MELANIE CHILIANIS
Brunswick East,VIC
Summary
Innovative Researcher and Educator experienced in fostering collaboration and engagement within diverse teams. Valued individual creativity by prioritizing meaningful activities that promote safety and self-expression. Focused on creating inclusive environments that recognize and celebrate intersectionality.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Research Associate: Artistic and Creative Education, Faculty of Education
University of Melbourne ARC Linkage Grant
01.2008 - 01.2011
- Mapping and augmenting engagement, learning and cultural citizenship for children undertaking ArtPlay workshops with artists
- - Documented ethnographic field notes during artist-led workshops, identifying and tracking emerging themes to inform program development.
- - Presented findings at seminars and conferences
- - Drafted reports independently and collaboratively
- - Coded data and analyzed findings for interpretation.
- - Carefully wrote ethnographic field notes during artist-led workshops and tracked emerging themes.
- - Sensitively interviewed parents/carers and children.
- - Composed and contributed to reports, synthesizing insights from individual and group efforts to communicate outcomes effectively.
Guest Lecturer
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
Melbourne, VIC
03.2009 - 11.2010
- Facilitated interactive discussions to enhance student understanding and critical thinking.
- Assessed student performance through innovative evaluation methods and feedback mechanisms.
- Year Level 3: Engaging youth: art/media/performance EDUC30066 (460-673) Provided constructive feedback to enhance students' presentations
- Year Level 2: Youth/Arts: expressing cultural identity (Breadth subject) EDUC20062 (460-672) Invited to give feedback as students present projects Facilitated creative exploration through interactive lessons
- Provided feedback as students presented projects.
- Marking duties
Classroom Music Teacher
Westmeadows Primary School
Melbourne, VIC
02.2006 - 12.2007
- Motivated children to engage in expressive and creative music activities, fostering their artistic development.
- Designed a curriculum focused on music composition, incorporating diverse musical styles and techniques.
- Utilized music technology tools to provide a range of access into music learning for different styles of learning.
- Managed classroom behavior effectively by establishing clear expectations, modeling appropriate conduct, and consistently enforcing established rules and consequences.
- Fostered student curiosity and interest through hands-on activities.
Education
Diploma of Counselling - Counselling
Australian Institute Professional Counselling
Melbourne08-2026
PhD - Film, Media and Communications Studies; Film and Screen Studies
Monash University
Clayton, VICGraduate Dip Education - Classroom Music Education
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VICBachelor of Music (Honours) - Performance (flute)
Monash University
ClaytonSkills
- Curriculum evaluation
- Research and analysis
- Data collection
- Data interpretation
- Source verification
- Qualitative analysis
- Ethics compliance
- Knowledge transfer
AWARDS
2012-2014 Australian Postgraduate Award, 2012 Monash University Travel Grant, 2007 Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship (2007); Seattle, New York (USA), London, Manchester, Aberdeen (UK) To investigate creative applications of music technology in primary education with an emphasis on digital projects that enable young people to compose and create.
PUBLICATIONS – Peer reviewed & Industry
- Chilianis, M. (2020). Re-embodying Syrinx in the Ancient Peloponnese and French Colonial Belle Époque: Investigating bodily change associated with sexual assault. European Journal of Women’s Studies (1).
- Chilianis, M. (2018). Listening to Epilepsy and SoundCloud: Re-examining Sonic Subjectivity and Affective Labor. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 4(1).
- 2018 Presented “What disability and music need: Performing and desiring bodily variety and change” Gender Diversity in Music Making, Monash University, Melbourne
- 2012 Presented “The Body’s Impact on Creative Sonic Practice :: Sonic Practice’s impact on the Body” at SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRISAP), London College of Communication, UK
PERFORMANCES
Jul 2026 Featured flute performance with DJ & live sampling, Brunswick Artist Bar
SOUND-ART WORK – a selection
- July 2023 Yugen- audiovisual exhibition projected at Sunshine Art Spaces, with Cat Lew
- 2014-2021 Several EP releases, including a collaboration with Iranian composer, Atefeh Einali
- 2013 MCVox. Cries from the Guts, Experiments & Intensities, Winchester University Press. Archived in the British Library.
- Nov 2013-2014 Days (without dialogue), curated by Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe for Contemporary Composition: From Avant-Garde to Experimental. Part of ‘Now Hear This’, Melbourne Now at the Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, Melbourne
- April 2011 Vox for Fragments commissioned by Michael Chang (Denmark) and Marty McCutcheon (Berkeley, USA) for a group show at the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York, USA
- Dec 2010 Performance Draw commissioned by visual artist, Dai Zhen Chew, played on public screens with her animated drawings. Included at Federation Square, Melbourne
- 2010 Days of Our Lives, Four-channel sound installation. Bus Gallery, little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. (Curated show), March
- 2010 Curation of an outdoor multichannel sound system, Signal, for young artists' sound and music. Including facilitating workshops with young people. City of Melbourne funded
- Nov 2009 Under the Bamboo – selected to be part of Sounds from the Weave. Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, USA. Program 4, November 24, 2009
- Nov 2009 Waves Commissioned by Duke Albada for Wavelength, permanent audiovisual alcove at the new Goldcoast Exhibition Centre (Queensland).
- June 2009 Tramspotting – four-channel electroacoustic soundscape commissioned by Michelle Hamer for her visual arts exhibition. 2 June to 13 June 2009, Fortyfivedownstairs, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Timeline
Guest Lecturer
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
03.2009 - 11.2010
Research Associate: Artistic and Creative Education, Faculty of Education
University of Melbourne ARC Linkage Grant
01.2008 - 01.2011
Classroom Music Teacher
Westmeadows Primary School
02.2006 - 12.2007
Bachelor of Music (Honours) - Performance (flute)
Monash University
Diploma of Counselling - Counselling
Australian Institute Professional Counselling
PhD - Film, Media and Communications Studies; Film and Screen Studies
Monash University
Graduate Dip Education - Classroom Music Education
University of Melbourne