lack competence, confidence, motivation, and self-identity for facilitating singing in primary school classrooms. In response, this Doctor of Education project involved preservice music education students in classroom and pitch-matching interventions to improve their singing knowledge and skills. Data were collected through a One Group Pretest-Posttest Survey Design and Semi-Structured interviews. The study’s key finding is that when preservice students experience transformative pedagogy through pitching-matching and develop their singing competence, this leads to greater confidence and a higher likelihood that they will implement music in their classrooms in the future.

Doctor of Philosophy

APPANNA, Subhashni Devi

Thesis Title

Understanding Student Emotion to Inform Science Inquiry Teaching Practices

Supervisors

• Alberto Bellocchi (Principal Supervisor)
• Dr James Patrick Davis (Associate Supervisor)

Citation

This study explores student emotions before and after responsive teaching practices during science inquiry within two Australian Year 10 chemistry classes. An interpretive design and multiple data collection methods were used to develop theoretical understandings of students' emotional experiences as they worked on their science inquiry projects. Understanding the unpleasant emotions associated with common challenges experienced by students provided teachers with insights into developing responsive teaching practices to address student needs. Pleasant emotional experiences followed the implementation of responsive teaching practices in subsequent lessons.

BAYLEY, Ruth Dale

Thesis Title

Why Did They Do It? Understanding Corruption in Public Sector Procurement

Supervisors

• Associate Professor Craig Walter Furneaux (Associate Supervisor)
• Professor Hitendra Kumaran Pillay (Principal Supervisor)

Citation

The study analysed explanations of corruption in public procurement processes, using qualitative thematic content analysis, based on five discipline-based theories about corruption. The analysis revealed considerable complexity, with no single theory able to comprehensively explain the phenomenon of corruption, and all five theories offering valuable insights into how and why corruption arose.These findings are important because an organisation’s approach to corruption prevention and treatment is usually driven by its view about causes of corruption. Public sector organisations could therefore benefit from adopting corruption prevention and treatment programs based on broader theoretical perspectives.

CARTER, Joseph James

Thesis Title

Extreme Sports as Filmed Entertainment: Understanding Aesthetic Form, Style and Characteristics of Extreme Sports Films

Supervisors

• Mark David Ryan (Principal Supervisor)
• Associate Professor Michael Robert Whelan (Associate Supervisor)

Citation

This study examines the evolution of the production characteristics and textual elements of successful contemporary extreme sports films in the last 15 years. This knowledge is applied to the study’s creative practice component, a 57-minute documentary film (The Strez, 2021). Based on the practice led research, and the insights gained, a set of creative principles are developed to assist other filmmakers in the extreme sports film genre.

JONG, Sze Joon

Thesis Title

Iban Ajat: Digitisation Framework for the Conservation of a Sarawak Traditional Dance

Supervisors

• Dr Stephanie Hutchison (Associate Supervisor)
• Mr Sorin Oancea (Associate Supervisor)
• Dr Charles C. H. daCosta (Principal Supervisor)

Citation

Sarawak Iban's cultural heritage is endangered. Therefore the conservation of its traditional dances is imperative. This study aims to demonstrate how a hybridised research strategy is essential for the conducting of culturally sensitive preservation. My research centres on applications of Motion Capture technology, for the leveraging of observations of the Ajat Dance – through a focus on elemental gyrational manoeuvres. My study does not claim to be a 'panacea'. Rather it showcases the importance of acquiring and incorporating digital oeuvres into one's documentary practices. Through its proof-of-concept involving a 3D simulation, I offer a digitisation framework for delivering decolonised cultural preservation.

NINO CONTRERAS, Camilo Andres

Thesis Title

Entrepreneurship and Career Development in Higher Music Education Within the Context of the Creative Industries in Colombia

Supervisors

• Professor Sandra Jane Gattenhof (Associate Supervisor)
• Dr Kristina Louise Kelman (Principal Supervisor)
• Dr Javier A Rodriguez-Camacho (External Supervisor)

Citation

This qualitative investigation explores the current creative industries landscape; understandings of entrepreneurship; and career development practices in higher music education in Colombia. In order to gain a deep understanding of the context, interviews and official documents from state/government, industry and education sectors were conducted and examined. The study found that entrepreneurship’s understanding is diverse, and working independently among sector shows a lack of knowledge and opportunities to students’ career development. Learnings have been distilled into a set of principles and recommendations for the inclusion of entrepreneurship in higher music education, and calls for significant change in legislation and education.

RAHMAN, Atiqur

Thesis Title

Private Television Channels in Bangladesh: A Political-Economy Analysis of the Role of the State and How This Impacts News Media

Supervisors

• Mark David Ryan (Principal Supervisor)
• Professor Kevin Lee Sanson (Associate Supervisor)

Citation

This thesis investigates the influence of political authorities and the impact of business strategies on the news production of Bangladeshi private television channels, and how news workers perform their journalistic roles in this context. Applying a critical political economy approach, this qualitative research shows that due to the weakening of democracy, growing levels of business pressure and declining work conditions for journalists, the role of Bangladeshi private television channels in the public sphere has been steadily shrinking in recent years.

RANKIN, Scott Edmund

Thesis Title

Big hART's 30 Years of Practice: Cultural Justice and the Right to Thrive

Supervisors

• Dr Gavin Steven Carfoot (Associate Supervisor)
• Professor Sandra Jane Gattenhof (Principal Supervisor)
• Emeritus Professor Bradley Craig Haseman (External Supervisor)

Citation

The discoveries from this research concern the ways in which cultural justice intermediations make an essential contribution to the preconditions required for all communities to flourish. Utilising 30 years of Big hART’s praxis, the study investigates the ways in which virtuosic cultural justice intermediations can best set these preconditions in motion. The research concludes by highlighting that we do not have the luxury of just tweaking the edges of cultural policy, rather, because culture is a human right, if cultural justice is not central to all our cultural endeavours, we rob the most vulnerable communities of essential narrative primary protection.

SCHRODER, Megan Janet

Thesis Title

Creative Insights: Senior School Teachers' Experience of Creativity in Queensland Across the Curriculum.

Supervisors

• Professor Sandra Jane Gattenhof (Principal Supervisor)
• Dr Carly Jade Lassig (Associate Supervisor)
• Dr Kelli Anne-Maree McGraw (Associate Supervisor)

Citation

Creativity is promoted as a crucial tool for young peoples’ successful engagement in a 21st century world. Education has a responsibility for instilling creative attributes in students, empowering them as agentic citizens and lifelong learners. Utilising Craft’s (2013) Wise Humanising Creativity framework, the study examines how creative capacities are understood and activated by Queensland senior school teachers in the implementation of the QCAA 2019 Senior school syllabus suite. Findings arising from the study are applicable to the implementation of creativity in education settings locally and globally.

WIJESIRI NARAYANA DON, Nimal Wijesiri

Thesis Title

Representation of Identity in Sinhala Theater: The Impact of the Religious/Charity Model

Supervisors

• Professor Bree Jamila Hadley (Principal Supervisor)
• Dr Leah King-Smith (Associate Supervisor)

Citation

This study used a critical disability studies analysis of historical and contemporary theatre work, informed by interviews with theatre practitioners and spectators to understand how disability, ethnic, racial, gender, and sexual identity is being representing in Sinhala theatre in Sri Lanka. The thesis explored how theatre practitioners and audiences want to see identity representations evolve in future, to create change in Sri Lankan society.