Tully Barnett is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She has a DECRA Fellowship for a project looking at digitisation as a cultural practice. In addition, she is a Chief Investigator for the ARC Linkage project Laboratory Adelaide: The Value of Culture looking for qualitative and quantitative methodologies for measuring and reporting the intangible and non-financial benefits of cultural activities, institutions and events, with collaborators Julian Meyrick and Robert Phiddian. She serves on the advisory board of the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC) and the executive committee of the Australasian Assocation of Digital Humanities (aaDH).