Susan Luckman

Prof Susan Luckman

Professor of Culture and Creative Industries

Office of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Susan Luckman is Professor of Culture and Creative Industries, Founding Director of the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3), and the Cultural and Creative Industries Research Platform Leader of the EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Adelaide University.
 
Susan is internationally recognised for her 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 7 ARC and 4 EU awarded projects totalling more than $AU4.4 million. These include two currently active ARC Discovery Projects: ‘The Value of Craft Skills to the Future of Making in Australia’ (DP190100349) which explores how the craft skills required to sustain and grow skilled Australian making can be maintained and extended, and 'Artisanal Making and the Future of Small-Scale Local Production' (DP220100110, with Associate Professor Michelle Phillipov) which aims to identify the consumer identities, decision-making and sustainable artisanal production models underpinning contemporary demand for locally made goods. Previously, she was Chief Investigator on the Discovery Project 'Promoting the Making Self in the Creative Micro-economy’ 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. 
 
Susan is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts (2022-2026), an expert reviewer for the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission (REA), on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Cultural Studies (Q1), Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (Q1), and Australian Feminist Studies (Q2), and is Series Editor of the Creative Working Lives book series. She has been a Cheney Senior Fellow at the University of Leeds (UK), and has also held visiting posts at The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), and Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK).
 
Susan is the author of Craftspeople and Designer Makers in the Contemporary Creative Economy (Palgrave 2020), Craft and the Creative Economy (Palgrave Macmillan 2015), Locating Cultural Work: The Politics and Poetics of Rural, Regional and Remote Creativity (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), co-editor of Craft Communities (Bloomsbury 2024), Pathways into Creative Working Lives (Palgrave 2020), The ‘New Normal’ of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment (Palgrave 2018), Craft Economies (Bloomsbury 2018), and Sonic Synergies: Music, Identity, Technology and Community (Ashgate 2008), and author of over 100 book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles and reports on platform economies, cultural and creative work, craft, creative industries and creative micro-entrepreneurialism.

Selected Recent Open Access Publications:

Luckman, Susan, Chloe Dzeigo and Michelle Phillipov (2025), ‘Consumer nationalism post-COVID: Mapping motivations to buy local’, Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833251406698

Luckman, Susan (2025), ‘Making as Care: Valuing craft skills’, in Designing through Planetary Breakdown: Locating Material Knowledge and Practical Skill. 

Phillipov, Michelle, Susan Luckman and Lyn Gaur (2025), ‘The Artisanal Imaginaries of Contemporary Production’, Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaf028. 

Luckman, Susan, Katrina Jaworski, Rupa Ghosh, Brydie Kosmina, Stuart Richards, Jon Stratton, and Jess Pacella (2025), ‘Culture in Practice’, Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 39(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2459830. 

Taylor, Stephanie and Susan Luckman (2024), ‘Mentoring as affective practice’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 31(2): 253-266.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2024.2320427 

Luckman, Susan and Taylor, Stephanie (2024), ‘‘There’s a lot of luck involved’: Sustaining hope labour amid workplace inequality and precarity as a creative worker’, Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales (special edition on ‘New jobs and new work identities’), 42(1): 59-72. https://doi.org/10.5209/crla.91566  

Phillipov, Michelle, Susan Luckman and Jessica Loyer (online first 2023), ‘Agile producers and heroic consumers’, Media International Australia. 196(1): 94-107, https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X231213448 

Luckman, Susan (2023), ‘Making Bodies, Crafts Skills, and the Legacies of Policy ‘Blokeism’’, Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 37(5): 595–607, https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2023.2220996 

 

Public Reports:

Luckman, Susan, Chloe Dziego and Michelle Phillipov (2026 forthcoming), Consumer motivations for buying the artisanal, University of South Australia, Adelaide.

