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Dr Jennifer Halton
Dr Jennifer Halton
Director, International
| Telephone: | +61 8 6304 5815 |
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| Email: | j.halton@ecu.edu.au |
| Campus: | Mount Lawley |
| ORCID iD: | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4850-8319 |
Jennifer is the Associate Dean (International) at WAAPA and Course Coordinator of the Masters of Creative Arts Entrepreneurship and Cultural Innovation (M-CAECI, including the Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma CAECI).
Current Teaching
- CAE6105 - Pathway Practice 1
- CAE6110 - Creative Arts Entrepreneurial Incubator 1
- CAE6120 - Design Strategies and Innovation Modalities for the Creative and Cultural Industries
- CAE6125 - Pathway Practice 2
- CAE6130 - Creative Arts Entrepreneurial Incubator 2
- CAE6300 - Entrepreneurial Modelling and Creative Arts Enterprise Development
- CAE6305 - Pathway Practice 3
- CAE6310 - Creative Arts Entrepreneurial Incubator 3
- CAE6350 - Creative Arts Entrepreneurial Incubator 4
Background
Jennifer leads the international strategy at WAAPA, building partnerships and projects that foster the internationalisation of curriculum, cross-border collaboration and exchange, and a multicultural student body. She holds a PhD in Musicology with a focus on music and visual culture in early modern Europe, specifically the cultural politics and performativity of renaissance Italian festivals. She is interested in collaborative research that crosses disciplinary boundaries, from cultural musicology (the socio-cultural context of music making) to exploring the liminality and intersectionality of art, research and social innovation. She is the Founder and Creative Director of The Metamorphosis Project: Art as Research, Research as Art, which seeks to deconstruct research silos and explore the impact of interdisciplinary and multisectoral collaboration across academia, industry and the arts, and she is the Editor-in-Chief of The Metamorphosis Project Journal (TMPJ), which launched in November 2024.
Jennifer has a diverse background in academic research, business strategy and governance and sits on the Board of Directors of Regional Arts Western Australia and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation. She has a deep understanding of higher education in an international context having worked in universities in Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Awards and recognition
International Research Awards
- 2016 Irish Research Council New Foundations Award (awarded to Metamorphosis Project for ‘Enhancing knowledge exchange for inter-institutional, inter-sectoral and international collaboration’)
- 2012 Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (PhD)
- 2012 European Science Fund Early Researchers Grant (PhD)
- 2010 Maynooth University John and Pat Hume Postgraduate Research Scholarship (PhD)
- 2007 Maynooth University Postgraduate Scholarship (MA Musicology)
- 2007 Maynooth University Bursary for Academic Excellence in the BA Music degree
Research areas and interests
- Cultural Musicology, specifically research that applies interdisciplinary approaches
- Associated disciplinary interests: film studies, cultural studies, emotion, visual culture, critical theory, philosophy, art history, technology and design.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Ireland, 2018.
- Master of Literature, Ireland, 2012.
- Master of Arts, Ireland, 2008.
- Bachelor of Arts - Double Honours, Ireland, 2007.
- Bachelor of Music, Ireland, 2005.
Research Outputs
Journal Articles
- Halton, J. (2025). Glór/Voice: The Making of a Manifesto. The Metamorphosis Project Journal, 2025(2), 11-26.
Journal Articles
- Halton, J. (2024). Atrophy, AI and the Zeitgeist - An (E)motional Perspective. The Metamorphosis Project Journal, 2024(1), 3-10.
Book Chapters
- Halton, J. (2015). Standing on Scylla and Charybdis: Art, Music and Meaning at the 1539 Wedding Festival of Cosimo I de' Medici. Beyond Scylla and Charybdis: European Courts and Court Residences outside Habsburg and Valois/Bourbon Territories 1500-1700 (151-159). University Press of Southern Denmark.