CREA staff and researchers are currently involved in a range of research projects in the areas of literature and children's literature, drama and theatre arts, visual arts, music, music therapy, and other areas of arts education.

Education and the Arts Partnership Initiative (EAPI)

The Education and the Arts Partnership Initiative (EAPI) is investigating strategies for helping 'at risk' students by using the creative arts to address adolescent learning issues.

Postgraduate Student Projects

PhD Students

Ideology as Pentimento: Language, structure and metaphor in selected works of Katherine Paterson
Paul March
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston

'It was good to be home': The nostalgic world of Australian children's picture books
Robin Morrow
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston

Plainsong or Polyphony: The voices of adolescents as represented in Australian YA narratives of the 1990's
Heather Voskuyl
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston

Representations of the body in the literature of the macabre.
Brendhan Haynes
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston

Photomontage: Analytical history and application
Tony Royce
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston

Teaching English through Literature: Using Laos folktales in the teaching of ELT in the Laos context
Bouasavanh Keovilay
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston

The Educational value of the Henry Matisse experience with Islamic arts
Ibrahim Mansuri
Supervisors: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston and Anne Bamford

Teachers' Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Implementing Drama in the Classroom
Rachel Darell
Supervisor: A/Prof Barbara Poston-Anderson

Ed.D. Students

The Arts and Play
Karen Vaughan
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston

MEd Hons Students

Musical empowerment for people with multiple disability
Dorothea Newland
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston and John Lloyd

MA Children's Literature and Literacy Students

Class Distinctions: How Working Class Chararcters are Represented in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction.
Kim Kitson
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston

How does consciously applying different theoretical paradigms during the process of adapting Where's Mum? into a stage play, shift the theoretical semiotics of the productions?
Nicola Goslett
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston

A comparative study of the image of Australian children in Australian children's books at the end of the nineteenth century and the end of the twentieth century.
Alessandra Moore
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston

'Books were a favourite thing': Using literature to help children and young adults with chronic fatigue syndrome cope with their illness experience
Robyn Kelman
Supervisor: A/Prof Rosemary Johnston