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Creative Practice Research Group

In our creative research and practice we make stories, experiences and environments which shape culture, meaning and understanding. We draw on cross-disciplinary research and engage community and industry partners to translate our research in the wider world. The creative industries are core to our identity with an emphasis on technology and creativity.

Our research

Creativity has been hailed as 'the driving force and most important skill of the 21st century as a power to be taught, understood and deployed on all levels of society' (Lutters 2020). At UTS Creativity is one of the eight Characteristics of Research and is core to the distinctive UTS experience across learning and research. The Creative Practice Research Group (CPRG) brings together leading creative research and practice academics within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, with a proud legacy of over thirty years in this space.

The Creative Practice Research Group is committed to research that has impact in the wider world to benefit communities, the economy, environment and society. We embrace complex questions that can only be answered through creative practice, where research-based inquiry and artistic innovation go hand-in-hand. We employ a distinctive model of creative practice-based research through our research design, methods and diversity of research forms and outputs.

We work across story, narrative, animation, documentary, hybrid-screen, sound, music, moving image, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, place-based experiences, visualisation, writing and publishing. Embedded within a university of technology we maintain a sharp focus on innovations including artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual screen production, immersive media, spatialised media and other emerging technologies. We are committed to the sustainability of creative practice in a rapidly-evolving technological landscape.

At UTS we draw on cross-disciplinary research in collaboration with the Visualisation Institute, Visual Communication Design, Creativity & Cognition Studios and the Animal Logic Academy. We effect and drive change through our partnerships with government, business, industry having partnered with Dolby, Hyundai, Flying Bark, Iloura and Industrial Light & Magic. Our partners also include arts and cultural bodies, galleries, libraries, archives and museums, including Antenna Documentary, the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Vivid Sydney, Mardi Gras Film Festival and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The Creative Practice Research Group are committed to research-informed teaching at UTS which models professional creative practices. We use studio-based, problem-focused teaching together with direct industry engagement to integrate complex knowledge and perspectives for our students.  We research and teach across cutting-edge facilities at UTS including the UTS Data Arena. In Higher Degree Research (HDR) we supervise Masters by Research and PhD projects, supporting industry pathways and provide expertise in the supervision of creative practice research projects.

Contact us

Alex Munt, Group Convenor – alex.munt@uts.edu.au