Dr Emma Felton

Emma Felton has wide experience as an educator, researcher and educational manager. Her research and PhD is in the field of urban cultural sociology. She is interested in the intersection between technology and place.

• Emma is chief investigator of a small grant which is researching the way migrants from CALD groups use the internet to help become re-established in host cities (2011-2012).

• She co-ordinates the Creative Industries Faculty’s Widening Participation Program, an equity project that involves developing annd delivering discipline based activities to schools across equity target areas (2011 -).

• At QUT Emma has project managed and researched on the ARC Discovery grant, Creative Suburbia, investigating the experience of creative industries beyond inner metropolitan regions (2008-2010).

• At Australian Catholic University Emma held a national leadership role where she implemented and managed an e-learning program across ACUs’s 6  state and territory campuses. Her role included co-ordinating the pedagogical development of course material, web publishing and staff development programs (2000 -2008).

• Emma was the recipient of a Carrick (ALT) grant developing a model of distributed leadership, in a team of 6 ($187,000).

• Teaching areas: media and cultural studies, creative industries.

• RHD supervision includes Masters of Architecture students who are investigating sociological and cultural aspects of place and design.

• She has published in the fields of urban cultural  sociology and online educational technologies. She is co-editor of the book Design and Ethics: Reflections on Practice (Routledge 2012).

• Emma has worked as an educational technology consultant for public authorities such as SLQ, RTA, Health department.