Barbara Doran
Lecturer, Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation at University of Technology Sydney
Biography
University of Technology Sydney
Barbara Doran (PhD) specialises identifying creative opportunities that respond to complex challenges and putting them in action. She is an experienced speaker, mentor, educator, project innovator and artist who directs her energies to building our collective capacities to improve how we live. Barbara has over 20 years experience in working in the realms of collective well being including public health, urban and regional planning, health psychology and the arts.
Her skills are drawn from working across the arts, the tertiary sector and from project experience in the private, public and community sectors which bring together practical, scholarly, imaginative, playful and collaborative outcomes. Barbara's work is directed towards knowledge translation and social impact and is specifically transdisciplinary. In this mix, she has exhibited artwork nationally and internationally, been involved in numerous film productions, performances, cultural events and community organisations. Barbara's work seeks to amplify holistically oriented approaches across:- sustainable systems in cultivation; exchange and technology; practices linked to food; healthy built environments; mental health; the arts and the value of storytelling.
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS
Lecturer (ongoing)
University of Technology Sydney, Transdisciplinary School, Sydney, AustraliaLecturer and co-ordinator
UTS College, Communication and Design, Sydney, AustraliaLecturer and co-ordinator
Western Sydney University, Social Science, Sydney, Australia
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Senior Lecturer
NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts), Graduate School, Sydney, AustraliaResearch assistant
Western Sydney, Social Science, Sydney, Australia
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Director
35 Mill Pty Ltd, Creativity and design, Sydney, Australia
DEGREES
Bachelor of Arts
Australian National University, Canberra, AustraliaMasters Environmental Planning
Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaPhD
Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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