Deakin’s First Friday GSS Seminar Series: Meghan Kelly, 5th March
Deakin’s First Fridays Gender and Sexuality Studies Seminar Series returns for 2021
Hi everyone
We are thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Meghan Kelly, Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), will be our first presenter in our new series of First Fridays seminars, on Friday 5th March. Please see details below – and please note new time! (1pm)
To RSVP (and for the zoom link) please email [email protected] by 3 March.
All best
Daniel
On behalf of the GSS Research Network
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Daniel Marshall (Ph.D.)
Associate Professor, SCCA
Deakin University, Melbourne
Title: Identity and Visual Representation
Presenter: Associate Professor Meghan Kelly, SFHEA
Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Arts and Education, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Date: Friday 5 March
Time: 1pm
Location: Zoom
Description:
Associate Professor Meghan Kelly is a visual communication designer whose experience includes working on large, high profile campaigns and a range of corporate companies during her time as a practicing designer. Kelly is currently serving as the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Faculty of Arts and Education and is a senior lecturer in Communication Design at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Kelly’s research is in the areas of participatory design practices and the impact of process on self-determined design outcomes. This research examines the diverse ways identity and representation can be created through design with an aim of probing how to empower self-determining visual representation. Her passion for a global understanding of design extends into her teaching practice and continues to be explored in research projects and design opportunities. Kelly has worked with Dr Russell Kennedy to co-author the Australian Indigenous Design Charter (winner Premier Design Award (Design Strategy) and Premier Design Award of the Year 2018) and the International Indigenous Design Charter (winner of the Good Design Indigenous Designer Award 2018). In addition, Kelly co-authored with Dr Jonathan Sweet the book Museum development and cultural representation: Developing the Kelabit Highlands Community Museum (2018). This research interrogates the challenges of developing a visual and structural representation of a community’s intangible cultural heritage. Kelly is a board member of Transfamily Inc and has recently published a series of three flip books visually communicating the transitioning process of transgender people. This research aims to support family and friends who take the role of communication on behalf of their transgender loved one.