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Downunder grads
No full textDownunder Grads is a 4-part series (4 x 26') screened on the Special Broadcasting Station in 2008.\ud
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It's the start of the semester at one of Australia's top universities and 37,000 students, are about to embark on their studies. University is make or break time; a time that can change people forever. From free education in the 1980s to HECS fee debt and a large increase in full fee paying students, university education is now big business.\ud
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Through a variety of character stories this four-part series\ud
explores the contemporary Australian university experience of both international and Australian students from a range of different backgrounds
Utopian Inequities
No full textUtopian Inequities: Learning from the Past to Imagine the Future was a one-day charrette and creative practice workshop hosted by QUT’s Creative Lab and facilitated by Prof. David Gillette (CalPoly) and AsPro. Carol Brown (University of Auckland) on 8 September 2016. The event was documented by Chengsuo Liu (director) and Dr Phoebe Hart (producer).\ud
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This event brought together QUT staff and HDRs from MECA, Design, and SEF with the aim of building transdisciplinary teamwork and project design skills that are transferrable to different areas of practice.\ud
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During the first part of the day, participants worked in transdisciplinary groups responding to the provocation of a “World’s Fair” style event. Through a guided process of group work, pitching, and critique, teams generated workable designs for a 2023 Brisbane fair, with a focus on sustainability, accessibility, and connectivity. Designs (which included models, drawings, collages, photographs, videos, or digital renderings) were presented via live feed to reviewers in America.\ud
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In the second part of the day, participants built on this collaborative design and presentation experience, as well as the feedback from critiques, to examine their own creative practices (working habits, presumptions, design principles, organising systems) in comparison to those of others
Save Your Life Tonight : Heads Up
No full textSave Your Life Tonight is a factual entertainment series produced by WildBear Entertainment for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and was filmed in front of a live studio audience at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH).\ud
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Save Your Life Tonight is a unique studio based medical series that explores Australia’s top 10 health issues in an exciting and entertaining way. Driven by charismatic host Andrew Daddo, along with resident GP Dr Liz Marles and a panel of leading experts, each episode is a fast-paced, dynamic exploration of the causes, symptoms, treatments and, most importantly, prevention of these leading health issues.\ud
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But Save Your Life Tonight doesn't just talk about the issues, it shows the issues! Save Your Life Tonight features real patients, real doctors, real tests, real diagnoses, and real surgical procedures – live on stage! \ud
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For the "Heads Up" episode, the program explores the issues of mental health. Only half of the Australians suffering from severe mental heath issues are receiving treatment. Featuring Ian Hickie on the panel, we also see a young mum face her crippling bird phobia with the help of a Wedge Tailed Eagle
Goroka Taim
No full textThe creative work is a response to "change making" digital stories made by visiting DFAT Australia Award fellows from the <i>University of Goroka in Papua New Guinea (PNG)</i> who came to Queensland University of Technology in June 2015. At that time, the fellows were tasked to each create community-based screen stories of their experience of coming to Brisbane learning media production skills to enhance the economic empowerment of women in PNG.\ud
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Similarly, the digital documentary <i>Goroka Taim</i> charts the adventure of Dr Hart and Ms Newsome as they travel to Goroka for the first time in Sepetember of 2016 on a <i>QUT ECARD Travel Fellowship</i> to reconnect with the PNG filmmakers and continue to develop the media production capacity in the region
Building first-year university scriptwriting student creative risk taking capacity
No full textIn this study, the author investigates the key pedagogic challenge of encouraging creative risk- taking among first-year university scriptwriting students as part of a teaching and learning research cohort across various disciplines of the Creative Industries. To date, there have been limited studies investigating creative risk-taking as perceived and experienced by teachers and commencing students across different disciplines in a tertiary environment. Employing an action research methodology, we found that students perceive creative risks as happening across multiple aspects of their experience from the challenges of undertaking the unit or course in the first place to presenting what is perceived to be an unrefined idea to a large audience. By comparing and synthesising common themes regarding students’ perceptions of and responses to creative risk-taking, we have identified three key opportunity areas in which new teaching and learning strategies for scriptwriting can be implemented to better encourage creative risk-taking among students: \ud
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i) overcoming challenges of voicing ideas in a collaborative group context; \ud
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ii) building resilience and a sense of self-efficacy to remain agile and flexible to spontaneous or unexpected changes, and; \ud
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iii) balancing creativity capacity building with technical competency to address practical concerns around realising and communicating creative concepts with minimum limitations of technologies and resources
Orchid love
No full textAs a 46XY chromosomal woman with the intersex variation Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) recently separated from her husband, the author explores the philosophical intricacies of dating, sex and love through her journaling and documentary practice. This ‘empowered reveal’ forms the basis for a transformative, phenomenological exploration of love, loss, desire and sex through a prism of feminism and embodied difference. It will be argued the positioning of the author and her lovers together, sexually strong, is a rupture of asexual preinscription
Gender studies : Intersex by Catherine Harper
No full textIntersex is the condition whereby an individual is born with biological features that are simultaneously perceived as male and female. Ranging from the ambiguous genitalia of the true 'hermaphrodite' to the 'mildly or internally intersexed', the condition may be as common as cleft palate. Like cleft palate, it is hidden and surgically altered, but for very different reasons. \ud
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Intersex draws heavily on the personal testimony of intersexed individuals, their loved ones and medical carers. The impact of early sex-assignment surgery on an individual's later life is examined within the context of ethical and clinical questions. Harper challenges the conventional and radical 'treatment' of intersexuality through non-consensual infant sex-assignment surgery. In doing so, she exposes powerful myths, taboos and constructions of gender - the perfect phallus, a bi-polar model of gender and the infallibility of medical decisions. Handling sensitive material with care, this book deepens our understanding of a condition that has itself only been medically understood in recent years
Cinema studies : Women's Experimental Cinema edited by Robin Blaetz
No full textWomen’s Experimental Cinema provides lively introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde women filmmakers, some of whom worked as early as the 1950s and many of whom are still working today. In each essay in this collection, a leading film scholar considers a single filmmaker, supplying biographical information, analyzing various influences on her work, examining the development of her corpus, and interpreting a significant number of individual films. The essays rescue the work of critically neglected but influential women filmmakers for teaching, further study, and, hopefully, restoration and preservation. Just as importantly, they enrich the understanding of feminism in cinema and expand the terrain of film history, particularly the history of the American avant-garde
Roller Derby Dolls
No full textIn the sprawling outer suburbs of Brisbane, a revolution is brewing. A sassy group of women from all walks of life has a dream: to resurrect the lost sport of full-contact roller derby in Australia.\ud
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Led by their president Evil Doll, and despite none having experience in business, the roller girls have set up a roller derby league, one of 220 now dotted around the globe.\ud
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Roller Derby Dolls is a story of female empowerment and of women with a dream—the dream of inspiring women in Australia to strap on the skates and give the sport a go
I still dream of my grandfather's red roses
No full text"I still dream of my grandfather's red roses" is an online audio documentary. Asking people from her community to make a statement beginning with the words "I dream of", Australian documentarist Phoebe Hart curates these fragments and creatively envisages the literal and figurative world of dreams, arresting our collective hopes, desires and fears
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