Dr Barbara Doran specialises in creative intelligence and transdisciplinary practice and is the course director for the UTS Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation program. Barbara specialises in identifying creative opportunities that respond to complex challenges and developing innovative strategies that can be put into action. She is an experienced speaker, mentor, educator, project innovator and artist who directs her energies to building our collective capacities to improve how we live.

Her skills are drawn from working across the arts, the tertiary sector and from project experience in the private, public and community sectors which bring together practical, scholarly, imaginative, playful and collaborative outcomes. She has twice won the United Nations Bioethics and Art Award for Photography and displayed her work on both the national and international stage. Barbara's creative works include over 100 projects spanning film productions, exhibitions, performances, earth building and cultural events. As an educator she has delivered over 40 subjects ranging across health psychology and sociology, urban planning, design, the arts and creativity. Barbara has supervised diverse research projects at honours, masters and PhD levels. Her research expands understandings of creativity and its application to challenges in health and planetary wellbeing. Barbara’s work and collaborations are distilled in her book ‘Creative Reboot: Catalysing Creative Intelligence’- a compendium of supporting practices and methods.

Barbara is the lead curator of the SPHERE Knowledge Translation Platform (a leading national healthcare partnership) and advises on numerous innovation projects. Her post at TD School comes after having worked as a Senior Lecturer for Australia’s leading performing arts conservatoire NIDA, National Institute of Dramatic Arts, with prior positions at The University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University.

Barbara's mememberships include:

• Australian Good Design Ambassador
• Arts Health Network NSW/ ACT
• SPHERE Knowledged Translation Platform
• Possibilities Studies Network
• Global Body Mapping Consortium
• RSA