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Prof. Richard Vella

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Research Supervision

Number of current supervisions 16
Total current UoN Masters EFTSL 1.3
Total current UoN PhD EFTSL 3.65

For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics, and the institution name is listed below the program name.

Current Supervision

Commenced Proposed
Completion
Program Supervisor Type Research Title
2013 2017 PhD (Fine Art) Principal Supervisor ORI* on Aesthetics and Language of Folding and Technology
2013 2017 PhD (Music) Co-Supervisor The Song and the Words - Music of Exile
2012 2015 PhD (Music) Co-Supervisor The Polysynchronous Film Score: the Relationship Between Music and Image/Narrative in Contemporary Scores for Silent Film
2012 2017 PhD (Education) Co-Supervisor Keep the Flame Burning: Exploring the Barriers that inhibit the effective teaching of the Arts in Primary Schools
2011 2015 PhD (Music) Co-Supervisor The Traditional Music of East Timor
2011 2017 PhD (Music) Co-Supervisor Off-White: A Latterday Travesty
2010 2018 PhD (Music) Principal Supervisor Cinematic Topologies
2009 2013 M Philosophy (Music) Principal Supervisor Towards a Phenomenology of Groove
2009 2011 M Philosophy (Music) Co-Supervisor Using Acoustic Phenomena to Generate a Performance Practice
2008 2016 PhD (Music) Principal Supervisor Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking in Musical Composition
2008 2017 PhD (Music) Principal Supervisor Pragmatics of Intertextuality in Recorded Music
2007 2011 M Philosophy (Music) Principal Supervisor The Relationship between Composition and Production in Real-time Software Environments
2007 2008 M Philosophy (Music) Principal Supervisor Recreating the evolution of guitar sounds in Spain and Latin America c 1890-1940
2007 2011 PhD (Music) Sole Supervisor Joseph Schillinger and His System for Aesthetical Engineering: Applications in Music Composition and Analysis
2007 2013 PhD (Music) Sole Supervisor Music in Context: Dramaturgical Association
2003 2007 M Arts (Music) [R] Co-Supervisor A Study Examining the ICT Literacy Levels of Music Educators in the New South Wales Department of Education and Training

Past Supervision

Year Program Supervisor Type Research Title
2009 M Creative Arts (Music) [R] Co-Supervisor Developing Twenty-First Century Art Music Repertoire
2008 M Creative Arts (Music) [R] Co-Supervisor The Maturing Trumpeter: An Insight to the Physicality, Mentality and Practicality of the Twenty First Century Performing Trumpeter