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Dr Debra Aarons

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics, Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics), Discourse and Pragmatics, Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)

Debra Aarons currently specialises in the linguistic analysis of humour, focusing on the formal grammatical properties, as well as the pragmatics, of humour.
Professor Hazel Easthope

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Urban and regional planning, Human geography, Sociology
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Dr Hazel Easthope Deputy Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Australia PhD (University of Tasmania), BA(Hons) (University of Sydney)
Associate Professor Michael John Hooper

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Music, Musicology and ethnomusicology, Music composition and improvisation, Music performance
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I am currently the Convenor of Music at UNSW. My teaching includes courses on critical theory, musical transformation, music and politics, and music as it relates to other arts and to everyday
Associate Professor Jan Lanicek

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman), Jewish Studies

I was born in the Czech Republic, where I completed my graduate studies at Palacky University in Olomouc (20
Dr Jayde Lin Roberts

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): History and theory of the built environment (excl. architecture), Architectural heritage and conservation, Critical heritage, museum and archive studies, Urban geography, Urban design

Dr Jayde Lin Roberts is an interdisciplinary scholar of the built environment who focuses on Asian Urbanism, Critical Heritage Studies, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, and the Chinese diaspora.
Professor Simon Pinnegar

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Housing Markets, Development, Management, Urban and Regional Planning, Human Geography
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Simon is an an experienced senior researcher with interests in metropolitan planning, urban regeneration, and affordable housing policy.
Professor Alison Ritter

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Policy and administration, Public health, Social policy, Public policy
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Professor Alison Ritter, AO is an internationally recognised drug policy scholar and the Director of the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) at the University of New South Wales.
Associate Professor Emma A Jane

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Gender studies, Communication studies, Media studies, Communication technology and digital media studies, Culture, representation and identity, Feminist and queer theory

Dr Emma A. Jane (formerly Emma Tom) is an Associate Professor in the School of the Arts & Media at UNSW Sydney.
Associate Professor Sean Pryor

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Literary studies, British and Irish literature, North American literature, Literary theory
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I am an Associate Professor in English in the School of the Arts and Media. I joined UNSW in 2008, as the holder of a Faculty Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dr Philippe Christian Guy Adam

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture

Philippe's research spans the fields of sociology, psychology, and health promotion.
Associate Professor Melonie Bayl-Smith

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Architecture
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I am responsible for the Professional Practice teaching in the Master of Architecture degree and in 2020 was appointed Associate Professor of Architecture - Practice in the School of Architecture,
Professor Brigitta Olubas

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Literary studies, Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature)
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Brigitta Olubas is Professor of English. Primary area of research: Australian literature including diasporic, migrant and refugee writing.
Professor Ludmila Stern

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Translation and Interpretation Studies, European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman), Central and Eastern European Languages (incl. Russian)
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I am the founder of the MA in Interpreting and Translation Studies - a professional program endorsed by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI).
Ms Catherine Mary Thomson

Faculty: Arts, Design & Architecture
Fields of Research (FoR): Social Policy, Social Theory
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Cathy Thomson is a Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She has a BA (Sydney University) and an MA (UNSW).