Luckman, Susan and Ash Tower (2023), The Value of Craft Skills to the Future of Making in Australia, University of South Australia, Adelaide, August. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25954/2kpb-tz77

Luckman, Susan (2022), Mentor=Mentee: A Creative Relationship (Final Report), University of South Australia, Adelaide, September. https://doi.org/10.25954/nb20-e924

Pacella, Jess, Susan Luckman and Justin O’Connor (2021), Keeping Creative: Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Emergency on the Art and Cultural Sector & Responses to it by Governments, Cultural Agencies and the Sector, CP3 Working Paper #1, University of South Australia, Adelaide, June. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25954/e1sg-fv20

Luckman, Susan (2020), Mentor=Mentee: A Creative Relationship (Interim Report), University of South Australia, Adelaide, October. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25954/q0yc-7x26 

Date Institution name Country Title
1997 - 2001 University of Queensland Australia Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
1995 - 1996 University of Queensland Australia Master of Arts (Research/M. Phil.)
1989 - 1993 University of Melbourne Australia Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours)

Year Citation
2025 Luckman, S., Jaworski, K., Ghosh, R., Kosmina, B., Richards, S., Stratton, J., & Pacella, J. (2025). Culture in practice. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 39(1), 1-12.
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2025 Phillipov, M., Luckman, S., & McGaurr, L. (2025). The artisanal imaginaries of contemporary production. Journal of Communication, online, 10 pages.
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2025 Taylor, S., & Luckman, S. (2025). Mentoring as affective practice. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 31(2), 253-266.
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2025 Luckman, S., Dziego, C., & Phillipov, M. (2025). Consumer nationalism post-COVID: Mapping motivations to buy local. Journal of Sociology, 23 pages.
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2024 Luckman, S., & Taylor, S. (2024). 'There's a lot of luck involved': sustaining hope labour amid workplace inequality and precarity as a creative worker. Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales, 42(1), 59-72.
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2023 Luckman, S. (2023). Making bodies, craft skills and the legacies of policy 'blokeism'. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 37(5), 595-607.
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2023 Luckman, S. (2023). Craft communities: Continuity and discontinuity across time and place. Craft Communities, 1-10.
2023 Phillipov, M., Luckman, S., & Loyer, J. (2023). Agile producers and consumer-saviours: Discourses of resilience and responsibility in Australian media coverage of artisanal food and craft. Media International Australia, 196(1), 94-107.
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2022 Luckman, S., & Tower, A. (2022). Vicarious expertise: locating skilled knowing in craft reality competition television. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(6), 690-705.
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2022 Luckman, S. (2022). Who counts, and is counted, in craft?. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(3), 941-947.
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2021 Pacella, J., Luckman, S., & O'Connor, J. (2021). Fire, pestilence and the extractive economy: cultural policy after cultural policy. Cultural Trends, 30(1), 40-51.
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2020 Luckman, S., Anderson, H., Sinha, R., Rentschler, R., & Chalklen, C. (2020). 'The devil is in the level': understanding inequality in Australia's film, TV and radio industries. Media International Australia, 176(1), 3-18.
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2020 Luckman, S., & Phillipov, M. (2020). 'I'd (still) rather be a cyborg': the artisanal dispositif and the return of the (domestic) goddess. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(4), 458-474.
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2018 Luckman, S. (2018). Craft entrepreneurialism and sustainable scale: resistance to and disavowal of the creative industries as champions of capitalist growth. Cultural trends, 27(5), 313-326.
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2017 Bloustien, G., Luckman, S., & Peters, M. (2017). Introduction: 'Be not Afeard; the Isle is full of noises': Reflections on the synergies of music in the creative knowledge economy. Sonic Synergies Music Technology Community Identity, xxi-xxviii.
2017 Luckman, S. (2017). Introduction to part 2. Sonic Synergies Music Technology Community Identity, 65-67.
2016 Luckman, S. (2016). What is discourse analysis?. FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY, 26(3), 387-391.
2016 Luckman, S. (2016). Successful qualitative research: A practical guide for beginners. FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY, 26(3), 387-391.
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2016 Luckman, S. (2016). Guitar makers: the endurance of artisanal values in North America. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL POLICY, 22(3), 478-480.
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2016 Luckman, S., & Gibson, C. J. (2016). Creative encounters in the volatile north. Postcolonial studies, 19(1), 88-93.
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2015 Luckman, S. (2015). Women's micro-entrepreneurial homeworking : a 'Magical Solution' to the work-life relationship?. Australian feminist studies, 30(84), 146-160.
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2013 Slater, L., Luckman, S., & George, J. (2013). Introduction: cultural reorientations and comparative colonialities special issue. Continuum : journal of media and cultural studies, 27(1), 1-3.
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2013 Luckman, S. H. (2013). The aura of the analogue in a digital age: women's crafts, creative markets and home-based labour after Etsy. Cultural Studies Review, 19(1), 249-270.
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2012 Luckman, S. H. (2012). Review : 'The Tribes of Burning Man : How an Experimental City in the Desert is Shaping the New American Counterculture'. Dancecult, 4(1), 110-112.
2012 Luckman, S. (2012). Mobile screens and future story-worlds: film in the age of mobile platforms and cross-media storytelling. International journal of interdisciplinary social sciences, 6(8), 93-111.
