School of Culture and Communication

• Art History and Art Curatorship

  The Art History and Art Curatorship program researches and develops knowledge in the history art. Evidence-based critical thinking and visual and aesthetic literacy prepares students for a richer engagement with the world.

• Arts and Cultural Management

  The Arts and Cultural Management program explores the tension between culture as an economic activity and culture as symbolic expression through four key themes – organisations, governance, identity and labour.

• Creative Writing

  Creative Writing is a medium used to communicate, resist, provoke and seek or find understanding. Our research investigates the artistic, historical, cultural and societal impacts of the written word.

• English and Theatre Studies

  English and Theatre Studies is a combined program that focuses on the form, meanings and effects of imaginative writing and dramatic performance, and explains how these practices engage with the everyday world.

• Gender Studies

  Our program explores the significance of gender and sexuality on a range of discourses embedded within culture, identity and global history.

• Indigenous Studies

  Indigenous Studies is an interdisciplinary program that offers teaching and learning, and research activities that critically engage with the history, knowledge and cultures of Indigenous peoples both in Australia and globally.

• Journalism

  Our program is focused on preparing graduates for careers in rapidly changing media landscapes. We offer practice-based courses enabling our students to learn many journalistic skills by doing journalism, at a high standard, for real audiences.

• Media and Communications

  Our program conducts cutting-edge research to understand how the flow of data, ideas, personal stories, and formats have shaped our culture and society.

• Publishing and Communications

  The Publishing and Communications program researches current issues in the publishing industry and educates the publishers and editors of tomorrow.

• Screen and Cultural Studies

  Our program examines the history and practice of contemporary culture and screen media. Our research looks at the production, aesthetics, circulation, consumption and uses of screen media and cultures.

Research collaborations

Our research collaborations bring together experts who are internationally recognised leaders in their fields.

• Asian Cultural Research Hub (ACRH)

  ACRH fosters a local, national and international scholarly community for PhD students and Early Career Researchers working on Asia-related cultural studies research.

• Child and Family Mediascape Research Group (CFMRG)

  A collaboration between scholars from media studies and book publishing studies to address key challenges faced by children and their families in today’s rapidly changing media context.

• CODED AESTHETICS

  CODED AESTHETICS explores sense-making through human-machine entanglement.

• Communicative Cities

  A platform for strategic research projects and tactical interventions into the issues transforming public culture.

• Critique, Creativity, Innovation

  A collaboration exploring the diverse histories and possible futures of creativity and critique.

• Critical Fashion Studies

  A collective uniting scholars, practitioners and industry to advance research on fashion sustainability and ethics.

• History, Memory and Decolonial Futures

  The History, Memory and Decolonial Futures Research Collective advances and promotes multidisciplinary research on the social efforts to dismantle colonial and settler colonial power structures to create decolonial futures.

• Human Rights and Animal Ethics Research Network

  An interdisciplinary network researching into transformations in response to Human-Animal Studies (HAS).

• Postnational Art Histories

  A network of scholars developing major projects that rethink the paradigms of national art history.