Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing

Our favourite art works function as "load-bearing columns in the architecture of our souls" (Pawelski, 2022). 

The Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing seeks to explore this idea of creative arts as a good in itself, something that matters beyond quantifiable measures, and contributes to a range of types of well-being in humans: physical, mental, social, spiritual, and intellectual. We aim to gather, activate, and promote creative arts capacity at UQ, for intellectual inquiry, mission-based impact, and community connection. We are outward facing, seeking to collaborate across Faculties for research, engagement, and impact in Queensland and beyond.

Our vision and values 

Our vision is big, bold, brilliant creative-arts-led research and engagement, locally and globally.

Our values are as follows:

• We recognise the transformative potential of arts
• We embrace amateur and elite practice
• We enrich the society that supports us