NiTRO + Creative Matters

Perspectives on creative arts in higher education

Editorial

NO ART
EDITED BY JESSICA CARMODY, EMMA LIVESEY-GREEN AND SARAH MOULD — Since the publication of our call for submissions in 2025, the debate around art-making and arts research in Australia has only grown louder. As a guest editorial team made up of Higher Degree Researchers and creative practitioners in the arts
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IN THE PRACTICE OF MAKING CHANGE
  • CHLOE CANNELL, JULIETTE SAUVAGE, KENDREA RHODES, L. NICOL CABE
REVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS IN CREATIVE PRACTICE RESEARCH AT THE CONVERGENCE OF CRITICAL, CREATIVE, THEORETICAL, AND ACADEMIC SPACES
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Risk in the Institution
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 fainthearted.
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Persistence and Resilience through Creative Arts Practice
EDITED BY GUY KEULEMANS and SMILJANA GLISOVIC — 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 management.
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DDCA National Forum on evaluation of creative practice research
BY SMILJANA GLISOVIC — On August 9, 2024 the DDCA held a National Forum to generate discussion on the shape of the future of creative practice research in Australia (and beyond). The particular focus of the event was on research evaluation and assessment, chosen because of the current reviews of
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Art and Australia’s Climate Disaster
GUEST EDITOR JANE W. DAVIDSON — Extreme weather events have been experienced in so-called Australia for millennia. This settler painting shows the terror and chaos captured by William Strutt in a depiction of Black Thursday, February 6th 1851 (painted in 1864 and now part of the State Library of Victoria’s
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Editorial
BY Carina Böhm, Didem Caia, Clare Carlin, Emilie Collyer, Ruth Fogarty
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From the Archives
BY SMILJANA GLISOVIC — With the first edition for the year we’re going into the NiTRO archives to trace how some of the key concerns of the last 12 months have developed since the start of the DDCA publication.
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Thriving Futures + Leadership
SMILJANA GLISOVIC—This edition of NiTRO Creative Matters takes its theme from this year’s DDCA annual symposium Thrive, with an attendant interest in Leadership. For some time the DDCA Board and membership have been discussing the necessary relationship between thriving and leadership, identifying that for creative practice researchers to continue to
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Showcasing + Reporting Creative Practice Research Outputs

Edited by Smiljana Glisovic With this edition we are continuing the conversation around research reporting and assessment of creative practice research outputs. The first thing to say is that the focus on measurement, accounting, and evaluating is not the only conversation to be having, and that in order to get

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