E D U C A T I O N

January 2020 – Practice-led PhD submitted for examination, awaiting outcome. Undertaken in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne. Title: Drawing a Line Through Place: Re-imagining Place Through Locative Sound Composition. Main Supervisor Assoc.Prof. David Carlin.

1995 - 1996: Post Graduate Diploma in Electronic Imaging. High Commendation.

The School of Television and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Scotland.

1989 - 1992: BA in Media Studies. Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland.

E M P L O Y M E N T

July 2017 - Present, Senior Lecturer, Sound. Subject leader for sound at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. Sydney, Australia.

June 2012 - July 2017, Lecturer: Sound Production, (Convening and delivering Sound Design units as part of the BA (Hons) Film and Television, for the Department of Film and Animation, The Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology. Melbourne, Australia.

Jan. 2015 – Dec. 31 2015, Course Coordinator on the BA of Film and Television, The department of Film and Animation, The Faculty of Health Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology. Melbourne, Australia.

Aug. 2004 – Jan. 2011, Sessional Lecturer, School of Film and Television, Swinburne University of Technology. Delivering the ‘Sound Design for the Moving Image’ unit, part of the BA (Hons) in Film and TV, within the Faculty of Design. Melbourne, Australia.

April 2000 – Feb. 2004, Lecturer on the BA (Hons) In Time Based Art, The School of Television & Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The University of Dundee. Dundee, Scotland

Jan. 2002  - Feb. 2003 - Visiting Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art. Edinburgh, Scotland.

Sept. 1997 – Mar. 2000, Part-Time Lecturer, The School of Television & Imaging. Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The University of Dundee. Dundee, Scotland

1992 - 1995 Video Producer/Director, Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow.

A W A R D S

Nov 2011 – March 2012, City of Melbourne Arts and Culture program Grant: Docklands Sound-Walk project, an interactive sound walk.

Structure and Sadness 2007: Green Room Award Nomination

March 2006, Cultural Development Fund: “A Sense of Place”

Sound Arts Project – The City of Port Phillip, Melbourne

July 2003, European Union MEDIA organisation Nipkow Award: Berlin,

Four months funded residency in Berlin. Working with Martin Steyer.

March 2003, Scottish Arts Council – Professional Development Award. An award given to practitioners to develop their practice. This enabled me to travel from Scotland to Melbourne to present a paper at the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology Conference in 2003, exploring the creative application of directional sound technologies.