Telephone: | +61 8 6304 5815 |
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Email: | j.halton@ecu.edu.au |
Campus: | Mount Lawley |
Jennifer is Director, International (Associate Dean) at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
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.