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2011 Luckman, S. H. (2011). Festive emplacements : Burning Man and Goa Trance. Cultural studies review, 17(1), 362-371.
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2011 Duruz, J., Luckman, S., & Bishop, P. (2011). Bazaar encounters: food, markets, belonging and citizenship in the cosmopolitan city. Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, 25(5), 599-604.
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2011 Luckman, S. (2011). Festive Emplacements Burning Man and Goa Trance. CULTURAL STUDIES REVIEW, 17(1), 362-371.
2011 Luckman, S. (2011). Tropical cosmopolitanism and outdoor food markets in (post)colonial Australia. Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, 25(5), 653-667.
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2010 Brennan Horley, C., Luckman, S. H., Gibson, C., & Willoughby Smith, J. A. (2010). GIS, ethnography, and cultural research: putting maps back into ethnographic mapping. Information society, 26(2), 92-103.
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2010 Luckman, S. (2010). Road movies, national myths and the threat of the road: the shifting transformative space of the road in Australian film. International journal of the humanities, 8(1), 113-125.
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2010 Gibson, C., Luckman, S., & Willoughby Smith, J. (2010). Creativity without borders? Rethinking remoteness and proximity. Australian geographer, 41(1), 25-38.
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2009 Luckman, S. (2009). Creativity, the environment and the future of creative lifestyles: lessons from a creative tropical city. International journal of the humanities, 7(6), 1-9.
2009 Luckman, S. (2009). New information literacies: helping university students critically evaluate information online. International journal of learning, 16(6), 499-511.
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2009 Luckman, S., & Pacella, J. (2009). GIS mapping technologies and media discourse analysis: feedback from creative industries and social inequality project trials. International journal of interdisciplinary social sciences, 4(6), 101-114.
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2009 Luckman, S., Gibson, C., & Lea, T. (2009). Mosquitoes in the mix: how transferable is creative city thinking?. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 30(1), 70-85.
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2009 de Roeper, J., & Luckman, S. (2009). Future audiences for Australian stories: industry responses in a post-Web 2.0 world. Media International Australia, 130(130), 5-16.
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2009 Luckman, S. (2009). Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali Durham. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES, 12(2), 193-194.
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2009 Luckman, S. (2009). From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media. PERFECT BEAT, 10(1), 127-128.
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2008 Luckman, S., & de Roeper, J. (2008). Wagging the long tail: digital distribution and peripheral screen production industries'. Cultural science, 1(2), 1-10.
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2008 Luckman, S. (2008). Turning play into pay: digital literacies and lessons from the grass roots for the web 2.0 generation. Media International Australia, 128(128), 112-120.
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2008 Luckman, S. H. (2008). Editor's introduction to the 'sustaining culture papers'. Continuum : journal of media and cultural studies, 22(6), 737-746.
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2008 Luckman, S. H., Gibson, C., Willoughby Smith, J. A., & Brennan Horley, C. (2008). Life in a northern (Australian) town: Darwin's mercurial music scene. Continuum : journal of media and cultural studies, 22(5), 623-637.
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2007 Luckman, S. H. (2007). Review of Ellie Rennie, Community Media: A global introduction. Media International Australia.
2007 Luckman, S. (2007). Community media: A global introduction. MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA, (125), 148-149.
2005 Luckman, S. (2005). Remote control: New media, new ethics. AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST STUDIES, 20(47), 270-272.
2005 Luckman, S. (2005). Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy. CULTURAL STUDIES REVIEW, 11(1), 203-207.
2004 Luckman, S. H. (2004). Publication reviews : Pini, M (2001) Club cultures and female subjectivity : the move from home to house, Basingstoke and New York : Palgrave. Perfect Beat.
2004 Luckman, S. H. (2004). Graham St John, (ed), Rave culture and religion [review]. Media international Australia : incorporating culture and policy.
2004 Luckman, S. H. (2004). People like that : images of multiculturalism in the media. Australian Mosaic.
2004 Luckman, S. H. (2004). Shane Homan, the Mayor's a square : live music and law and order in Sydney [review]. Media International Australia : Incorporating culture and policy.
2004 Hearn, G., Ninan, A., Rogers, I., Cunningham, S., & Luckman, S. H. (2004). From the margins to the mainstream : creating value in Queensland's music industry. Media international Australia.
2003 Luckman, S. (2003). 'Gather 'round and I'll tell you a tale': a 'kiss 'n' tell' history of cultural studies. Continuum: journal of media & cultural studies, 17(4), 465-467.
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2003 Luckman, S. H. (2003). Going bush and finding one's 'tribe' : raving, escape and the bush doof. Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, 17(3), 315-330.
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2001 Luckman, S. H. (2001). What are they raving on about?: Temporary Autonomous Zones and Reclaiming the Streets. Perfect Beat.
2001 Luckman, S. (2001). The clubcultures reader: Readings in popular cultural studies. CULTURAL STUDIES, 15(3-4), 638-639.
2000 Luckman, S. (2000). Mapping the regulation of dance parties. Journal of Australian Studies, 24(64), 217-223.
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2000 Luckman, S. H. (2000). Mapping the regulation of dance Parties in Australia. Journal of Australian studies.
- Luckman, S. (n.d.). Forever young? (Mark Davis's "Gangland" book on cultural mainstream in Australia). OVERLAND, (151), 82-83.

