Creative Industries and the Development Agenda

Congratulations to John Hartley, Distinguished Professor at QUT and Research Director at CCI, for his recent Member of the Order of Australia (AM) award announced last Monday in the Queens Birthday honours list.

Vice-Chancellor Peter Coaldrake has recently approved the award for the title of Distinguished Professor to Professor Stuart Cunningham in recognition of his outstanding achievements as a leading researcher and his contribution to humanities both nationally and internationally.

The announcement also notes the award also recognises his eminence in leading both the successful bid and a subsequent re-bid, for Australia's only ARC Centre of Excellence in the Humanities arena.

The CCI annual report for 2008 is now available to download as a PDF. Or if you would like to receive a print copy please email infocci@qut.edu.au to request a copy.

PLATFORM Journal of Media & Communication is an international peer review journal featuring postgraduate work in the field of Media and

Communication. PLATFORM is an online journal available at

http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/index.html

As part of our efforts to promote the work of promising emerging scholars in the field, we would like to invite you to nominate your postgraduate students as guest author for our inaugural issue, to be published in June 2009.

Three visits to Sri Lanka and India are planned as the foundation for the ‘Moving Content’ project. The research team aims to develop the concept of creative engagement with ICT by conducting in-depth interviews with a cross-section of creative users and producers in underserved communities. Tacchi and Watkins will present interim project findings to Intel Research in June.

Jo Tacchi and Jerry Watkins were invited by Intel Research to conduct a one-week workshop at their headquarters in Portland, Oregon. An extremely intensive exchange of research and ideas laid a strong foundation for an ongoing relationship between Intel and CCI. The workshop culminated in a major presentation on ‘Creative Engagement for Digital Inclusion’, presented to Intel’s main Portland campus.