Communication and Creative Industries

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Profile

An interest in individual and group creativity has led to her involvement in many of it’s expression in Australia and internationally including Community music, Interactive Storytelling to teach primary school creative writing, Community Shakespeare Events, Modern Commedia dell’Arte within the workplace, Political theatre and grassroots dialogue, Physical Theatre and improvisation, Community television production and Community Arts festivals. Training includes: Practical Aesthetics (Sydney), Shakespeare (New York), Psychology (UNE), Voice (Jennifer West) and Commedia dell’Arte (Reggio Emillia).

Since coming to CSU in 2007, she has overseen the production of the groundbreaking ‘Caught in the Act’ an interactive film/DVD for the instruction of protocol for the Police training, Goulbourn; conducted vocal coaching for new Journalists on National Radio News, run extra-curricular improvisation training program, directed productions for the Theatre Media course and developed the syllabus (and digital scaffolding) for problem based learning for first year Communication students. She is now combining her love of improvisation with her delight in numbers and people’s brains to develop research in Positive Psychology and Group Creativity.

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Teaching

Teaching

Currently responsible for Media Production and Presentation the year-long foundation course for all Communication and Creative Industries students and she will be teaching Event Management in Spring 2009. Since arriving she has taught Devised Theatre, Masked Theatre, Theatre for Cultural Action, Documentary Making, 2nd year Production & Theatre for Young People.

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Research

Research

• Group dynamics and the creative process

Research Grants

• Research Seed Grant (2008)- Large scale survey of first-year group skills analysing the interrelationship between the social-cultural and cognitive aspects of individual and small group creativity.

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Publications

• Green, F. & Malouff, J. (2007) “A preliminary investigation of processes involved in improvement associated with reading self-help books for psychological problems”, Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health, 6(1).

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