A Country Practice: Arts great migration featuring research Professor Phillip McIntyre was involved in as a Chief Investigator.

Friday, 13 May 2022

The story called ‘A Country Practice’ appeared in The Australian newspaper on October 30, 2021. It features research Professor Phillip McIntyre was involved in as a Chief Investigator.

A music producer in a studio

The newspaper feature notes that, “the growth of the cultural and creative services workforce in regional Australia has been mapped in a research project led by the Queensland University of Technology and The University of Newcastle, supported by the Australian Research Council. The study, Australian Cultural and Creative Activity: A Population and Hotspot Analysis, focused on “17 creative hotspots” around the nation, some of them in metropolitan areas, but most of them in the regions. Areas of growing populations with creative workers include the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast in Queensland, Geelong and Bendigo in Victoria, Busselton in WA, and Wollongong and Bellingen in NSW.” Newcastle and the Hunter had already been identified as hotspots in a prior ARC study, which was carried out earlier by Phillip McIntyre and his colleagues at UON. This original study formed the basis for this new study Phillip McIntyre was involved in. For the later one, “researchers used Census data from 2016 and 2011 to track the numbers of people engaged in cultural and creative services in each hot spot, and the intensity of those sectors as part of the general workforce. Cultural producers include musicians and performing artists, visual artists, writer filmmakers and so on. Creative services are occupations such as architecture, design, advertising and digital design.”


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