Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek
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Dr Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek is a researcher and lecturer in Communication Design at Swinburne University of Technology. As an educator, Samantha believes that by engaging design students in meaningful collaboration with social, political and environmental issues they learn to become empathetic creative practitioners and design thinkers aware of the inherent power of visual communication to transform the world in which we live. Between 2007-2013, Samantha was the Program Coordinator of the Rabbit Hole teaching design studio at the University of Western Sydney. In 2011 she was the co-recipient of the highly prestigious Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence for spearheading a situated ‘design-learning’ experience.