Events and News Archive
Past Events
Resources from past events
- (in)significance symposium notes and presentations
- Recorded lectures and seminars
- Past events 2013–2018
News Archive
2020
- 'Listening to Songs of Leonard Cohen: singing sadness to sadness in these anxious times': Jen Webb in The Conversation
- 'The Yield wins the Miles Franklin: a powerful story of violence and forms of resistance': Jen Webb in The Conversation
- 'Trauma, resilience, sex and art: your guide to the 2020 Miles Franklin shortlist': Jen Webb in The Conversation
- 'Trials of Portnoy: when Penguin fought for literature and liberty': Patrick Mullins in The Conversation
- Poetry on the Move Festival moves online
- CCCR adjunct Dr Patrick Mullins wins prestigious NSW Premier's Literary Award
- ‘Home away from home’: reflecting on past airline collapses in Australia: Tracy Ireland, Peter Hobbins and Prudence Black in The Conversation
- HDR candidate Lisa Fuller shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year prize
- New opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2019
- $1 million Haig Park Activation project led by Dr Cathy Hope gets started with the ACT Canberra Renewal Authority (Canberra Times)
- Research at UC 'well above world standard' (UC Monitor)
- Tiberius with a Telephone review: Patrick Mullins' life of a neglected PM (Sydney Morning Herald)
2018
- Dr Paul Collis wins ACT Book of the Year for 'Dancing Home' (Arts ACT)
- Creative arts and rural health initiative for drought-affected community (UC Monitor)
- Reap what you sew: UC's Repair Cafe is all about textile sustainability (UC Monitor)
- A new report by Dr Cathy Hope and the Play, Creativity and Wellbeing Project, reveals Canberra's favourite playgrounds (Canberra Times)
- Poet to Poet: Contemporary Women Poets from Japan, edited by Rina Kikuchi and Jen Crawford, reviewed (Japan Times)
- The University of Canberra and the Australian War Memorial have partnered to create the first ever art prize offered exclusively to members of the defence force (UC Monitor)
- The Play Activation Network lights up at Enlighten (UC Monitor)
2017
- CCCR academics receive the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research or Innovation for work in creativity and social change
- Associate Professor Lisa Scharoun and Associate Professor Carlos Montana-Hoyos both received Distinguished Teaching Awards from the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS)
- Dispatches from Distant Shores by Satendra Nandan reviewed in the Fiji Sun
- Dianne Firth awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her distinguished services to landscape architecture and education
- 'Heritage of the Air: how aviation transformed Australia' led by Tracy Ireland awarded an Australian Research Council Linkage Project grant
- Faculty Staff Exhibition 'Beauties and Beasts' on at Belconnen Arts Centre
- Burnt Umber by Paul Hetherington short-listed for 2017 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
2016
- Ian Drayton awarded a Churchill Fellowship to research how creative arts is helping wounded soldiers
- Paul Collis wins David Unaipon Queensland Literary Award
- Spectacular sculptures encourage play in new exhibition
- Canberra poet Paul Hetherington on a life in verse
- Fatherhood inspires UC’s international prize-winning poem
- Powerful story drives Paul Collis' PhD
- Moments by Subhash Jaireth shortlisted for The 2016 ACT Book of the Year
- CCCR researchers awarded two UC Indigenous research grants worth over $120,000
2015
- Creative arts programs for returned Australian defence force personnel delivered by the Faculty of Arts & Design and CCCR staff
- ARC grant success! Professor Jen Webb and Dr Scott Brook, and Centenary Professor Ross Gibson, awarded ARC Discovery Project grants starting in 2016
- Dr Bethaney Turner facilitates discussion on future of food
- Prize-winning poems focus on powerful personalities
- PhD Candidate Beaux Guarni opening up museums for the blind
- 3D printers have UC designers making their own way
- Award-winning aged care ideas
2014
- 'Six Different Windows' by Paul Hetherington wins WA Premier's Book Award for Poetry
- Adelaide poet David Adés wins UC prize poetry prize
- ANZAC unsung heroines honoured by UC screenwriter, Felicity Packard
- Professor Paul Hetherington awarded Australia Council for the Arts grant to study in Rome
- Students experience Fiji on a study tour, led by Scott Heyes and Setoki Tuiteci
- Unruly Orchestrations art exhibition opens at the Belconnen Arts Centre