Not a single creative practice research project has been funded in the recent Discovery Early Career Research Awards. Under ‘Creative Arts and Writing’, 1 project is listed: Dr Claire Henry’s project on ‘the consumption of sexual violence on screen’. Congratulations to Doctor Henry (Flinders University, SA), and all other recipients of the Award for their worthy projects.
It would be interesting to reflect on the spread of the funded projects according to discipline and ask the question why Arts research appears to be irrelevant. Our latest issue of Creative Matters, Art and Australia’s Climate Disaster, speaks to at least some of the reasons why creative practice research should, indeed, be very much on the government’s radar.
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