ECU offers innovative and practical courses across a variety of disciplines and we have a vibrant research culture. ECU is a leader in developing alternative entry pathways to higher education.
We have three campuses in Western Australia. Joondalup and Mount Lawley in the Perth metropolitan area and our South West campus in Bunbury, 200km south of the Perth CBD.
ECU provides a variety of services and facilities that go beyond the classroom, with opportunities for personal development and social interaction for students and staff.
We collaborate with all types of businesses, including new start-ups, small to medium enterprises, not-for-profits, community organisations, government and large corporates in the resources sector.
Children's University Edith Cowan aims to inspire students between seven and fourteen to develop confidence and a love of learning through validated activities beyond the school curriculum.
The Inspiring Minds scholarship program are equity scholarships that give students an opportunity to access an education that may otherwise be out of reach.
Polain, M. (2022). A Stranger's House. The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education (75-90). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86570-2_5.
Journal Articles
Adji, T., Polain, M. (2022). ‘We cannot heal what we will not face’: dismantling the cultural trauma and the May ’98 riots in Rani P Collaborations’ Chinese Whispers. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 13(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2021.1880456.
Polain, M. (2007). The Edge of the World. The edge of the world / Marcella Polain. Fremantle Press.
Research Projects
‘The stubborn murmur’: The Armenian Genocide in artistic decision., Edith Cowan University, ECU Early Career Researcher Grant - 2012 (Round 1), 2012 ‑ 2014, $24,879.
'Deep Within My Soul': Recovering Memory in Bilingual Early Alzheimer's Patients, Edith Cowan University, ECU Industry Collaboration - Grant, 2008 ‑ 2013, $25,282.
Doctor of Philosophy, Who is it that writes? Poetry and the plural self
Doctor of Philosophy, Carousel - novel. Writing into the apocalypse - an examination of the method of writing into the dark within the context of post-apocalyptic fiction.
Doctor of Philosophy, Carousel - novel. Writing into the apocalypse - an examination of the method of writing into the dark within the context of post-apocalyptic fiction.
Doctor of Philosophy, Amnesiac. A stage play. - and - playwriting migration: Silence, memory and repetition. an exegesis
Doctor of Philosophy, Homing
Master of Arts, 'Cooper street'(original screenplay) and "into the foreground - an examination of setting within the screenplay"
Master of Arts, 'Cooper street'(original screenplay) and "into the foreground - an examination of setting within the screenplay"
Master of Arts by Research, One night in Hong Kong a novella and sexuality, desire and the aging female body an essay
Doctor of Philosophy, Swamp, walking the wetlands of the Swan coastal plain, with the exegesis 'A walk in the Anthropocene'.
Doctor of Philosophy, Creativity and illness: An anecdotal exploration of a writing practice. Coming undone: a collection of poems & a thesis as an anecdotal exploration of a writing practice
Doctor of Philosophy, "Wonderfully ordinary" words from a romantic archive of Elizabeth Jolley's writing for students: Creative process as a garland of fragments
Doctor of Philosophy, Navigating the Wreck: writing women's experience of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore
Master of Arts, 'Vision and desire: Jim Morrison's mythography beyond the death of God'.
Doctor of Philosophy, A coat of ashes. A collection of poems, incorporating a metafictional narrative - and - poetry, Daoism, physics and systems theory: A poetics: A set of critical essays.
Co-principal Supervisor
Doctor of Philosophy, Death's laughter
Doctor of Philosophy, Vulvodynia and autoethnography
Associate Supervisor
Doctor of Philosophy, Creatively pursuing persona: Finding identity through directing
Master of Arts, The naming of places.
Master of Arts by Research, I walk to see, I walk to know: Walking to Wongawol
Doctor of Philosophy, Mind the gap - an examination of the pause in modern theatre; shadows - a play (major creative work); bank accounts - a collage of monologues (minor creative work).
Doctor of Philosophy, Constellations - a space in time that's filled with moving
Doctor of Philosophy, US Armenian Female Playwrights Writing the Catastrophe in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Doctor of Philosophy, Writing as dancing: The dancer in your hands, a novella
Doctor of Philosophy, Violence and the other in the novels of Carmel Bird
Doctor of Philosophy, The womb artist - a novel: Translating late discovery adoptee pre-verbal trauma into narrative.
Doctor of Philosophy, myfriendkoolkiller
Doctor of Philosophy, The historian's daughter (a novel) monsters and memory (an essay)
Doctor of Philosophy, Framing anorexia: A play script and multidimensional investigation of anorexia.
Doctor of Philosophy, Alexandre goes South: A novel and an essay, 'the modern adventure novel'.
Doctor of Philosophy, Repositioning the Denkbild: A painting investigation into deaths in custody in 21st century Australia.
Master of Arts, 'Inside schizophrenia: Mending the internal conflict' plus essay on schizophrenia
Doctor of Philosophy, A fabulist's alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime
Doctor of Philosophy, Vessels for the Devil: Exploring the rhetoric of the monstrous-feminine in graphic culture
Doctor of Philosophy, No place for a white woman? An exploration of the interplay of gender, race and class on power relations experienced by white Western women in cross- cultural settings
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