Fanke is a Professorial Lead and Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia. She is an award-winning educator, designer, and researcher in design-led innovation, design for health, digital fashion, and cross-cultural design. She was a research fellow at the University of the Arts London and has previously held the position of Programme Lead of Design at the University of the Highlands and Islands, UK and Discipline Lead of the Master of Design Strategies at the University of Canberra.
She has been heavily involved in extensive research projects in the UK and Australia, including Australian Council for the Arts project: Home Economix, ACT Government Seniors Grants Program project: ACT Intergenerational Pen Pal Service, Economic ... Read more
About me
Fanke is a Professorial Lead and Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia. She is an award-winning educator, designer, and researcher in design-led innovation, design for health, digital fashion, and cross-cultural design. She was a research fellow at the University of the Arts London and has previously held the position of Programme Lead of Design at the University of the Highlands and Islands, UK and Discipline Lead of the Master of Design Strategies at the University of Canberra.
She has been heavily involved in extensive research projects in the UK and Australia, including Australian Council for the Arts project: Home Economix, ACT Government Seniors Grants Program project: ACT Intergenerational Pen Pal Service, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project: E-Size, Technology Strategy Board (TSB) project: Monetising Fashion Metadata and Fashioning Metadata Production Tools, Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) project: Body Shape Recognition for Online Fashion, and an Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project: Past Present and Future Craft Practice.
Fanke is passionate about design-led innovation and design for health and wellbeing. To share this passion with students and inspire them, She has developed new courses and units, established innovative work-integrated learning opportunities and international faculty-led programs (FLP). As a result, she has been awarded multi-year competitive Australian government teaching funding via the New Colombo Mobility Plan (NCP). In 2020, She was awarded Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of Dundee
Master of Design University of Dundee
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Skills SA: Building Capability Projects Skills Gaps in the Advertising and Design Sector, SA Minister for Education, Training and Skills, 28/07/2022 - 01/05/2023
2023 - 2024, Peng, F., Maher, C., Eckert, M., Du, T., Gu, N., Turnbull, D., Windsor, T. “Co-design an Intergenerational Arts Program for CALD South Australian Communities”, Arts and Health Alliance (AaHA) Grant, collaborative partners include: Flinders University, University of Adelaide, South Australia Multicultural Commission, Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre.
2022 - 2023, Dooley, K., Peng, F., Gao, J., Siemens, G. “Building Capacity: examine skills gaps for graduates entering the advertising and design sector”, Department of Innovation and Skills (DIS), Government of South Australia, collaborative partners include Adelaide Advertising and Design Club (AADC) and the Australian Screen Production, Education and Research Association (ASPERA), Australia
2022, Peng, F., Nichols, J., Walsh, J. “Digital Indigenous Craft and Culture: Exploring intergenerational transmission of collective knowledge through immersive pattern making”, Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE) Seed Grant, collaborative partners include South Australia Museum and MOD., Australia
2021 - 2022, Hope, C., Peng, F. “ACT Intergenerational Pen Pal Service”, ACT Government Seniors Grants Program, collaborative partners include Northside Community Service Limited and Ainslie Primary School, Australia
2021 - 2022, D'Cunha, N., Isbel, S., Cave, B., Peng, F., Greber, C., Flynn, A. & Castro De Jong, D. “Intergenerational programs in residential aged care in Australia: Who is using them, and what are the barriers to broader implementation?”, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Health Service (NSW), collaborative partners include IRT Kangara Waters and the University of Sydney, Australia
2020 - 2022, Hope, C., Peng, F., Denise, T. “Ginninderry Living Lab: open and play space”, Riverview Projects (ACT), collaborative partners include Ginninderry and ACT community, Australia
2020 - 2021, Denise, T., Peng, F., Herrington, J., Madeleine, A., Savage, D., Matthews, K., Reif, A., Harle, J. “Home Economix: A Lab for Decentralizing Public and Community Art Through Domestic Spaces”, Australian Council for the Arts, collaborative partners include Australian National University, Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centre and Tactical Space Lab, Australia
2020 - 2021, Peng, F., Craig, C. “The 100-year life: views of ageing from the inside”, Sheffield Hallam University & Research England, UK (This is a piece of research as part of a larger grant - The 100-year life and future home – awarded an 8 million research grant from Research England, UK. One strand was undertaken by Peng and there was a comparative study in the UK).
2019, Peng, F., Jani, R., Knight-Agarwal, C., “Chang by Design: Co-Design for Healthy Living”, Faculty Arts and Design Collaborative Project Grant, University of Canberra, Australia
2019 - 2020, Jani, R., Knight-Agarwal, C., Peng, F. “Association between PTC/PROP taste sensitivity, food preferences and weight status in Australian and Indian children aged 7-12 years in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) region”, Faculty of Health Seed Grant, University of Canberra, Australia
2019, Peng, F., Craig, C. “Creativity and Dementia”, Distinguished International Visitor Grant, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), University of Canberra, collaborative partners include Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
2014 - 2016, Vecchi, A., Peng, F., Al-Sayegh, M. “E-Size: Intelligent integration of a sizing framework into online fashion retail”, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), collaborative partners include University of the Arts London, UK and Australia
2014, Hinchcliffe, G., Hinton, E., Peng, F., Whitelaw, M., “The Power of One: tangible data representation for MOAD.”, Museum of Australian Democracy, Australia
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
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| 2023 |
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| 2022 |
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| 2022 |
Open access
1
1
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| 2022 |
Open access
1
1
1
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| 2020 |
Open access
8
7
6
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| 2020 |
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| 2017 |
Peng, F & Scharoun, L 2017, Cross-cultural design, Publishing House of Electronics Industry, China. |
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| 2023 |
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| 2022 |
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| 2022 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2019 |
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| 2017 |
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| 2017 |
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| 2016 |
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| 2016 |
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| Year | Output |
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| 2023 |
1
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| 2022 |
Open access
1
1
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| 2022 |
Open access
1
1
1
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| 2021 |
Open access
1
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| 2020 |
Open access
8
7
6
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| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2018 |
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| 2014 |
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| 2014 |
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| 2014 |
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| 2012 |
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| 2022 |
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| 2022 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2017 |
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| 2016 |
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| 2014 |
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External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
| DSIL Global | UNITED STATES |
| Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
| Edith Cowan University | AUSTRALIA |
| Federation University Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Harokopio University | GREECE |
| International Medical University | MALAYSIA |
| London College of Fashion | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
| Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
| South China Agricultural University | CHINA |
| Southwest University | CHINA |
| University of Canberra | AUSTRALIA |
| University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of the Arts London | UNITED KINGDOM |
| West Visayas State University | PHILIPPINES |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Senior FellowAdvanceHE |
2020 |
Honorary ProfessorThe College of Arts, South China Agricultural University, China |
2016 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Co-design for school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to maximise their academic and social learning | Current |
| Improving visitors¿ experience in the contemporary craft immersive exhibitions | Current |
