Professor Richard Vella
 Richard Vella's compositions include works for orchestra, large ensemble, choir, film, chamber music, burlesque cabaret, music theatre, site-specific performances, and popular music genres. His film credits include 'Light Years', 'Parklands', 'Renzo Piano: piece by piece' (for which he won the 1999 Australian Screen Composer's Award for best music for a documentary) and 'Mr. Strehlow's Films'. His feature film music score 'Travelling Light' (2003) received the nomination 'Best Music for a feature Film' by the Australian Film Institute.
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Dr Philip Matthias
 Philip Matthias' research has involved Australian church music and composition, especially in light of new liturgies over the past 20 years. He specialises in teaching of harmony and aural, whilst also teaching music history and orchestration at various stages. He also teaches pipe organ to students of all levels and takes the Chamber Choir, which specialises in modern works, including a substantial amount of Australian works.
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My primary research interests span performance history and historiography, performance praxis, and e-research. Whilst much of my work is grounded in archival research it also extends to the cultural and political contexts for the cultural productions at the centre of my investigations. My recent research focus upon social circus has drawn me into a discussion network that includes FaCHSIA (Western Desert) and Cirque du Soleil's Cirque du Monde Programme.
Lowry is an active visual artist, writer, academic and electronic composer. His primary areas of research focus are concerned with creative arts pedagogy and supervision, the paradoxical nature of artistic production in the wake of postmodernism, art after appropriation, copyright in the digital age, aesthetics after conceptualism, and the role of sound in visually centred cultural formations.
Brett Alexander's research outputs have been in the form of high quality examples of practice as research. These research outputs have been published in the form of exhibitions at nationally and internationally recognised art, design and craft museums, galleries and festivals. He is a respected academic and his responsibilities include lecturing in Three Dimensional Studies and coordinating the universitys Fibres Textiles Studio and Paper Mill.
Pam Sinnott is an artist and educator. She has exhibited in national and international curated exhibitions. Since 1991, she has had ten publications in the three leading Australian journals for Ceramics. There have been eleven major and minor reviews of Sinnott’s work in international journals and in a book. In producing artworks she has worked mainly in 3D Art especially Ceramics.