Academic staff

Dr. Benjamin Abraham is a lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. His research and teaching has a highly interdisciplinary focus across games and digital media…

Associate Professor Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of 17 books, including novels, nonfiction, and reference works. She joined the permanent Creative Writing staff of UTS in 2003 after many…

Roslyn Appleby is a senior lecturer in the School of Education. She has qualifications in architectural science, visual arts, and second language education. She has been involved in applied…

Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Law, author and writer, Order of Australia for services to journalism, winner of 5 Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism, including gold.  Monica Attard spent 28…

Sarah is a lecturer in the School of Communication in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her scholarly work is focused on social class in popular culture and literature, particularly the…

Dr Chelsea Barnett is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS. She is a gender and cultural historian who specialises in the history of…

Saba Bebawi is a journalism and media Professor who has published on media power and the role of media in democracy-building, in addition to investigative journalism in conflict and post-conflict…

Stephen Black is a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Research in Learning and Change. His research and teaching interests for more than thirty years have been mainly in the area of adult literacy…

Catriona Bonfiglioli is a senior lecturer in Media Studies in the Journalism, Information & Media Studies academic group in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UTS. Catriona is chief…

Paul Byron is a UTS Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow. He is currently researching LGBTQ+ young people's digital cultures of peer support, with a view to inform Australian mental health…

Chris works at the intersection of cinematic practices & transformational new technologies with an interest in what these hybrids can add to the art of storytelling. His work in short film &…

Deborah Cameron is a professional film animator, artist and visual storyteller with a 25 yr career in the International Animation industry, fifteen of those spent working as a character animator for…

Benedict Carey is a Sydney born sound artist and composer, who uses his custom built software to explore the musical potential of found sounds. He is currently working as a teaching assistant at the…

George is a national award winning performance writer, a performer, comic, academic and business owner overlapping film, theatre, business, health and education. National winner of the Kit Denton…

Lai-Ha Chan is a Senior Lecturer in the Social and Political Sciences Program, School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She was a visiting fellow in the Princeton…

Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. With Stuart Macintyre, she wrote the History Wars in…

Claire Corbett studied film and writing at UTS and crewed on films, including Jane Campion’s Sweetie and The Piano, before becoming a policy advisor in the NSW Government. Claire has had stories,…

Jeff Crabtree is a casual academic, speaker, researcher, film-maker and multi award winning songwriter.  He co-authored the book Living With A Creative Mind – an operating handbook for creative…

Anne Cranny-Francis has a first class Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Queensland and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Her PhD…

Trained at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts Matthew Dabner started his film career working in the story department at Icon Productions in Los Angeles.  Matthew…

Prior to becoming Dean of FASS in April 2019, Alan was Deputy Dean from July 2017. Before joining UTS, he was Head of the School of Arts at UNE, having been in the role since February 2014. He is…

Dr. Kate Delmo teaches in both Bachelor in Communication (Public Communication) and Executive Masters and Masters in Strategic Communication programs of the School of Communication. Kate completed…

Sameera Durrani is a Lecturer and Early Career Researcher (ECR) in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. Prior to joining UTS in 2019, she taught media and public…

Susie Eisenhuth is a journalist and a lecturer in journalism who has continued to combine active involvement in journalism with teaching since taking up work as an academic and is keen to forge…

Dr Ann El Khoury is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator. She was Lecturer in Global Studies and course coordinator for the Bachelor of Global Studies (2018-19).  Ann is interested in…

Michael Fabinyi uses theories and methods from the social sciences to understand the social, political and cultural aspects of marine resource use and management. He completed his PhD at the…

Delia Falconer is the author of three books: two novels and one work of creative nonfiction.  Her first novel, the bestselling The Service of Clouds, was shortlisted for major literary awards…

Dr Feng Chongyi is Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology, Sydney and adjunct Professor of History, Nankai University, Tianjin.  He is China’s first holder of PhD in…

Dr Gregory Ferris is a media ‘construct-ant’ who works across a variety of media environments, including interactive media, installation, virtual reality and traditional moving image. He’s worked…

Lucy Fiske is a Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences at UTS. She was previously a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies…

Associate Professor Heather Ford is Head of Discipline for Digital and Social Media in the School of Communications at UTS. She has a background working for global technology corporations and non-…

Dr. Bettina Frankham is a practice led researcher in digital media. She has a background of industry experience that spans multiple forms of media including television, radio and web production. As a…

Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and awarded writers. Her novel All That I Am won the Miles Franklin Prize, the West Australian Premier’s Prize, the West Australian Premier’s People’s…

Mark works as a sociologist at the University of Technology Sydney and is the director for work-integrated learning in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, UTS. His current research is focused…

Devleena Ghosh teaches in the Social Inquiry program in the Faculty of Communication. Her undergraduate courses include ones on Colonialism and on Ideologies. She has supervised a number of PhDs and…

Matt Gidney is a filmmaker, animator, engineer and academic with an international career in high-end computer graphics, animation, visual effects and the arts. His current research focuses on aspects…

My key research interest is in developing new journalism practices (tools and ideas) to help better communicate the big social changes in our global polity. As a postdoctoral research fellow at the…

James Goodman conducts research into global politics, socio-cultural change and climate justice. He is an Associate Professor in Social and Political Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Social…

Carroll Graham is a tertiary education manager and analyst with over 20 years’ experience in the higher education sector.  Most recently Carroll was the Executive Manager for the Institute for…

Dr. Pat Grant brings his experience a writer, illustrator and designer to his teaching and research in Animation and Visual Communication at UTS. He is an internationally recognised author of two…

Paula Hamilton teaches in the public history program and has supervised many post-graduate research students in history and other areas of the Faculty. During her career she has taken an active role…

