Key Research Themes
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.
Our research is based on the four following themes:
Sustainable Futures
Transitioning towards a sustainable future requires multi-disciplinary approaches and creative thinking spanning policy, engagement, communications, the arts, and of course, planning, design and technology. Humanities scholarship is fundamental to this.
The Sustainable Futures Platform supports research, learning and engagement activities within the faculty and across the university, building on Curtin’s international reputation for leadership in this space.
Global Futures
The Global Futures Platform applies rigorous thinking to the world’s most pressing challenges in international and intercultural relations, environmental awareness, communication, media, creative practice, accessibility, and education. In partnerships between staff, students, community, industry and policy makers, we pursue effective ways to create a safer, more just, globally connected world.
Global Futures works across Curtin’s global campuses to build global and regional awareness and action through teaching and challenge-based learning, research and engagement activities.
Learning Futures
Learning Futures is focussed on both sharing ‘what we know’ and about expanding the boundaries of ‘what is possible’ in formal and informal education settings. We create spaces where education practitioners, industry, policy makers, parents, caregivers, students, researchers, and teachers can come together to share insights, ideas and innovation. The Learning Futures Capability Platform is seeking to co-construct new educational possibilities for generations to come.
Indigenous Futures
The Indigenous Futures Platform aims to ensure Australia’s Indigenous futures across the nation’s culture and economy are supported and considered in the faculty’s research, learning and partnership activities.
Scholarly activities traverse multiple disciplines and embed Indigenous knowledge, values and research methods to increase understanding of the history and nature of Country whilst respecting Indigenous cultural and intellectual property, as well as Indigenous data sovereignty.