Marni the Lecturer

I am a creative and enthusiastic presenter of fashion and surface pattern design with strong industrial knowledge and practice from varying academic and professional design settings. I deliver a wide range of design subjects covering topics from design history and design thinking to fashion marketing, production and software skills. I am an Advanced HE Fellow and my average student evaluation score over the past 24 months is 4.8/5.0.

Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast.

I have just commenced a role at the University of the Sunshine coast. I look forward to developing my research with this fantastic team.

Lecturer, Billy Blue College of Design, Torrens University

Between 2014-2024 I wrote six subjects and served as Subject Coordinator for four subjects at Torrens University. This role has allowed me to evaluate and evolve these subjects to meet changing needs of the students and industry, and to mentor learning facilitators in the goals and best delivery methods of the subjects.

I have received the Design Vertical Award for Excellence in Innovation in Teaching and Learning (2023), a ‘commendation’ for the ‘Professor Susan Holland Excellence in Teaching Award (2022), a “Teaching Merit Certificate” for high performance in Teaching Delivery (2021) and the ‘Professor Susan Holland Casual Academic Performance Award’ in 2018.I am a creative and enthusiastic presenter of fashion and surface pattern design with strong industrial knowledge and practice from varying academic and professional design settings. I deliver a wide range of design subjects covering topics from design history and design thinking to fashion marketing, production and software skills.

Awards

Advanced HE Fellowship, Advanced HE, 2023

Excellence Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Design Vertical, Torrens University, 2023

‘Commendation’ Professor Susan Holland Academic Performance Award, Torrens University, 2022

Good Stuff Awards by Frankie Magazine, Finalist, 2021

Teaching Merit Certificate for high performance in Teaching Delivery, Torrens University, 2021

Placeholder Bookmark Competition by Sunshine Coast Libraries and Horizon Festival, Finalist, 2020

Professor Susan Holland Casual Academic Performance Award, Torrens University, 2018

Studio Lecturer, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University

I wrote and delivered Surface Patterning for Materials and Textures to be offered as an elective in the Bachelor of Design program at the Queensland College of Art where I obtained my Bachelor of Design. The course encouraged students to use hands-on techniques like stamping, painting and stitching, to adapt their existing design skills and styles into surface patterns. It also introduced students to the concept of regionalism, asking them to study their own cultural backgrounds as a source of reference material for their designs. Course development included the creation of assessment briefs, 14 weekly lesson plans and 14 weekly lectures.

Studio Lecturer, College of Fine Art, UNSW (now UNSW Art & Design)

At COFA I was a Studio Lecturer in the Textile Design stream of the Bachelor of Design program in 2010. The second-year studio was an introduction to hands-on design techniques including drawing, painting, embroidery and screen-printing for creating textiles.