CV

Academic Employment:

Senior Lecturer & Director of Design Studies, UTS School of Design, September 2025 –
Senior Lecturer, UTS School of Design, Jan 2025 – ongoing
Senior Lecturer & ARC DECRA Fellow, UTS School of Design, July 2021 – Jan 2025
2020-2021 – Senior Lecturer & Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UTS School of Design
2016-2020 – Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UTS School of Design
2015 – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building

Qualifications:

PhD in Design from UTS (2014)
Master of Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009)
Bachelor of Art Theory (Hons Class 1) from UNSW (2005)

Awards:

Named one of “Ten humanities EMCRs shaping the future” by the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2024)
Winner, UTS Faculty of DAB Award for Excellence – Highest Impact Event (for All Hands on Deck) (2023)
Winner, UTS Faculty of DAB Award for Excellence – Highest Impact Research Project/Achievement (2022)
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) (2021)
Winner of AAANZ AWAPAS Award for Best Scholarly Article (2021)
Co-winner UTS Faculty of DAB Early Career Research Excellence Award – External Funding (2020)
Finalist – UTS Early Career Researcher Award (2018)
UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2016)
UTS Chancellor’s List for the Top 6 PhD Theses (2015)
Australian Postgraduate Award (2011)
UNSW University Medal (2005)

Professional:

Elected Member – Faculty Board, Faculty of Design & Society, UTS, 2025-2028
Member – New Faculty Implementation Working Group – Research (UTS, 2025)
Program Director, History Now 2024
Former Vice President, History Council of NSW (2023-2025), and current member of HCNSW General Council, HCNSW Events Sub-Committee and HCNSW Membership Sub-Committee (2025 – )
Former Member of UTS Academic Board (2022-2023).
Current Member of the Australian Centre for Public History (ACPH), co-leader of the Design + History research node and also part of the Work & Technology group within the ACPH.
Current Member of the UTS Faculty of DAB Research Ethics Committee
Member of: Design History Society & Oral History NSW.
Past editorial board member for Craft + Design Inquiry.
Regular peer reviewer: Journal of Design History, Design and Culture; Technology & Culture (among others).
Registered detailed assessor with the Australian Research Council (ARC) and regular examiner/reviewer for PhD and MA (Design) dissertations, book proposals and book manuscripts across Australia and internationally.