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.
Karpathakis, G. (2017). Greg Pryor: The Yilgarn Chronicles screened with Gregory Pryor: Looking Glass exhibition at Art Gallery of Western Australia. George Karpathakis.
Karpathakis, G. (2016). Pilbara Rock Pickers. Spectrum Project Space.
Karpathakis, G. (2016). Rock Stories: the discourse of rocks and rock collecting An installation consisting of a video and a collection of rocks: found, bought or gifted.. Spectrum Project Space.
Karpathakis, G. (2009). Creative practice as a research tool: benefits and pitfalls. The Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA) 2009 Conference Papers (8p.). Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association.
Creative Arts Research Outputs
Karpathakis, G. (2009). Nalda Searles: A Stitching of Words: Interpretations of making and making do. John Curtin Gallery followed by others.
Karpathakis, G. (2002). Rocks in their heads: The 'landscape and you' experience. Transformations: Region, Culture, Society, 5, http://www:ahs.equ.edu.au/transormations.
Research Projects
Miners and Dealers: An Ethnographic Study of An International Trade, Edith Cowan University, ECU Early Career Researcher Grant - 2013, 2013 ‑ 2014, $14,779.
Doctor of Philosophy, A collaborative approach to photographic portraiture: Toying with photographic practice
Doctor of Philosophy, The junksaw puzzle: A documentary film examining anthropocosmic and anthropocentric responses towards the illegal dumping of waste and the environment
Doctor of Philosophy, The Beloved. A documentary film on the history and aftermath of Fremantle's Rajneesh Sannyasin community -and- hidden realities: Transcendental structures in documentary film. An exegesis
Doctor of Philosophy, Film as fairy tale.
Doctor of Philosophy, Tasha: A practice-based problematisation of Australian comedy cinema's representation of gender, family and nationhood
Doctor of Philosophy, Broken. A film -and- The making of Broken: A manifesto for a democratised cinema. An exegesis
Co-principal Supervisor
Doctor of Philosophy, On fate and fatalism: Photography and fatal theories
Doctor of Philosophy, Chinese diaspora and Western Australian nature (Perth region): A study of material engagement with the natural world in diasporic culture
Associate Supervisor
Doctor of Philosophy, Caught in the frame: A critical analysis of Australian media representations of the israeli-palestinian conflict 2014–2015
Doctor of Philosophy, The rise of regionalisation in the asian television industry: A case study of trendy drama 2000-2012
Master of Arts (Performing Arts), The composer as bricoleur: Notions of contemporary opera in the genesis of a short film
Doctor of Philosophy, Vessels for the Devil: Exploring the rhetoric of the monstrous-feminine in graphic culture
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