Peta Murray

Dr. Peta Murray

Senior Lecturer

Details

  • College: School of Media & Communication
  • Department: School - Media & Communication
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • peta.murray2@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Peta Murray works in the emergent field of arts-and-health; her research focuses on playful and material thinking to develop coherent narrative spaces that counter ageism and promote meaning-making.

Supervisor projects

  • Drowning the Anthropocene: Writing a fluid connection with self, nature and the Other
  • 29 May 2025
  • Exploring the conditions and boundaries of an Asian-Australian writing practice
  • 20 Dec 2024
  • Practice Research Enquiry into Poetry as Performance
  • 4 Jun 2024
  • Essaying the playscape in my worlds of stories
  • 30 Jan 2024
  • Feeling Like a Zombie: Writing Neuroqueerness for Performance
  • 8 Jan 2024
  • How Creative Practice Can Shed Light on the Lesser Known Microhistories of Singapore
  • 30 Jun 2023
  • Animating Elderhood: Datascapes of Ageing in Place
  • 19 Jun 2023
  • A Playwright’s Body Speaks: Body-to-body Awareness and Experiments with Embodied Scripting as Creative Intervention
  • 18 Jul 2022
  • For Me to be Photographed with: Towards a Non-Representational new Materialist Self-Portrait
  • 23 Mar 2018

Teaching interests

Supervisor interests
Creative practice and arts-based research, playwriting, creative nonfiction, arts-and-health, intergenerational arts projects, cultural activism, ageing and dying well, ageing, countering ageism, socially-engaged arts.

Research interests

Performing Arts and Creative Writing, Public Health and Health Services, Film, Television and Digital Media, Visual Arts and Crafts
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