Teaching

[current summary in this doc]

Leadership

  • Program Coordinator, Masters of Creative Industries, SAE Creative Media Institute (2017)
  • National Chair, Games, SAE Creative Media Institute (2016-2017)
  • Department Coordinator, Games, SAE Creative Media Institute (2016-2017)
  • Committee Member, Scholarship and Research Committee, SAE Creative Media Institute (2016-2018)
  • Senior Lecturer, SAE Creative Media Institute (2016-2019)
  • National Module Coordinator, CIU111 Overview of Industry, SAE Creative Media Institute (2015-2016)
  • Adjunct Professor in the Research Office, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (2013-2015

Awards

  • 2018 Teaching and Learning Award, National SAE Staff Excellence Awards, SAE Creative Media Institute

“Christy has been integral in the development of the Master of Creative Industries program. Student feedback for her modules has been overwhelmingly – and consistently – positive. Christy was also central to development of SAE’s Remote Practice framework and subsequent training for SAE Faculty. In assessing each of the applications for this award, it was important to understand the inherent difficulty in developing such an initiative. Although remote practice is becoming more prevalent in the creative industries, very few organisations can claim to do it well, and its effective application in education is even more rare. Not only was Christy able to develop an innovative and supportive pedagogical model for remote practice, but she was also able to effectively deliver this training to SAE staff and students – providing a truly innovative and cutting edge program which is ahead of the game. The delivery of the training has continued to evolve based on constant reflection of Christy’s teaching methodology, informed by feedback from her students and her peers.”

Curriculum Development

  • 2019 2720GFS Interactive Storytelling, Undergraduate & Postgraduate, Griffith Film School, Griffith University, Convenor: Sue Swinburne (AQF7, 9)
  • 2019 “Emotion Design”, “Choice Design”, “Action Design”, Master of Visualisation, Simulation  and Immersive Design, Faculty of Art and Design, UNSW (AQF9)
  • 2017 CIM412 Narrative Design, Masters of Creative Industries, SAE Creative Media Institute (AQF9)
  • 2016-17 CIM500 Graduate Minor Project, Masters of Creative Industries, SAE Creative Media Institute (AQF9)
  • 2016-17 CIM401 Graduate Studio 2, Masters of Creative Industries, SAE Creative Media Institute (AQF9)
  • 2016-17 CIM400 Graduate Studio 1, Masters of Creative Industries, SAE Creative Media Institute (AQF9)
  • 2016 GDS220 Studio 2 Games, Bachelor of Games Development (Design), SAE Creative Media Institute (AQF7)
  • 2016 GIM110 Thinking about Games, Diploma of Games Development, SAE Creative Media Institute  (AQF5)
  • 2016 CIM151 Contemporary Industrial Practices, Diploma of Audio Production, Diploma of Music Production Diploma of Film, Diploma of Web Design, Diploma of Graphic Design, Diploma of Games Development, Diploma of Animation, SAE Creative Media Institute  (AQF5)
  • 2014-15 CIU111 Overview of Industry, Bachelor of Game Development, Bachelor of Audio, Bachelor of Film, Bachelor of Design, Bachelor of Interactive Technologies, Bachelor of Animation, SAE Creative Media Institute, Brisbane (AQF7)
  • 2005 Design of theory competency for Diploma of Multimedia (Visual Arts), Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran TAFE.
  • 2005 New Media Arts Theory, 1st year students of Advanced Diploma of Multimedia (Design), Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran TAFE.

Faculty Training

  • 2018 Remote Practice Training, SAE Creative Media Institute, for DASS, Luke McMillan. I designed and run the training of all studio facilitators across Australia who teach in the undergraduate, how to run remote collaborations.

