CV

Academic Employment:

Jan 2026 ongoing – Associate Professor & Program Director of Design Studies, School of Design, Faculty of Design & Society UTS
Sept – Dec 2025 -Senior Lecturer & Program Director of Design Studies, School of Design, Faculty of Design & Society UTS
July 2021 – Jan 2025 – Senior Lecturer & ARC DECRA Fellow, UTS School of Design,
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:

Winner, UTS Faculty of Design & Society’s HDR Supervisor of the Year Award (2025)
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.