Research Students

The current research student cohort is composed of a small number of students who receive direct support from the CCI budget either through project-based budget allocations, and a larger number who are associated with the centre through being supervised in fields within the Centre’s projects by Chief Investigators and staff of the Centre.

Training for RHD students and ECRs in the centre takes a variety of forms. Each student has access to a range of training programs offered through the participating academic units, including highly participative seminar series where work-in-progress and candidates’ milestone presentations are delivered. For example, students and ECRs at the node at Swinburne University are part of the Tier One Institute for Social Research. RHDs are treated as full members of the ISR’s research programs and benefit from the ISR’s connections with national and international research networks.

CCI/iCi Scholarships

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) and Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation (iCi) are offering fully-funded and top-up scholarships for students enrolled in/or enrolling in Masters by research or PhD programs.

Successful candidates will work with some of Australia’s leading researchers on cutting-edge, cross disciplinary problems of national and international significance, including in areas such as:

* media and communication studies, especially relating to new digital content industries
* law, especially intellectual property
* business, and innovation policy studies
* economics and finance, especially evolutionary economics
* education, especially the transition of creative practice graduates/trainees into careers
* information technology, especially business process management

Scholarships are available to students enrolling at:

* Queensland University of Technology
* Swinburne University of Technology
* Edith Cowan University
* University of Wollongong

The broad research agenda of the Centre and Institute is expressed through thematic programs:

Crisis in Innovation

* the shortcomings of statistical understandings of the digital content and broader creative industries, and trace the way creative inputs are becoming more thoroughly embedded in the wider economy

Creative Workforce

* the modelling and testing of how both formal and less formal learning environments can be oriented to build creative capacity in an environment characterised by innovation and risk; an increasing impact of knowledge and creativity on the economy; globalisation; and new technologies

Citizen Consumer

* the shift towards the consumer in the content value-chain and scopes longer term opportunities arising from wider uptake of digital television and broadband.

Enterprise Formation and Sustainability

* the key gaps in the creative innovation system, including research-based evidence on what is needed for creative professionals to form enterprises at a level of sustainability above that of the sole artist

Legal and Regulatory Impasses and Innovation

* the integration of law, business, education and other disciplinary domains to analyse the creative pathways to market; and clear impediments in regulation, intellectual property and business systems.

International Creative Content Cultures and Australian Advantage

* Many research projects aim to enhance the international profile of Australian research while working intensively on several projects with regional and global reach.

More Information:
For academic advice, please email Professor Stuart Cunningham, CCI Director, at s.cunningham@qut.edu.au or Professor Greg Hearn, iCi Director, at g.hearn@qut.edu.au.

For application advice, please email Jodie Rapley at j.rapley@qut.edu.au.