Dan Harris
Dan Harris is Professor and Associate Dean, Research & Innovation, School of Education at RMIT, is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and Co-Director of Creative Agency research lab: www.creativeresearchhub.com . Harris is editor of the book series Creativity, Education and the Arts (Palgrave), has authored over 100 articles/book chapters, 17 books, plays, films and spoken word performances, and is a proud member of the DERC Executive.
Projects
Creative Industries and Education in Australasia (ARC Future Fellowship 2017-2021)
Young people, digital play and diversity (Social Cohesion DEET funding)
What’s Your Story Melbourne? (Melbourne City Council 2018), co-investigator Stacy Holman Jones
Creative Capacities in Education and Policy (ARC DECRA) 2014-2016
Art/Hope/Culture (Victoria Womens’ Trust & Maribyrnong City Council 2012-2014), co-investigator Enza Gandolfo
Publications
They are the author of over 100 articles and book chapters, as well as 17 books, including:
Harris, D. (2021). Creative Agency. (Palgrave)
Harris, A., Luka, M.E., & Markham, A. (Eds.) (2021). Massive/Micro Autoethnography: Creative learning in COVID times. Springer.
Holman Jones, S. and Harris, A. (eds.) (2020). Affective Movements, Methods and Pedagogies. London: Routledge.
Iosefo, F., Holman Jones, S. and Harris, A. (eds.) (2020). Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography. London: Routledge.
Hjorth, L., Harris, A., Jungnickel, K. & Coombs, G. (2019). Creative Practice Ethnographies. NY: Lexington.
Harris, A. and Holman Jones, S. (2019). The Queer Life of Things. NY: Lexington/ Rowman & Littlefield.
Holman Jones, S. and Harris, A. (2018). Queering Autoethnography. NY: Routledge.
Co-edited the following journal special issues
2016 Continuum on ‘Creativity and Sexualities’, co-edited with Yvette Taylor.
2016 Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, co-edited w Stacy Holman Jones.
2015 – UNESCO Observatory Multidisciplinary Research in the Arts “Critical Approaches to ABR” co-edited with Mary Ann Hunter & Clare Hall.
2014 – Departures in Critical Qualitative Research “Creative Pedagogies” co-edited with Stacy Holman Jones.
2011 – New Community Quarterly (special issue, guest co-editors, Harris, A., Ollis, T. and Campbell, L.). Vol 9, No 3, Summer 2011. Issue 35.
Awards
- 2013 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher (Monash University, Faculty of Education)
- 2011 Women in Leadership award, Victoria University
- Secomb Travel Award, 2008
- Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship (PhD) 2007-2010
- Patrick White Playwriting Award (finalist), 2006
Research interests
Digital media, performance theory and practice, cultural/sexual/gender diversities, ethnographies, creativity, design, practice-led research, feminist theory, posthum.
Labs
Method Lab
DERC's flagship space for testing innovative methods for studying data, digital culture, and disruptive tech.
Projects
Methods Masterclass Series
Methods Masterclass Series 2023 offers advanced training in creative practice, digital ethnographic, and social science tools. Co sponsored by the Enabling Impact Platforms at RMIT.
Publications
News
DERC’s research on COVID continues to surge ahead
July 21, 2020
We may have been in lockdown, but that didn’t stop DERC researchers from launching several projects to study the pandemic.