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Dr. Simon Order serves as a Lecturer in the Office of Learning, Teaching and Technology within Murdoch University's Education Portfolio, where he functions as a Learning Advisor specializing in academic research, curriculum development, presentations, academic writing, arts and design, educational leadership, audio, sound, and film. He concurrently holds the position of Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication, which is part of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Order obtained his PhD from Murdoch University in 2013, with the thesis titled "Community radio in Western Australia: Notions of value," supervised by Gail Phillips and Andrew Turk. He also holds an MSc.

Order's research specializations encompass radio studies, community radio, sound production, music technology, audio production, and media analyses including identity performance during COVID-19 and representations of violence in popular culture such as zombie narratives. With 19 publications and 67 citations on ResearchGate, key works include "The Altruism of Community Radio?" (2013), "'ICreate': Preliminary usability testing of apps for the music technology classroom" (2015), "The liminal music studio: between the geographical and the virtual" (2016), "Remixing Creativity in Learning and Learning of Creativity: A Case Study of Audio Remix Practice with Undergraduate Students" (2017), "The Vision Impaired as a Radio Audience: Meeting Their Audio Needs in the 21st Century" (2021), "Performing Identity in the Era of COVID-19" (2022), "Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora: The case of AMC’s The Walking Dead" (2024), and "The everyday experiences of female electric vehicle owners: insights from Western Australia" (2025). Additional contributions feature book chapters like "Almost 100 Years of Women in Radio: Where Are We Now?" (2020). His career history includes serving as Senior Lecturer in Radio and Sound at Murdoch University's School of Arts and as Academic Director of Media and Mass Communications for Murdoch University in Dubai. Order remains an active professional practitioner in electronic music production.