Bakkhai Director’s Notes

McKenzie, Vahri. (2018). Bakkhai Director’s Notes. Bunbury, WA: Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre. Bakkhai was one of Euripides’ final plays and is concerned with two apparently opposed sides of human nature, the rational and the instinctive. When these collide, in the forms of the rigid young 

Only the Envelope: Artistic interpretations of eye-tracking imagery

McKenzie, Vahri and Ferguson, Neil K. (2018). Only the Envelope: artistic interpretations of eye-tracking imagery. Journal for Artistic Research 15. Only the Envelope (OTE) combines several research methodologies to investigate the ways we share personal information in the public sphere. This exposition presents video and 

Reimagining social work case studies

Boxall, K.; McKenzie, V.; Henderson, Aishath, S.; & Mazza D. (2018): Reimagining social work case studies: a social work—creative writing collaboration, Social Work Education, DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2018.1458831 This paper describes a joint social work and creative writing project which analysed case studies from the perspectives of 

Writing up/Writing down: Making Sense through Sensory Engagement

McKenzie, V. (2017). Writing up/writing down: making sense through sensory engagement. ECU Researchers on Writing, Edith Cowan University. Writing up research can be formulaic and conventional, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. We rely on certain formulae and conventions to clarify meanings, to create a 

It’s nothing… Ben-Ary and Harwood’s Immaterial

McKenzie, V. (2017). It’s nothing… Ben-Ary and Harwood’s Immaterial.  Available from: Immaterial Introduction In Susan Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles (1916), a group of men and women try to figure out the story behind an apparently senseless murder. While the men focus on material facts present