Lecturer (& Tutor)

  • 2019 GAM10002 Principles of Game Design, Undergraduate, Games and Interactivity, School of Film and Animation, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University, Hawthorn. Convenor: Laura Crawford
  • 2017-19 2720GFS Interactive Storytelling, Undergraduate, Griffith Film School, Griffith University, Convenor: Sue Swinburne
  • 2018 7525QCA Narrative Interfaces in AR, Masters, Griffith University
  • 2017-18  CIM400 Graduate Studio 1, Masters of Creative Industries, SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2017-18 CIM401 Graduate Studio 2, Masters of Creative Industries, SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2017-18 CIM412 Narrative Design, Masters of Creative Industries, SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2017-18 2720GFS Interactive Storytelling, Undergraduate, Griffith Film School, Griffith University, Convenor: Sue Swinburne
  • 2017 CIU212 Major Project Development, Bachelor of Game Development, SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2015-2017 CIU111 Overview of Industry, Bachelor of Game Development, Bachelor of Audio, Bachelor of Film, Bachelor of Design, Bachelor of Interactive Technologies, Bachelor of Animation, SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2015-2016 GDS220 Games Studio 2, Bachelor of Game Development (Design), SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2015-2016 GAM110 Principles of Game Design, Bachelor of Game Development (Design), SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2015 GDS208 (Game) Authorship, Bachelor of Game Development (Design), SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2015 GDS204 Advanced Game Design, Bachelor of Game Development (Design), SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2015 GAM102 Production 1 (Game Development), Bachelor of Game Development (Design), SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2015 INT102 Production 1 (Interactive Technologies), Bachelor of Game Development, Bachelor of Audio, Bachelor of Film, Bachelor of Design, Bachelor of Interactive Technologies, Bachelor of Animation, SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2015 NEM201 Managing New Media Projects,  Bachelor of Game Development, Bachelor of Audio, Bachelor of Film, Bachelor of Design, Bachelor of Interactive Technologies, Bachelor of Animation, SAE Creative Media Institute
  • 2012 Cross-Media Interaction Design, Department of Infomatics, Umea University, Sweden (March-May)
  • 2007 Game Design, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney
  • 2006 Multimedia Theory and Production 1, Media Department, Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Macquarie University. Co-ordinated by Sherman Young. Subject Code: MAS208.
  • 2005 New Media Arts Theory, 1st year students of Advanced Diploma of Multimedia (Design), Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran TAFE.
  • 2005 New Media Criticism, Masters of Digital Media, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne. Teaching linearity, narrative models, hypertext fiction, botfiction, cross-media storytelling. subject code: 760445

