Rate My Professor Andrew Howells

Howells has led key projects including Activating Artifacts: Reviving, reintroducing and recontextualising the illustrated work of Margaret Senior (2024, lead, $10,000), International Illustration Research Network (2022, investigator, $14,000), Drawing Education Network (2020, investigator, $7,085), and Visualsing Humanities Research Project (2018-2020, lead, $15,398). His Elephant project created 60 illustrations to visually assess health conditions in captive Asian elephants, collaborating with veterinary scientists from Taronga Zoo and Fort Worth Zoo. Awards include the Faculty Award for Collaboration Excellence (2016), Vice Chancellor’s Award for Collaboration Excellence (2016), and edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning (2017). Notable publications encompass the book Observe, Research, Create: Case Studies in Natural History Illustration PhD Projects (2018), the chapter The Coffin of Mer-Neith-it-es: Justified (2022, co-authored with B. Drabsch and L. O’Donnell), and Blending Graphite with Pixels: Natural History Illustration Online (2019, co-authored with B. Drabsch and C. Lloyd). He co-curated exhibitions such as Illustrated and written by…: an exhibition of international peer-reviewed illustration research (2024) and SEEKING VISION: INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ILLUSTRATION RESEARCH (2022), and delivered the public lecture The Mummy Project at Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney (2019). His contributions promote non-traditional research outcomes and cross-disciplinary visual communication in science and conservation.