Year Citation
2024 Luckman, S., & Thomas, N. (Eds.) (2024). Craft communities. UK: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
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2024 Luckman, S., & Thomas, N. (Eds.) (2024). Craft communities. UK: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
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2020 Taylor, S., & Luckman, S. (Eds.) (2020). Pathways into creative working lives. UK: Palgrave.
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2020 Taylor, S., & Luckman, S. (Eds.) (2020). Pathways into creative working lives. UK: Palgrave.
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2020 Luckman, S., & Andrew, J. (2020). Craftspeople and designer makers in the contemporary creative economy. Switzerland: Palgrave.
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2018 Taylor, S., & Luckman, S. (Eds.) (2018). The new normal of working lives critical studies in contemporary work and employment. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2018 Luckman, S., & Thomas, N. (Eds.) (2018). Craft economies. UK: Bloomsbury.
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2018 Luckman, S., & Thomas, N. (Eds.) (2018). Craft economies. UK: Bloomsbury.
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2015 Luckman, S. (2015). Craft and the creative economy. US: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2012 Luckman, S. (2012). Locating cultural work: the politics and poetics of rural, regional and remote creativity. UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2008 Bloustien, G., Peters, M., & Luckman, S. (Eds.) (2008). Sonic synergies: music, technology, community, identity. UK: Ashgate Publishing.
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2008 Bloustien, G., Peters, M., & Luckman, S. (Eds.) (2008). Sonic synergies: music, technology, community, identity. UK: Ashgate Publishing.
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2008 Cook, J., Luckman, S., & Murtic, M. (Eds.) (2008). Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA). Australia: CSAA, UniSA.
2001 Luckman, S. H., & Redden, G. (2001). The Sense of Translocal Community: Mediating SII (Fourth edition ed.). n/a: n/a.

