Master of Arts by Research in Creative and Performing Arts

Undertake a Master of Arts by Research in Creative and Performing Arts at Flinders

Gain expertise in a specialised area of creativity

Choose from the areas of drama, screen, digital media, or creative writing and delve into innovative research through creative practice that expands our experience and knowledge of the cultural and social world.

Discover more about research at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

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Why undertake a Master of Arts by Research in Creative and Performing Arts at Flinders?

Become an international expert in your topic and gain expertise in a specialised area of creativity.
Make a difference in the world. Your research has the potential to improve people’s lives through a better understanding of the individual experience and how creative arts add value to our society.
Be the first to explore a fascinating research question. You will have the opportunity to fill a gap in current knowledge or answer a previously unresolved issue in your field.

Master of Arts by Research opportunities

Areas of research study include:

Digital Embodiment
Arts in Health
Transformative Storytelling
Indigenous Creative Arts Praxis
Cultures of Archiving the Arts

Ecological and Climate Crisis
Fiction writing (genre, historical and speculative fiction)
Performance-based research (acting, playwriting, dramaturgy)
Cinema studies.

Your career

A Masters of Arts by Research gained in Creative and Performing Arts at Flinders equips you with 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 the ability to quickly learn new concepts and adapt to change, and enhance your time management, organisation and resilience skills..

A Masters of Arts by Research 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 a Masters of Arts by Research in Creative and 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, publishing and establishing a freelance creative career.

Potential occupations include:

artist
academic
writer
consultant or advisor
professional researcher
community arts and cultural developer

Potential employers include:

arts organisations
performing and creative arts companies
museums and galleries
publishing companies
media production companies
universities
councils
think tanks
public sector.

Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts

Assemblage is Flinders University’s research centre for artistic enquiry and art creation.

It is the meeting point of art and science, health, technology, engineering, industry and community. We embrace new technologies and ambitious collaborations to dissolve perceived barriers between art forms, disciplines and areas of research to uncover boundless possibilities.

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Potential research supervisors

Flinders Creative and Performing Arts academic staff include several award-winning writers and performers 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.

Dr Christopher Hurrell	Shakespeare, musical theatre, directing, dramaturgy, actor training
Dr Renato Musolino	Acting, Laban movement analysis, Stanislavski, psycho-physical acting methodologies
Dr Faye Blanch	Indigenous education, feminism, performance practice
Dr Ali Gumillya Baker	Indigenous art theory and criticism, Indigenous histories and colonialism, memory, visual sovereignty, visual and performance art, cultural studies
Dr 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
Dr 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
Associate Professor Simone Tur	Cultural studies
Dr Alex Vickery-Howe	Political storytelling, intercultural storytelling, myth and fantasy, and emerging audiences.
Dr Tully Barnett	Interdisciplinary research into investigating ways of valuing art and culture beyond econometrics, and digitisation as a cultural practice.

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