Phoebe Hart’s teaching practice is grounded in creative practice pedagogy and informed by feminist and humanist approaches to learning. It is shaped by her professional background as a filmmaker and producer, alongside sustained reflection on teaching in university screen production contexts. She teaches primarily through studio-based, dialogic learning environments that encourage students to take creative risks, reflect critically on their work, and understand themselves as emerging practitioners within broader creative, cultural and industrial contexts.

Across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, she designs learning experiences that are authentic, research-led and industry-engaged. Assessment in her units is deliberately fit for purpose, drawing on professional creative processes and real-world practices. Tasks are scaffolded across courses to build confidence and complexity, valuing experimentation, collaboration and reflection alongside polished creative outcomes.

A central commitment of her teaching is the creation of safe, inclusive and supportive learning environments, particularly in disciplines where confidence, access and representation are uneven. She is attentive to the emotional and relational dimensions of creative education and regularly embeds mentoring, peer learning and community-of-practice models into her teaching. This includes the development and support of sessional staff and early-career educators, many of whom are graduates of the programs she teaches in.

She has led curriculum redevelopment at unit, course and discipline levels, and her teaching scholarship examines creative risk-taking, studio pedagogies, blended learning, and graduate showcases as pedagogical sites rather than simple endpoints. She is particularly interested in how public presentation, including screenings, festivals and showcases, can function as transitional learning moments between university and industry.

Her teaching practice aims to balance rigour with care, supporting students to graduate with strong creative and technical skills, alongside resilience, ethical awareness and a sense of belonging within creative industries.

Teaching Examples

Endslate is the annual end-of-year graduate showcase for Film, Screen and Animation at Queensland University of Technology. Under Phoebe’s leadership, the event has grown from a small internal screening into a large public showcase held in Brisbane cinemas, attended by industry guests, families and peers. Endslate is co-created with students and functions as a capstone learning experience, supporting students to present their work publicly, navigate industry engagement, and transition from university into professional practice.

The Verandah was a live-streamed, student-led, multi-camera arts and culture television project produced during the COVID-19 period. Conceived as an extra-curricular teaching initiative, it provided students with structured production roles, broadcast experience and collaborative studio practice at a time of widespread disruption to on-campus learning.

As part of capstone units at QUT, Hart co-convenes Film Studio, a large-scale industry-facing teaching project delivered in partnership with Virgin Australia. Student films produced through this unit have been selected for national and international distribution via in-flight entertainment, offering students high-visibility professional outcomes while embedded in coursework.

Hart has coordinated and presented at the Queensland Emerging Screen Talent event as part of the Brisbane International Film Festival, supporting student engagement with industry panels, pitching and professional networking as an extension of teaching and learning beyond the classroom.

Hart led QUT’s inaugural UK television study tour, incorporating attendance at the Edinburgh International Television Festival alongside industry visits and alumni engagement. The tour was designed as an immersive learning event focused on international industry awareness, professional identity formation and student confidence building.

Hart curated and coordinated the creation of a digital archive of QUT graduate film works dating back to 1991, hosted by QUT Library. The archive functions as a teaching resource, an evidence base for student outcomes, and a public record of screen education practice.

Phoebe Hart contributed to Essential Screen Skills High School Engagement Days at QUT, supporting outreach-focused teaching activities that introduced Queensland secondary students to screen production skills, pathways and tertiary learning environments.