Susan Luckman

Biography

Susan Luckman is Professor of Culture and Creative Industries, Founding Director of the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3), and the Leader of the Creative Work in the Age of GenAI Work Package in the EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Adelaide University.

Susan is internationally recognised for her new materialism informed research into cultural trends in digital technologies and the subsequent renewal of interest in craft and the analogue they have both enabled and provoked. Working in direct dialogue with creative communities, her research informs both policy and individual practice. Her training in Cultural Studies informs an approach to knowledge generation that values the richness of human experience and recognises the importance of inclusion and diversity. Committed to making university research accessible to the wider community, alongside her scholarly outputs, Susan is the author of many substantial public reports bringing the voices of individuals into dialogue with cultural policy.

Susan has been a Chief Investigator on 8 ARC and 4 EU awarded projects totalling more than $AU6.5 million. These include two currently active ARC Discovery Projects: ‘Artisanal Making and the Future of Small-Scale Local Production’ (DP220100110, with Associate Professor Michelle Phillipov) which is identifying the consumer identities, decision-making and sustainable artisanal production models underpinning contemporary demand for locally made goods and ‘Exploring Rural Women’s Needs for Creative Spaces Through Co-design’ (DP260102517, with Professor Lia Bryant and Associate Professor Elizabeth Ellison). Previously, she was previously sole Chief Investigator on the Discovery Projects ‘The Value of Craft Skills to the Future of Making in Australia’ (DP190100349) and ‘Promoting the Making Self in the Creative Micro-economy’ (DP150100485) which explored how online distribution is changing the environment for operating a creative micro-enterprise and, with it, the opportunities for mobile working lives and the impacts upon the larger relationship between public and private spheres this entails.