Guest Lectures

  • 2018 Emotion Design, Games Department, University of Skövde, Sweden, 15th October. Convenor: Lissa Holloway-Attaway
  • 2018 CMN309 Transmedia Storytelling Campaigns, University of Sunshine Coast, 10th August. Convenor: Karen Sutherland.
  • 2018 Extended Project Realisation (7688GFS), Master of Screen Studies, Griffith Film School, Griffith University, 8th August. Convenor: Peter Hegedus.
  • 2018 Cross-Media Writing and Design, Centre of Excellence in Film & Interactive Media Arts, Norwegian Film School, Norway, 15th March.
  • 2017 CMN309 Transmedia Storytelling Campaigns, University of Sunshine Coast, 9th October. Convenor: Karen Sutherland.
  • 2016 Interest Design in Film, TV & Games, MDU111 Contemporary Storytelling, Bachelor of Filmmaking, SAE Creative Media Institute, Brisbane, 14th & 18th November
  • 2016 Making Transmedia, CIU210 Media Studies, SAE Creative Media Institute, 14th, 15th & 18th November
  • 2016 Emotion Design in Games, Studio 2, Bachelor of Games Development, SAE Creative Media Institute, July
  • 2016 Multiplatform Writing & Design, 1114 GFS Reading the Moving Image, Griffith University, 23rd & 24th May
  • 2016 Interactive Documentary, Studio 2 Film, Bachelor of Filmmaking, SAE Creative Media Institute, Brisbane
  • 2014 Transmedia Design, Griffith Film School, Griffith University
  • 2014 Interactive Writing, Griffith Film School, Griffith University
  • 2013 Pervasive Gaming, Swinburne University
  • 2013 Interactive Narrative, Swinburne University
  • 2013 Transmedia Writing & Design, RMIT University
  • 2012 Transmedia Writing and Design, RMIT University
  • 2012 Pervasive Gaming, Swinburne University
  • 2012 Transmedia, Australian Film, Television, and Radio School, Sydney
  • 2012 Pervasive Gaming, RMIT University
  • 2011 Transmedia Week, Cyfle, 25th Sept, UK (remote)
  • 2011 Transmedia Experience Design, 16th Sept, RMIT University
  • 2011 Cross-Media Interaction Design, Department of Infomatics, Umea University,25th Sept-10th Oct, Sweden
  • 2009 Transmedia, Masters in Creative Writing and New Media (online), De Montfort University, UK, Feb
  • 2008 Polymorphic Fictions, Writing Between the Lines (Ficto-Criticism) (ENGL6979), Department of English, University of Sydney. Co-ordinated by Dr Rebecca Johinke. Workshop on 27th May
  • 2008 Hypertext Fiction, Writing Between the Lines (Ficto-Criticism) (ENGL6979), Department of English, University of Sydney. Co-ordinated by Dr Rebecca Johinke. Workshop on 20th May.
  • 2008 Games, Stories & the Multi-Platform Ecology, Introduction to Game Design (SOMA3622), School of Media Arts, College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Co-ordinated by Erik Champion. Lecture on 20th May.
  • 2008 Games & Animation in the Multi-Platform Context, Innovations in Storytelling, Screen Studies (SCS110), Graduate Certificate in Film, Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Adelaide. Lecture & workshop on 12th May.
  • 2008 Interactivity, Games and Films in the Multi-Platform Context, Innovations in Storytelling, Screen Studies (SCS110), Graduate Certificate in Film, Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Melbourne. Co-ordinator: Allan Cameron. Lecture & workshop on 30th April.
  • 2008 History of Games, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney, Co-ordinated by Yusuf Pisan, 28th Feb.
  • 2008 Designing with Lotsa Media, Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, UK, 5 Feb.
  • 2007 Multi-Platform Art versus Commodity Intertexts, Digital Communication and Culture, University of Sydney, 22nd May.
  • 2007 Cross-Media Entertainment, Crossmedia Minor, Noordelijke Hogeschool, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 28 March.
  • 2007 Digital Communication and Culture, University of Sydney, 22nd May
  • 2007 A New Total Work of Art?, Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, De Montfort University, UK
  • 2006 Transmedia Entertainment: Narrative and Play Get Snuggly, Masters and Honours level course in Communication Studies: iGeneration: Communication and Participatory Culture, University of Western Australia. 12th Oct. Co-ordinated by Peter Morse.
  • 2006 Massively Multiplayer Games, Introduction to Computer Game Design, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney. Co-ordinated by Yusuf Pisan.
  • 2006 Serious Games, Introduction to Computer Game Design, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney. Co-ordinated by Yusuf Pisan.
  • 2006 Cross-Media Entertainment, Advanced Multimedia Theory and Production, 3nd year students, Media Department , Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Macquarie University. April 12. Co-ordinated by Sherman Young. Subject Code: MAS308.
  • 2006 Cross-Media Entertainment: how games can be designed to take over the universe, DAG (Digital Art and Games) Seminar series , RMIT Creative Media, Games programs. May 16.
  • 2006 Mono-Polymorphism: A Paradigm for Understanding Cross-Media Entertainment, Media and Communications Department, School of Letters, Art and Media, University of Sydney, 15th Sept.
  • 2005 Interactive Narrative, 3rd year Interactive Multimedia, Media and New Media, co-ordinated by Dr Peter Morse, main lecturer John Waller, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.
  • 2005 Lecturer & Tutor E-writing,  4th year Reading Australian Writing subject in Postgraduate Diploma of Creative Writing , Dr. Kevin Brophy, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.
  • 2004 Lecturer & Tutor E-writing,  4th year Reading Australian Writing subject in Postgraduate Diploma of Creative Writing , Dr. Kevin Brophy, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.
  • 2004 Hypertext, Script and Theatre, 2nd and 3rd year Script and Theatre, Theatre Studies, Dr. Denise Varney, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne

Other Earlier Positions

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.