Performance as Research in Australia: Legitimating Epistemologies

Abstract

It is a curious and perhaps surprising observation but the performance as research movement in Australia was most active, and arguably did its most groundbreaking work, nearly 20 years ago. In the late 1980s a shakeup of the higher education sector in Australia saw the amalgamation of smaller Colleges of Advanced Education into a national system of 39 universities and, along with this, grew heightened expectations around research. For many staff of these Colleges of Advanced Education, this was a time of both opportunity and nervousness. Few felt prepared for the research challenges which lay ahead. In the new order academics were to successfully compete for external research funds and build a strong staff and postgraduate research culture. This marked a major shift of priorities, especially for academics in the creative arts, media, and design disciplines whose principal focus had been on professional and vocational training and undergraduate course innovation. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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