Funded projects

Australian Creative Histories & Futures is a four-year research infrastructure initiative designed to strengthen Australia’s 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.

This ARC-funded project maps Southwest Sydney’s 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 is an ARC-funded project creating co-designed virtual reality experiences to improve the hospital stay of young people aged 12–21. By blending creativity and technology, it aims to reduce isolation, boredom and disconnection during long-term care.

Visualising Intercultural Futures is a multimodal performance research project exploring how intercultural design can strengthen Australia’s soft power and cultural diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific. It focuses on reimagining communication practices amid environmental uncertainty and cultural complexity in the region.

This project investigates how Australia’s 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 is building a sustainable, open-access archive of theatre criticism from 1955–2025 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.