Meet Dr. Chris Creagh

Senior Lecturer, Academic Chair, Physics & Nanotechnology

"In a way I was a bit of a late starter. I began my physics degree when I was 36. That just happened to be the right time in my life to do it. Before then I had been a shop assistant, diagnostic radiographer, high school lab technician, point picker for a geophysical airborne survey, office cleaner and in my less public life daughter, wife and mother. So I have looked at life from many sides now and I think that helps me understand where my students are coming from.

I really enjoy lectures... and labs... and tutorials. They all give me a chance to interact with my students and with the physics that I love. Physics has so many cool toys! From bubble wands to the Large Hadron Collider and everything in between. There is so much interesting "stuff" to play with, to investigate and think about.

It is an exciting time to be alive, there are so many opportunities opening up for people who understand energy and how to tap into the natural energy flowing through the Earth in a sustainable manner. Energy coming from the Sun, from the interior of the Earth and from the gravitational pull of the Moon can be used to do work as part of its journey around the world and out into space.

This is where my life has led me, to a place where I can facilitate students learning, so they can go on and do fantastic things with their lives, and bring about a future I can only read about in Science Fiction books."

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Awards

• 2009 Marg Hughes Award for Previously Unrecognised Service to the Science Fiction Community over an Extended Period of Time.
• 2006 Carrick (Australian Learning and Teaching Council) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning “For excellence and passion in establishing and maintaining an outstanding learning environment for her students”.
• 2006 Vice Chancellor’s Excellence in Enhancing Learning Award
• 2000 Finalist for the National award of “Woman of the Year in Non-traditional Areas of Work and Study”
• Murdoch University Scholarship for PhD 1999

Education

• PhD Physics, 2003
• Bachelor of Science Honors Physics, 1998
• Graduate Diploma in Education, 1995
• Diploma Applied Science Diagnostic Radiography, 1976

Publications

• Do students’experiences of a service subject correspond to their expectations? Les Kirkup, Alberto Mendez, Dale Scott, Manjula Sharma John O’Byrne, Jamie Quinton, Judith Pollard, Chris Creagh, Patrick Keleher, Ragbir Bhathal, Symposium Presentation, UniServe Science Proceedings Visualisation 2009 (http://science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/procs/2008/035.pdf)
• Implementing A Focus On “Diagrams For Understanding” In A First Year Physics Unit, Conference Paper for the Australian Institute of Physics, 18th National Congress 30 November - 5 December 2008, Adelaide, Australia, ISBN 1-876346-57-4 © 2008 AIP
• Diagrams: Useful tools for investigating a student’s understanding of buoyancy, Teaching Science The Journal of the Australian Science teachers Association, Volume 54, Number 4, December 2008, Pages 48 – 50, C. A. Creagh
• The Ag M5N45N45 Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectra of Disordered Ag0.5Pd0.5 alloy, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Volume 130, Issues 1-3, July 2003, Pages 33-41, Zhong-Tao Jiang, Stephen M. Thurgate, Grant van Riessen, Peter Wilkie, Chris Creagh
• PhD Thesis, Analysis of the Auger Lineshape of Palladium and Tin using Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectroscopy (2002)
• Erratum to 'Investigating the structure of the Tin M45N45N45 Auger Spectrum using Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectroscopy, J. of Electron Spectroscopy & Related Phenomena Volume 125, Issue 1, August 2002, Page 75, C. A. Creagh, S. M. Thurgate, Z-T. Jiang
• Investigating the Structure of the Tin M45N45N45 Auger Spectrum Using Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectroscopy, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Volume 122, Issue 2, February 2002, Pages 147-156, C. A. Creagh, S. M. Thurgate, Z-T. Jiang
• The use of Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectroscopy to Deconvolute the M45N45N45 AES of Palladium, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Volumes 114-116, March 2001, Pages 69-74, C. A. Creagh, S. M. Thurgate
• Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectroscopy of the 2p1/2 Line in Coincidence with the L3-M45M45 Peak of Copper, Surface Science, Volume 432, Issue 3, 20 July 1999, Pages 297-304, C. A. Creagh, S. M. Thurgate, R. P. Craig, C. P. Lund
• More Auger Photoelectron Coincidence Spectra from Copper, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Volume 93, Issues 1-3, June 1998, Pages 209-214, S. M. Thurgate, C. P. Lund, C. Creagh, R. Craig