Dr Benjamin Matthews

Lecturer

School of Creative Industries (Design and Natural History Illustration)

Email:ben.matthews@newcastle.edu.au
Phone:(02) 498 54909

Career Summary

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Design in the School of Creative Industries, with an interest in strategic communication design, design management, the post-industrial circumstances of the creative industries, emergent network cultures and media art.

My scholarly approach is transdisciplinary, and includes engagement with: design; organised networks; creative teams; innovation; media work; celebrity; collaborative cultures; urban/street cultures; visual culture; emergence; translatability; mimetic theory; and media anthropology.

I also collaborate with artists to write catalog essays and to curate cross platform media.

I completed an cross-disciplinary PhD at in 2010 (English and Communication), before moving into media industry roles in Newcastle and Sydney for several years, and was eventually invited to contribute to new undergraduate and masters programs during 2016 with UTS, and 2017 at Western Sydney University.

I have a passion for connecting teaching and learning with contemporary industry practice and growing strong networks of interaction with prospective employers and creative institutions.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies), University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle

Keywords

Collectivism
Design
Digital Communication
Emergence
Globalisation
Media Work
Network Cultures
Organised Networks
Post-Industrial Journalism
Precarity
Social Enterprise
Social Entrepreneurship
Strategic Design
Transdisciplinary Design
Transdisciplinary Innovation

Languages

English (Mother)

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
120303	Design Management and Studio and Professional Practice	50
190299	Film, Television and Digital Media not elsewhere classified	50

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title	Organisation / Department
Lecturer	University of Newcastle School of Creative Industries Australia

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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2018	Burns LS, Matthews BJ, Understanding Journalism, SAGE, 288 (2018)

Chapter (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2019	Matthews B, 'Enkel Collective: Making Change Makers', The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 173-180 (2019) [B1]

Journal article (6 outputs)

Year

Citation

Altmetrics

Link

2018

Burns LS, Matthews BJ, 'First Things First: Teaching Data Journalism as a Core Skill', Asia Pacific Media Educator, 28 91-105 (2018)

Citations	Scopus - 3Web of Science - 2

2017

Matthews B, 'Anti-hierarchical culture in media-based creative collectives: sketching originary analyses', Anthropoetics, 22 (2017)

2017

Matthews B, 'Precarity, globalism and resistance in emergent collectivism: the case of Enspiral', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 11 (2017)

2017

Burns LS, Matthews BJ, ' Post-Industrial Journalism as a Creative Industry', World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, 11 1543-1551 (2017)

2015

Matthews B, 'Virality and the new ostensive: Ai Weiwei s leg-gun meme', Anthropoetics, 21 (2015)

2015

Matthews B, 'Victimary Thinking, Celebrity and the CCTV Building.', Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology, 20 (2015)

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Review (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2018	Matthews B, 'Review of Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene (2018)

Conference (12 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2019	Matthews B, 'The New Hypothetical Continents Collaborative Archive', New Hypothetical Continents: Experimenting With U/Dystopia, Parsons, The New School, New York, USA (2019)
2018	Matthews B, Payne C, 'Teaching Digital Humanities for the Creative Industries: Immersion and Making', Uni SA, Adelaide (2018)
2017	Matthews B, Sheridan-Burns L, ' Post-industrial journalism as a creative industry', Post-industrial journalism as a creative industry , Vienna, Austria (2017)
2017	Matthews B, 'The Figure of Utopia, Originary Thinking and the New Hypothetical Continents Art Project', The University of Stockholm, Stockholm. Sweden (2017)
2016	Matthews B, 'Post-Hierarchical Culture in Media-Based Creative Collectives: sketching originary analyses', Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya. Japan (2016)
2016	Matthews B, 'Precarity, Collectivism and Activism: Enkel and Enspiral', The University of Sydney, NSW. Australia (2016)
2015	Matthews B, 'Emergent Collectivism in Professional Communication in Australia and New Zealand: 'Enkel' as a case study', Aarhus University, Aarhus. Denmark (2015)
2015	Matthews B, 'Ai Wei Wei s Leg-Gun Meme, Virality and the New Ostensive', High Point University, High Point, North Carolina (2015)
2009	Matthews B, 'The Decline of Literary Studies: diagnoses, treatments and anthropological outcomes', QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia. (2009)
2008	Matthews B, 'Interpreting Lycidas: fictionalizing/arriving at a literary anthropology/originary scene?', Chapman University, Ca. USA (2008)
2007	Matthews BJ, 'Problem of the real: Interpretation and literary anthropology', Research Higher Degree Student Congress 2005. Proceedings, Newcastle, NSW (2007) [E2]
2007	Matthews BJ, 'Staging the significance of literacy interpretation', Research Higher Degree Student Congress 2006. Proceedings, Newcastle, NSW (2007) [E2]
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Thesis / Dissertation (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2010	Matthews BJ, others, Wolfgang Iser and literary anthropology, University of Newcastle (2010)

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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants	4
Total funding	$133,280

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20201 grants / $14,896

ECR Inclusive Transformative Technology Scrum$14,896

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body	Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team	Dr Benjamin Matthews (Lead), Dr Rewa Wright, Mr Zi Siang See, Dr Jamin Day, Ms Shanna Fealy, Dr Donovan Jones and Mr Adam Manning
Scheme	Strategic Network and Pilot Project Grants Scheme
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2020
Funding Finish	2020
GNo
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	N

20193 grants / $118,384

Early Career Researcher HDR Candidate Scholarship$110,384

Funding body: The University of Newcastle

Funding body	The University of Newcastle
Project Team	Benjamin Matthews, Jamin Day, Craig Hight, Zi Siang See
Scheme	Early Career Researcher HDR Candidate Scholarship
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2019
Funding Finish	2023
GNo
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	N

Faculty of Education and Arts New Start Grant$5,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body	Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Scheme	New Start Grants
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2019
Funding Finish	2019
GNo
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	N

iLead New Media$3,000

Funding body: UON Global

Funding body	UON Global
Project Team	Simon Weaving, Benjamin Matthews, Zi Siang See
Scheme	iLead
Role	Investigator
Funding Start	2019
Funding Finish	2019
GNo
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	N

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Research Supervision

Number of supervisions

Completed0

Current1

Current Supervision

Commenced	Level of Study	Research Title	Program	Supervisor Type
2019	PhD	SafeSpace VR: An Assistive Technology Based Virtual Reality (VR) Application	PhD (Design), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle	Principal Supervisor

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