Group members
Our group members have expertise in a variety of research areas.
Please see their individual profiles for research interests and supervision experience.
Students
Higher degree by research (HDR) students work on a range of research projects across arts education research areas.
Student projects
Project title | Student | Supervisory team |
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A somatic exploration of relational movement in Argentine tango | Raffaele Rufo | Dr Jo Raphael, Dr Rea Dennis, Dr Sally Gardner |
Coming to know the accompanied solo: an inquiry into the use of shared improvised movement for personal and social knowing | Susan Mullane | Dr Jo Raphael, A/Prof Joanne O’Mara |
Drama education in early childhood – an inquiry into how teachers perceive drama education in the EC curriculum | Katherine Zachest | Dr Jo Raphael |
White haze, black gaze: lifting the veil on women’s business | Deanne Gilson | Dr Shelley Hannigan, Professor Estelle Barrett |
Arts-based strategies, teacher aides and inclusive education | Jo-Anne Britt | Dr Shelley Hannigan, Dr Tim Corcoran |
A theoretical and reflective inquiry into creativity and visual art education | Min Chen | Dr Shelley Hannigan |
Dance research projects
Dance education in secondary schools: dance teachers' views and needs
A project to investigate the state of dance in the curriculum and the needs of dance teachers in Victorian schools.
Principal investigators: Dr Sally Gardner, Dr Shaun McLeod, Dr Sheridan Lang and Dr Jo Raphael
Drama research projects
Encountering diversity: preparing inclusive-minded teachers with applied theatre
‘Encountering diversity’ places people with disability at the centre of professional practice knowledge and the teaching and learning process. In this project actors with disability lead interactive applied drama workshops about educational inclusion for pre-service teachers. The project investigates possibilities for extending the applied theatre model in other contexts including health and social work.
Principal investigators: Dr Jo Raphael, Associate Professor Joanne O’Mara, Professor Julianne Moss, Professor Susan Balandin, Dr Ben Whitburn and Dr Kate Anderson
Funding: REDI research development grant $20,000
Luminosity, connecting community through inclusive theatre arts
An investigation of the work of Fusion Theatre, an inclusive community-based theatre company based in Dandenong and the impacts and implications for all participants. In this project Deakin University students of drama and education work alongside actors with disability to devise original works for public performance.
Principal investigator: Dr Jo Raphael
Funding: City of Greater Dandenong Community Support Grant, $10,000
Researching drama’s impact in national curricula
This project is focused on understanding the challenges and opportunities for policy-makers in establishing drama as a 21st century creative change agent and pedagogy. This international project seeks to understand what cultural, social, historical, systemic, organisational, attitudinal, pedagogical, economic and external factors can be identified that assist or inhibit educational policymakers in establishing drama as an effective, productive pedagogy in schools within ratified national and state curricula.
Principal investigators: Professor John O’Toole, Professor Julianne Moss, Associate Professor Joanne O’Mara and Dr Jo Raphael
Funding: REDI
Music research projects
Music in schools – Warrnambool
A three-year project designed to increase the capacity and confidence of generalist and specialist teachers in regional Victoria teach music in their schools, designed to increase participation in and through the music activities in the region and beyond. The project involves developing a community of practice around music education and fostering partnerships with Opera Victoria, The Lighthouse Theatre and other cultural organisations.
Principal investigators: Janette Grenfell and Fiona Phillips
Funding: Warrnambool Charitable Trust, $250,000
Promoting relationships through sound in formal and informal settings
2018–2023
This project investigates the experiences, engagement and connections music makes in both formal and informal learning environments.
Principal investigator: Associate Professor Dawn Joseph
See, listen and share: cultural practices in music teaching and learning
2015–2020
The research project explores the perceptions of multicultural music teaching and learning in different geographical and cultural contexts.
Principal investigators: Associate Professor Dawn Joseph, Professor Alberto Cabedo Mas, Dr Rohan Nethsinge and Professor David Forrest
Music, the arts and positive ageing
2014–2018
The aims of this study are to understand the meaning of music and the arts in the lives of older Australians and to demonstrate the richness and diversity of community and individual engagement with music and the arts by older Australians in a variety of modes.
Principal investigators: Associate Professor Dawn Joseph and Associate Professor Jane Southcott
Spirituality and wellbeing: music in the community
2012–2017
The purpose of the research project is to investigate music, wellbeing and spirituality through community music making in Australia and South Africa.
Principal investigators: Associate Professor Dawn Joseph, Professor C van Niekerk and Roy Page Shipp
Pre-service teacher attitudes and understandings of music education
2012–2017
This project investigates how pre-service teachers construct their teacher identity, investigates music pedagogies in the curriculum, schools, university and in the community, and identifies how engagement with music promotes multicultural understandings.
Principal investigator: Associate Professor Dawn Joseph
Becoming musical
A narrative Inquiry research of regional Victorian generalist teachers’ journeys; to understand how they are becoming more musical and including more music in their classrooms, schools and lives. Implications for professional learning and ongoing mentoring models are possible.
