Dr Rebecca Scollen

Fields of Research (FoR)

• Marketing not elsewhere classified ( 150599 )
  

• Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified ( 190499 )
  

• Performing Arts not elsewhere classified ( 360499 )
  

• Performing Arts ( 360400 )
  

• Fine Arts ( 360602 )
  

• Tourist Behaviour And Visitor Experience ( 350806 )
  

• Tourism ( 350800 )
  

• Visual Arts ( 360600 )
  

Research interests
Audience Research and Development
Audience Reception Studies (performing arts/arts)
Regional arts
Arts marketing
Performance analysis
Animals in live performance
Animal studies
Wildlife tourism
Performing heritage

Professional memberships
Board member of Flying Arts Alliance Inc (2016-2018)
Member of Wildlife Tourism Australia Executive (2016-2018)
Board member of Queensland Arts Council (2009-10)

Industry affiliations
Wildlife Tourism Australia
Australian Animal Studies Association
Association of Critical Heritage Studies
Visitor Studies Australia

USQ Research affiliations

• Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  

• Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)
  

Currently teaching courses/programs
Postgraduate Research Supervisions

PhDs awarded in 2021:
Courtney Feldman: "‘Deed I do': Narrating expert vocal jazz improvisers’ experiences of the piano"

PhD awarded in 2019:
Bernadette Meenach: "Performing Biography: creating, embodying and shifting history"

PhD awarded in 2018:
Margaret Power: "Investing in arts and culture positively changes communities: an impact study of RADF supported arts projects on the Western Downs, Queensland"

PhDs awarded in 2016
Sarah Peters: "bald heads & blue stars: a theory, model and impact of verbatim theatre practice"
Ashley Jones: "How does local broadcast media value, esteem and provide voice to a rapidly changing urban centre?"

Current PhDs and DCAs:
Ellie Coleman: "Vegan Artists: reconsidering the ethical use of animals within contemporary art through a reinterpretation of the vegan philosophy"
David Steggall: "AutoEthnoClownoGraphy: a study of clowning as arts practice-led research in child protection"
Scott Alderdice: "Working with Shakespeare: developing the facility and methodology that enables online communities of creative practice in the study of Shakespeare.”
Bonnie Green: "Guiding the guides: An action research study on the use of guided improvisation within the private one-to-one piano studio"
Michael Smalley: "Proposing a model of contemporary theatrical stage management as a scenographic practice"

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
20 Years

Administrative responsibilities
Head of School of Creative Arts (Feb 2019 - )
Master of Arts Degree Program Coordinator (Jan 2015 - March 2019)
USQ Artsworx Artistic Director (2015 - 2018 )
USQ Artsworx Manager (2006 - 2014)

Publications in ePrints

Coleman, Ellie and Scollen, RebeccaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6205-8919 and Batorowicz, BeataORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4915-8357 and Akenson, DavidORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0634-2672 (2021) Artistic Freedom or Animal Cruelty? Contemporary Visual Art Practice That Involves Live and Deceased Animals. Animals, 11 (3):812. pp. 1-14. ISSN 2076-2615

Scollen, Rebecca Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6205-8919 and Mason, Andrew (2020) Sea World - Gold Coast, Australia's discourse of legitimation: signage and live animal shows (2015-2018) as indicators of change in messaging. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 28 (10). pp. 1686-1701. ISSN 0966-9582

Scollen, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6205-8919 (2018) Animals and humans on stage: live performances at Sea World on the Gold Coast. Animal Studies Journal, 7 (1). pp. 248-269. ISSN 2201-3008

Mason, Andrew and Scollen, RebeccaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6205-8919 (2018) Grassroots festival keeps city alive during severe drought. Journal of Place Management and Development, 11 (3). pp. 266-276. ISSN 1753-8335

Scollen, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6205-8919 and Smalley, Michael (2016) Introduction: resistance and resilience. In: Resilience: revive, restore, reconnect: Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) 2016 Conference Proceedings, Volume 1. University of Southern Queensland, Artsworx, Toowoomba, Australia, pp. 1-4. ISBN 978-0-9946184-0-5

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Approved research supervisor in the area of:

• Marketing not elsewhere classified ( 150599 )
  

• Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified ( 190499 )
  

• Performing Arts not elsewhere classified ( 360499 )
  

• Performing Arts ( 360400 )
  

• Fine Arts ( 360602 )
  

• Tourist Behaviour And Visitor Experience ( 350806 )
  

• Tourism ( 350800 )
  

• Visual Arts ( 360600 )