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Sue Davis is Senior Lecturer, writer/director and professional learning consultant with expertise and experience in facilitating creative projects and community engagement. Her research and creative practice interests include exploring the ways that creative processes (including digital technologies and drama processes) can be used for engagement and learning. Her Masters and doctoral studied were based on creating web-based dramas with young people and using socio-cultural and activity theory research frames. Sue regularly presents at national and international conferences and has had a number of book chapters and refereed articles published. She has also written curriculum and assessment materials for syllabus and assessment projects and sits on the Queensland Studies Authority state panel for Senior Drama and the Learning Advisory Reference Committee for The Arts.
Sue has extensive experience managing arts-based community projects and events with her involvement as the Chair for the UNESCO designated Noosa Biosphere Reserve, her involvement as foundation member, Secretary and Pecha Kucha Night Coordinator for Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance (SCCA) and community based projects including the NeoGeography creative place-making project (funded by Sunshine Coast Council, Arts Qld & Australia Council) and projects for ‘Floating Land’ (2009 & 2011),‘Treeline’ (2010), and the ‘Noosa Longweekend’ (Noosa Scrubs, 2008). In Brisbane she worked on drama projects with the Brisbane Powerhouse and QPAC. Previously she was involved with Contact Youth Theatre, the original Two High committee and Noosa Regional Arts Development Committee. Sue also spent several years working as a project and policy officer for Education Queensland developing curriculum packages utilising arts processes and also working as an equity consultant to the National Arts curriculum project. She has extensive experience in writing and directing performance work, predominantly with and for young people. Her research work and interests are concerned with drama, engagement, creativity and learning, fusing academic analysis with practice-based projects. More recent projects have been focussed on exploring the use of drama, media and arts-based processes for sustainability education and other in other applied theatre contexts.
AARE
ISCAR
Drama Queensland/Drama Australia/IDEA
Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance
. Australian National Schools Network - Dimensions of Learning Hub Facilitator 2008
. SEQ Water - creative content consultant for strategic planning processes
Davis, S & Dargusch, J 2010, 'Learning management and its association with the reporting of learner performance', in Lynch, David & Knight, Bruce Allen (eds), The theory and practice of learning management, Pearson Australia, Frenchs Forest NSW, pp. 117-135.
Davis, S & Dargusch, J 2010, 'Lerning management and assessment', in Lynch, David & Knight, Bruce Allen (eds),The theory and practice of learning management, Pearson Australia, Frenchs Forest NSW.
Davis, S 2009, 'Interactive drama using cyberspaces' in Anderson, M, Carroll, J & Cameron, D (eds.), Drama Education with Digital Technology, London, Continuum, pp. 149-167.
Allen, J & Smith, R 2007, 'Teacher professional development: A partnership approach: Working with the Dimensions of Learning in Schools', in P Grainger & J Allen (eds), Dimensions of Learning in Practice in Australian Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Education, Hawker Brownlow Education, Heatherton, Vic., pp. 19-27.
Davis, S 2011, 'Activity, engagement and meaning-making: Revisiting Activity Theory to examine creative practice using ICTs' in Wright, J (ed.) Researching across boundaries : Proceedings of the Australian Association for Research in Education conference (AARE 2011), 27 Nov- 1 Dec 2011, Hobart, Tasmania, http://www.aare.edu.au/11pap/
Davis, S 2010, 'ICTs for creative practice: the importance of mediation tools beyond the purely technological' in Chova, L. Gomez et al (eds.) ICERI 2010 International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation: Conference Proceedings, 15-17 Nov, 2010, Madrid, Spain, International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), Valencia, Spain, pp. 3973-3982.
Davis, S 2009, 'Cyberdrama, Creativity and Engagement: Supporting young people's creative practice in a digital age', in J Shu & P Chan (eds), Planting Trees of Drama with Global Vision in Local Knowledge: IDEA 2007 Dialogues, Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum, Hong Kong.
Davis, S 2009, 'Contexts, codes and online communications: exploring issues related to using and analysing computer-mediated communications in educational contexts', paper presented at the IGNITE08! 2008 QUT Creative Industries Postgraduate Conference, Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, 1st - 3rd October 2008, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Davis, S 2012, 'Liveness, mediation and immediacy: innovative technology use in process and performance', Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 501-516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2012.727623
Davis, S 2012, 'Real life doesn't happen on a screen', Education Review, February, pp. 22-23, http://www.educationreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Topics&idArticle=23053
Davis, S 2012, 'Activity systems analysis methods: understanding complex learning environments, by Lisa C. Yamagata-Lynch', book review, Pedagogies: An International Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 95-99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2012.630575
Davis, S 2012, 'Epiphany - a contemporary vaudevillian fairytale', Text , special issue no 15, pp. 1-23, http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue15/Davis.pdf
Davis, S 2011, 'Digital drama: toolkits, dilemmas, and preferences', Youth Theatre Journal , vol. 25, no. 2, pp.103-119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08929092.2011.618365
Davis, S 2010, 'Creativity in drama: explanations and explorations', NJ (Drama Australia Journal), vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 31-44.
Davis, S 2009, 'Contexts, codes and online communications:a case study exploring issues related to using CMCs in a drama education project', e-Journalist, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 135-155, http://ejournalist.com.au/v9n1/Davis.pdf (viewed 15/1/10)
Davis, S 2008, 'Coming of age: dialogues about "Dramawise" and the elements of drama', NJ: Drama Australia Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 59-71.
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