Postgraduate Research Conference

23 - 25 March 2026

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Sarah Eddowes, 'Unravelling' 2025. Digital print, 50 x 50cm.

A snapshot of the diverse and inventive research projects underway in our HDR programs.

Join us in the Sherman Postgraduate Studios, Level 4, Block F (Campus Map). All are welcome to attend these sessions. 

Monday 23 March

  • Chair: Bianca Hester

    Panel Member: Fernando Do Campo

    Presentations

    Kristy Gordon (PhD), ‘Slow Spatial Practices’. Supervisors: Emma Robertson, David Eastwood. 

    Remy Faint (MFA), ‘Delineation of a Trace: Silk, Surface, and Cultural Memory’. Supervisors: Felicity Fenner, Clare Milledge. 

    Todd Fuller (MFA), ‘Queering the line’. Supervisors: Peter Sharp, Scott East. 

  • Chair: Felicity Fenner

    Panel Member: Scott East

    Presentations

    Sara Bartolucci (PhD), ‘Beyond Education: Museums and Teenagers as Partners in Identity Exploration Across Physical and Digital Environments’. Supervisors:  Lizzie Muller, Oliver Bown, Megan Lawrence.

    Zuyu Chen (PhD), ‘Value of Play in Art Museum Prosumer Experience’. Supervisors:  Michael Garbutt, Andrew Yip.

    Katherine Bond (PhD), ‘Between Space and Self: Designing Embodied Experiences for Psychosocial Transformation’. Supervisors:  Jill Bennett, Michael Balfour.

Tuesday 24 March

  • Chair: Izabela Pluta

    Panel Member: Peter Sharp

    Presentations

    Jane Michaele Cameron (PhD), ‘Photomontage of macro worlds’. Supervisors: Rebecca Green, Emma Robertson.

    Skye Wagner (PhD), ‘Revisions and Bad Timing: Tactics for Seeing Otherwise’. Supervisors: Grant Stevens, Astrid Lorange.

    Toyah Webb (PhD), ‘Traynes of Thought’. Supervisors: Astrid Lorange, Sigi Jottkandt.

  • Chair: Jennifer Biddle

    Panel Member: Jaye Early

    Presentations

    Danielah Martinez (PhD), ‘From Evaluation to Attunement: Designing with Care in Codesign’. Supervisors: Katherine Moline, Reside Oya Demirbilek.

    Caitlin Dubler (PhD), ‘Shock Lines: Inclusions in an experimental glass practice’.  Supervisors: Bianca Hester, Zoe Veness, Suzie Attiwill.

    Jo Mellor (PhD), ‘Restoring Seagrass, Restoring Connection: An arts-based relational approach to understanding Posidonia australis seagrass through collaborations with Aboriginal knowledge holders and marine scientists’. Supervisors: Fabri Blacklock, Prudence Gibson.

Wednesday 25 March

  • Chair: Deborah Turnbull-Tillman

    Panel Member: Scott Brown

    Presentations

    Chantelle Baistow (PhD), ‘Material politics in practice: participatory design for polluted landscapes’. Supervisors: Katherine Moline, Zoe Veness.

    Emma Peters (PhD), ‘Sleeping Soundly:  Transformative opportunities for bedlinen waste’. Supervisors: Alison Gwilt, Zoe Veness.

    Syna Chen (PhD), ‘When Human and AI Encounter in the Same Body: Designing Wearable AI for Human–AI Entanglement’. Supervisors: Patricia Flanagan, Haider Akmal.

    Chloe McFadden (PhD), ‘Practices of prediction: Revealing and disrupting the magical technoscientism of generative AI’. Supervisors: Oliver Bown, Anna Munster.

Header image: Sarah Eddowes, Unravelling 2025, digital print.

Acknowledgement of Country

UNSW School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.

We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.