University Work (past)

  • 2006 Invited Course Validation Assessor , MA in Creative Writing & New Media , Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University. Designed by Sue Thomas and Kate Pullinger. Course website: http://writing.typepad.com/cwt/.
  • 2005 Research Assistant , New Aesthetics, Dr Barbara Bolt, Coordinator, Visual Media, School of Creative Arts. My role is to research key texts and contemporary explorations of aesthetics, immersivity and light in visual arts (material and virtual instantiations) for this ARC funded research project.
  • 2003-5 Project Manager and Website Creator for University of Melbourne ARC-funded Linkage Project: Risky Business . School of Creative Arts; Language, Literacy and Arts Education; Department of Criminology. Chief Investigators: Assoc. Prof Angela O’Brien, Assoc. Prof. Christine Alder, Kate Donelan. Role: To develop and manage projects created by Risky Business, administer Risky, create and maintain web presence, assist Research Coordinator. I project managed a Comedy Mentoring Program for ‘youth-at-risk’ and top professional comedians such as Rod Quantock, Brian Nankervis, Nelly Thomas, Charlie Pickering, Justin Hamilton, Denise Scott, Christine Basil. The project culminated in a live event that was broadcast on Channel 31 and distributed on DVD. http://www.comedyquest.blogspot.com/ .
  • 2005 Mentor, Mentor Program for High Achieving Senior Secondary Students , School of Graduate Studies, University of Melbourne. I was selected from a large pool of postgraduates at the UOM to be a mentor in this program which teams us with a high school student for five months. Ezra Silman, my mentoree and a buddying filmmaker, worked on a theory/practice research project about suspense in film.
  • 2005 Learning Management System Trainer, ArtsIT, University of Melbourne . Role: To teach academics how to create subject websites, design and management of their online delivery, and create sites for them. http://www.lms.unimelb.edu.au/.
  • 2005 Publications Officer , School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne . Role: Collection, categorisation and input of academic and non-academic publications for the Department of Education, Science and Training Higher Education Research Data Collection audit.
  • 2004-5 Webraft (Web Resources Automated for Teaching) Support Officer , ArtsIT, University of Melbourne . Role: To teach academics to create subject websites or create them using UOM’s proprietary system. http://webraft.its.unimelb.edu.au/.
  • 2004-5 GAMS Support for ARC applications, School of Creative Arts , University of Melbourne . Role: To provide technical and budgeting support to academics applying for Australia Research Council grants.
  • 2003-5 Web Developer and User-Tester for University of Melbourne Student Theatre Database , School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne . Role: To manage and administer data collection and input, user-test the database. Website: http://www.must.unimelb.edu.au/.
  • 2004 IT Technical Support , School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne . Role: Data collection and input for IT audit.
  • 2003 Research Assistant for School of Creative Arts , University of Melbourne TALMAQ project: Compendium . Coordinated by Dr Peter Morse. Role: To research, collect, digitise and input imagery for the database, user-test and develop database, research meta-data and digital rights management.