Peta Murray

Dr. Peta Murray

Senior Lecturer

Details

  • College: School of Media & Communication
  • Department: School - Media & Communication
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • peta.murray2@rmit.edu.au

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

  • Practice Research Enquiry into Poetry as Performance
  • 4 Jun 2024
  • Essaying the ramble and fluid convergences in my teaching artist practice
  • 30 Jan 2024
  • Feeling Like a Zombie: Writing Neuroqueerness for Performance
  • 8 Jan 2024
  • How Creative Practice Can Shed Light on the Lesser Known Microhistories of Singapore
  • 30 Jun 2023
  • The Lives We Never Knew reconstructing an identity through autofiction while living with dying
  • 22 Jun 2023
  • Animating Elderhood: Datascapes of Ageing in Place
  • 19 Jun 2023
  • A Playwright’s Body Speaks: Body-to-body Awareness and Experiments with Embodied Scripting as Creative Intervention
  • 18 Jul 2022
  • Ceremony of Restoration: A Practice-Based Experiment in Civil Celebrancy
  • 8 Nov 2019
  • Sceneplay - "'A Screenwriting Project of Non-compliance'
  • 22 Oct 2018
  • 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.

Research interests

Performing Arts and Creative Writing, Public Health and Health Services, Film, Television and Digital Media, Visual Arts and Crafts
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.