Platforms for a Better Future

Our unique Futures Platforms enable us to bring together research expertise from across the Faculty to collaboratively develop pioneering, strategic, and socially meaningful solutions in real-world settings to drive transformative change.

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Sustainable Futures

Transitioning to a low carbon, prosperous and just future

Learn more about the Sustainable Futures Platform

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Global Futures

Creating a better world for future generations

Learn more about the Global Futures Platform

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Learning Futures

Shaping the future of excellence and equity in education

Learn more about Learning Futures

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Indigenous Futures

Embedding Indigenous knowledges and values in and through research

Learn more about the Indigenous Futures Platform

 

Research Centres and Institutes

Our Research Centres, Institutes and collaborative research clusters solve real-world issues by tapping into a reservoir of human experience within the Faculty and bring together interdisciplinary collaborations across the Futures Platforms.

Aligned with both the Global Futures and Learning Futures Platforms, the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) brings together the study of culture with digital technologies and digital media platforms, and includes the TikTok Cultures Research Network and The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI). The Centre for Human Rights Education leads ethical scholarship, enabling individual agency and community engagement on human rights and social justice through the study and promotion of human rights at local, national and international levels. Addressing the complex challenges posed by rising extremism, the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN) is an interdisciplinary research group focussing on issues of disinformation, cultural extremism and neoreaction.

  • Supported by ARC funding and working with Aboriginal communities and schools, the Moombaki Cultural Learnings project has generated new knowledge using an innovative yet culturally secure transfer of knowledge from Aboriginal Elders and carers to children within a school environment.
  • Aligned with the Sustainability Futures Platform is the Faculty’s contribution to Curtin’s new Institute for Energy Transition.  It provides a generative space for the arts, environmental humanities, and social sciences to demonstrate more just, inclusive, and considered energy and climate futures that value the diverse populations and webs of coexistence on our planet.
  • The Critical Creative Imaginations Research Network brings together our creative practice researchers in creative writing, visual arts, fashion design, screen arts and performance studies to generate creative research outputs that challenge, stimulate and provoke response to these local and global issues.
  • The Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child program brings together national and international experts and partners to investigate children’s digital experiences, including a world-first study of 3000 Australian families and children from birth to eight years of age.
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Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT)

 A portal to cutting-edge research in media, digital practices, culture, theory and new technologies

Learn more about the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT)

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TikTok Cultures Research Network

Fostering impactful collaboration opportunities that will result in innovative research perspectives

Learn more about the TikTok Cultures Research Network

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Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI)

The world’s leading hub for analysis and evaluation of Open Knowledge in higher education

Learn more about the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI)

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Center for Human Rights Education

Leading ethical scholarship, enabling individual agency and community engagement on human rights and social justice

Learn more about the Center for Human Rights Education

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Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN)

An interdisciplinary group focused on research and education around issues of cultural extremism and neoreaction
Learn more about the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN)

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Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute

CUSP integrates ecological, social, economic and cultural perspectives, offering new policy and practice possibilities

Learn more about the Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute

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Curtin Institute for Energy Transition

Transitioning towards clean and sustainable energy

Learn more about the Curtin Institute for Energy Transition

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Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

Supporting young children growing up in a rapidly changing digital age

Learn more about the Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

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Creative Education Research Hub

The Curtin University School of Education Creative Practice Research Hub provides a vehicle for Arts-based education research advocacy and collaboration within the disciplines of visual arts and performance/theatre work.

Learn more about the Creative research hub


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Higher degrees by research

We offer a range of research degrees designed to foster new knowledge in disciplines relevant to the humanities.

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What topic can I research?

Before applying to study a higher degree by research (HDR), you are encouraged to have a proposed topic in mind that relates to our areas of research strength. Once you have a topic in mind, you will need to find a supervisor in that area to oversee your study. Our register of supervisors can help you identify the right academic.

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