Karen Le Rossignol |
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| Position | Senior Lecturer | |
| k.lerossignol@deakin.edu.au | ||
| Area | School of Communication & Creative Arts | |
| Phone | +61 3 924 46468 | |
| Campus | Burwood | |
| Location | Burwood C5.07 | |
| Role and profile |
Karen teaches within the Bachelor of Arts (Professional and Creative Writing) and Masters programs in Writing, Communications and Creative Enterprise. She teaches units on creative nonfiction, freelancing in the arts, industry internships, starting up creative arts enterprises and project collaborations. She has a particular research interest in creative nonfiction and the personal essay, and developing storytelling skills through virtual learning scenarios. She also enjoys creative projects as diverse as writing and editing of commissioned books, working with collaborative teams on creative proposals and events and setting up global networks of creative collaborators. As a freelance writer Karen has run a creative freelance business for more than fifteen years. She has extensive experience in industry projects, and has produced 13 texts related to running a small business, communication and working with teams/projects. In recent times her interest has developed into writing creative online scenarios for higher education writing and experiential learning programs. |
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| Teaching responsibilities |
BA (Professional and Creative Writing) Creative Nonfiction Honours - Writing Manifestos, Creative Nonfiction research projects Freelancing in the Arts - cross-disciplinary Master of Communication and Master of Arts (Creative Enterprise) Creative Incubator - applied or practice-led research New Ventures in Creative Enterprise Building Creative Teams Creative Industries Internships |
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| Research interests |
• Creative Nonfiction and the essay form • Associational narrative/storytelling using virtual world scenarios • Working with freelance artists, creative teams and arts industry - cross-disciplinary applied research projects • Developing and managing fiction and nonfiction book projects - working in collaborations |
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| Current research projects |
• Wintringham Story - creative nonfiction history of the growth of one man's vision for the elderly homeless • 'Deakinopolis' and its new suburb 'Burlongvale': creatively extending virtual scenarios for experiential learning for low SES access in Health Sciences • Globally networked virtual world scenario-building: collaboration with University College, Falmouth, UK • Creative nonfiction and fragmented/segmented personal essays - telling story through associational narrative |
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| Service to the University, discipline or community |
member, Faculty of Arts/Education Teaching and Learning committee 2012 joint chair, Creative Industries Sub-committee, Deakin-Box Hill Institute 2007 ongoing member Strategic Teaching and Learning Grant (STALG) 2009 Beyond recruitment targets: Internationalising the Curriculum through the Indian Experience – developing study tours, website and other resources related to the Indian educational experience STALG 2010 Project leader - Linking virtual business entities to consolidate expertise and develop new scenarios for shared institutional resources to build student teamwork skills - working across faculties to develop a virtual world Deakinopolis. |
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| Awards |
Deakin University Excellence in Teaching Award (2007) Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Teaching Excellence (2008) |
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| Qualifications | BA (Hons) Melbourne, DipEd Melbourne, Grad Cert Enterprise Management Swinburne | |
| Memberships |
Australian Society of Authors Fellowship of Australian Writers Steering Committee: Experiential Learning through Virtual Worlds, Interdisciplinary.net, Oxford UK Virtual Worlds Working Group - Australia-wide University group Deakin Creative |
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| Conferences |
Le Rossignol, K. 2011 ‘Strategic Resource Design – Virtualopolis and the interactive virtual team scenario’ at 1st Global Conference Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds, Prague, Czech Republic, 20 to 22 March 2011 Le Rossignol, K. 2011 ‘Towards Deakinopolis: a cross-disciplinary and cross-faculty simulation development’ at Educating the professions: new curricula, new pedagogies and new technologies, Teaching and Learning Deakin University, Nov 2-3 2011 Burwood Vic. Le Rossignol, K. 2010 ‘Creative experiential collaborations in communications courses for the net generation’, at Reshaping Higher Education Conference, HERDSA, Melbourne Australia, 6-9 July 2010 Le Rossignol, K, ‘Strategic Resource Design – Virtualopolis and the interactive virtual team scenario’ at The Changing Face of Education 5th ERGA Conference, University of Adelaide 23-24 September 2010 Le Rossignol, K. and Coldwell, J, 2010 Flexible Partnering – Deakinopolis and the cross-faculty virtual team scenario STALGS 2010, Flexible Education Futures: partnering for collaborative and active learning: Presentations of Deakin Teaching and Learning Conference 2010, Deakin University, Burwood Vic. Freeman, R and Le Rossignol, K, ‘Creative nonfiction: framing the nexus between literary fiction and journalism’ at Tertiary Writing Network: Writing the Future, 2-3 December 2010, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ Le Rossignol, K. 2009 ‘Designing Collaborative e-Learning for the Net Generation’, presented at International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference IADIS e-Learning 2009 Portugal Le Rossignol, K. 2009 ‘Hidden Stories’, Experienced stories: ways of seeing/learning Double Dialogues University of Melbourne, Vic, 11-12 December 2009 Le Rossignol, K. 2008 ‘Strategies for the Neomillenial Learner: Some results from creative immersions in ‘real world’ situations’, Teaching and Learning Deakin University Vic June 2008 Le Rossignol, K. 2008 ‘Designing Blended Learning in Higher Education: The Neomillenial Learner and mediated immersion’ at 6th International Conference on New Directions in Humanities – Istanbul, Turkey July 15-18 2008 Le Rossignol, K. 2008 ‘Developing Experiential Learning: Blended learning in a ‘real’ world scenario’ Emerging Trends in Higher Education: A Global Perspective: Concerns and Challenges in Environmental Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Cinema, Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore, India, August 11-15, 2008 Freeman, R. and Le Rossignol, K. 2008 ‘Taking Risks: Workplace Learning and the Writing Student’ Australian Association of Writing Programs Creativity and Uncertainty, UTS Sydney, November 27-29 2008 |
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| Research link | View Deakin associated research data | |
| Publications | 2012
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