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Hello, my name is April, and this is a site to introduce my work, ideas, and experience in the areas of design, human and health geographies, education, photography, and ecology.
My focus is centred around analysing, curating and building sustainable and healthy environments. I practice socio-environmental design and research
informed by geographic, environmental, and public health knowledge and methodologies.
I have backgrounds in environmental design/architecture, communication design/graphic design, academic lecturing, and social science research. I am also a health educator influenced by my experience of early-onset bowel cancer and endometriosis and adenomyosis.
I also garden and hike—a lot.
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EDUCATION
2022 Graduate Certificate of Public Health (Post-Graduate)
College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Australia
2016—19 Doctor of Philosophy (Design)
School of Design, RMIT, Australia
(Incomplete research due to a cancer diagnosis during this period. Also offered scholarship-funded places at the University of New South Wales and the University of Tasmania)
2010—12 Master of Fine Art and Design—Environment
Tasmanian School of Art & Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
2005—07 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Majoring in Communication Design)
Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Australia
1999—01 Bachelor of Environmental Design
School of Architecture, University of Tasmania, Australia
(Also offered Bachelor of Architecture places at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne)
EMPLOYMENT2011—Current Independent Designer and Design Consultant
2023—2024 Policy Officer
Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmanian Government, Lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia
2022—2023 Research Officer
Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia
2022 Research Assistant
Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia
2022 Object Design Lecturer
University Connections, University of Tasmania, Australia,
2022 Applied Design Lecturer
University College, University of Tasmania, Australia.
2016—19 Communication Design Lecturer
School of Design, RMIT, Naarm / Melbourne, Australia
2015—16 Design Lecturer and Coordinator
English Language Centre, University of Tasmania, Australia
2013—16 Visual Communication Lecturer and Theory Coordinator
Visual Communication Studio, Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia
2012—14 Graphic Arts in Practice Coordinator
Visual Communication Studio, Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia
2012—14 Visual Communication Lecturer
Visual Communication Studio, Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia
2007—11 Creative Director and Designer
State Library and Archive and Heritage Office, Lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia
2005—07 Independent Architect
Nipaluna / Hobart, Lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia
2004—05 Architectural Assistant and Website Designer
BPSM Architects, Nipaluna / Hobart, Lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia2003—04 Architectural Assistant
RMJM Architects, Edinburgh, Scotland
2002—03 Architectural Assistant and Website Designer
Terroir Architects, Nipaluna / Hobart, Lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia
Selected Presentation, Residency, Awards, Design and Photographic Publications
2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, America.
Largest global conference for geography. Member of a panel discussion for the session ‘Islands, Arts and the Geographical Imaginations’.2014 and 2015 Designer-in-Residence. University of Tasmania, Australia
2015 Awarded a Tasmania Graduate Research Scholarship
2013 Awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award
2012 Tasmania Overseas Travel Scholarship from the University of Tasmania
1999 Tasmanian University Merit-Based Equity Scholarship
Azimuth, ‘The Ecology of the Ear’, 2019, ed. Patrick Farmer, Sonic Art Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University. Photographic work to compliment a chapter in the book.
‘Water’s Edge’ (with Vanessa Berry), Jan 2015, part of the New Landscapes Institute collection, in Sydney. A collaborative publication of psychogeographical photographic and written responses about water and land edge locales in mirroring urban areas.
Minor Literature[s], Sept 2014, ‘Christchurch—Greenland’, in London and Los Angeles. Publication of a photographic-based essay.
Islet, Autumn 2011, in nipaluna / Tasmania, Australia. Article and photographic studies of Svalbard and Iceland featured in this ‘island’ themed edition, which was launched as part of the Ten Days on the Island festival.
Dokulil, H., April/May 2008, ‘School’s Out’. Monument, No. 84, Pyrmont, pp. 43—54. One of twelve designers featured in an article on top design graduates for 2007 in Australia.
