A/Pr Janet McDonald
| Name | A/Pr Janet McDonald |
|---|---|
| Email Address | janet.mcdonald@unisq.edu.au |
| Job Title | Associate Professor (Theatre Studies) |
| Qualifications | DipT BrisbaneCAE, BA QUT, MA QUT, PhD Arizona SU |
| Department | School of Creative Arts |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6006-4941 |
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Biography
Associate Professor Janet McDonald received her PhD from Arizona State University in 1999. She was a high school drama teacher from 1987-1995 and continues to support and research educational theatre/drama projects with young people in regional Queensland. McDonald was Head of School, Creative Arts (2008-2013) USQ, and, more recently the Associate Head of Learning, Teaching and Student Success for the School (2019-2023). McDonald has extensive experiencing in Chairing small-to-medium management committees, and positively affecting board governance; her work in enabling young people in the arts was recognised in her role as Chair of Youth Arts Queensland (2008-2012), the State’s former peak body for youth arts. She served as the USQ Representative on the Flying Arts Alliance Management Committee (2008-2012), President of the Arts Council Toowoomba (2016 – 2020) and as a member of the Queensland Museum’s Friends of Cobb&Co Group in Toowoomba (2013- 2021). She regularly assists Regional Arts Australia and Arts Queensland in assessing a wide variety of grants for use in enhancing the arts and communities of regional Queenslanders. In 2020, McDonald was co-winner of a USQ Research Excellence Award for quality publication success, and Team Leader on the inaugural Excellence Award for Leadership of Learning and Teaching at USQ (2021). She and her teaching partner, Dr Darryl Chalk are co-recipients of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2009). She is a current member of the Board of Fellows of King’s College and a member of the King’s College Council, St Lucia, Brisbane.
Employment
| Position | Organisation | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor, Theatre Studies | School of Creative Arts, University of Southern Qld | 1999 | 2024 |
Expertise
L&T Theatre, embodiment, reflective practice, practice-led projects, body studies
Teaching
HDR supervisions
Fields of Research
- 360299. Creative and professional writing not elsewhere classified
- 360499. Performing arts not elsewhere classified
DipT
BrisbaneCAE
1987
BA
QUT
1992
MA
QUT
1994
PhD
Arizona SU
1999
Current Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shakespeare, Rhetoric and The Voice: Essential Skills for the Contemporary Australian Actor | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2025 |
| The State of Subsidised Youth Arts in Australia | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2025 |
| The Embodied Creative: The application of Shamanism in the Creative Process | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2025 |
| Exploring How Television Production is Delivered in Tertiary Education | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
| Applying Drama Teaching Practices to the Teaching of Respectful Relationship Education | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
| Exploring how genuine arts integration can enhance quality learning experiences in the primary classroom | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
| The process of adaptation in collaboration: How creating a libretto (adapted from a children's story with fairy tale elements) in collaboration with a composer informs and changes the writing process and the creative outcome | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
| Fandom Files: Fictocriticism, Fanfiction and Creative Writing Pedagogy | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
| Fostering Child Art Agency and Collaboration in the Home Learning Environment | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Completed Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Impacts and Implications of Community Planning on Resilience in Rural and Regional Communities | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
| Jiu Jitsu as a Lived Body: A Triadic Composition of Embodied Practice | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
| THE CHALLENGE OF PINK : SUBVERTING THE CURRENT BREAST CANCER AWARENESS PARADIGM THROUGH VISUAL AND ORAL STORYTELLING | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
| Scratching the surface: self-portraits and self-representation | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
| A film editor's point of view (POV): exploring 'planes of meaning' in film editing/making | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
| Resilience and wellbeing through photography: How might images influence community capacity building? | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
| The Mother-Artist Model: Transforming maternal regionalism through art practice and creative communities | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
| The relevance of dance in tertiary education: An Australian work-based perspective | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2018 |