barbara doran

Dr Barbara Doran

Program Director & Senior Lecturer

Barbara is lecturer, researcher and a creativity connector. She specialises in expanding how we understand and harness creative intelligence.  

With over 25 years of experience, Barbara has worked in the realms of collective well-being, including public health, urban and regional planning, healthy psychology and the arts. She sees creativity as a powerful pathway to personally and collectively identifying unseen opportunities that help us respond to the complex challenges before us. 

Her skills are drawn from working across visual and performing arts, tertiary education and project experience in the private, public and community sectors.  

Barbara is now based at the TD School, UTS which catalyses cutting edge collaborations by bringing together diverse practitioners in playful, imaginative and practical ways.