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Research Leaders

Professor Brad Haseman

  • Assistant Dean (Research) Creative Industries Faculty
  • Council Member and Chair, Community Partnerships Committee, Australia Council for the Arts Hub Australia

Professor Brad Haseman is an international researcher and teacher who has helped shape the fields of applied theatre, process drama, and drama in education. He has worked extensively throughout Australia, Europe and Asia with teachers, non-government organizations and corporate clients. Currently he contributes to the evolving forms and dynamics of practice-led research, an emerging research strategy ideally suited to the artistry and user-led demands of research in the Creative Industries. He currently leads a research project in Papua New Guinea developing applied performance programs for HIV and AIDS education. In 2008 he co-authored the occasional paper, 'The arts and Australia's national innovation system 1994-2008' for the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS).

Distinguished Professor John Hartley, AM

  • ARC Federation Fellow and Research Director, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
  • Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
  • Adjunct Professor, Australian National University
  • Visiting Professor, City University, London

Distinguished Professor John Hartley (founding Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT) is an international leader in media and cultural studies, and one of Australia's most significant researchers and commentators on the history and cultural impact of television, journalism and popular media. He has PhD and postdoctoral supervisions in these areas, and in specialist topics of relevance to his Federation Fellowship, including uses of multimedia, consumer-citizenship, user-generated creative content, digital storytelling, and creative industries in an international context (eg: China, the UK and Europe).

Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham

  • Director, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
  • Ministerial appointment to the Library Board of Queensland

Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham lead research into new policy frameworks for the creative industries with national, international, state and local industry partners. His expertise, position and industry links can bring research students into contact with leading-edge industry and government players and projects, and academics and researchers with national and international profile. He is the author or editor of several books and major reports, most recently In the Vernacular: A Generation of Australian Culture and Controversy (University of Queensland Press, 2008).

Professor Justin O'Connor

  • Research Capacity Building Professor, Creative Industries Faculty

Professor Justin O'Connor is an international researcher who has been involved in research and policy development around cultural/creative industries and urban cultures since 1989. Professor O'Connor joined the Creative Industries Faculty in 2008. He is currently set to look at the creative clusters in Beijing and Shanghai with three Chinese universities and Arup (Sydney). Nearer to home he is helping to develop a creative industries strategy for the Moreton Bay Regional Council and writing a paper on the relationship between arts and creative industries for the Australia Council.