Meet the Mentors
EMERITUS PROFESSOR CLIVE BARSTOW
Edith Cowan University
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Clive is a practicing artist and writer. His exhibition profile includes forty years of international exhibitions, artist residencies and publications in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. His work is held in a number of collections, including the Musse National d’Art Modern Pompidou Centre Paris and the British Council USA. In 2019 Clive was awarded the lifelong fellowship award by the Australian Council for University Art & Design Schools, for his outstanding contribution to art and design education in Australia.
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Academic Publishing, Creative publishing/exhibiting, Teaching, Leadership, Grant & funding applications, Promotion application, Industry partnerships / networking
PROFESSOR CRAIG BATTY
University of South Australia
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Craig is an award-winning educator, researcher and supervisor in the areas of screenwriting, creative writing and screen production, and the broader field of creative practice research, which includes the creative doctorate. He is currently editor of the Journal of Screenwriting, and co-editor of Media Practice and Education. Craig has published over 100 books, book chapters, journal articles and creative practice research works, as well as industry articles, book reviews and interviews. He has also worked on a variety of screen projects as a writer, script editor and script consultant, where he continues to mentor emerging screenwriters.
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Academic Publishing, Creative publishing/exhibiting, Teaching, Leadership, Grant & funding applications, Promotion application, Industry partnerships / networking
ASSOC PROF BEATA BATOROWIZ
Uni Southern Queensland
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Beata Batorowicz is the Associate Head (Research and Research Training) and an Associate Professor in Sculpture (Visual Arts) in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Southern Queensland. She is a contemporary artist exhibiting nationally and internationally, and her key touring projects such as Dark Rituals (2018-2019) – partnered with the University of Sunshine Coast Gallery and University of Tasmania Gallery – have secured Australia Council for the Arts funding. Her other key project funding include: the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research (2015) and Arts Queensland (2011; 2004).
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Academic Publishing, Creative publishing/exhibiting, Teaching, Leadership, Grant & funding applications, Promotion application, Industry partnerships / networking.
PROFESSOR SAMANTHA BENNETT
Australian National University
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Samantha Bennett is Professor of Music and Associate Dean Higher Degree Research at the Australian National University, and Chair of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). Her research interests bridge music and science and technology studies, focusing on sound recording, music production, music technology, and the manifestation of technology and process in recorded popular music. She is the author, co-author or co-editor of six books to include her latest, Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies (co-authored with A/Prof Eliot Bates, CUNY, The MIT Press).
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Academic Publishing, Creative publishing/exhibiting, Teaching, Leadership, Grant & funding applications, Promotion application, Industry partnerships / networking.
PROFESSOR DAMIEN CANDUSSO
Queensland University of Technology
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Damian is the Head of the QUT School of Creative Arts and leads the QUT XR Screen Futures Hub. He provides a unique nexus between senior leadership, research, learning and teaching and industry experience. He has led research projects and partnerships both within industry and the academy in immersive media and XR, spatial sound design, film and television, music and games. He has established collaborations and partnerships in Indigenous cultural preservation, digital preservation and virtualisation in the GLAM sector, screen futures and immersive interactive experiences in education, health and agriculture. Damian’s creative works have been awarded internationally through many peer-reviewed and industry awards.
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Teaching, Leadership, Promotion application, Industry partnerships / networking.
PROFESSOR DAVID CROSS
Deakin University
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David Cross is an artist, writer, curator and Head of Art and Design at Deakin University. His research practice straddles participatory art making and the curation of public art under the aegis of Public Art Commission. He has published extensively across these areas and developed large-scale international research projects with a broad spectrum of partners and institutions.
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Academic Publishing, Creative publishing/exhibiting, Teaching, Leadership, Grant & funding applications, Promotion application, Industry partnerships / networking.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CAROLINE GRAHAM
Bond University
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Caroline Graham is a dual Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist whose practice-led research includes audio and video documentary, multimedia features, longform creative non-fiction and fiction. She has a national teaching citation for empowering student journalists. Her academic research explores media ethics and journalistic practice in rapidly changing industry contexts; in her journalistic work, she partners with industry to tell public interest, social justice and human-interest stories from remote places. She is passionate about the capacity for (traditional and non-traditional) research to generate social change, and can help mentees strategically consider work their through the lens of a range of impact factors to create meaningful research narratives.
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Academic publishing, Creative publishing/exhibiting, Teaching, Promotion application, Industry partnerships/networking
PROFESSOR MEGAN KEATING
University of Tasmania
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Professor Meg Keating is the Head of School at the School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania. An award-winning multidisciplinary artist, her work explores intersections between the environment, technology, and culture. She re-contextualises traditional paper-cutting folk art through animation and cut-out works. With 12 years as a tertiary educator and 20 years as an international artist, Meg has led creative arts programs and completed residencies in Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, and China.
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Teaching, Leadership, Promotion application.
PROFESSOR MIA LINDGREN
University of Tasmania
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Mia Lindgren is Professor of Media at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research examines podcast practice, storytelling, and aesthetics, with attention to the intersection with journalism and health. Mia Lindgren is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies (2022), and co-editor of Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media (Intellect, UK). She has extensive experience as academic leader at four universities in Australia. Prior to becoming an academic, Mia Lindgren worked in radio and television with public service broadcasters in Sweden and Australia.
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Academic Publishing, Creative publishing/exhibiting, Leadership, Grant + funding applications, Promotion application, Industry partnerships / networking.
PROFESSOR KATHERINE MOLINE
University of New South Wales
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Associate Professor Katherine Moline researches the dynamics between technology and society, and has recently exhibited at the NFHRI (2024), published in the journal Design for Health (2023) and the anthology Dark Eden (Melbourne University, 2022). Her innovations in research methodologies have been documented in SAGE Research Methods Online (2022) and The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography (2017). They are currently finalising the monograph The Radical Imaginaries of Socially Engaged Design for Bloomsbury (2025).
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Academic Publishing, Creative publishing/exhibiting, Teaching, Leadership, Grant + funding applications, Promotion application, Industry partnerships / networking
PROFESSOR VANESSA TOMLINSON
Griffith University
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Vanessa is a percussionist-composer with a long history in experimental music. She makes bold sonic events that propose new futures for 21st century music whether on a rockface, in the bush, building an inhabitable acoustic guitar, or following flooded river systems. She is Professor of Music, Queensland Conservatorium, and was the inaugural Director of Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith University. She has led complex research projects including curating festivals, making and touring intercultural projects, collaborating with diverse communities and exploring site-specific performance.
Mentoring expertise
Creative publishing/exhibiting, Leadership, Grant + funding applications, Promotion application. Especially interested in those just completing A Doctorate and making the transition to academia.
PROFESSOR JESSICA WILKINSON
RMIT University
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Jessica is a Professor in Creative Writing in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. In her own poetry and scholarship, Jessica is interested in pushing boundaries of form, and in exploring what poetry can ‘do’, whether as a research tool, for communities/social change, or to expand other writing genres. She is the founding and managing editor of ‘Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry’ (2011-present). As a mentor, Jessica is interested in helping others to devise a research/academic ‘narrative’, to develop grant applications (esp. Cat 2/3), to prepare for promotion and to develop leadership potential.
Mentoring expertise
Research planning, Academic Publishing, Creative publishing/exhibiting, Teaching, Leadership, Grant + funding applications, Promotion application, Industry partnerships / networking.