Perspectives on creative arts in higher education

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The Australian Film, Television and Radio School’s (AFTRS) Digital Futures Summit 2026 – Regenerate – was an invitation to reimagine the screen and audio industries as living ecosystems. In this framing, regeneration is not merely about sustainability or resilience; it is about active restoration, ecological enhancement and systemic transformation. With

Creative Practice Researchers in the Making Postgraduate peer-reviewed edition of Creative Matters Guest edited by Jessica Carmody, Emma Livesey-Green and Sarah Mould Call for submissions NOW CLOSED “Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we

Academic teaching staff at Australian higher education institutions are invited to contribute to a national study exploring how institutions support inclusive and equitable teaching, learning, curriculum, and assessment.  Participation involves completing a short, anonymous 10-15 minute survey.   This study is funded by the Australian Centre for Student Equity in

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

In the practice of making change: revolutionary dynamics in creative practice research at the convergence of critical, creative, theoretical, and academic spaces Postgraduate peer-reviewed edition of Creative Matters Guest-edited by Nicol Cabe, Chloe Cannell, Kendrea Rhodes and Juliette Sauvage In the university context creative practice research combines artistic practices and

Guest edited by David Cross and Cameron Bishop Perhaps it is appropriate that the etymology of risk is caught between two competing meanings. The Italian word risco loosely translates to cliff which implies that negotiating said cliff is not for the feint hearted. There is another school of thought however that risk

The Heart of the Experiment (and the art of failure). Editor: Michael Francis Duch, co-editor Tale Næss. “In this edition of VIS we would like to pay attention to experimental art practices and artistic research where the experiment is at the heart of the practice and the main pulse of

Inclusion + diversity in higher education learning + teaching in the creative arts The past decade has seen increasing attention placed on the inclusion of diversity in higher education, but evidence of actual progress from the academic and student experience seems less apparent than claims of intent made by university

FINDINGS is a biennial peer-reviewed journal of practice-based exegetical writing by Australian art and design postgraduates. FINDINGS is published by the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) in PDF and ePub formats, in collaboration with The Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) and

The DDCA is very pleased to announce an annual Creative Practice Researchers in the Making PEER-REVIEWED edition of Creative Matters. This is an opportunity for creative practice research POSTGRADUATE candidates to gain peer-review, editorial and/or publication experience on a research publication focused on creative practice. SEE FULL GUIDELINES APPLY TO