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The Creative Industries Faculty has been successful in acquiring research funding through the National Competitive Grants Program of the Australian Research Council (ARC).

The ARC support discovery style research, collaborative research with industry, higher degree research training through scholarships, research-only career's through Fellowships as well as other research related activities.

Since its inception in 2001, the Faculty has secured over five million dollars in ARC funding for discovery and linkage projects as diverse as mapping the use of digital and online media to assist rural community development, reinventing the orchestra, and informing public policy on the emerging creative economy.

Current Research Grants
 

Awarded 2007

 

Sexual health promotion in Papua New Guinea: a community capacity building approach using drama based experiential learning methods

Linkage grant. Prof. Brad Haseman, Prof. D. Stewart, Dr E. Parker, Dr A. Hickling-Hudson

 

Remembering the past, imagining the future: Embedding narrative and new media in urban planning

Linkage grant. Prof. Greg Hearn, Dr Marcus Foth, Dr Bhishna Bajracharya, Prof. Kerry Mallan

 

Creative Suburbia: A critical evaluation of the scope for creative cultural development in Australia's suburban and peri urban communities

Discovery grant. AssocProf. Terry Flew, Prof. Phil Graham, Dr M.Gibson, Dr Christy Collis

 

New media voices in the Australian values debate

Discovery grant. Prof. Phil Graham, Prof. C. Luke, Dr Christina Spurgeon, Dr K. Weir, Dr E. Ferrier

 

Australian television and popular memory: new approaches to the cultural history of the media in the project of nation building

Discovery grant. DProf. John Hartley, Prof. Graham Turner, AssocProf. Alan McKee, Dr S. Turnbull, Dr C. Healy, Dr Joshua Green

 

Governance, human capital and regional investment in China's new creative clusters

Discovery grant. AssocProf. Michael Keane, Prof. Xiaomng Zhang

 

Engaging with Social Media in Museums

Linkage grant. Dr Angela Russo, Prof. Denise Meredyth, Ms LJ Kelly

 

Swarms in Urban Villages: New Media Design to Augment Social Networks of Residents in Inner‑City Developments

Linkage grant. Dr Marcus Foth, Prof. Greg Hearn, Prof. Paul Roe, Dr Christine Satchell

 

The uses of romance for new demographics and multimedia platforms: A model of media innovation in international women's fiction publishing

Linkage grant. DProf. John Hartley, Dr Glen Thomas, Mrs M Laforest, Dr Kelly McWilliam

 

Assessing communication for social change: A new agenda in impact assessment for communication for development initiatives

Linkage grant. AssocProf. Jo Tacchi, Dr Andrew Skuse

 

Opportunities of Media and Communication Technology to Support Social Networks of Urban Residents in Mexico, South Africa, UK and Australia

Linkage International Award. Dr Marcus Foth, Prof. William Dutton, Prof. Wallace Taylor, Dr Victor Gonzalez

 

Awarded 2006

 

60Sox: Developing a creative ecology as a community of practice: The pathway from training to profession in the digital content industries

Linkage grant. Prof. Stuart Cunningham, Prof. Greg Hearn, Prof. Hitendra Pillay, Justin Brow

 

 

   

Investigating innovative applications of digital media for participatory journalism and citizen engagement in Australian public communication

Linkage grant. AssocProf. Terry Flew, Prof. Stuart Cunningham, Dr Axel Bruns, Prof. Kay Saunders, Mr Graham Young, Mr Paul Vincent

 

 

   

Mapping the missing grassroots: Ethnographic action study of local grassroots broadband content (co)creation and consumption

Linkage grant. AssocProf. Jo Tacchi, Dr Axel Bruns, Dr David Rooney, Dr Elizabeth Ferrier, Dr Sal Humphreys, Prof. Philip Graham

       

New media in the urban village: Mapping communicative ecologies and socio-economic innovation in emerging inner-city residential developments

Discovery grant. Prof. Greg Hearn, Dr Steffen Lehmann, Dr Barbara Adkins, Dr Marcus Foth

       
Completed Research Grants      
       

Awarded 2006

     
       

The great transformation: Accounting for the shift from cultural institution to creative enterprise

Linkage International Fellowship. Dr Michael Keane, Prof. Xiaomng Zhang, Prof. Stephanie Donald

       

Awarded 2005

     
       

The 21st Century orchestra: Researching and developing sustainable models

Linkage grant. Prof. Andy Arthurs, Prof. Jennifer Radbourne, Mr Darren Clark

       

Finding a voice: Making technological change socially effective and culturally empowering

Linkage grant. AssocProf. Jo Tacchi, Prof. Stuart Cunningham, Prof. Hitendra Pillay, Dr Andrew Skuse

       

Awarded 2004

     
       

Researching, designing and evaluating online learning tools to effectively utilise audio-visual archives: Critical literacies through rich task tnteractivity

Linkage grant. Mr Richard Jones, Prof. Hitendra Pillay, Prof. Greg Hearn, Mr C. Warner, Ms D. Stephens, Mr D. Anderson

       

Talking Theatre: An audience development programme for regional Queensland and the Northern Territory

Linkage grant. Dr Jacqueline Martin, Prof Jennifer Radbourne, Prof. Brad Haseman, Dr Rebecca Scollen

 

 

   

Creative digital industries in Australia: Innovation in economic and qualitative mapping

Linkage grant. Prof. Stuart Cunningham, DProf. John Hartley, Prof. Greg Hearn, Prof.Jennifer Radbourne, Mr Ivan Catlin, Mr Stewart MacIntyre, Mr Mark Paddenburg Abbe Ninan, Peter Higgs, Stephen Cox, Sasha Lennon

 

 

   

Developing techniques for evolutionary music

Discovery grant. Dr Andrew Brown, Prof. Joachim Diederich, Mr Eduardo Miranda, Dr Rodney Berry

       

Awarded 2003

     
       

Youth Internet Radio Network: Ethnographic action research of an emerging media technology

Linkage grant. DProf. John Hartley, Prof. Greg Hearn

 

 

   

Investigating, prototyping and trialling interactive online youth counselling tools

Linkage grant: Prof. Stuart Cunningham, Dr Debra Beattie, Dr Robert King, Ms Wendy Reid

 

 

   

The unwritten history of Australian modernism

Linkage grant. Dr Andrew McNamara, Ms Ann Stephen, Prof Philip Goad

 

 

   

Internationalising creative industries: China, the WTO and the knowledge-based economy

Discovery grant. DProf. John Hartley, Dr Michael Keane, Prof. Stuart Cunningham, Prof. Stephanie Donald, AssocProf. Terry Flew, Dr Christina Spurgeon

       

Awarded 2002

     
       

Regional development of screen industries in the digital era: Prospects for the Northern Rivers region of NSW

Linkage grant. Prof. Stuart Cunningham, Dr Christina Spurgeon, Ms Katrina Luckie

 

 

   

Creative industries in Queensland: Cluster mapping and value-chain analysis

Linkage grant. Prof. Stuart Cunningham, DistProf. John Hartley, Prof. Greg Hearn, Prof. Jennifer Radbourne, Mr Ivan Catlin, Mr Stewart MacIntyre, Mr Mark Paddenburg, Lisa Hewson, Bret Mannison