Staff Profiles

Graham Forsyth has worked as Associate Dean (Academic), responsible for learning and teaching strategies and policies and coordinating their implementation, since 2004.  Prior to that he has been Head of the School of Art History and Theory on two occasions, and Presiding Member of the Faculty.

Graham was awarded in 2009 a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

He has undertaken a number of integrated research projects into teaching and learning that address the nature of the ‘student experience’ and the ways curricula, assessment and teaching practices impact on this experience. He was part of the organising committee of ConnectED2007 International Conference on Design Education in 2007 and is chair of the organising committee for ConnectED2010.  Graham is also the joint leader of the ALTC-funded Studio Teaching Project, which is researching studio teaching in art, design and architecture.   Graham is also currently undertaking research on teaching and writing practice about contemporary art and its interface with cultural and social forms. Graham’s recent major writing project Flight Research Spin on the work of Rosemary Laing addresses the photographer’s practice in the context of its political and ethical engagement with and within the charged multicultural environment of the late 20th Century.