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Creative industries

The School of Business and Creative Industries has a diverse range of expert disciplinary researchers in Creative Writing, Literature, Screen, Theatre, Performance, Media Studies and Music. Disciplines are informed by UNESCO’s Cultural and Creative Industries framework.

Research focus

Focusing predominantly on the fields of Creative Arts and Writing (ANZSRC 36) and Language, Communication and Culture (ANZSCR 47), our dynamic research agenda encompasses:

  • Media industry research including the creation, dissemination and impact of creative works, objects and actions
  • The sociological, economic, political, ethical and philosophical impacts and implications of creative ecologies and economies, and
  • Creative practice itself.

Disciplinary expertise connects with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research in Health, Law, Science and Education using traditional and creative practice research methods in its methodological understanding and interrogation of the 21st Century episteme. Research goals include:

  • Exploring the cultural, social and economic significance of creative practice and creative industries, informing policy at a national level
  • Prioritising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and practice through appropriate and considered consultation
  • Building capacity in regional Australia through creative practice research
  • Diversifying the impact of creative practice through interdisciplinarity, and
  • Innovating industry though internationally recognised project outcomes.

Researcher profiles

News

Adolescence is a technical masterpiece that exposes the darkest corners of incel culture and male rage
20 Mar

Drawing inspiration from the United Kingdom’s knife crime epidemic, the rise of incel culture and the brutality of online bullying – Adolescence is being hailed as a technical masterpiece for it's continuous filming style, along with it's brutal portrayal of the widening chasm between parents and their teenage children

Miss Earth Jessica Lane
Amplifying her voice to protect the planet
11 Dec 2024

As newly crowned Miss Earth, Jessica Lane has found the global platform she’s been searching for – one the UniSC Journalism student is determined to use to convince others to join her mission for a sustainable future.

Design students fast-tracked into $80 billion industry via on-campus studio
26 Nov 2024

A global virtual reality design studio based on-campus at the UniSC is now fast-tracking students into an $80 billion industry