TD Convos

Please join us for a Transdisciplinary Research Conversation (TD Convo) with DR Barbara Doran!

TD Convos reimagines the traditional approach to academic seminars. We open our doors to our community so that we can have collective conversations, cross boundaries, and make connections.

In Conversation with Barbara Doran

Dr Barbara Doran specialises in creative intelligence and transdisciplinary practice and is the course director for the UTS Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation program.

Barbara specialises in identifying creative opportunities that respond to complex challenges and developing innovative strategies that can be put into action. She is an experienced speaker, mentor, educator, project innovator and artist who directs her energies to building our collective capacities to improve how we live. Her skills are drawn from working across the arts, the tertiary sector and from project experience in the private, public and community sectors which bring together practical, scholarly, imaginative, playful and collaborative outcomes.

She has twice won the United Nations Bioethics and Art Award for Photography and displayed her work on both the national and international stage. Barbara’s research expands understandings of creativity and its application to challenges in health and planetary wellbeing. She is the lead curator of the SPHERE Knowledge Translation Platform (a leading national healthcare partnership) and advises on numerous innovation projects. Her post at TD School comes after having worked as a Senior Lecturer for Australia’s leading performing arts conservatoire NIDA, National Institute of Dramatic Arts, with prior positions at The University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University.

Her book ‘Creative Reboot: Catalysing Creative Intelligence’ is out now

TD School

Then TD School is the UTS home of transdisciplinary education and research. Study with us to learn across, between and beyond our disciplines – to enrich your possibilities and make an impact.

The TD School’s uniquely collaborative approach to research combines academic knowledge from multiple disciplines with applied knowledge from industry.

TD research is ideally suited to problem spaces that are open, complex, dynamic, and networked. It goes beyond solving discrete problems by opening doors to new questions and digs deeper at root causes instead of targeting symptoms.

Read more about TD School research.