Christopher Orchard

Biography

Christopher Orchard is a Course Director, Lecturer in Photography and interdisciplinary researcher in the School of Communication and Creative Industries. Based on Charles Sturt University's Wagga Wagga campus, Christopher also contributes to the Creative Regions Lab and sits as a board member of the interdisciplinary journal, 'Fusion'. He is currently undertaking postgraduate study in the Doctor of Philosophy and Graduate Certificate in Research from the University of Tasmania within the Tasmanian College of the Arts where he holds a position in the Arts and Environment Research Group. Christopher's research draws from a wide field of discourse on landscape health, natural resource management, trauma studies, terror management theory and broad art theory and culture to generate transdisciplinary dialogue on landscape issues utilising practice-led research methodologies. Christopher calls himself a 'connectivist', a research conduit for information between differing perspectives acting as intermediary to bring about landscape reconciliations, sustainabilities, new knowledge and open discourse.

Research Interest

Christopher's research draws from a wide field of discourse on landscape health, natural resource management, trauma studies, terror management theory and broad art theory and culture to generate transdisciplinary dialogue on landscape issues utilising practice-led research methodologies.