Professor Daniel X. Harris
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Department: School of Education
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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daniel.harris@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-1138-8229
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Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Professor Daniel X. Harris is a leading international scholar in creativity, diversity and social change.
They were most recently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017-2023), RMIT Vice Chancellor's Primary Research Fellow (2017-2022), ARC DECRA Fellow (2014-2016), and the recipient of 4 other ARC DPs and LPs. The are currently Professor in the School of Education and founder and Director of Creative Agency research lab: https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/schools-colleges/education/research/creative-agency and at: www.creativeresearchhub.com.
Harris is editor of the book series Creativity, Education and the Arts (Palgrave), and has authored over 140 academic articles/book chapters and 22 books, as well as plays, films and spoken word performances.
Their research focuses on creativity at both practice and policy levels; on cultural, sexual and gender diversities; and on performance and activism. They are committed to the power of collaborative creative practice and social justice research to inform social change. Harris is most widely known for their scholarship in creativity studies, affect theory and autoethnography.
Dan has over 25 years of experience in education (both secondary and tertiary), as well as 35 years of professional creative industries experience in playwriting, performance, multimedia production, dramaturgy and theatre company management, highlighting their history of interdisciplinarity and skills in translating between the academy and industry.
Supervisor projects
- HIMeros: Understanding Erotic Gay Magazines through the act of Creation
- 18 Feb 2025
- Queer Friendship: Towards A Poetics of Difference?
- 2 Jan 2025
- Screening Single-Sex Education: Representing the Formation of Girls Gender and Sexual Identities in Cinema
- 12 Dec 2024
- Sweet Enough: Investigating Relationships Between Women and Sugar Through Creative Practice
- 19 Sep 2024
- Haunting the Postcolonial Matrix: Institutional Ghosts, Possessive Logics and Arts-Based Disruptions
- 5 Mar 2024
- Becoming Story Hubs Thinking with Irruptions Through Creative, Speculative Classroom Ecologies
- 6 Oct 2022
- How effective is film as a tool to generate conversation around suicide prevention and promote help-seeking behaviour in teens and young adults?
- 2 Aug 2021
- Living Systems and cellular experience: What can somatic practices offer to the notions of listening within socially-engaged art practices ?
- 20 Jul 2021
- Developing a Digital Solution Framework through a Digital Community of Practice System to Support Teachers' Implementation of STEAM
- 25 Jan 2021
- Transilience: A Phenomenology of Leaping Across
- 30 Jun 2020
- Finding an Archetypal Developmental Progression in Creative Thinking for The Classroom.
- 11 Jun 2020
- Writing a Transcultural Teacher: Critical Autoethnographic Prose Poems on Teacher Subjectivity across Singapore, Shanghai and Melbourne
- 15 Apr 2020
- Affective Dustly Becomings With Child-Earth Relations and Other Matters
- 13 Mar 2020
- Sceneplay - "'A Screenwriting Project of Non-compliance'
- 4 Mar 2020
- Performing Personal Trauma: Towards an Autoethnographic Theatre in the Age of #MeToo
- 13 Feb 2019
- Crisis or Opportunity? An Exploration of Art Museum Educators' Practice in Australia and the United States
- 13 Dec 2018
- Bodies, Belongings and Becomings: An Ethnography of Feminist and Queer Instagram Artists
- 20 Sep 2018
- Artist-Activists in Protest Hong Kong: Trans/formation of Subjectivity
- 10 Sep 2018
- Safe Space as Praxis: Creating (Affective) Conditions for World-Building, Care and Futures for Young People in the Creative Arts
- 1 Feb 2018
- Feeling into Creativity: An Affect Theory of Empathy in Creative Collaboration
- 2 Jan 2018
- Exploring Digital Bereavement: Young People, Digital Media, and Grief
- 16 Jun 2017
- The White Maori: An exploration of identity and belonging
- 5 Jun 2017
Teaching interests
Gender and Sexuality, Creativity, Creative Practice Research, Diversity, Equity and Social Inclusion, Digital Ethnography, Video, Performance
