Deans and Directors of Creative Arts
Acknowledging and celebrating contributions to creative arts in Higher Education and promoting the next generation of creative arts leaders in research and education.
1. Distinguished Australian First Nations Creative Leadership Award
2. Distinguished Innovation in Creative Arts Award
3. Distinguished Creative Teaching Award
4. Distinguished Creative Researcher Award
5. Distinctive Creative Arts Doctoral Student Award
Read the full guidelines @ DDCA Awards…
Other recent news
DDCA Webinar, 1-2pm AEDT, Friday 9th October 2026. The arts constitute a vital accompaniment to human life across our lifespan,
The DDCA together with DASSH (Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) made a submission to the National
The DDCA Awards are designed to acknowledge and celebrate outstanding contributions to creative arts, elevate and share best practice, and
DDCA Webinar, 1-2pm AEDT, Friday 9th October 2026. The arts constitute a vital accompaniment to human life across our lifespan, enriching individual wellbeing and fostering social connection from infancy through to older age. In early childhood, musical practices, such as lullabies, play a significant role in supporting emotional regulation, attachment, and cognitive development, providing infants […]
The DDCA together with DASSH (Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) made a submission to the National Cultural Policy review of Revive. Our submission recognised the important architecture of the existing 5 pillars that work to support First Nations First; A Place for Every Story; Centrality of the Artist; Strong Cultural Infrastructure; and […]
The DDCA Awards are designed to acknowledge and celebrate outstanding contributions to creative arts, elevate and share best practice, and encourage and promote the next generation of creative arts leaders in research and education. The Awards promote diversity and recognise contributions and achievements by First Nations creatives, as well as early-, mid- and senior-career practitioners […]
Power in the Present: Valuing the Arts NOW Date: Tuesday 19th May 2026 Time: 12.00pm – 1.30pm (AEST) WATCH THE RECORDING We are hosting another National Online Forum, continuing our advocacy work to secure artistic practices within and outside the university as fundamental to a healthy and thriving society. In context of the national and global events […]
The DDCA has made a submission to the Inquiry: Higher Education Support Amendment (Reverse Job-Ready Graduates Fee Hikes and End 50k Arts Degrees) Bill 2025. Read the submission
ABSTRACT It has been widely noted that creative practice research agitates in positive ways certain attitudes, understandings and/or practices towards ‘knowledge’ and ‘research’ within the university context. Not only this, or partly because of this, creative practice research complicates established scholarly protocols of assessment and evaluation. This has been a topic of concern and debate […]