DrShelley Hannigan

Research topics and interests: Place, Identity, artistic practice, art education, community-based art, wellbeing, arts-health, craft, visual art
Methodologies I am practiced in and use: Arts Practice Based research, phenomenology, narrative inquiry, self-study, autoethnography, A/R/tography, arts and practice-led research methodologies.
Knowledge Areas: Visual arts practice, Arts Education, Visual art education and media education, Place, philosophy, Identity theory, creative art therapy, space, artistic practice, arts practice based research, narrative analysis, narrative inquiry, autoethnography.

Funded Research Projects:

2025: (CI) Artefacts of the Future Climate Change, Geelong schools and community. COGG. $38,000 (with P.White, J. Raphael and R. Bellingham)

2024: Enabler grant from the Centre for Regenerating Futures, Faculty of A&E to research Art wellbeing projects in Ballarat/Hepburn shire schools. $3000. (CI) (with Jo Raphael, Kate Jaskolski & Terri Elliott)

2023-24: Geelong Art Teachers as Artists, 2024: A project mentoring 6 Art Teachers from Geelong schools toward an exhibition. Funded by COGG $10,000. (CI)

2023: Enabler grant from the Centre for Regenerating Futures, Faculty of A&E to research Art wellbeing projects in Melbourne schools. $3000. (CI) (with Jo Raphael, Jo-Anne Marie Britt, Kate Jaskolski)

2022: Climate Change Professional Development training modules and research project 1, COGG. $35,000 (with P.White (CI), J. Raphael, L. Wishart and G. Marks)

2021-22: Arts Heritage and Culture Grant (COGG) $10,000. (CI)

2019: Professional Artists Development Grant (City of Greater Geelong) $2000. (CI)

2019: Major Research Grant (Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University) $7400. (CI) To research community arts in the Geelong region, (with F.Phillips & E.Workman)

2017: Small Research Grant (Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University) $2800. (CI) To develop research into art approaches for students with special and additional needs (with J. Raphael & F. Phillips)

2016: Small Research Grant (Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University) $3000. (CI) To develop research into patterning in early years pedagogy and curriculum (with A. Kilderry, L. Xu)

2014-2017: Faculty Research Group Scheme (Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University) $22,000

CREPE research group (with P.White (CI), J. Raphael, J. Cripps-Clark, E. Loong, B.Walker-Gibbs, L. Bragg, J. Lang)

2004: Managing the Story Vessels community story/sculpture project (as part of, Geelong’s Regenerating Futures embedded in the National Connecting Identities project). $15,000