'Dances for Small Places' (2010) - Photography by Jon Green
Research centres
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet is an innovative web based resource that works in the relatively new area of translation research to inform practice and policy in Indigenous health. By making synthesised research and other knowledge readily accessible, HealthInfoNet contributes to 'closing the gap' in health between Indigenous and other Australians.
Centre for Higher Education Learning and Teaching Research
The Centre for Higher Education Teaching and Learning Research encourages and supports a community of scholarship of teaching and learning at ECU. The Centre aims to enhance research informed teaching, and improve opportunities for postgraduate research, publication and research grant income.
Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC)
The Centre for Research in Early Childhood aims to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in early childhood through evidence based research in partnership with children, families and the wider community. The outcomes of our research are practical and immediate, used to inform policy and practice in early childhood, in teacher education courses and in the early childhood profession.
Centre for Research and Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications (CREATEC)
CREATEC aims to increase research output, creative output and programs that benefit the community through collaborative research within the faculty. This collaboration is nurtured under seven identifiable research themes: Contemporary Arts and Performance; Interactive and Creative New Media; Media Culture and Society; Space, Place, Body and Technology; International Centre for Landscape and Language: Time, Text and People; and Visual and Material Arts and Culture.
Centre for Schooling and Learning Technologies (CSaLT)
CSaLT aims to improve schooling and the application of digital technologies in schools. The Centre promotes, conducts and disseminates research in areas such as leadership, curriculum development, professional learning, teacher education and the use of digital technologies. It also conducts evaluations, provides professional learning, and provides consulting services.
Dance Research Centre (DRC)
Believing dance itself to be a form of embodied knowledge, the DRC takes creative arts practice through choreography, pedagogy and performance as its particular focus of investigation, and aims to give voice to an endeavour traditionally associated with 'the non-verbal body'.
Edith Cowan Institute for Education Research
The Mission of the Institute is to enhance the quality of education and to close the gap between high and low performing students and between high and low performing schools. This will be achieved through conducting educational research and development that will reform educational policy, enhance school leadership to achieve school improvement, and enhance teaching practice to improve student engagement and learning outcomes.
Fogarty Learning Centre (FLC)
The aim of the Fogarty Learning Centre is to conduct quality teaching and research in the areas of literacy, numeracy and other key learning areas; and to ensure that research findings translate into teaching practice to improve learning outcomes for children in Australian schools.
Kurongkurl Katitjin – Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research
The vision for Kurongkurl Katitjin, ECU's Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research is that it develops into a whole-of-university centre that works in collaboration with all other research disciplines to facilitate engaged research and teaching with Indigenous persons and communities. It leads ECU's commitment to developing clear and agreed protocols around Indigenous Australian research to ensure that research activity is informed by thorough cultural awareness and respect and to identify and promote research which focuses on Indigenous Australian issues.
Music Research Group (MRG)
The MRG is a group of music researchers based at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. The artistic application and interrogation of sound in its multiple manifestations across time are principal concerns of this practice-led group of researchers.