School of Arts and Humanities

Associate Professor

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, Southern Cross University, 2008.
• Master of Arts, Southern Cross University, 2000.
• Bachelor of Arts with Honours (First Class Honours), Southern Cross University, 1998.
• Bachelor of Arts, Southern Cross University, 1997.

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Wanneroo Road/Joondalup Drive Interchange Project,  Department of Finance,  Building Management and Works Grant,  2019 - 2020,  $42,283.
• Havana Cuban node—inConversation2: Investigating the creative benefits and challenges of collaboration across disciplines and art-forms ,  Edith Cowan University,  ECU Collaboration Enhancement Scheme - 2016 Round 1,  2016 - 2017,  $5,400.
• Public Art-Mitchell Freeway Extension: Burns Beach Road to Hester Avenue,  CPB Contractors Ltd,  Grant,  2016,  $32,364.
• In Conversation: Investigating the creative benefits and challenges of collaboration across disciplines and art-forms,  Edith Cowan University,  ECU Early Career Researcher Grant - 2014,  2014 - 2015,  $23,224.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Book Chapters

• Newman, R., Adams, L., (2019), The question, the material and the ethos of creative research. The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy: Challenges for Creative Practice Researchers in Higher Education, 110-120, London, England, Routledge.

Conference Publications

• Adams, L., See, H., Bell, F., (2019), Public Arts: The academy engaging with Main Roads WA, industry and community. 2019 ACUADS CONFERENCE: Engagement, 1–20, online, Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.
• Smith, A., Adams, L., (2019), Empowering the next generation of actors through the creation of student-centred self-devised dramatic work. 015 – AusAct: The Australian Actor Training Conference 2018, 15(Sep 1–2 2018), 119–131, online, Fusion Journal.
• Adams, L., Newman, R., (2017), Capturing creative research in the academy. Research and Development in Higher Education: Curriculum Transformation, 40(27-30 June 2017), 1 - 11.
• Adams, L., Barstow, C., Uhlmann, P., (2017), What is ERA really measuring?. ACUADS 2016: Adaptation, 12p., ACUADS.
• Adams, L., Newman, R., (2016), Collisions, Co-opting and Collaboration: Reflections on the workings of an interdisciplinary collaborative project—in Conversation. ACUADS conference 2015: art and design education in the global 24/7, 13p., online only, Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

• Adams, L., (2020), what led you here?. Wanneroo Road/Joondalup Drive Interchange Project Public Artwork, Wanneroo Road/Joondalup Drive Interchange, Main Roads Western Australia.
• Yekanians, S., Adams, L., (2018), The Special Team Elite., Austin Macauley Publishers, Austin Macauley Publishers.
• Adams, L., Girak, S., (2017), Public Art–Mitchell Freeway Extension: Burns Beach Rd to Hester Ave., Mitchell Freeway Extension: Burns Beach Rd to Hester Ave, Main Roads WA and CPB Contractors.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  Directing through dialogue: A theatre director's exploration of leadership
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Creatively pursuing persona: Finding identity through directing
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Beyond the wall. An opera for children in 2 acts. -and- toward a more engaging operatic genre for children. an exegesis.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Imperceptible realities (an exhibition) -and- digitalisation: Re-imaging the real beyond notions of the original and the copy in contemporary printmaking (an exegesis)
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Cries from within: The struggles & triumphs of creating a singaporean voice in musical theatre.
• Master of Communications by Research,  The Australian football league and the closet
• Master of Arts (Performing Arts),  The shifting voice: Investigating accent and dialect training for West Australian actors.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Phantoms, an original jazz trio studio recording -and- dispelling phantoms: An Australian bassist exploring assumptions of jazz practice, an exegesis
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Meeting place. An exhibition - and - locating the country: An Australian bricoleur's inquiry. an exegesis
• Master of Arts by Research,  The material forms of memory: A creative arts praxis examining family archive materiality and the performance of memory through installation art
• Master of Arts (Performing Arts),  The composer as bricoleur: Notions of contemporary opera in the genesis of a short film
• Master of Arts by Research,  Defence d'afficher. An exhibition. -and- from snap-shot photography to digital printmaking via the concept of the flaneur. an exegesis.

Co-principal Supervisor

• Master of Arts (Performing Arts),  Tracing the ancestral roots and the flow of pedagogical practices in the development of ballet teaching from 1950 to 2016 in Perth, Western Australia.
• Master of Arts (Performing Arts),  Investigations in learning and teaching through metacognition and critical and creative thiniking practices in secondary drama education
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Actor training and emotions - finding a balance.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Night music (composittions, performance and improvisations) -and- developing a chromatic-intervallic approach to jazz improvisation through reflexive practice. An exegesis

Associate Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  Creative river journeys: Using reflective practice to investigate creative practice-led research
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Creative reuse: How rescued materials transformed my a/r/tographic practice
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Material murmurings.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Queering photography: An ethnographic exploration of rupaul's drag race, the social media landscape, and queer time in the Perth drag scene
• Doctor of Philosophy,  New Australian plants and animals. An exhibition. - and - physiology, phenomenology and photography: Picturing the indeterminate within an Australian art practice. an exegesis.