Dr Ruth Fazakerley

• Biography/ Background

  Ruth Fazakerley is a Manager, Educational Quality, working in the Education Quality Unit. Ruth manages a team working closely with academic staff to facilitate the formal review of coursework programs and courses as an integral component of the University's continuous quality enhancement and assurance framework. With extensive experience working in higher education settings Ruth additionally provides scholarly and project management support to a wide range of teaching and learning projects in Education Quality. 

  Prior to this role, Ruth was an Academic Developer at the University of South Australia (2010, 2014-2022), where she worked across a range of organisational levels to foster teaching excellence, innovation, and the scholarship of learning and teaching. She designed and delivered professional development training, programs, events and resources that were responsive to the needs of individual academic staff, teaching teams, and institutional priorities. She managed institutional schemes of teaching excellence awards, teaching and learning grants, and the University's mandated Summative Peer Review of Teaching; providing academic leadership, coaching and training, resources and process improvements. From 2019 to 2021, Ruth was responsible for the University's recording and reporting of academic misconduct, as well as Academic Integrity Officer awareness and training in academic integrity principles and procedures. From 2017 to 2021, in collaboration with individual discipline experts and course writers, course facilitators, and online educational designers, Ruth contributed to the design and production of over eighteen fully online units of study across five UniSA Online degree programs and sundry professional certificates. The team's achievements in designing highly engaging, authentic, industry-informed and scaffolded, online learning experiences for students in new Bachelor of Criminal Justice program were recognized with the 2019 Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC).

  Ruth also maintains an active research interest in the field of contemporary visual art and is a current HDR Supervisor at the University of South Australia. Her visual art career is underpinned by a sustained engagement with the theory, policy, management and professional practice of art in public spaces - as an artist, professional, writer and researcher. Her track record of research outputs includes creative works, academic publications, commissioned articles, exhibition essays, reviews and reports, including contributions to NAVA's 2020 revised Code of Practice for the Visual Arts, Craft and Design (Commissioning Art in Public Space).

• Qualifications

  PhD (Visual Art), University of South Australia

  MFA (Public Art), University of Dundee

  BA (Visual Art) Honours, University of South Australia

  BSc Honours, University of Adelaide

• Publications

  [See Ruth Fazakerley (0000-0002-3078-5959) - ORCID ]

  Selected publications

  Fazakerley, R. (2023) 'Monumental Cares: Sites of History and Contemporary Art: Widrich, Mechtild. Manchester: Manchester University Press', book review, Public Art Dialogue 13(2):278-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/21502552.2023.2263332

  Badham, M., Fazakerley, R. & Hillary, F. (2019), Best practices for the commissioning of art in public space, commissioned discussion draft, National Association for the Visual Arts & RMIT University, Australia.

  Stevens, Q., Franck, K. & Fazakerley, R. (2018) 'Counter-monuments: The antimonumental and the dialogic', The Journal of Architecture 23(5):718-739; DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2018.1495914

  Fazakerley, R. (2016) The Sir John Glover Memorial Fountain by Milton Moon, commissioned report, Government of South Australia.

  Fazakerley, R. (2016) Stadtikonographie Adelaide: Otto Herbert Hajek and the Adelaide Festival Centre, commissioned report, Government of South Australia.

  Fazakerley, R. (2012) 'Art and the Urban Plaza: from landscape to environment', in A. Gaynor, E. Gralton, J. Gregory & S. McQuade (eds), Urban Transformations: Booms, Busts and Other Catastrophes. Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference, University of Western Australia, pp. 97-114.

  Selected Presentations

  Fazakerley, R. (2021), 'Revisiting counter-monuments' AAD Sessions, London Metropolitan University, 21 January 2021

  Fazakerley, R. (2021) 'Lost in translations: Stadtikonographie Adelaide', unpublished conference paper, AAANZ 2021: Sites of Impact, 8-10 December 2021

  R Fazakerley (2019) 'Thinking through Public Art Research: art, sites, audiences', unpublished conference paper, Colloque: Art public, sites et cultures numériques, 29-31 May 2019, University of Montreal

  R Fazakerley (2017) 'Mis-performing place: Otto Herbert Hajek and the Adelaide Festival Centre', unpublished conference paper, Translating Worlds: Migration, Memory and Culture, 17-16 August, Monash Uni & Hawke EU Centre

  D Birbeck & R Fazakerley (2017) 'From curriculum map to digital network: Sustaining the living curriculum', unpublished conference paper, HERDSA 2017, 28 June, Sydney.

• Professional Interests

  Member (2025) HERDSA SA Branch Committee, Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia

  Editorial board member (2011-2025) Public Art Dialogue

  Affiliate member (2020-)  CREATURE (Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement), London Metropolitan University

  Member (2018) HERDSA 2018 Organising Committee, Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia (SA Branch)

  Member (2017) ACEN (SA/NT) Chapter Board, Australian Collaborative Education Network

   

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025

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