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
UQP Non-fiction Incubator
Transforming academic research into compelling stories for mainstream readers. The non-fiction incubator teaches scholars narrative storytelling while challenging traditional academic metrics of success.
My Future Town
Under the guidance of acclaimed author Dr Isobelle Carmody, young visionaries are reimagining the future of their regional towns, blending environmental concerns with hopeful new ideas.
Songify your Day
Through collaborative songwriting workshops that boost social connection and well-being, non-English speakers are turning memories of home into powerful cross-cultural melodies.
CREATE Lab
This high-tech creative media-arts hub aims to transform how researchers explore immersive experiences while bridging gaps between academia and community.
High School Survival Guide
Through making zines, young people facing transition to high school are learning to see themselves as authors of their own futures rather than statistics in the youth crime narrative.
Community Publishing in Regional Australia
Digital publishing is sparking a literary revolution across regional Australia, empowering communities to tell their own stories without relying on big city publishers.
Community Publishing in Regional Australia
Gender, Translation and Ancient Greek tragedy
DECRA-awarded Emma Cole is creating bold new translations of ancient Greek plays while documenting the systemic barriers that have limited women's voices in theatrical translation.
Gender, Translation and Ancient Greek tragedy
WhatIF Lab
This innovative lab transcends traditional analytical approaches by using imagination and creative arts to unite researchers across disciplines.
Leaders
- Director: Kim Wilkins
- Deputy Director: Caroline Graham
Steering Committee
- Helen Marshall
- Liam Viney
- Alex Tuite
- Julie McWilliams
- Fiona Foley
- Timothy Kastelle
- Kate O’Brien
- Mel Kopanakis
- Carody Culver (Griffith Review)
Affiliated Researchers
- Janet Wiles
- Genevieve Dingle
- Bernadette Cochrane
- Stephen Viller
- Eve Klein
- Venero Armanno
- Julie Ballantyne
- Skye Doherty
- Caroline Wilson-Barnao
- Leah Henrickson
- Richard Newsome
- Rebecca Olson
- Richard Murray
- Peta Rake
- Pauline Pounds
- Stephen Carleton
- Fiona Foley
- Benjamin Pope
- Mary Broughton
- Maggie Nolan
- Alex Bevan
- Heather Zwicker
- Anna Briers
- Robert Davidson
- Andrea Bubenik
- Tom Doig
- Isobelle Carmody
- Nat Collie
- Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox
- Emma Cole
Contact us
Get in touch to learn more about our research.
Professor Kim Wilkins
Director