Principal investigators: Fiona Phillips (PhD candidate) , Associate Professor Joanne O’Mara and Professor Julianne Moss
Visual art research projects
Citizen archaeologies: a socially engaged intervention in public space, Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2018
Curated by Australian National Gallery Curator, Lara Nicolls, this ongoing, experimental project aims to provoke unexpected forms of social engagement and conversation around affective histories and material geologies of the earth. Situated on the beach, the work explored opportunities for citizens to gather around issues of consumerism and sustainability.
Principal Investigators: Professor David Cross, Dr Cameron Bishop, Merinda Kelly
Funding: Sidney Myer Foundation $2,500
Iconic industry exhibition #Vacant, National Wool Museum
This creative exploration of Geelong’s industrial identity has a focus on the industrial landscape of vacated sites and facilities. The brick form is explored as an evocative and contingent object in the de-industrialising city. It holds both memory and possibility, as publics reclaim it to reimagine public space in the transitioning urban landscape.
Principal investigators: Associate Professor Mirjana Lozanovosk, Dr David Beynon, Dr Cameron Bishop, Dr Diego Fulluando, Dr Anne Scott Wilson.
Principal investigators: Professor David Cross, Dr Cameron Bishop, Merinda Kelly, James Lynch
Funding: Creative Victoria, $10,000. Grant total $95,000, City of Greater Geelong National Wool Museum.
Art and performance by research, Tread Project, Deakin Gallery
Objects become conduits, eliciting public participation and co-production. Forming archaeologies of the present that are at once full and empty, mobile and sustainable, these works explore intersections between art and life. The works operate as minimalist projections, signposts for a consumerist culture full of objects and the guilt of conspicuous consumption.
Principal investigators: Professor David Cross, Dr Cameron Bishop, Merinda Kelly, James Lynch (Curator).
Funding: Deakin University Gallery
Other research projects
Parrwan youth arts
The development of an arts mentoring and capacity building program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in the Geelong Region. This research builds on the work of Short Black Opera and The Dhungala Choral Connect program. Those involved in the program work with professional artists to explore traditional and contemporary storytelling using dance, drama, singing and visual arts. Research is focussed on the impact of the program on participants health and wellbeing and the delivery mode.
Principal investigators: Fiona Phillips and Kelly Clifford
Funding: R E Ross Trust and Newsboys Foundation, $50,000
Engaging with the arts for older Australians
2008–2016
This research explores the general contribution of the arts to wellbeing in the lives of older Australians.
Principal investigators: Associate Professor Dawn Joseph and Associate Professor Jane Southcott
Funding: Deakin University Research Capacity Grant, $5000
Improving work placement for international students, their mentors and other stakeholders
2015–2017
This project identified aspects of the work placement that could be improved for international students, including processes associated with the work placement at both the university and workplace level. It also developed a working model of effective practice, including resources and materials.
Principal investigators: Prof Marilyn Campbell, Dr Georgina Barton, Dr Kay Hartwig, Associate Professor Dawn Joseph, Associate Professor Liz Jones, Associate Professor Johns Sands and Dr Susanne Garvis
Funding: OLT Commissioned Projects – Office for Learning and Teaching, $220,000
The roles of art when teaching and learning science
As an inquiry into science learning in schools, this research project includes gathering artefacts, researching classes in school and in the SLRC classroom space at Melbourne University, and follow up interviews with teachers and students.
Principal investigators: Dr Shelley Hannigan, Professor Russell Tytler, Professor Vaughan Prain, Dr Joseph Ferguson
Funding: SLRC
Arts approaches in inclusive education
Researching the usefulness of art for inclusive education and particular art approaches for students with additional needs- a review of literature.
Principal investigators: Dr Shelley Hannigan, Dr Jo Raphael and Fiona Phillips
Funding: REDI small research development grant, $2900
Drawing out: arts based inquiry into education research and practice
A focus on the processes of developing arts-based inquiry for education research in teaching practices. This project builds on four years of presenting arts-based inquiries for developing a community of practice for pre-service teacher educators in a faculty research group.
Principal investigators: Dr Jo Raphael and Dr Shelley Hannigan
Overwintering project
This is an arts-practice research project into migratory birds.
Principal investigator: Dr Shelley Hannigan
‘Tread’: your city – socially engaged art in the de-industrialising locale, Sally Walker Project Space, Geelong 2018
Tread is a durational practice-led research project situated in Geelong. Unfolding experimental pedagogies and creative interventions catalyse public engagement, social connection and responses to site and circumstance. Over time social relations form providing a platform for the sharing storied experiences around space, time and place in the urban locale.
Principal investigators: Professor David Cross, Dr Cameron Bishop and Merinda Kelly
Funding: City of Greater Geelong Arts and Culture: Funds accepted for NTRO, $5000
Re-thinking inequalities between de-industrialisation, schools and educational research in Geelong
Re-conceptualising educational inequalities beyond human relations within a specific geographical territory, in this project we argue that inequalities between humans, and between humans and the more-than-human, are materially generated and perpetuated. Affective, spatial and material dimensions of inequality are investigated, re-thinking relations between inequality, de-industrialisation and schooling.
Principal researchers: Dr Eve Mayes, Professor Amanda Keddie, Professor Julianne Moss, Dr Shaun Rawolle, Associate Professor Louise Paatsch, Merinda Kelly
Funding: REDI
Contact us
For more information about arts education research, please contact Jo Raphael.
Jo Raphael
Senior Lecturer, Arts Education
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