Our research

There are seven billion people around the world sharing one collective experience – being human. Yet no two lives are the same.

We are interested in the human condition; the things that bring us together and the barriers keeping us apart. Through research we are exploring how our experiences are shaped by history, art, language and culture.

We are shining a light on the dark corners of our past and probing new technologies for use in the arts. We are diving deep to uncover marine history and looking to the stars for connections between society and space. And we are inspiring ground-breaking ways of viewing our world through the arts.

We are interested in changing lives and changing the world – creatively.

Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts

Our Research Themes

PhD and Honours opportunities

Our research themes

Our research spans studies in languages, culture and communication, social sciences, performing and creative arts, and history and archaeology. We extend beyond boundaries of knowledge and work collaboratively, inspired by our foundational research themes:

Deep Pasts, Heritage and Environment

Posthumanities

Inequality

PhD and Honours opportunities

Fine tune your research, in any area you're interested in with a PhD or Honours degree at Flinders… study what you're interested in, or explore amazing opportunities such as:

PhD projects that explore subjects as diverse as gender equality, new media and technology, contemporary screen culture, motion capture, global culture, colonial history and more.

Honours research projects across a wide range of interests, including festivals and the human experience, German imperialism or the culture of food in space. Some Honours projects include paid bursary opportunities up to $5,000.00 each.

Find out more about your research possibilities, and study with us.

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Undertake a PhD with the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Pursue an advanced research project in an area of creativity, history and archaeology, languages, literature and culture, or social sciences, and expand our experience and knowlege of the cultural, social and political forces that shape our world.

PhD in Creative and Performing Arts

PhD in History and Archaeology

PhD in Languages, Literature and Culture

PhD in Social Sciences

Meet our award winning HDR staff and students

Flinders University's Higher Degree by Research (HDR) staff and students are making a difference with research that matters. The annual Vice-Chancellor's HDR Awards recognises outstanding achievements for students and supervisors.

2021 Flinders University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research (HDR) Supervision
Associate Professor Wendy van Duivenvoorde

ASSEMBLAGE

Centre for Creative Arts

Assemblage is Flinders University’s research centre for artistic enquiry and art creation.

It is the meeting point of art and science, health, technology, engineering, industry and community. We embrace new technologies and ambitious collaborations to dissolve perceived barriers between artforms, disciplines and areas of research to uncover boundless possibilities.

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Research excellence

The work of our researchers has been independently ranked at or above world standard by Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA).

Ranked at world standard
for Sociology, Film, Television and Digital Media, Literary Studies, Archaeology, Historical Studies, Philosophy

ERA 2018 Outcomes, Flinders University

No. 46 in the world
for Archaeology

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021

Ranked above world standard
for Performing Arts and Creative Writing

ERA 2018 Outcomes, Flinders University

Our partners

We are partnering with government and industry to lead impactful research and learning experiences. Collaboration and consultation with our partners allow our work to move beyond the walls of the university and embed itself into communities.

Among our Linkage partners are:

Department of Premier and Cabinet
Festivals Adelaide
The River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation
Australian Landscape Trust
The Trustee For The Western Cape Communities Trust
Chuulangun Aboriginal Corporation
Napranum Aboriginal Shire Council
Queensland Museum

Our research themes

PhD and Honours opportunities

Undertake a PhD with the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Meet our award winning HDR staff and students

ASSEMBLAGE

Centre for Creative Arts

Research excellence

Our partners

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Our research themes

PhD and Honours opportunities

Undertake a PhD with the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Meet our award winning HDR staff and students

ASSEMBLAGE

Centre for Creative Arts

Research excellence

Our partners

Information for

Directories

Follow Flinders

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