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Professor Kurt Seemann

Professor
PhD, UNSW, Australia; BSc/Dip.Ed (Hons), UNSW, Australia

Biography

Passionate transdisciplinary educator with a keen interest in initial teacher education, teacher confidence, creativity, cross-cultural and Indigenous Technologies education, and strategic leadership in fostering highly successful and collegial research outcomes. Personal areas of curriculum-method expertise include STEM education, with a sub-interest in design thinking in K-12 child development for fostering innovation and entrepreneurial capabilities.

Research interests

Technacy; Technology Education and curriculum; Rural and Remote Communities; Research mentorship and leadership development; Ekistics

PhD candidate and honours supervision

Higher degrees by research

Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.

PhD topics and outlines

Citizen Capabilities and Habitat Futures: How humans are entangled in the world they make; from products to human settllements, the smart citizen is a new field of interest.

Ekistics Research: The methods and theory behind the problems and science of human settlement systems

How children develop their design led innovation/STEM capabilities K-12: I have a background in K-12 edcuation research related to abstraction and spatial inferential reasoning (Technolgical comprenhion) for K-12 education.

Regional and rural education research: I am keen to support a PhD applicants interested in regional  and rural education, especially if also linked to innovation capability development

Technacy Genre Thoery: Teahcing and learning of technologies education K-12 and Initial teacher education.Cognitive, motor and affective developmental learning in Design Technologies.

Honours

Available to supervise honours students.

Honours topics and outlines

Ekistics Research: The methods and theory behind the problems and science of human settlement systems

Technacy Education: Applying Technacy Education Thoery into K-12 classroom practice.  Technolgies education for technolgical comprehension.

Technology transfer: Understanding technology transfer and cultures

Fields of Research

  • Comparative And Cross-cultural Education - 390401
  • Regional Analysis And Development - 330406

Teaching areas

Education;Culture and Technologies;Ekistics;Innovation education;Strategic Design Research;Design Anthropology

Awards

  • 2011, National, State Thinker: Thinker on-hand/Thinker online, Design and Technology Teachers Association of Victoria
  • 2010, National, State Thinker: Thinker on-hand/Thinker online, Design and Technology Teachers Association of Victoria
  • 1998, Other, ACM: Australian Competent Manager Accrediation, AIM: Australian Institute of Management

Professional memberships

  • 2014 - 2018: Chair, Centre for Design Innovation, Australia
  • 2017 - 2018: Chair, SUHREC (Acting), Australia
  • 2017 - 2018: Board Member, Academic Senate (Swinburne University), Australia
  • 2017 - 2027: Editor, Ekistics and the new habitat: the problems and science of human settlements, International
  • 2014 - 2021: Chair, SHESC Ethics Chair, Australia
  • 2019 - 2020: Committee Member, Stream Leader: Smart Cities Research Institute, Australia
  • 2010 - 2013: Board Member, Jagun Aboriginal Ages Care Services Pty Ltd (Coffs Habour City Council Appointment) , Australia
  • 2017 - 2020: Committee Member, Australian Council for International Development: Research Development Impact (peer elected), Australia
  • 2017 - 2018: Board Member, Australian Living Lab Innovation Network (ALLIN), Australia
  • 2014 - 2020: Board Member, Design and Technology Teachers Association of Australia, Australia
  • 2018 - 2020: Committee Member, Bachelor of Fashion Design Course Advisory Committee - Holmesglen, Select Country/Region
  • 2020 - 2023: Board Member, Billanook College, Australia
  • 2010 - 2011: Expert Witness, Council of Australian Governments (COAG), Australia
  • 2009 - 2012: Honorary Member, Design and Technology Teachers Association of Victoria, Australia
  • 2012 (current): Life Member, Design and Technology Teachers Association of Victoria, Australia
  • 2014 - 2020: Senior Member, Design and Technology teachers Association of Australia, Australia

Further information

  • Academia
  • https://apo.org.au/node/175491
  • https://apo.org.au/node/176191
  • https://apo.org.au/node/176206
  • https://apo.org.au/node/176396
  • https://apo.org.au/node/183196
  • https://apo.org.au/node/183206
  • https://apo.org.au/node/211656
  • https://apo.org.au/node/269186
  • https://apo.org.au/node/302962

Publications

Also published as: Seemann, Kurt; Seemann, K.; Seemann, Kurt W.; Seemann, Kurt Walter
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Recent research grants awarded

  • 2019: Victorian Teachers use of an Integrated Digital Resources: Stage One - Strategic Thinking & Co-Design *; VIC Department of Education and Training
  • 2016: Shaping Change Stage *; Besen Foundation
  • 2016: Telescope: service and industrial design stage 1 *; Innovation Connections
  • 2016: Waste Management and Wellbeing in Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities *; Waste Aid
  • 2015: The Dusted Community (Phase 2) *; The Australian Domain Name Administrator (auDA) Foundation Grants
  • 2013: Indigenous Participation in a Low-Carbon Economy *; ARC Linkage Projects Scheme

* Chief Investigator