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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

Calissa, with long blonde hair and black button-up top is pictured through a bookshelf
Calissa’s romantic affair with creative writing
29 Aug

UniSC student and emerging author Calissa Baylow is turning her passion for romance and fantasy into a career through creative writing, publishing studies, and building her own online book community

Adam Hindmarsh behind a camera next to his friend and colleague Robbie getting ready to record his band Nana's Pie in the UniSC recording studio
Adam Hindmarsh gives up the recipe for Nana's Pie creative success
12 Aug

From jamming in a van by the beach to playing packed-out shows with Nana’s Pie, Adam Hindmarsh has built a creative career fuelled by passion, persistence and good people

Shark tales, a sinking city and a breathless cop thriller: what to watch in August
6 Aug

This month’s streaming highlights bring a little bit of everything, from gripping true crime, to thought-provoking political drama, and a nostalgic music documentary on the life and times of piano man Billy Joel