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Dr Andy Ward

Dr Andy Ward

PhD QUT; Master of Fine Arts QUT

Assistant Associate Dean, Research

Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Music

School of Business and Creative Industries

Email: award4@usc.edu.au

Telephone: +61 7 5459 4826

Location: Sunshine Coast, SD K.2.25A

Dr Andy Ward is a researcher and award-winning songwriter with international impact. His work focusses on the retirement sector and the ways in which it can be innovated and modelled to enhance the lifestyle of people as we age. He advises some of Australia’s largest sectoral operators and work in industry funded research in the retirement and lifestyle space. As part of this work, he leads a multi-disciplinary team of health and creative researchers in a national project exploring the future of the retirement sector reporting directly to industry and government.

Research

Research Summary

Potential Research Projects for HDR & Honours Students

  • Songwriting, Music, Production, and Performance
  • Narrative Theory
  • Sustainability and Creative Economies

Teaching and supervision

Teaching

  • Music
  • Creative Industries

Program coordinator

Professional

Awards and memberships

Professional Memberships 

  • International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)

Awards/Fellowships

  • Australian Postgraduate Award 2016-2018

  • QUT Faculty of Creative Industries Dean’s Award for academic excellence 2014

Professional Social Media

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