So what do you do? Graduates in the Creative and Cultural Industries. This project plans to analyse national graduate employment in Australia’s creative and cultural industries, and compare the utility of 'creative' and 'cultural' models for tracking employment outcomes. Although the image of work in the creative and cultural industries is attractive to students and course planners alike, international evidence suggests graduates face very poor employment prospects. The project plans to use a pr ....So what do you do? Graduates in the Creative and Cultural Industries. This project plans to analyse national graduate employment in Australia’s creative and cultural industries, and compare the utility of 'creative' and 'cultural' models for tracking employment outcomes. Although the image of work in the creative and cultural industries is attractive to students and course planners alike, international evidence suggests graduates face very poor employment prospects. The project plans to use a proven model for mapping creative graduates to compare the value of creative degrees for the creative workforce in two nations, Australia and the United Kingdom; and to use sophisticated quantitative analysis of national datasets and interviews to produce a comprehensive study of creative graduate work.Read moreRead less
Promoting the making self in the creative micro-economy. The project aims to analyse a new workplace phenomenon: not simply the negotiation of work-life or public-private boundaries, but their deliberate collapse. Focussing on handmade creative micro-enterprise, it aims to identify the 'self-making' skills for success in the competitive 'long tail' craft marketplace. By examining the soft skills required to engage in online retail, the research aims to identify ways of improving the ability of c ....Promoting the making self in the creative micro-economy. The project aims to analyse a new workplace phenomenon: not simply the negotiation of work-life or public-private boundaries, but their deliberate collapse. Focussing on handmade creative micro-enterprise, it aims to identify the 'self-making' skills for success in the competitive 'long tail' craft marketplace. By examining the soft skills required to engage in online retail, the research aims to identify ways of improving the ability of creative Australians to run a micro-enterprise. It endeavours to advance the knowledge base of interdisciplinary scholarship on creative industries, cultural work, and on the impact of social media upon work/life relationships and personal privacy and identity construction.Read moreRead less