Cultural Value and Impact Network (CVIN)

The Cultural Value and Impact Network (CVIN) aims to build strong partnerships between industry and academia. It connects researchers with expertise in cultural value to build interdisciplinary teams.

The CVIN is building RMIT University’s expertise in interdisciplinary collaboration and inventive methods for articulating, measuring, evaluating cultural value and social impact.

With practitioners and academics from across the University, we are creating strong creative teams that use new interdisciplinary methods attuned to cultural complexity and diverse communities to enable high impact research partnerships with the arts and cultural sectors, government and NGO community.

We have been mapping the capabilities with our colleagues in Art, Economics, Education, Finance and Marketing, Global Urban Studies, Media and Communication, Design, Architecture, and affiliates of DCP ECP, Global Business and Innovation and Social Change.

We have collated existing research methods and industry projects through a survey and interviews to identify existing approaches, drivers, current gaps, and future interdisciplinary methodological possibilities for student training and partnerships.

Membership and contacting CVIN

CVIN provides a place for people studying and researching issues surrounding the valuation of the arts, culture and creative industries from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. The CVIN aims to provide a network in which scholars can share ideas, present their work, and discuss research methods, theories, modes of engagement, and knowledge translation towards impact.

To find out more or join CVIN, please contact marnie.badham@rmit.edu.au or bronwyn.coate@rmit.edu.au.

Enabling Impact Platform (EIP) sponsorship

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CVIN is supported by the following Enabling Impact Platforms:

Global Business Innovation Together with public and private sector partners, we will generate research-driven change to unlock the value and impact of innovation in Australia and worldwide.
Design and Creative Practice Applying an inventive, exploratory approach to real-world problems through interdisciplinary research, within and beyond design and creative practice.
Social Change Focuses on transformative research in the areas of digital society, quality of life, global mobility and research practice for social change.

Explore RMIT Enabling Impact Platforms

EIPs enable economic, environmental, societal, health and cultural impact with government, business and the community through research and innovation.

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Acknowledgement of Country

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 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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Acknowledgement of Country

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.