Dr Maureen Henninger is currently a Senior Lecturer in Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Technology, Sydney. She holds degrees from the University of Sydney (BA), the…

Christina Ho is Associate Professor, Social and Political Sciences, within the Communications program, based in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.   Christina researches migration, cultural…

Elizabeth is a political economist based in the School of Communication, FASS, and the UTS Student Ombud (2019-2021). Her research examines work and workers in the context of economic crisis and…

Amelia Johns is a Senior Lecturer in Digital and Social Media. Her work spans the fields of digital media and digital citizenship studies, with a focus on young people’s negotiation of racism and…

Sue Joseph (PhD) has been a journalist for more than thirty-five years, completing a cadetship at ACP before travelling to Europe in the early '80s. Based in London, she was stringer for several…

Kyungja's academic interests are experientially grounded in and inspired by her involvement in women's activism in Australia and Korea. Drawing on feminist theory(s) of intersectionality of…

Christine is currently a senior journalist and editor at The Guardian SBS and ABC, delivering international stories for digital/online, radio and television. Previous to that she spent ten years as a…

Dr Gail Kenning is and artist, researcher and educator. She is Research Associate at University of Technology Sydney in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and IT and…

Dr Soojin Kim is a lecturer at the School of Communication. Her research areas are public behaviour, public sentiment, and public relations strategies in diverse contexts. Before joining UTS,  she…

Dr. Natalie Krikowa is a media scholar and practice-led researcher at the University of Technology Sydney. She holds a Doctor of Creative Arts in media and cultural studies, a Masters of Creative…

Professor Rachel Landers is a filmmaker with a PhD in history. Her films have screened all over the world and won a number of prestigious awards. In 2011/12 she received the NSW Premier’s History…

Having completed an honours Anthropology Degree at Sydney University in 1973, Gillian Leahy studied at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. She worked as a clapper loader on four feature…

Tania Leimbach’s doctoral thesis Sustainability and the material imagination, is an interdisciplinary inquiry into Australian cultural institutions with a focus on modes of public engagement,…

Jim Macnamara is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Communication at the University of Technlogy Sydney (UTS). He is currently serving as Deputy Dean of the UTS Faculty of Science (until 30…

Anthony Macris is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at UTS. For over twenty years he has taught creative writing and literary theory at a range of institutions, including Johns Hopkins…

Jonathan Paul Marshall is currently a Future Fellow at UTS, working on a project entitled "Society and Climate Change: Social analysis of a disruptive technology". This project explores…

Leo Martyn has been a practicing digital media artist for 20 years, working in 6 countries. Leo has been a casual academic, curriculum developer and designer in Maya 3D, Nuke, Adobe CC, RenderMan and…

Louise is an Industry Professor, Data and Digital, UTS Business School and senior advisor to UTS Futures Academy She combines expertise in customers, technology and strategy with commercial…

Dr Belinda Middleweek is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism in the School of Communication at UTS. She has worked as a news producer for Australia’s top rating breakfast television programs Sunrise and…

Dr. Morgan is an Associate Professor in the field of Language & Literacy and coordinates the Languages Other Than English (LOTE) major in the graduate entry degree, Bachelor of Teaching in…

'It's a miracle cinema exists.... a place on earth from where you can see life and death from different angles' (Leos Carax) Alex is a screenwriter/director and media-arts academic in…

Margot Nash is a screenwriter and a director with a background as a cinematographer, a film editor and an actor. She holds an MFA from the UNSW. Her research topic was: The research, writing and…

Susan Oguro (PhD) is an Associate Professor in International Studies and Education in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Her research…

Dr Olga Oleinikova is a Lecturer and Director of the Ukraine Democracy Initiative in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is listed among the Top 40…

Tamson Pietsch is Associate Professor in Social & Political Sciences and Director of the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS. Tamson's research focuses on the history of ideas and…

Alana Piper is a Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public history at UTS. Her current project (2018-) uses digital history to chart the lives and criminal careers…

Associate Professor Anne Prescott started her career as a secondary school teacher of mathematics. She is currently the coordinator of the primary and secondary mathematics teacher education as well…

Monica Rouvellas,JD holds a Juris Doctor (UNSW), a MBA (UTS) and a Bachelor of Music (1st Class Honours) (USyd). Monica has been teaching the Faculty of Business and Economics at Macquarie University…

Nipa Saha has her doctorate degree in communication from the University of Technology Sydney. Previously, she has held academic and research positions at University of Technology Sydney, Macquarie…

Prior to her appointment at UTS Mary Spongberg was Professor of Modern History and Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, where she has been for the last eighteen…

Deborah Szapiro is an award winning creative producer, designer, curator and academic. Deborah teaches in Animation Studio, her teaching and research integrates animation history, theory and practice…

Archie Thomas is an award-winning interdisciplinary researcher focused on understanding how discourses, policy frameworks and institutions like schools shape our lives. Archie has collaborated on…

Dr Helen Vatsikopoulos is a Walkley Award winning journalist who has worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australia Network, and for the Special Broadcasting Service. In a career…

Jeremy Walker is Senior Lecturer in Environment, Culture and Society in the Social and Political Sciences Program of the School of Communications. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts  from  the…

Jacquie Widin is a Senior Lecturer teaching in the Language and Literacy programs in the faculty. She has coordinated the initial adult teacher training (Grad Dip TESOL) and is currently coordinating…

Hilary Yerbury is Adjunct Professor in Information Studies. Her background in European social and political cultures, information management, anthropology and development studies have given her a…

Dr Zhen Zhang is a lecturer of international studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. She is doing social semiotic film performance research and teaching…