Industry’s University for Design and Creative Technology

Trained as an industrial designer, he moved into design management and later acquired a master's degree and PhD in design leaderships. Scott is a strong advocate for internationalisation, industry-engaged teaching, high-quality student outcomes and interdisciplinary research, and brings those passions to his role at Torrens University. Scott's own research interests intersect the disciplines of design education, higher education policy, design strategy and innovation.

She has lectured in both undergraduate and postgraduate subjects from Design Thinking and Product Design to Interaction and Design Business Practices. As a senior leader in design education, she has led departments and faculties in a broad range of creative industry disciplines. Her students have won accolades as UK New Designer of the Year, Audi Design Foundation Awards and numerous Royal Society of Arts Design Directions and DAD Awards.

professional practice. Scott’s academic leadership is informed by his master’s degree from Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology and professional experience with influential New York City and Sydney studios, including Gwathmey Siegel, Ike Kligerman Barkley and fjmt Studio. He is completing his PhD with Torrens University Australia. Through textual research into the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Scott’s PhD thesis conceptualises the built environment’s Internet of Things (IoT) as newly disseminating human embodiment with empowering, but also some alarming, potentialities.

magazines and advertising, she specialised in publishing before progressing to education, which was a natural fit. She advocates for equity of access to lifelong learning and online education. In 2010, Robyn received a NSW Volunteer of the Year Award, and in 2018, an Order of Australia Medal.

responsible for the accreditation of prominent IT education programs across Australia. With over 20 years’ leadership experience in the education and technology sector, Tony is a member of the Australian Computer Society and is an experienced ACS accreditation review board member. He serves as associate editor for a number of journals and has published over 60 articles and conference proceedings focussed on innovative machine-learning algorithms related to financial data, automated video surveillance, artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity and automated applications related to Industry 4.0. He has also been involved in ARC Discovery on automated video surveillance systems and a number of industry-sponsored research projects related to face recognition and automated credit risk assessment, received more than $600,000 in homeland security research grants. As a prize-winning teacher and ardent learner, Tony thrives on interactions with students which is demonstrable in having supervised 6 PhD and 20 Masters students to completion.

and has worked with high-school and university students for nearly 12. He is currently the Senior Lecturer in Games for Media Design School Sydney and he hopes to see games grow as a medium for art and storytelling.

Liam also works as an experimental digital artist producing award winning projects in fields such as post-production, 3D animation, virtual reality, interaction design, robotics, projection mapping, VJing, interactive public installation and is currently focusing on laser light installations.