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Ph.D (Queensland University of Technology), Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Queensland University of Technology), BA Hons (First Class) (Mass Communication) (University of Southern Qld), BA (Mass Communication) (University of Southern Qld)
Dr. Mark Ryan, publishing as Mark David Ryan, is an Associate Professor in film and screen and a Chief Investigator for the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). He is an expert in screen industries research, Australian genre cinema, genre film studies, and digital media. He was the President of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAAZ) between 2015 and 2018 and an Executive Member of Australian Screen Producers Education and Research Association (ASPERA) in 2015/2016. He is a Chief Investigator of various funded research projects:- Valuing Web Series: Economic, Industrial, Cultural and Social Value (LP180100626)(2019-2023)
- Australian Cultural & Creative Activity: A Population & Hotspot Analysis (LP160101724)(2017-2020)
- 2018 Innovation Connections Grant
- 2018 QUT, Institute of Future Environments (IFE) Catapult Project
Additional information
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- President of the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAANZ) from November 2015 until November 2018.
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Executive Member of Australian Screen Producers Education and Research Association (ASPERA), the national body for practical screen education and research, and served in this role between July 2015 and July 2016.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award 2015. In recognition of a significant and superior contribution to the work of a university.
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Convener the XVIIth Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand (FHAANZ) Conference held at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 1 to 3 July, 2015.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- I received the Star Supervisor Award for outstanding Higher Degree Research Supervision. Awarded by the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, 7 August 2015.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (team), 8 July 2010
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (July 2010)
- Title
- Valuing Web Series: Economic, Industrial, Cultural and Social Value
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP180100626
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
- online; creatives; screen; digital content makers; web series festivals
- Title
- Australian Cultural and Creative Activity: A Population and Hotspot Analysis
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP160101724
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
- Title
- Production Cultures in Transition: Examining the 21st Century Australian Screen Producer
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- SR0590002
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Film And Television; Film Production; Interactive Media; Internet Broadcasting; Transmedia
- Extreme Sports as Filmed Entertainment: Understanding Aesthetic Form, Style and Characteristics of Extreme Sports Films
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Christy Collis - Private Television Channels in Bangladesh: A Political-Economy Analysis of the Role of the State and How This Impacts News Media
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Kevin Sanson
- The Moral Undead: Representations of the soul in contemporary vampire film and television (2017)
- Animated Mise-en-scène and Aesthetic Harmony: An Expansion of the Traditional Principles of Animation to 3D Computer Animation (2016)
- (Un)Dead Japan: A Genre Analysis of the Japanese Zombie Film (2015)
- Creative Interoperability: A new concept to guide, understand and evaluate innovation by cross-sector collaboration (2015)
- Television Content for the 21st Century Classroom (2015)
- Confucius Institutes and the Rise of China - How the People's Republic of China uses its cultural institutions abroad to communicate with the world (2013)
- ABC Television Sport: Public Broadcasting, Innovation and Nation Building (2017)
- A documentary and exegesis seeking to find out why rollercoasters mean so much to those who love them (2016)
- Crowdfunding and Independent Screen Content Production in Australia: A Direct Economic Relationship between Producer and Audience (2015)
- Made By Motion: a Conceptual Framework for Abstracted Animation Derived from Motion-Captured Movements (2015)