Dr. Peta Murray
Senior Lecturer
Details
College: School of Media & Communication
Department: School - Media & Communication
Campus: City Campus Australia
peta.murray2@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0001-7078-0952
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Peta Murray works in the emergent field of arts-and-health; her research focuses on playful and material thinking to develop coherent narrative spaces that counter ageism and promote meaning-making.
Supervisor projects
- The Public Sphere: This Is How We Roll Now
- 10 Jun 2026
- Madness, Knowing and Narrating: The Aesthetic Form of Neurodivergent Literary Memoir
- 22 May 2026
- Pedagogy of Care: recognising narratives of self through engaging the expressive body
- 11 Dec 2025
- The teacher-theatre practitioner revives the writer: a critical autoethnography of writing craft and mentoring
- 22 Jul 2025
- Drowning the Anthropocene: Writing a fluid connection with self, nature and the Other
- 29 May 2025
- Exploring the conditions and boundaries of an Asian-Australian writing practice
- 20 Dec 2024
- A Setlist for Survival: Embodied Poetics as Brown Self-Enactment in Singapore
- 4 Jun 2024
- Feeling Like a Zombie: Writing Neuroqueerness for Performance
- 8 Jan 2024
- Insider–Outsider: Ambivalent Eurasian Identity as Creative Methodology for Uncovering Singapore's Lesser-Known Pasts
- 30 Jun 2023
- Animating Elderhood: Datascapes of Ageing in Place
- 19 Jun 2023
- For Me to be Photographed with: Towards a Non-Representational new Materialist Self-Portrait
- 23 Mar 2018
Teaching interests
Supervisor interests
Creative practice and arts-based research, playwriting, creative nonfiction, arts-and-health, intergenerational arts projects, cultural activism, ageing and dying well, ageing, countering ageism, socially-engaged arts.
Creative practice and arts-based research, playwriting, creative nonfiction, arts-and-health, intergenerational arts projects, cultural activism, ageing and dying well, ageing, countering ageism, socially-engaged arts.
Research interests
Performing Arts and Creative Writing, Public Health and Health Services, Film, Television and Digital Media, Visual Arts and Crafts
