The following list indicates the breadth of CCD student and staff inquiry. The projects are presented within the key areas of public policy and interest.

Community Strengthening
  • Creative Collaborations case study publication (Sue Clark and Alison Richards)
  • Youth dance research project (Postgraduate student Matt Morse)
  • Retirement Village art and living museum project (Masters student Sue Hartigan)
  • Bute Utes project as Creative Collaborations case study (Regional Arts Victoria and Donna Jackson)
  • Such Fertile Ground environmental art installations project as Creative Collaborations case study (Regional Arts Victoria and Donna Jackson)
  • Small Town Big Picture project as Creative Collaborations case study (artist Craig Christie)
Housing/Urban Renewal
  • Atherton Gardens Choir as Creative Collaborations case study (Graham Pitts)
  • North Richmond Arts and Culture program as Creative Collaborations case study (Rosalie Haswell)
Multicultural Communities
  • Timorese community choir (Postgraduate student Carmelita Gomes)
  • African drummer/dancer/arts initiatives (Lamine Sonko)
  • Sudanese young men as story telling/drama project in Dandenong (Masters student Shahin Shafaeie)
  • Ethnic Artist's ongoing scholarships (Sue Clark and Harold Mitchell Foundation)
  • Vietnamese community Cultural Democracy program analysis (Masters student Tony Le Nguyen)
  • Eating the City ethnic arts project as Creative Collaborations case study (Jane Crawley/City of Melbourne)
  • African future training links (Sue Clark)
  • Timorese future training links (Sue Clark)
Arts & Education
  • Creativity pilots/Fawkner HS boys photographic project (Richard Jones)
  • Prisoners arts in education project (Richard Jones)
  • New models/innovations (Masters student David Everist)
  • On line research project (Lachlan MacDowall, Richard Jones, Sue Clark)
  • Enchanted Murray River project as case study in (Annie Edeney)
Health & Wellbeing
  • Vic Health CAD research (Richard Jones, Sue Clark and Lachlan MacDowall)
  • Somebody's Daughter Theatre as case study (Maud Clark)
  • Sacred Space in hospitals for palliative care (Masters student Efterpi Soropos)
Indigenous Communities
  • The Torch as Creative Collaborations case study (Steve Payne)
  • Indigenous women's arts program (Postgraduate student Paola Morabito)
  • Cultural mapping model for Indigenous land rights negotiations (Postgraduate student Jadah Milroy)
  • Indigenous school children's project (Postgraduate student Tara Prowse)
  • Indigenous women arts (Masters student Robyn Thompson)
Justice
  • CCD praxis research (Dean Merlino)
The Arts, Nature and the Environment
  • Wilderness and nature trail project (Postgraduate student Lynden Costin)
  • Labyrinth installation & local planting project (Postgraduate student Heather Lorraine Plazier)
  • Reconstruction of Tuvalu village/environmental awareness project (Postgraduate student Emanuela Santani)