About Studying With Us
The Creative Placemaking and Social Impact Research Group offers HDR research supervision that is focussed on real world problems and solutions, working collaboratively with communities to co-create and deliver transformative projects with impact and legacy for our partners. The investigators in the research group already have a track record of creative innovation and impactful research to build upon to deliver value and outcomes of benefit for the organisations and communities. This includes exploring and developing transformative technological approaches to engaging with communities, particularly regional and remote communities; to create collaborative, inclusive, arts-led data collection methods to allow for multiple perspectives and visual/narrative/oral/embodied languages to share experiences; end-user developed frameworks to assess impact and expand our understanding of evaluation and to experiment with virtual and remote avenues for creating in and out of place and to disseminate findings between locations.
We work across the creative disciplines of creative writing, music, drama, music and visual arts and have active transdisciplinary collaborations within the fields of health, design, education and science.
Current areas of research
- Arts based community engagement processes
- Arts and health research
- Innovative audience engagement and curatorial practices in cultural institutions
- First Nations knowledges and interventions into arts, cultural and social practices
- Narrative based communication and social impact
Contact Us
Please contact A/Prof Donna Hancox (d.hancox@qut.edu.au) or A/Prof Sandra Gattenhof (s.gattenhof@qut.edu.au) for further information.