The Inclusive Creative Research Alliance (ICRA) brings together scholars whose research foregrounds the centrality of inclusive and diverse creativity and culture to human and planetary thriving.
ICRA brings together scholars from the University of South Australia, University of Adelaide, and our collaborators, whose research foregrounds the centrality of inclusive and diverse creativity and culture to human and planetary thriving. Stronger together, its aim is to further enable, support and disseminate world-class research into diversity and inclusion within creative industries and cultures, building upon our interdisciplinary and intersectional expertise.
We seek to shape public discourse on inclusion in the arts and creative sectors through research that has impact; research that is collaborative, outward looking, and celebratory of the gains to be made through having more inclusive creative cultures. As researchers and educators, we work towards transformative solutions for communities, organisations, and people. In so doing, in the face of often difficult personal and community challenges, we see practices of care as fundamental to who we are and how we act.
Practicing this commitment within the alliance, in enabling a strong research culture we seek to expand the space for diverse voices and approaches. To embrace inclusivity as pluriversal, ‘a world where many worlds fit’. This includes supporting the development of large-scale funded projects, and the smaller scale but still impactful work of individual researchers. In building the capacity to develop ongoing, iterative research projects, we are committed to supporting the next generation of scholars and researchers, particularly those from marginalised or non-traditional backgrounds. We are also committed to practicing inclusive research by ensuring people are involved in research about them – ‘nothing about us, without us’. While also excelling in the generation of quality traditional research outputs, we seek to explore how in making available research outputs they can be read/watched/listened to/accessed by a wide range of people.
Alliance Members
- Kim Barbour, University of Adelaide
- Lia Bryant, UnISA/CP3
- Debra Dank, UniSA
- Kath Dooley, UniSA/CP3
- Elizabeth Ellison, UniSA/CP3
- Susie Emery, UniSA/IVE
- Jessica Ford, University of Adelaide
- Aaron Humphrey, University of Adelaide
- Veronika Kelly, UniSA/CP3
- Susan Luckman, UniSA/CP3
- Jess Pacella, UniSA/CP3
- Michelle Phillipov, University of Adelaide
- Stuart Richards, UniSA/CP3
- Rosie Roberts, UniSA/CP3
- Jessica White, UniSA/CP3
- Amanda Tink, UniSA
- Jeanne-Marie Viljoen, UniSA/CP3
Projects/Resources/Publications:
some of these are already on the CP3/UniSA website but not all, but if we could just link through to them that would be great.
Finding Australia’s Disabled Authors
https://australiandisabledauthors.com.au/about-the-project/
Where did all the women go? Intersections of age and gender in the South Australian music industry
https://unisa.edu.au/research/creative-people-products-places/research-projects/age-and-gender-in-the-south-australian-music-industry/
Invisible Walls: Poetry as a Doorway to Intercultural Understanding
https://unisa.edu.au/research/creative-people-products-places/research-projects/invisible-walls-poetry-as-a-doorway-to-intercultural-understanding/
Life (Re)Sounding – a game about growing up neurodivergent in a world made for neurotypical people
https://metamiditoolkit.com/life-resounding/
LindaBot
https://unisa.edu.au/media-centre/Releases/2024/chatbot-guides-women-through-post-prison-challenges/
Indigenous visual narratives: Using haptic approaches to further decolonisation
https://unisa.edu.au/research/creative-people-products-places/research-projects/indigenous-visual-narratives-using-haptic-approaches-to-further-decolonisation/
Writing, Gender and the Natural World
https://unisa.edu.au/research/creative-people-products-places/research-projects/writing-gender-and-the-natural-world/
The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Queer_Film_Festival/WZDZDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Women and Persona Performance
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-33152-7
Key contact:
Professor Susan Luckman, susan.luckman@unisa.edu.au
