PRESENTATIONS
Public speaking and the capacity to deliver compelling, engaging presentations to a discerning audience is a lifelong learned skill. Over two decades my public speaking experience has instilled an awareness that every audience brings a new challenge, and for me that is what is compelling about public and civic engagement. The following presentation summaries were delivered as a consultant, an entrepreneur, as an employee and as a researcher in connection with communities of practice all around the globe.
SISAT Research Student Colloquium
On the 11th October 2012 I attended and presented at the 2012 School of Information Systems and Technology Research Students Colloquium which was held at the City beach Function Centre in Wollongong NSW Australia, I was restricted to five slides that summarised my research PhD project.
UOW IIBSOR Retreat
Peer review can be excruciatingly intense especially at the beginnings of a research inquiry where the research argument, focus and methodological approach are still in flux.
Location Enabled Body Worn Technologies
The intensification and diversification of surveillance in recent decades is now rapidly being considered within a contemporary theoretical and academic framework.
Futures Business: Harnessing Emergent Technologies
The relational paradigm of human-computer interactions which meld user experience with curriculum will always challenge learners and educators within the VET sector. Harnessing the interpersonal relationships that have developed with the assistance of these emergent mobile devices however, seems to be at the pinnacle to the authenticity crisis the VET sector as a whole faces with it's aging practitioner population
Networking 2004: Online Conference
The New Practices in Flexible Learning ‘TxtMe: Supporting disengaged youth using Mobile Technologies’ project is funded by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (AFLF), managed by Swan TAFE, Western Australia and conducted in conjunction with stakeholders Challenger TAFE, Swan City Youth Services (SCYS), WestOne Flex-e Learning Centre, and the Mandurah Senior College all in Western Australia.
Livable Communities
The Liveable Communities conference in 2002 provided an opportunity to showcase my intent in poster and installation format as a novice Doctor of Creative Arts (DCA) in pursuance of research focussed on the vernacular adaptations and use of the 44 gallon drum.
Shifting Perception: A Turn Around
Personal creative expression provides new possibilities for those subject to the brutal, banal, and demeaning effects of imprisonment. Equipped with incarceration language, prisons re-define their existence, yet art becomes a focal point for departure from the boundaries of their confinement.