Biography
I am a researcher, educator, creative writer, project collaborator and public intellectual.
My PhD from the University of Melbourne (1995) elaborated on the work of Julia Kristeva and I have a Master of Arts (Creative Writing) from Edith Cowan University (1999).
I took up an ongoing position at Griffith University in 2000, where I also completed a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (2001). In 1997, I worked for one year at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.
In 2009 I came to Deakin University.
I conduct research within and across traditional and non-traditional domains and I have a special interest in debates concerning the PhD of the Future.
Read more on Patrick's profileBiography summary
Researcher
Educator
Creative Writer
Project Collaborator
Public Intellectual
Research interests
Architecture
Creative Writing
Place
Practice-Led Research
Affiliations
The Institute of Postcolonial Studies
Australasian Corrections Education Association (ACEA)
Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP)
Australian Society of Authors (ASA) (Full Member)
Literature and its Readers Discipline Research Cluster
Creative Writing Discipline Research Cluster
HOME Research Hub
Deakin Motion Lab (People and Objects)
Teaching interests
Creative Writing
Scriptwriting
Research Communication
Higher Degree Research Supervision
Knowledge areas
Creative Writing
Scriptwriting
The Short Story
Place and Space
Architecture
Practice-Led Research
The Future of the PhD
Expertise
- Literature
- Literature & creative writing
Research groups
Literature and its Readers Discipline Research Cluster
Creative Writing Discipline Research Cluster
HOME Research Hub
Deakin Motion Lab (People and Objects)
Publications
No publications found
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Dancing Between Two Worlds. Citizenship, Well-being and Place: Diasporic Indian Creativity and Australian Identity
Dr Shaun McLeod, A/Prof Patrick West, Dr Simon Wilmot
Wyndham Community Cultural Foundation Limited
- 2019: $5,000
Dancing Between Two Worlds
Dr Shaun McLeod, Dr Gretel Taylor, A/Prof Patrick West, Mrs Anindita Banerjee
Multicultural Festivals and Events Program
- 2019: $1,540
Supervisions
Monika Schott
Thesis entitled: A New Understanding Of Abject Communities Through Sewerage Ghost Towns
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Rebecca Carver
Thesis entitled: The Influence of Adversity on the Narrative Construction of Identity
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Cathryn Louise Perazzo
Thesis entitled: Surface Tension: Writing Politics and the Politics of Writing
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Liam Guilar
Thesis entitled: Anhaga: An exploration in poetry of narrative, memory and identity
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Janice McClennan
Thesis entitled: Creative and literary responses to australian middle-class experiences of financial upheaval
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Valerie Jeremijenko
Thesis entitled: A Sibling Romance: The Sound of Romance Reimagined
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Bryan Ott
Thesis entitled: They Sound Human: Crafting Post-Feminist Women in Contemporary Western/Horror
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Joshua Mark Baird
Thesis entitled: The projection of the son: unreliable narration and masculinity
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Elvis Richardson
Thesis entitled: Identity and recognition in the collecting based practices of Elvis Richardson
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Rhett Davis
Thesis entitled: Disruption and purpose in experimental fiction and digital storytelling
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Kristin Henry
Thesis entitled: Clans and Tribes: attachment networks of older Australian women
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Hayley Elliott-Ryan
Thesis entitled: What Writing Wants: Repurposing Bricolage, Waste, and Desire in Creative Practice
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Simon Jeffrey Wilmot
Thesis entitled: Between Home and Away: Documentary Filmmaking as a Placemaking Practice
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Robyn Fuerst
Thesis entitled: Trauma, Memory and Secrets of Holocaust Survivors and the Second Generation. The Australian Context.
Master of Arts, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Rod Jones
Thesis entitled: Rod Jones: The Practice of Fiction
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Gregory Day
Thesis entitled: The Ocean Last Night - an Exegesis & Creative Artefact
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Debra Wain
Thesis entitled: Keepers of Culture: Women, Food and Writing
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Angelina Mirabito
Thesis entitled: What Reading and Writing Trauma Fiction Illuminate about Post-Traumatic Growth.
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Scott Michael Pearce
Thesis entitled: Hegemonic Masculinity in Transition The Frontier Myth in Australian Westerns
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Kaya Tatjana Barry
Thesis entitled: Creativity in-transit: material ideals and spatial negotiations
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Daniel Tom Baker
Thesis entitled: Exploring the fantastic: new critical frameworks in an evolving genre
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts