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Queensland University of Technology
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified | Social design | Heritage archive and museum studies | Critical heritage museum and archive studies | Visual cultures | Performing Arts and Creative Writing |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ability and Disability | The Performing Arts (incl. Theatre and Dance) | The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) |
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Publications
Inventory Procedures for Smallholder and Community Woodlots in the Philippines: Methods, Initial Findings and Insights
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-05-2014
Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-10-2013
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.12370
Abstract: Invasions have increased the size of regional species pools, but are typically assumed to reduce native ersity. However, global-scale tests of this assumption have been elusive because of the focus on exotic species richness, rather than relative abundance. This is problematic because low invader richness can indicate invasion resistance by the native community or, alternatively, dominance by a single exotic species. Here, we used a globally replicated study to quantify relationships between exotic richness and abundance in grass-dominated ecosystems in 13 countries on six continents, ranging from salt marshes to alpine tundra. We tested effects of human land use, native community ersity, herbivore pressure, and nutrient limitation on exotic plant dominance. Despite its widespread use, exotic richness was a poor proxy for exotic dominance at low exotic richness, because sites that contained few exotic species ranged from relatively pristine (low exotic richness and cover) to almost completely exotic-dominated ones (low exotic richness but high exotic cover). Both exotic cover and richness were predicted by native plant ersity (native grass richness) and land use (distance to cultivation). Although climate was important for predicting both exotic cover and richness, climatic factors predicting cover (precipitation variability) differed from those predicting richness (maximum temperature and mean temperature in the wettest quarter). Herbivory and nutrient limitation did not predict exotic richness or cover. Exotic dominance was greatest in areas with low native grass richness at the site- or regional-scale. Although this could reflect native grass displacement, a lack of biotic resistance is a more likely explanation, given that grasses comprise the most aggressive invaders. These findings underscore the need to move beyond richness as a surrogate for the extent of invasion, because this metric confounds monodominance with invasion resistance. Monitoring species' relative abundance will more rapidly advance our understanding of invasions.
Regional Contingencies in the Relationship between Aboveground Biomass and Litter in the World’s Grasslands
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 06-02-2013
Cultural safety as a foundation for allyship in disability arts
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-05-2022
Eudaemonic Design to Achieve Well-Being at Work, Wherever That May Be
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 07-01-2022
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7396-9.CH001
Abstract: The concept of eudaemonia originates from neo-Aristotelian philosophy and is associated with human flourishing. Self-determination theory, a means to attain eudaemonia, is examined here as a foundational approach to drive Eudaemonic Design--a novel design strategy that aims to achieve holistic physical, mental, and social health, or eudaemonic well-being. This chapter advances Eudaemonic Design as an architectural and organizational approach to create healthful work environments that support employee and business flourishing. The authors argue that the importance of adopting Eudaemonic Design has grown in need and complexity as work is (re)shaped by the constraints and opportunities presented by the pandemic. By contrasting dominant pre-COVID-19 Work from Office expectations against the post-COVID-19 Work from Anywhere model, this chapter explores the application of Eudaemonic Design to deliver holistic workplace well-being, rather than single variable health and wellness alone, now and into the post-COVID-19 future of work.
Cultural Probes as a Carefully Curated Research Design Approach to Elicit Older Adult Lived Experience
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 10-12-2021
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8479-8.CH009
Abstract: There is growing recognition that methods that elicit the perspectives of vulnerable and marginalized people are essential in understanding the needs and aspirations of this group and therefore necessary when developing impactful policies, services, and environments that support them. Creative elicitation methods, which privilege participant voice, can be useful for conducting research with such populations. This chapter explores how research informed by care ethics, appreciative inquiry, and communicative methodology can support participant self-determination through the achievement of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. By advancing deliberate, iterative, and care-full research design that emphasizes belonging, dignity, and justice, cultural probes provide practical potential and ethical utility as a research method. The effectiveness of this care-full cultural probe approach is demonstrated and examined through a case study of a co-design research project concerned with designing for health and well-being at home with and for older adults.
Taken for Granted: Material Relations Between Disability and Codes/Guidelines
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 23-02-2016
DOI: 10.3390/SOC6010006
Making Pedagogic Sense of Design Thinking in the Higher Education Context
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2019
Abstract: This paper explores the educator experience and sense-making of design thinking pedagogy in the higher education context. Design thinking has become a pedagogical phenomenon in higher education due to its widespread relevance across many disciplines. Some studies discuss design thinking as a pedagogy in the educational context however, there is a lack of empirical research to understand the educator perspective on design thinking pedagogy. Three design thinking educators who have had more than fifteen years of teaching experience were interviewed to explore their experiences. The data from these in idual in-depth, semi-structured interviews were analysed employing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). One super-ordinate theme capability building for everyone , and four subordinate themes developing a participatory approach towards world issues developing an open, explorative attitude developing creative ability and developing an ethical mindset were identified. From these findings, the paper argues that design thinking educators have the basis for a pedagogical rationale that transcends disciplinary boundaries and provides common ground for collaboration and on-going development of design thinking pedagogy as an emerging field in education.
Simple rules to contain an invasive species with a complex life cycle and high dispersal capacity
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-01-2012
Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-06-2023
Moving Beyond Visitor and Usability Studies: Co-designing Inclusion in Museums and Galleries
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Design for all (DFA) week: Vis-ability
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 2019
Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-02-2014
DOI: 10.1038/NATURE13014
Abstract: Studies of experimental grassland communities have demonstrated that plant ersity can stabilize productivity through species asynchrony, in which decreases in the biomass of some species are compensated for by increases in others. However, it remains unknown whether these findings are relevant to natural ecosystems, especially those for which species ersity is threatened by anthropogenic global change. Here we analyse ersity-stability relationships from 41 grasslands on five continents and examine how these relationships are affected by chronic fertilization, one of the strongest drivers of species loss globally. Unmanipulated communities with more species had greater species asynchrony, resulting in more stable biomass production, generalizing a result from bio ersity experiments to real-world grasslands. However, fertilization weakened the positive effect of ersity on stability. Contrary to expectations, this was not due to species loss after eutrophication but rather to an increase in the temporal variation of productivity in combination with a decrease in species asynchrony in erse communities. Our results demonstrate separate and synergistic effects of ersity and eutrophication on stability, emphasizing the need to understand how drivers of global change interactively affect the reliable provisioning of ecosystem services in real-world systems.
Early emergence and resource availability can competitively favour natives over a functionally similar invader
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-02-2010
DOI: 10.1007/S00442-010-1583-7
Abstract: Invasive plant species can form dense populations across large tracts of land. Based on these observations of dominance, invaders are often described as competitively superior, despite little direct evidence of competitive interactions with natives. The few studies that have measured competitive interactions have tended to compare an invader to natives that are unlikely to be strong competitors because they are functionally different. In this study, we measured competitive interactions among an invasive grass and two Australian native grasses that are functionally similar and widely distributed. We conducted a pair-wise glasshouse experiment, where we manipulated both biotic factors (timing of establishment, neighbour identity and density) and abiotic factors (nutrients and timing of water supply). We found that the invader significantly suppressed the performance of the natives but its suppression ability was contingent on resource levels, with pulsed water/low nutrients or continuous watering reducing its competitive effects. The native grasses were able to suppress the performance of the invader when given a 3-week head-start, suggesting the invader may be incapable of establishing unless it emerges first, including in its own understorey. These findings provide insight for restoration, as the competitive effect of a functionally similar invader may be reduced by altering abiotic and biotic conditions in favour of natives.
A design history of design: Complexity, criticality, and cultural competence
Publisher: Consortium Erudit
Date: 03-03-2015
DOI: 10.7202/1035392AR
Abstract: Les histoires de l’art et du design ont délaissé, au cours des quatre dernières décennies, l’étude canonique des objets, des artistes/concepteurs et des styles et se sont tournées vers des recherches plus interdisciplinaires. Nous soutenons néanmoins que les historiens et historiennes du design doivent continuer de pousser leur utilisation d’approches puisant dans la culturelle matérielle et la criticalité afin de combler des lacunes dans l’histoire du design et de développer des méthodes et des approches pertinentes pour son étude. Puisant dans notre expérience d’enseignement auprès de la génération des « milléniaux », qui sont portés vers un « design militant », nous offrons des exemples pédagogiques qui ont aidé nos étudiants et étudiantes à assimiler des histoires du design responsables, engagées et réflexives et à comprendre la complexité et la criticalité du design.
Codesigning Access: A New Approach to Cultures of Inclusion in Museums and Galleries
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-07-2023
Spatialising differently through ability and techné
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-10-2018
Breaking Barriers: Educating Design Students about Inclusive Design through an Authentic Learning Framework
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-01-2021
DOI: 10.1111/JADE.12348
Abstract: Current studies in design education suggest that students and educators base their designs on what they already know about themselves and their peers, or on stereotypical notions of others. This article presents a critical examination of a pedagogical approach employed in several architecture and interior design studios to determine how best to develop student understanding of how to design for real users and users with abilities different from themselves. This authentic learning approach with spatial design students and teachers from the School of Design, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and with people with differing abilities, used qualitative and quantitative questionnaires, student journals and design studio projects to create a multimodal data set. While there are no simple conclusions, or easy answers to unravel the complexity in creating inclusive designs, our findings point towards enabling new engagements and knowledge processes and scaffolding these activities around authentic learning, so that design students and educators can begin to understand the differing ways of designing for/with people with disabilities. The significance of this research is that it opens up new approaches for teaching design students about inclusive design beyond fake personas, building codes and anthropometric data, and provides evidence of the need for a more holistic, authentic and scaffolded approach.
Co-designing choice: objectivity, aesthetics and agency in audio-description
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-02-2021
Diverse urban plantings managed with sufficient resource availability can increase plant productivity and arthropod diversity
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 30-10-2014
Woody species diversity influences productivity and soil nutrient availability in tropical plantations
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-09-2007
DOI: 10.1007/S00442-007-0850-8
Abstract: We investigated the relationship between plant ersity and ecological function (production and nutrient cycling) in tropical tree plantations. Old plantations (65-72 years) of four different species, namely Araucaria cunninghamii, Agathis robusta, Toona ciliata and Flindersia brayleyana, as well as natural secondary forest were examined at Wongabel State Forest, in the wet tropics region of Queensland, Australia. Two young plantations (23 years) of Araucaria cunninghamii and Pinus caribaea were also examined. The close proximity of the older plantations and natural forests meant they had similar edaphic and climatic conditions. All plantations had been established as monocultures, but had been colonised by a range of native woody plants from the nearby rainforest. The extent to which this had occurred varied with the identity of the plantation species (from 2 to 17 species in 0.1 ha blocks). In many cases these additional species had grown up and joined the forest canopy. This study is one of the few to find a negative relationship between overstorey plant ersity and productivity. The conversion of natural forest with highly productive, low- ersity gymnosperm-dominated plantations (young and old Araucaria cunninghamii and Pinus caribaea) was found to be associated with lower soil nutrient availability (approximately five times less phosphorus and 2.5 times less nitrogen) and lower soil pH (mean=6.28) compared to the other, less productive plantations. The dominant effects of two species, Araucaria cunninghamii and Hodgkinsonia frutescens, indicate that ecosystem functions such as production and nutrient availability are not determined solely by the number of species, but are more likely to be determined by the characteristics of the species present. This suggests that monoculture plantations can be used to successfully restore some functions (e.g. nutrient cycling and production), but that the level to which such functions can be restored will depend upon the species chosen and site conditions.
