Alexandra Woods
Alexandra Woods is a senior lecturer and Digital Art Historian in the Department of History and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts. She studied Egyptology and Ancient History at Macquarie University (2001-2003), and completed an Honours degree in Egyptology (2004) before undertaking doctoral studies at Macquarie (2005-2008) based on an interpictorial analysis of Old Kingdom elite tomb imagery.
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- taught for over 15 years at Macquarie University art history, archaeology, language and gender units, in addition to research methodology and methods of archaeological practice in Egyptology.
- academic lead of the Beni Hassan Research Group, comprised of academic staff, doctoral candidates and undergraduate students. The group aims to develop employability skills in Ancient History students and enable active, authentic and collaborative engagement with research undertaken at Macquarie University.
- co-developed a partnership with Ubisoft that led to Macquarie University's engagement on the Google Arts and Culture Platform, using AI to assist researchers in translating Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
- designed and co-ordinated the Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies Academic Mentoring Program, showing a deep commitment to the mentoring and support of women within academia (2020).
Alex's research focuses on the study and recording of visual culture in ancient Egyptian temple and tomb environments, particularly during the Old to Middle Kingdom (Dynasties 3-13, c. 2686 – 1650 BCE). Alex studies:
1) the context, function, iconographical and iconological significance of tomb and temple imagery;
2) artisan practices behind the portrayals to understand how the images were constructed and created within the limitations imposed by function, decorum and tradition and;
3) evaluation of archival practices of early Western and European exploration and documentation of Egypt's antiquity through a post-colonial lens;
4) digital humanities frameworks embedded in Higher Education settings.
Phone: +61 2 9850 8850
Address: Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment
Department of Ancient History
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW, 2109
AUSTRALIA
Highlights |
- taught for over 15 years at Macquarie University art history, archaeology, language and gender units, in addition to research methodology and methods of archaeological practice in Egyptology.
- academic lead of the Beni Hassan Research Group, comprised of academic staff, doctoral candidates and undergraduate students. The group aims to develop employability skills in Ancient History students and enable active, authentic and collaborative engagement with research undertaken at Macquarie University.
- co-developed a partnership with Ubisoft that led to Macquarie University's engagement on the Google Arts and Culture Platform, using AI to assist researchers in translating Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
- designed and co-ordinated the Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies Academic Mentoring Program, showing a deep commitment to the mentoring and support of women within academia (2020).
Alex's research focuses on the study and recording of visual culture in ancient Egyptian temple and tomb environments, particularly during the Old to Middle Kingdom (Dynasties 3-13, c. 2686 – 1650 BCE). Alex studies:
1) the context, function, iconographical and iconological significance of tomb and temple imagery;
2) artisan practices behind the portrayals to understand how the images were constructed and created within the limitations imposed by function, decorum and tradition and;
3) evaluation of archival practices of early Western and European exploration and documentation of Egypt's antiquity through a post-colonial lens;
4) digital humanities frameworks embedded in Higher Education settings.
Phone: +61 2 9850 8850
Address: Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment
Department of Ancient History
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW, 2109
AUSTRALIA
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The Beni Hassan @ Macquarie research project draws on the assets collected as part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant 'Measuring Meaning in Egyptian Art: A new approach to an intractable problem' in collaboration with Professor Naguib Kanawati, Dr Linda Evans, Dr Alexandra Woods (all Macquarie University) and Dr Janice Kamrin (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). The project team is comprised of academic staff and a student centred research group, the Beni Hassan Research Group, which aims to develop employability skills in Ancient History students and enable active, authentic and collaborative engagement with research undertaken at Macquarie University.
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Undergraduate students were invited to be active participants in each stage of the process, such as description and analysis of themes, scenes and details, editing, assigning appropriate photographs and line art, editing again, and transliteration and translation of the hieroglyphic inscriptions in the tomb. Many of the BHRG are original and inaugural members and have been part of the team since February 2017. Students worked on collaborative tasks while also being presented with opportunities to work independently and propose creative solutions to problems they identified themselves. This blog post features the reflections of students involved in the project and the kinds of skills they learned.
Significant research has been given to blogs and social media in education (Hicks & Sinkinson, 2015; Farkas, 2012; Veletsianos & Navarrete, 2012; Doiron & Asselin, 2011). However, there still appears to be a disconnect between the idea of using elements of social media to educate, as opposed to education through social media. This presentation, based on a four week trial conducted in August 2015, will highlight topics of interest in terms of blogging for learning, social media learning, and assessing students' ability to engage with learning materials exclusively using social media rich applications. In addition, the presentation will illustrate what types of assessments have been devised as part of the learning design, namely students' ability to use their blog effectively to communicate and comment on ideas, and engage real world people and industry professionals using social media.