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Associate Professor in Art History Victoria Uni Wellington

Victoria University in Wellington NZ is inviting applications for a continuing position of Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in Art History, located in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies. The successful applicant will be expected to develop new areas of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level and enhance the potential for future interdisciplinary teaching collaborations across the Faculty, the wider University and relevant external communities.

Applications close on 8 November 2019. Further details can be found at: https://ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/job/1000064/?utm_medium=jobshare

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Funding conversation continues…

Jenny Sinclair writing for Research Professional News… “Researchers call for longer project and fellowship grants” “The academy’s Early and Mid-Career Researcher Forum made its own submission, saying it has concerns about “whether the proposed scheme will provide sustainable career pathways”. The forum said the plan fails to distinguish between new PhD holders, later-stage researchers and […]

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2025 DDCA Awards Launched

The Australian Council of the Deans and Directors of Creative Arts is delighted to open submissions for our 2025 Awards! The DDCA Awards are designed to acknowledge and celebrate contributions to creative arts, elevate and share best practice, and encourage and promote the next generation of creative arts leaders in research and education.  Winners will […]

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DDCA Board Member Samantha Bennett wins ACGR award

Professor Samantha Bennett wins the 2025 Australian Council of Graduate Research Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Leadership A significant part of Samantha’s work is around broadening the PhD format to recognise creative practice research in HDR. Read more @ ANU…

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The National Advocates for Arts Education

The National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE) is a network of peak national professional arts and arts education associations who represent arts educators across Australia. NAAE’s advocacy activity has included the Creative Arts and Arts Education: A National Tertiary Snapshot (2018–2025): a list of Creative Arts and Arts Education courses, majors and units that have […]

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Risky Business…

Our next Creative Matters edition on RISK will include a special section of your responses to the following questions: 1. How does the increasing bureaucratisation and brand-safeguarding against risk in the neo-liberalised university curtail creative and intellectual experimentation, and what strategies might creative practitioners in academia employ to resist this institutional anxiety? 2. What role can artistic and […]

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“New research lays bare the harsh realities facing artists and arts workers”

Marnie Badham in The Conversation “Our four-year study reveals workers are abandoning the visual art sector, largely because of unstable employment, below-average salaries and a lack of support. We present findings from the largest academic surveys of artists and arts workers to-date – the first conducted in 2022 (more than 700 respondents) and the second […]

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