Looking forward to this year's Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium and its focus on the Humanities & Creative Practice. It is my great honour to be chairing the final panel 'Challenges and the future'. For more information check out: humanities.org.au/events/sympo...

It's been a while coming so truly excited to see this article now out, again free to access: 'The artisanal imaginaries of contemporary production' co-authored with fabulous project colleagues Michelle Phillipov and Lyn McGaurr in the Journal of Communication: bit.ly/46x6kb0

My book chapter ‘Making as Care: Valuing craft skills’ is now available. It focusses on craft skills as enablers of care, given the central role they play as the key point of contact, and impact, between humans and the environment. bit.ly/468fISf

Sign-up now to find out more about the National First Nations Weaving Symposium, 5 - 8 September, co-presented by the JamFactory and Ku Arts, with support from Creative Australia.
www.nationalweavingsymposium.com.au

Looking for an awesome colleague to join our fabulous team at an exciting time!

Vacancy: Associate Professor in Creative Industries and Cultural Policy (Level D)

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Great new network initiative from the In Situ project team!:

The EU Rural Pact Community Group on Culture & Creativity in Rural Areas is now live!

Join us to network, collaborate & advocate for culture as a key force in rural development 🌿🎭

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With mentoring such a key but often emotionally loaded part of creative professional development, excited to see this (open access) article now out in print:

Mentoring as affective practice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking for an Australian and Aoteroan music soundtrack to accompany your day? Bloomsbury has put together a Spotify playlist composed of one track from each of the 33 albums with books in the 33 1/3 Oceania series, co-edited by CP3's own Prof Jon Stratton open.spotify.com/playlist/113...

Excited to see the Editors' Introduction to the 'Culture in Practice' CSAA 2023 Conference Special Edition of Continuum now in print with its celebration of Cultural Studies' pasts, presents and futures in Adelaide/Tarndanya and beyond!: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Amused to see Spin not only quoting my PhD research on rave culture but featuring a screenshot of my current Uni profile: shorturl.at/zd42v. If I'd known it would be used in that context would definitely have worked on getting a less formal headshot, but very happy to be a "boffin of doofery"!

Just 4 days to go to get your abstracts in for the SASE mini-conference 'Extending the Debate on Craft: Work, Precarity, and Organising in Artisanal Industries'! sase.org/event/2025-m...

Sending solidarity to humanities and social science research colleagues in Aotearoa/New Zealand. STEM alone can't fix the world's problems, indeed often quite the opposite is true: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Congratulations to Christina Williams on the publication of her book: Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK! The latest title in the Creative Working Lives series: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

"Politics has been repurposed so it is now more about the securing of power than using that power to govern in the national interest." Yep, alas. graemeturner.org/2024/11/28/i...

For those in Adelaide on Thursday 21st there's a launch of Ben Eltham and my report on Cultural Employment in Australia, with a discussion from the Reset Collective on the future of cultural policy in this country.
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