Publications & Articles

‘Surfacing wetlands through design ethnography and critical visualisation’. Crosby, A. , Jones, S. J., and O’Neil, H. Design Research Society (2026).

‘Around the Future Campfire: Listening with Signals and Noise’. O’Neil, H. Society for Social Studies of Science, Backchannels (2024).

‘Visually Communicating Artificial Urban Wetlands’. Crosby, A., Vanni, I., Jones, S. J., and O’Neil, H. M/C Journal 6, no. 27 (2024).

‘Surrender to the Moment’. Netter, L., and O’Neil, H. Colouring In: ‘Truth’ 1, no. 4 (2024): 44–55.

‘On The Edge’. O’Neil, H., Carter, N., and Dillon, M. It’s Freezing in LA. ‘Plants’, November 2023.

‘The Network’. O’Neil, H., Carter, N., and Dillon, M. It’s Freezing in LA. Special Edition: Creative Responses to the Climate Crisis (June 2023).

Conference Presentations

‘Surfacing wetlands through design ethnography and critical visualisation’. Crosby, A. , Jones, S. J., and O’Neil, H. Design Research Society (2026).

‘Visual “Translations” and Storytelling with the More-than-Human’. O’Neil, H. Diverse Intelligences Down Under Summit (2026).

‘Disobedient Ecology: A productive and troublesome reframing of Sydney’s wetland entanglements’. O’Neil, H. ACAUDS (2025)

‘Re-seeing the Swamp: how disobedient wildlife and graphic storytelling can re-present and re-surface the “unsightly” wetlands of Sydney’. O’Neil, H. IGNCC (2025).

Exhibitions & Public Workshops

‘Disobedience, Myths and Hauntings’. O’Neil, H. London’s Climate Story Bank, Hyrda Gallery, London (2026). Exhibition & Workshop.

‘Water-y Methods’. O’Neil, H. Tending to the More-than-Human, UTS, Sydney (2026). Exhibition.

‘Follow The Creek’. Crosby, A., Foster, S., Jones, S. J., O’Neil, H., and Vanni, I. UTS, Sydney (2026). Workshop series.

‘Swamposium’. (2025–present). Reading Group & Workshop series.

‘River Brain’. The Disabled Wandering Atlas, Robinson Map Library, Wisconsin (2025). Exhibition.

‘Surfacing Urban Water’. Crosby, A., Jones, S. J., O’Neil, H. Signals and Noise, AusSTS, Melbourne. (2025). Workshop.

‘Disobedient Ecologies’. O’Neil, H. Walk With Me, DrawSpace Gallery, Sydney. (2024). Exhibition & Workshop.

‘Positionality and Perspective: From where and for who?’. O’Neil, H. It’s Freezing in LA!. (2024). Writers Workshop.

Academic & Teaching Appointments

University of Technology, Sydney

  • Full-time Contracted Research Assistant, ARC Discovery Project Surfacing Urban Wetlands (2024-2027)

  • Visualisation Institute, HDR Lead (2026)

  • Studio leader, Visual Communication Narrative, Form and Time Module (2026)

  • Guest lecturer and field workshop lead, Swamp Studio, Landscape Architecture(2026)

  • Guest lecturer, Visual Communication, Type in Context (2025)

  • Academic Demonstrator, Visual Communication, Visual Narrative (2025)

  • Lecturer and Academic Tutor for Thinking Through Design, 2024

  • Academic Demonstrator for Narrative Form and Time, 2024

  • Lecturer and Studio Lead, Thinking Through Design (2024)

RMIT, Melbourne

  • Guest Lecturer, ‘Design Agency 4: Uncommon’ (2025)

Kingston School of Art, London

  • Guest lecturer for MA Illustration Animation, 2023

  • Guest lecturer for BA Illustration Animation 2019

Norwich University of the Arts

·      Guest lecturer for BA Illustration, 2023