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University of Canberra
2012-2025
Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
2023-2024
George Washington University
2023-2024
Brigham and Women's Hospital
2024
The University of Melbourne
2022
Notre Dame University
2021
Malone University
2021
Education New Zealand
2020
University of Toronto
2020
University of Minnesota, Duluth
2019
For Bourdieu, the extent to which agents can attain knowledge of, and negotiate, various cultural fields is dependent upon, explicable in terms two epistemological types. The first a practical sense (the 'logic of practice'), while second involves sort conscious comprehension that he names 'reflexivity'. Bourdieu defines reflexivity as an interrogation three types limitations (of social position, field scholastic point view) are constitutive itself. But reflexive relation habitus, demands...
This essay includes collated contributions from practising writers, participants in a Creative Writing|Neuroimaging Exploratory Study, Ideasthetic Imagining – Mapping the Brain’s Microstates Using Magnetoencephalography (MEG), conducted at Swinburne University (2023, Melbourne, Australia). The study investigates neural activity participants’ brains while undertaking creative writing workshop. Participants write imaginatively short and long-term memory. research team utilises MEG neuroimaging...
Works by Stone, Exbroyat (trans. Worth), Parnell, Smith, Wright, Kassel, Baranay, Zhao, Clarkson, Cosgrove, Lynch, Prendergast, Travalini, Atherton, Hecq, Webb, Finlayson, Bacon, Hetherington, Bullock, Seymour, Langford, Wilson, Oswin, Spencer, Jeffrey, and Wicks.
Jodi Vial reviews Shady Cosgrove’s Flight ; Philip Harvey Kevin Hart’s Lands of Likeness: For a poetics contemplation and Dark-land: Memoir secret childhood Amanda Tink Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway Kerri Shying’s Raging Grace: Australian writers speak out on disability Samuel J. Cox The Cambridge Companion to teh Novel (edited by Nicholas Birns Louis Klee); Jen Webb David Musgrave’s Mishearing Carolyn Booth Languages Water Eugen Bacon); Moya Costello Helen Garner’s Season Denise Beckton JA...
This article addresses Pierre Bourdieu's work on the principal logics under which human beings negotiate fields and engage in practice: either practical or reflexive knowledge. Bourdieu argues that reflexivity is capable of being taught learned, consciously incorporated into different levels praxis. We describe analyse paths takes arriving at this notion via both usual suspects associated with his body theory (field, habitus, illusio, capital) theoretical specificities knowledge--most...
Anyone working in the creative arts is likely to have deal with ‘failure’ at some stage. This paper briefly outlines rhetoric associated concepts of success and failure, then moves how these terms values them are applied process examination. We critique pervasive focus on ‘positive’ results, posit what may be alternate ways think about processes their outcomes. Drawing data gathered for an Australian government funded project, ’Examination doctoral degrees arts: process, practice standards’,...
The various institutional imperatives that have arisen in past decades reshaped not only the academy but also careers, responsibilities and practices of artistacademics. This transformational process has been characterized by both extensive intensive competition. In a series moves might choreographed Pierre Bourdieu, those involved struggled with each other policies, procedures, shifting values discourses to refine their understandings changing academic landscape, acquire capital necessary...
Abstract The creative arts disciplines constitute an important growth area for research higher degrees (HDR), and in recent decades they have built a body of knowledge set practices associated with them. There is little empirical work, however, which investigates how examiners theses arrive at the commentary presented their reports. This essay debates key issues around examination doctoral writing. Drawing on extensive experience supervising examining doctorates UK Australia, authors address...