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Susan Luckman
@susanluckman.bsky.social
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Professor of Culture and Creative Industries and Director CP3 Research Centre UniSA, interested in women, technology, cultural & creative work, craft, and making stuff. May also play golf as a feminist intervention in broness. .. more

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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · 13d
Looking forward to this year's Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium and its focus on the Humanities & Creative Practice. It is my great honour to be chairing the final panel 'Challenges and the future'. For more information check out: humanities.org.au/events/sympo...

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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Jul 4
It's been a while coming so truly excited to see this article now out, again free to access: 'The artisanal imaginaries of contemporary production' co-authored with fabulous project colleagues Michelle Phillipov and Lyn McGaurr in the Journal of Communication: bit.ly/46x6kb0
The artisanal imaginaries of contemporary production
Abstract. Ideas of “craft” and “craftsmanship” have long been mobilized in middle-class Global North markets to promote the romanticized authenticity of ar
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Jun 24
My book chapter ‘Making as Care: Valuing craft skills’ is now available. It focusses on craft skills as enablers of care, given the central role they play as the key point of contact, and impact, between humans and the environment. bit.ly/468fISf
e-Reader | Taylor & Francis Group eBooks, Reference Works and Collections
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Jun 13
So sorry to hear this. Online shopping is great to for getting the exact, especially niche thing you need, but doesn't replace being able to start/continue a project that day, or the serendipity of discovering new possibilities.
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · May 26
Sign-up now to find out more about the National First Nations Weaving Symposium, 5 - 8 September, co-presented by the JamFactory and Ku Arts, with support from Creative Australia.
www.nationalweavingsymposium.com.au
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Feb 24
Looking for an awesome colleague to join our fabulous team at an exciting time!

Vacancy: Associate Professor in Creative Industries and Cultural Policy (Level D)

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University Of South Australia - Associate Professor in Creative Industries and Cultural Policy (Level D)FacebookTwitterLinkedInYouTubeInstagram
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Feb 21
Great new network initiative from the In Situ project team!:

The EU Rural Pact Community Group on Culture & Creativity in Rural Areas is now live!

Join us to network, collaborate & advocate for culture as a key force in rural development 🌿🎭

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Networking Opportunity: New EU Rural Pact Community Group on Culture and Creativity in Rural Areas – In-Situ
The EU Rural Pact Community Group on Culture and Creativity in Rural Areas, proposed by CES and ENCC as an extension and legacy of the IN SITU project, has officially been launched! Keep reading to di...
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Feb 17
With mentoring such a key but often emotionally loaded part of creative professional development, excited to see this (open access) article now out in print:

Mentoring as affective practice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mentoring as affective practice
This paper discusses the potential contributions that an arts mentoring program can make to the support of artists and creative practitioners contending with the challenges of the post-pandemic cre...
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Feb 4
Looking for an Australian and Aoteroan music soundtrack to accompany your day? Bloomsbury has put together a Spotify playlist composed of one track from each of the 33 albums with books in the 33 1/3 Oceania series, co-edited by CP3's own Prof Jon Stratton open.spotify.com/playlist/113...
33 1/3 Oceania's Greatest Hits
Playlist · 33 1/3 · 21 items · 4 saves
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Jan 31
Excited to see the Editors' Introduction to the 'Culture in Practice' CSAA 2023 Conference Special Edition of Continuum now in print with its celebration of Cultural Studies' pasts, presents and futures in Adelaide/Tarndanya and beyond!: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Culture in practice
This article provides readers with contextual background to the 2023 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) conference: ‘Culture in Practice’ and thus the papers in this edited collecti...
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Jan 14
Amused to see Spin not only quoting my PhD research on rave culture but featuring a screenshot of my current Uni profile: shorturl.at/zd42v. If I'd known it would be used in that context would definitely have worked on getting a less formal headshot, but very happy to be a "boffin of doofery"!
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Dec 12
Just 4 days to go to get your abstracts in for the SASE mini-conference 'Extending the Debate on Craft: Work, Precarity, and Organising in Artisanal Industries'! sase.org/event/2025-m...
2025 – Montréal - SASE
SASE is delighted to announce that its 37th annual conference will be hosted at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal from 9-12 July 2025.
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Dec 5
Sending solidarity to humanities and social science research colleagues in Aotearoa/New Zealand. STEM alone can't fix the world's problems, indeed often quite the opposite is true: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Universities criticise Marsden Fund cuts, business group backs the move
Academics says the changes are short-sighted, but a business group says it will boost productivity.
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Dec 2
Congratulations to Christina Williams on the publication of her book: Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK! The latest title in the Creative Working Lives series: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Work of Fiction
The book shows how the positives and negatives of often precarious cultural work are played out for fiction writers.
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Susan Luckman @susanluckman.bsky.social · Dec 2
"Politics has been repurposed so it is now more about the securing of power than using that power to govern in the national interest." Yep, alas. graemeturner.org/2024/11/28/i...
Imagined Communities 2.0: Media, information and a diminished political culture - Graeme Turner
The Lucky Country is perhaps the most iconic of our catalogue of ‘state of the nation’ books. More than any other, it has become a part of the thing it described. Over the years, its opinions and obse...
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oconnorjustin13.bsky.social @oconnorjustin13.bsky.social · Nov 18
For those in Adelaide on Thursday 21st there's a launch of Ben Eltham and my report on Cultural Employment in Australia, with a discussion from the Reset Collective on the future of cultural policy in this country.
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Register now | Launch of new report on cultural labour
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