Funded projects
Whether it鈥檚 the latest in AI, live performance, or technologies of perception in war and culture, our research delivers real-world benefits and impact.
Australian Creative Histories & Futures
Australian Creative Histories & Futures is a four-year research infrastructure initiative designed to strengthen Australia鈥檚 cultural data capabilities and build lasting digital systems. It supports the evolving research needs of the creative arts by enabling richer, more connected, and future-ready cultural knowledge.
Employment and enterprise of young migrant women
This ARC-funded project maps Southwest Sydney鈥檚 workforce and enterprise landscape to uncover opportunities for newly arrived migrant women. Drawing on community partnerships, it will co-create an online career hub to support long-term employment pathways and regional recovery.
Future Stories: Virtual reality for young people in hospital
Future Stories is an ARC-funded project creating co-designed virtual reality experiences to improve the hospital stay of young people aged 12鈥�21. By blending creativity and technology, it aims to reduce isolation, boredom and disconnection during long-term care.
Visualising Intercultural Futures: The role of performance in soft power
Visualising Intercultural Futures is a multimodal performance research project exploring how intercultural design can strengthen Australia鈥檚 soft power and cultural diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific. It focuses on reimagining communication practices amid environmental uncertainty and cultural complexity in the region.
Boosting Heritage Languages
This project investigates how Australia鈥檚 heritage languages are sustained or eroded across generations, and how public and digital environments shape this process. By examining the pressures and opportunities facing families, it aims to identify ways to strengthen intergenerational language maintenance.
The Critic Counts: Archiving Theatre Criticism Down Under聽
The Critic Counts is building a sustainable, open-access archive of theatre criticism from 1955鈥�2025 across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, preserving a vital record of how theatre cultures have been shaped. By centring the role of the critic, it offers new insights into cultural evolution, representation, and national memory.
Precarious Movements: Choreography & the Museum
Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum聽is a project that aims to bring artists, researchers and institutions into dialogue about best practice to support the choreographer and the museum, and to sustain momentum in theory and practice around dance and the visual arts.聽