Associate Professor Scott Brook
RMIT University
Scott Brook is Associate Professor of Communication in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT. His research focuses on the relationship between vocational identities and the Creative and Cultural Industries, often combining approaches from sociology and political economy of communication. He is particularly interested in the variable relationship of creative vocations to employment, including how creative vocations develop and signal skills within and beyond the cultural field. He has been a Lead Chief Investigator and Chief Investigator on two Australia Research Council Discovery Projects on creative graduates and CCI work, including an extensive international quantitative study of creative graduate outcomes in Australia and the UK.
“Youth Arts propose to develop life skills that connect the various dimensions of young people’s lives to realise and transform their experience of social possibility. Programs cultivate enthusiasms through imaginative investment and practical discovery in projects, and in so doing transform aspirations in relation to key dimensions of social existence, including careers, education, and social relationships. The acquisition of publicly demonstrable skills and attributes - as much technical as personal or subjective - are both the support and the outcome of this form of cultural development.”