Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications
The Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications (CREATEC) collaborates with community, government and industry to provide innovative research solutions and knowledge transfer that have beneficial impact and solve real-world problems. It is active in the areas of media, communications, technology and creative industries, humanities, social sciences and visual and material arts.
The Centre's focus is on collaborative research through the following themed research groups:
Interactive and Creative New Media
- E-learning
- Game culture
- Smart communities and e-governance.
Space, Place, Body and Technology
- Environmental sustainability
- Body culture and health communication
- Cultural history and critical theory of communication technologies.
Media, Culture and Society
- Communication and cultural studies
- Critical cultural analysis
- Media studies
- Journalism. Contemporary Arts and Performance
- Performance research
- Music and sound research
- Embodiment and dance research.
Visual and Material Arts and Culture
- Practice based, and practice led research
- Research into the ideology and history of visual and material culture
- Praxis as method.
Time, Text People
- Literature and writing
- History and politics
- Languages and linguistics.
Contact
Dr Debbie Rodan
Telephone: (61 8) 9370 6415
Email: d.rodan@ecu.edu.au