Barbara Doran

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, Australia

• Lecturer and co-ordinator
  UTS College, Communication and Design, Sydney, Australia

• Lecturer and co-ordinator
  Western Sydney University, Social Science, Sydney, Australia

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• Senior Lecturer
  NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts), Graduate School, Sydney, Australia

• Research 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, Australia

• Masters Environmental Planning
  Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

• PhD
  Sydney University, Sydney, Australia