Rate My Professor Welby Ings

His academic interests focus on narrative structure and design in short film and music video, pedagogical approaches to practice-led artistic inquiry, and education, with a particular emphasis on narrative design in postgraduate research encompassing film, graphic novels, creative writing, and world building. Ings is an acclaimed filmmaker whose short film Boy (2005) won the John O’Shea Award for Best New Zealand Short Film, was long-listed for the 2006 Academy Awards, and garnered international accolades including Best International Film at Berlin Interfilm. Munted (2011) received the Grand Jury Award at Regensburg Film Festival among others. His debut feature Punch (2022) was selected as a New York Times Critic's Pick. Major publications include Disobedient Teaching: Surviving and Creating Change in Education (2017, Otago University Press), Invisible Intelligence (2025), Drawings from a Fictional Man (2010), and Munted: Screenplay and Director’s Notes (2010). He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on topics including supervision of practice-led design theses, craft thinking in graphic design, and supporting queer postgraduate students. Awards include the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence and NZ Government Award for Sustained Tertiary Teaching Excellence (both 2002), AUT University Medal for contributions to Education and Research (2013), and Student Union Award for Best Postgraduate Supervisor (2013). An elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Ings consults internationally on creativity and innovation.