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Dr Jennifer Halton

Director, International

Staff Member Details
Email: j.halton@ecu.edu.au

Jennifer is Director, International (Associate Dean) at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Background

Jennifer has a diverse background in academic research and business strategy.
After ten years as a researcher, curator and teacher in Ireland, she pivoted into the Innovation sector as a growth and partnerships specialist in the UK. Working in universities in Ireland, the UK and Australia, Jennifer has a deep understanding of higher education in an international context. She has built and led successful partnerships and projects across geographies between universities and international corporations, including Facebook, AstraZeneca, ARUP, Matheson, Vodafone, and British Telecoms. She also has a background in governance and currently holds appointments as non-executive director, advisor and mentor in the not-for-profit and startup sectors in Western Australia. Prior to joining WAAPA, she held leadership roles in Perth and London as Chief Impact Officer at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation (CERI), and Head of Growth and Partnerships at Scale Space, an Imperial College London joint venture.

Jennifer 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 festivals. She is interested in collaborative research that crosses disciplinary boundaries, from cultural musicology to new media and entrepreneurship. She has led a team of researchers and artists in practice-led research as the Founder of Metamorphosis Project: Art as Research, Research as Art, which promoted multi-sectoral collaboration across academia, industry and the arts in Ireland (2015-16). Metamorphosis won the inaugural Irish Research Council New Foundations Award in 2016.

Awards and recognition

  • 2016 Irish Research Council New Foundations Award (awarded to Metamorphosis Project for ‘Enhancing knowledge exchange for inter-institutional, inter-sectoral and international collaboration’)
  • 2012 Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (PhD)
  • 2012 European Science Fund Early Researchers Grant (PhD)
  • 2010 Maynooth University John and Pat Hume Postgraduate Research Scholarship (PhD)
  • 2007 Maynooth University Postgraduate Scholarship (MA Musicology)
  • 2007 Maynooth University Bursary for Academic Excellence in the BA Music degree

Research areas and interests

Jennifer has a broad range of research interests that converge around the socio-cultural context of music and performance making. With particular interest in intersections between music, design, neuroscience, phenomenology and technology and how those intersections manifest in digital performance and new media, or in innovative adaptations of historical performance.

Concurrently, Jennifer is interested in the convergence of STEM and the creative arts. As well as how multidisciplinary and multisectoral research and commercial collaboration (nationally and internationally) can enhance innovation and entrepreneurship skills, accelerate the growth of creative industries, and build resilient and diverse economies.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Ireland, 2018.
  • Master of Literature, Ireland, 2012.
  • Master of Arts, Ireland, 2008.
  • Bachelor of Arts - Double Honours, Ireland, 2007.
  • Bachelor of Music, Ireland, 2005.
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