1999-2006. UWA Chief Investigator on the Management Committee for the National Electronic Facility to Promote Research into Australian Performing Arts - AusStage - set up in November, 1999. Participating institutions: Flinders University, Univ. of Queensland, Univ. of New South Wales, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Univ. of New England, Univ. of Newcastle, La Trobe Univ. University of Western Australia.

Dr Stephen Chinna is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. As well as teaching in numerous areas of English and Cultural Studies, his major teaching and research interests have been in theatre and performance studies as well as creative writing for the stage and screen. He has directed over thirty theatre productions, including nine Early Modern plays

Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre and performance.
Creative writing for stage and screen.
Postmodern and modern theatre praxis.