- Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research), Monash University
Professor Melissa Miles is the Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), responsible for advancing a visionary research agenda and supporting research excellence, impact, collaboration and Monash’s international profile in line with the University strategy.
Prior to this appointment, Prof Miles was Academic Director (Research Culture) in Monash’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)’s office. In this role, she led the development of the university’s approach to Responsible Research Culture, designed to enhance research capability, foster productive collaborations, and drive positive outcomes through excellence, diversity and responsible practices.
Experience
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2015–presentAssociate professor, Monash University
Education
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2010Monash University, Graduate Certificate of Higher Education
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2006Monash University, PhD
Publications
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2015The Language of Light and Dark: Light and Place in Australian Photography, Power
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2015Photography, Privacy and the Public, Law, Culture and the Humanities
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2015The Culture of Photography in Public Space, Intellect
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2014Through Japanese Eyes: Ichiro Kagiyama and Australian-Japanese relations in the 1920s and 1930s, History of Photography
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2011Perverting Photography’, Arena
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2010The Drive to Archive: Conceptual Documentary and Photobook Design, Photographies
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2009Whose Art Counts?, Art Monthly
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2009Focus on the Sun: The Demand for New Myths of Light in Contemporary Australian Photography, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
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2009ARTEMIS: Reinvigorating History and Theory in Art and Design Education, International Journal of Art and Design Education
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2009Second Nature: Design and the Natural World’, Eyeline
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2008Catherine Bell: Cooking Up Crimes and Maternal Misdemeanors, Eyeline
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2008The Burning Mirror: Photography in an Ambivalent Light, ASP
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2008Sun-pictures and Shadow-play, Word and Image
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2007Lily Hibberd. Endless Summer: Sunglasses and the Spectacle of Vision, Eyeline
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2007Peter Booth and the Subtleties in the Epic’, Brought to Light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006
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2005The Burning Mirror: Photography in an Ambivalent Light, Journal of Visual Culture
Grants and Contracts
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2010Light, Place and Presence in the History of Australian Photography
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
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2009Photography and Crime
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
Research Areas
- Art Theory And Criticism (1901)