Creative Practice: Working Collaboratively with communities (facilitated by The University of Melbourne researchers)

Alyson Campbell is a theatre director and dramaturg whose work spans a broad range of companies and venues in Australia, the UK and the US over the last 30 years. She is Professor in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne. Her research, artistic practice, teaching and activism converge around gender and sexuality, particularly queer performance and dramaturgies and contemporary representations of HIV and AIDS.

Jane W. Davidson is Professor of Creative and Performing Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, Chair of the Creativity and Wellbeing Hallmark Initiative, University of Melbourne, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Jane moved from UK to Perth in 2006 and on to   Melbourne in 2014. She is experienced in academic leadership and scholarship, her research embracing the study of musical performance, skill development, social cohesion, health and wellbeing. Jane has published extensively and has received research funding in Australia and internationally. She is also a singer, opera director and community music facilitator.

Dr Megan McPherson is a settler artist, educator, and early career researcher based at the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Art and Cultural Development, The University of Melbourne. Megan's overarching creative practice research emphasis is in printmaking, textiles and installations. She publishes in the areas of the academic identity, social media use, Indigenous knowledges and pedagogies, and student success in the creative arts. Megan's focus is on the intersections of pedagogical and material engagements in artistic, social and cultural productions using ethnographic, sociological, and creative practice methodologies to explore identity, subjectivities, affect and agency.

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