They are an award-winning researcher and writer, previously holding ARC DECRA and Future Fellowship grants, as well as leading other government and industry-funded projects investigating creativity, diversity and education. Harris is editor of the book series Creativity, Education and the Arts (Palgrave), and has authored, co-authored or edited 22 books and over 150 articles and book chapters, as well as plays, films and spoken word performances. They are an international expert in creativity studies, creative methods, affect theory and autoethnography. They are committed to the power of collaborative creative practice and social justice research to inform social change. Their latest book is Creative Agency (2021, Palgrave).
Node Leader, Creative Education, STEM and the Learning Sciences
Associate Professor, School of Media & Communication
Associate Lecturer, School of Education
Associate Professor, School of Education
Node Leader, Creativity and Generative Technologies
The founder of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research into the Anthropocene. David is a philosopher of education and author, having produced more than one hundred significant publications and fifteen books.
An interdisciplinary scholar and writer whose research includes anthropological and philosophical investigations of mathematics, science, computing, and digital life.
Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She has published widely with 20 books and over 100 articles which advance the theory of multiple creativities across education sectors.
Professor Emerita and Co-Director of the CREATE (Creativity in Research, Engaging the Arts, Transforming Education, Health and Wellbeing) Centre at the University of Sydney.
Full Professor of psychology in the School of Psychology, Dublin City University, and Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology, University of Bergen. He is the founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network (PSN).
Professor of Theatre and Performance in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University. Her research focuses broadly on performance as socially, culturally, and politically resistive and transformative activity.
Dean of Research (Creative) at the University of South Australia. He is the author, co-author and editor of 15 books.
Professor in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Her research focuses on directing and dramaturgy, particularly questions of queer dramaturgies and HIV and AIDS in performance.
Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Chair of Educational Innovation, where she works in the field of artistic learning and creative processes.
Feminist, artist, researcher and teacher who lives and works in Kulin Nation. Her work focuses on the integration of digital pedagogies and digital portfolios for sustained creative practice and assessment.
Head of School and Dean (Education) at University of Southern Queensland. Peter is an international expert in dance education developed through his 20-year Dance and Drama school teaching career in secondary and primary schools.
Senior Research at University of Jyväskylä, Finnish Institute for Educational Research. He is a world-leading expert on STEAM learning and Mathematics.
Arts-based researcher, teacher and Senior Lecturer in Arts Education at the University of Tasmania. Living, learning and working in lutruwita / Tasmania, she brings to all aspects of her work a strong personal focus upon art making,
The Creative Agency research lab provides a dynamic hub for Higher Degree by Research (HDR) candidates looking to pursue innovative, transdisciplinary research in creativity studies, creative education, and related fields. Our HDR program specialises in nurturing creative methodologies that are engaged with the latest developments in critical social theory and philosophy, speculative and ecological thinking, and more-than-human approaches to creative practice and thought. Our HDR candidates are supported through regular reading and writing groups, creative seminar events, and methodology workshops that offer wide-ranging opportunities to connect and collaborate with other researchers from across the humanities, arts, and social sciences (HASS) disciplines.
For information on postgraduate degrees (Masters, traditional or practice-led PhD) in the Creative Agency lab, please contact Daniel Harris or visit the School of Education research page for further details and key contacts.
For information on the RMIT admissions process, please contact the School of Graduate Research.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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