Perspectives on creative arts in higher education

Awards

The DDCA Awards are designed to acknowledge and celebrate outstanding contributions to creative arts, elevate and share best practice, and encourage and promote the next generation of creative arts leaders in research and education. The Awards promote diversity and recognise contributions and achievements by First Nations creatives, as well as

1. Distinguished Australian First Nations Creative Leadership Award WINNER: Professor Melitta Hogarth Highly commended NIDA’s First Nations Unit: Mr Travis Cardona, Ms Rhoda Roberts AO, Mr Matthew Doyle, Ms Andrea Daniels, National Institute of Dramatic Art 2. Distinguished Innovation in Creative Arts Award WINNERS: Dr Shannon Owen & Assoc. Prof Donna

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

We are delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural DDCA Awards. Congratulations go to the following individuals whose work stood out to our judges. Distinguished Australian First Nations Creative Leadership Award Winner: WARRABA WEATHERALL (Griffith University) Warraba Weatherall is a Kamilaroi visual artist, Lecturer at Griffith University and PhD

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

NEW DEADLINE: MONDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2024 For those of you who are close but not quite finished preparing your submissions for the DDCA Awards, we have good news! We will be extending today’s submission deadline for one week. The new deadline will be next Monday 9th September (COB). Categories, prize

THE INAUGURAL DDCA AWARDS 2024 The Australian Council of the Deans and Directors of Creative Arts wishes to acknowledge contributions to creative arts in higher education across Australia. To support this, we are launching the inaugural DDCA Awards. The DDCA Awards are comprised of the following five categories:  1. Distinguished

We have extended the deadline for the call out for nominations for the 2023 ACUADS Grant and Awards Scheme. Nominations are due by the extended deadline: Wednesday 13th September 2023. ACUADS Grant and Awards Scheme information 2023 ACUADS Grant scheme One grant of up to $5000 AUD will be awarded this year. Submissions are open to individuals or

Congratulations to DDCA Board member Professor Craig Batty who was named by as top researcher in the field of film in The Australian’s 2021 Research Magazine list of 250 best researchers. Congratulations also to Professor Denise Ferris who received a Lifetime Achievement award at the recent ACUADS conference.

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) is inviting entries for its arts writing and publishing awards to recognise the best in arts writing and research across the region. The categories include prizes for books, exhibition catalogues, artist led publications, Indigenous Australian, Maori and Pasifika art writing. The