Doing Embodied Mapping/s: Becoming-With in Qualitative Inquiry
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1177/16094069221137490
Abstract: Qualitative research often involves the collection of data from multiple sources, inclusive of the embodied and multisensorial. These differing data sources, that are not language based, pose difficulties for researchers. Often this multimodal data is collected alongside interviews, field notes and other language-based data and then translated into language. In the process of this translation, the embodied, relational, and multisensorial aspects of this data is often lost. To address this issue, we created E mbodied Mapping/s (EM) as an approach for collecting, analyzing and becoming-with non-language-based data. This doing of embodied mapping/s is not about fixing lines and encounters in order to produce a two-dimensional cartography, plan or model on the contrary it is about exploring differing embodiments and material relations among people and things to create a new inquiry in embodied and multisensorial research and methodologies. Embodied mapping/s suggests a need for a more holistic exploration of qualitative methodologies beyond language and visual communication. Through centralising embodiment, not only as an analytical method but also as something that informs innovative methodologies and methods, these doings of embodied mapping/s offer something novel to qualitative inquiry and embodied methodologies. To evidence the doing of embodied mapping/s, two multi-sited case studies in Canada will be explored—the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, to advance methodological insights in relation to multimodal and multisensorial research.
Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2011
DOI: 10.1111/J.1461-0248.2010.01584.X
Abstract: Many ecosystems worldwide are dominated by introduced plant species, leading to loss of bio ersity and ecosystem function. A common but rarely tested assumption is that these plants are more abundant in introduced vs. native communities, because ecological or evolutionary-based shifts in populations underlie invasion success. Here, data for 26 herbaceous species at 39 sites, within eight countries, revealed that species abundances were similar at native (home) and introduced (away) sites - grass species were generally abundant home and away, while forbs were low in abundance, but more abundant at home. Sites with six or more of these species had similar community abundance hierarchies, suggesting that suites of introduced species are assembling similarly on different continents. Overall, we found that substantial changes to populations are not necessarily a pre-condition for invasion success and that increases in species abundance are unusual. Instead, abundance at home predicts abundance away, a potentially useful additional criterion for biosecurity programmes.
Managing beyond the invader: Manipulating disturbance of natives simplifies control efforts
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-07-2008
Alternative states models provide an effective framework for invasive species control and restoration of native communities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-01-2010
Employing the Inclusive Design Process to Design for All
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 23-09-2011
Abstract: Standardized s ling from many sites worldwide was used to address an important ecological problem.
Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: A growth-defence trade-off is the norm
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-01-2013
DOI: 10.1111/ELE.12078
Abstract: Plant growth can be limited by resource acquisition and defence against consumers, leading to contrasting trade-off possibilities. The competition-defence hypothesis posits a trade-off between competitive ability and defence against enemies (e.g. herbivores and pathogens). The growth-defence hypothesis suggests that strong competitors for nutrients are also defended against enemies, at a cost to growth rate. We tested these hypotheses using observations of 706 plant populations of over 500 species before and following identical fertilisation and fencing treatments at 39 grassland sites worldwide. Strong positive covariance in species responses to both treatments provided support for a growth-defence trade-off: populations that increased with the removal of nutrient limitation (poor competitors) also increased following removal of consumers. This result held globally across 4 years within plant life-history groups and within the majority of in idual sites. Thus, a growth-defence trade-off appears to be the norm, and mechanisms maintaining grassland bio ersity may operate within this constraint.
Using strategically applied grazing to manage invasive alien plants in novel grasslands
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-09-2013
Developing strategies and methods for rehabilitating degraded pastures using native grasses
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-10-2007
Impacts of Invasive Plants on Australian Rangelands
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2010
Doing Dis/ordered Mappings
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-06-2022
Abstract: Since knowledge is the commodity museums produce, then understanding how this knowledge is produced, shaped, borrowed, and translated, and through what forces, is critical to creating inclusive museums. Through studies of three national Canadian museums, we came to an understanding of how the shaping of space, physical access, and access to knowledge is used and produced to create inclusive museums, not as a product but as an ongoing process. Doing dis/ordered mappings, as an alternate approach to understanding inclusion, allowed for an exploration of the material relations among people, spaces, and things, creating new trajectories and cartographic methods to explore inclusion within museums. This article introduces the benefits of the doing of mappings to explore differing embodiments of people, with and without disabilities, to create an alternative way to approach/encounter/create inclusion for all people and things in our public spaces.
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The Evolution Of Disability Arts In Australia: Practices, Legacies, And Cultural Heritage
Start Date: 2020
End Date: 2023
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Start Date: 01-2023
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