Institute for Culture and Society

Queensland University of Technology – 8 July 2013

University of Western Sydney – 12 July 2013

Beyond the Campus: Connecting Knowledge and Creative Practice Communities across Higher Education and the Creative Economy

AHRC Connected Communities Research Network

These two Australian workshops aim to explore the experience and modes of engagement in between higher education and the creative economy in Australia. They will specifically focus on case studies, research and reflections from Australia and will offer the opportunity for to share comparative reflections in dedicated workshops taking place in Brisbane and in Sydney.

Themes that will be central (but not exclusive) to these workshops are:

• Knowledge exchange and collaborations between artists and arts organisations and higher education;
• The role of creative graduates and skills in the Australia creative sector;
• Internships, placements, residencies and other employability opportunities for creative graduates;
• Partnerships between public arts organisations and higher education;
• The role of higher education spaces, networks and platforms to  support the creative economy;
• Cultural regeneration and participation and higher education;
• The engaged academic as bridge between the creative economy and  higher education;
• The role of higher education in promoting arts & culture;
• Dynamics of physical and socio-cultural regeneration promoted by  higher education institutions.