Humanities Research Priorities
Curtin University’s vision is to be a recognised international leader in research by 2030. At the heart of this vision is a commitment to research that changes minds, lives, and the world.
The Faculty of Humanities comprises four Schools: Built Environment; Design and Art; Education; and Media, Culture and Creative Arts. This creates a distinctive research setting, in which social, cultural, and creative research is in dialogue with technical and scientific research. The Faculty is guided by the principle that real-world problems, if they call for solutions that are technically innovative and cost-effective, also call for solutions that are socially and culturally informed, critical, creative, and sustainable.
Accordingly, we have three research priority areas:
Creative, cultural, and critical inquiry
- creative production as research
- media, communication and cultural studies
- applied cultural and social research
- cultural histories and futures
- critical theories and practices
New knowledge environments
- using new tools and environments to analyse data and evidence
- building digital solutions for productivity and sustainability
- imagining the future of education
- creating new kinds of art
- rethinking interdisciplinary cultural research
- transforming research communication with new media
Sustainability
- sustainable development
- sustainable cities
- sustainable building
- sustainability and productivity
Our special-focus fields of research are:
- Building (FoR 1202);
- Urban and regional planning (FoR 1205);
- Specialist studies in education (FoR 1303);
- Communication and media studies (FoR 2001);
- Cultural studies (FoR 2002).
Faculty research and creative production staff also work in applied linguistics, architecture, creative writing, curriculum and pedagogy, design, geography, history and heritage, information studies, international relations, internet studies, journalism, language studies, literary studies, performance, policy studies, religious studies, screen arts, and visual arts.
