Gain expertise in a specialised area of creativity
Pursue an advanced research project in an area of drama, screen, digital media, or creative writing and engage in innovative creative practices that expand our experience and knowledge of the cultural and social world.
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Master of Arts (Research)
Duration: 2 years
Delivery mode:
In person
Location:
Bedford Park
CRICOS code: 106282D
Annual fees:
2023: $34,600
Doctor of Philosophy (Arts)
Duration: 4 years
Delivery mode:
In Person
Location:
Bedford Park
CRICOS code: 106265E
Annual fees:
2023: $34,600
Why undertake a PhD in Creative and Performing Arts
A PhD gained in Creative or Performing Arts at Flinders provides a wide range of skills valued in all types of organisations and careers. It will enhance your creative practice, analytical and communication skills, provide you with skills to quickly learn new concepts and adapt to change, and enhance your time management, organisation and resilience skills.
A PhD is a stepping stone to a career as an artist, a professional researcher in the public sector, think tanks, charities, universities, and private corporations. Individuals with PhDs in creative or performing arts are highly sought after for various professions in public and private organisations and have found roles in writing, the public service, consulting, advising, teaching and publishing.
Flinders Creative and Performing Arts academic staff include several award-winning writers, and are recognised as leaders in their fields both in Australia and globally for their theoretical and practice-led research. Our academic supervisors draw on their extensive knowledge and exciting research in the areas of creative writing, theatre production, drama and screen critical studies.
Professor Chris Hay (Research Section Head) | Australian theatre and cultural history, contemporary drama, directing, actor training, Eurovision Song Contest. |
Dr Ali Gumillya Baker | Indigenous art theory and criticism, Indigenous histories and colonialism, memory, visual sovereignty, visual and performance art, cultural studies. |
Associate Professor Lisa Bennett | Novel writing, fiction writing, speculative fiction, contemporary Australian genre fiction, myths and mythology, and Vikings in history, literature and popular culture |
Associate Professor Julia Erhart | Women screen practitioners, LGBTQ+ self-representation, documentary and factual media (including documentary duration and the documentary ‘event’), cinema memory and the archive, Australian media, media ethics |
Dr Nicholas Godfrey | Hollywood cinema, film aesthetics, film distribution, Australian cinema, Asian cinema |
Associate Professor Natalie Harkin | Decolonising state archives, and engaging archival-poetic methods to research and document Aboriginal women’s domestic service stories and labour histories in South Australia. |
Dr Sean Williams | Speculative fiction in short and long forms |
Dr Amy Matthews | Fiction writing (novels and short stories), genre fiction, historical fiction, holocaust representation, popular romance studies, film and television, literary theory |
Dr Sarah Peters | Verbatim theatre, collaborative theatre making, playwriting, dramaturgy |
Professor Simone Tur | Cultural studies |
Dr Alex Vickery-Howe | Political storytelling, intercultural storytelling, myth and fantasy, and emerging audiences. |
Professor Tully Barnett | Interdisciplinary research into investigating ways of valuing art and culture beyond econometrics, and digitisation as a cultural practice. |
Dr Christopher Hurrell | Shakespeare, musical theatre, directing, dramaturgy, actor training. |
Dr Claire Henry | Contemporary cinema, the representation and regulation of sex and violence on screen, and genre and auteur studies. |
Dr Lauren Woolbright | Game design, interaction design, inclusive design practices, media theory, digital storytelling, and environmental communication. |
Dr Renato Mussolino | Acting, actor training, psycho-physical training, Laban Movement Analysis, embodiment, yoga, Active Analysis, Movement Analysis. |
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