Year Citation
2025 Luckman, S. (2025). Craft skills as enablers of care. In J. A. Carr (Ed.), Source details - Title: Designing through Planetary Breakdown: Locating Material Knowledge and Practical Skill (pp. 60-75). UK: Routledge.
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2024 Luckman, S., Luckman, S., & Thomas, N. (Eds.) (2024). Introduction: craft communities: continuity and discontinuity across time and place. In Source details - Title: Craft Communities (pp. 1-10). UK: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
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2024 Luckman, S., Luckman, S., & Thomas, N. (Eds.) (2024). Introduction: craft communities: continuity and discontinuity across time and place. In Source details - Title: Craft Communities (pp. 1-10). UK: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
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2020 Taylor, S., & Luckman, S. (2020). New pathways into creative work?. In S. Taylor, & S. Luckman (Eds.), Source details - Title: Pathways into Creative Working Lives (pp. 267-281). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2020 Taylor, S., & Luckman, S. (2020). Creative aspiration and the betrayal of promise? The experience of new creative workers. In S. Taylor, & S. Luckman (Eds.), Source details - Title: Pathways into Creative Working Lives (pp. 1-27). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2020 Luckman, S. (2020). People, places, and processes: crafting authenticity through situating the local in the global. In A. Dios, & L. Kong (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook on the Geographies of Creativity (pp. 162-178). US: Edward Elgar.
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2020 Luckman, S. (2020). 'Craftsperson', 'artist', 'designer': problematising the 'art versus commerce' divide within Australian creative fields today. In T. Bennett (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions (pp. 56-68). US: Routledge.
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2018 Taylor, S., & Luckman, S. (2018). Collection introduction: the 'new normal' of working lives. In S. Taylor, & S. Luckman (Eds.), Source details - Title: The new normal of working lives: critical studies in contemporary work and employment (pp. 1-15). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2018 Luckman, S., & Andrew, J. (2018). Organising the home as making space: crafting scale, identity, and boundary contestation. In E. Bell (Ed.), Source details - Title: The organization of craft work: identities, meanings and materiality (pp. 79-97). UK: Routledge.
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2018 Luckman, S., & Andrew, J. (2018). Establishing the crafting self in the contemporary creative economy. In S. Luckman, & N. Thomas (Eds.), Source details - Title: Craft economies (pp. 119-128). UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.
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2018 Luckman, S., & Thomas, N. (2018). Crafting economies: contemporary cultural economies of the handmade. In S. Luckman, & N. Thomas (Eds.), Source details - Title: Craft economies (pp. 1-14). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
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2018 Luckman, S., & Andrew, J. (2018). Online selling and the growth of home-based craft microenterprise: the 'new normal' of women's self-(under)employment. In S. Taylor, & S. Luckman (Eds.), Source details - Title: The new normal of working lives: critical studies in contemporary work and employment (pp. 19-39). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2017 Luckman, S. (2017). Cultural policy and creative industries. In V. Durrer, T. Miler, & D. O'Brien (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy (pp. 341-354). UK: Taylor and Francis.
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2016 Luckman, S. H. (2016). Micro-enterprise as work-life 'Magical Solution'. In L. Adkins, & M. Dever (Eds.), Source details - Title: The post-Fordist sexual contract : working and living in contingency (pp. 91-108). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2015 Luckman, S. (2015). 'The artists are taking over this town': lifestyle migration and regional creative capital. In J. McDonald, & R. Mason (Eds.), Source details - Title: Creative communities: regional inclusion and the arts (pp. 99-120). UK: University of Chicago Press.
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2014 Luckman, S. (2014). Location, spatiality and liminality at outdoor music festivals: doofs as journey. In A. Bennett, J. Taylor, & I. Woodward (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Festivalization of Culture (pp. 189-206). UK: Ashgate.
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2014 Luckman, S. (2014). Location, spatiality and liminality at outdoor music festivals: Doofs as journey. In Festivalization of Culture (pp. 189-207).
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2013 Luckman, S. (2013). Precariously mobile: Tensions between the local and the global in higher education approaches to cultural work. In Cultural Work and Higher Education (pp. 69-86). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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2013 Gibson, C., Luckman, S., & Brennan-Horley, C. (2013). (Putting) Mobile technologies in their place: A geographical perspective. In R. Wilken, & G. Goggin (Eds.), Mobile Technology and Place (pp. 123-139). Routledge.
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2013 Luckman, S. (2013). Precarious labour then and now: the British Arts and Crafts Movement and cultural work revisited. In M. Banks, & R. Gill (Eds.), Source details - Title: Theorizing cultural work: labour, continuity and change in the cultural and creative industries (pp. 19-29). UK: Routledge.
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2013 Luckman, S. (2013). Precariously mobile: tensions between the local and the global in higher education approaches to cultural work. In D. Ashton, & C. Noonan (Eds.), Source details - Title: Cultural work and higher education (pp. 69-86). United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2012 Gibson, C., Luckman, S., & Brennan Horley, C. (2012). (Putting) mobile technologies in their place: a geographical perspective. In R. Wilken, & G. Goggin (Eds.), Source details - Title: Mobile technology and place (pp. 123-139). US: Routledge.
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2012 Gibson, C., Luckman, S. H., & Willoughby Smith, J. A. (2012). Creativity without borders?: rethinking remoteness and proximity. In C. Gibson (Ed.), Source details - Title: Creativity in peripheral places: redefining the creative industries (Vol. 41, 1 ed., pp. 25-38). UK and New York: Routledge.
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2010 Luckman, S., & Potanin, R. (2010). Machinima: why think "games" when thinking "film"?. In M. Knobel (Ed.), Source details - Title: DIY media: creating, sharing and learning with new technologies (pp. 135-160). US: Peter Lang.
2008 Bloustien, G., Luckman, S., & Peters, M. (2008). Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises: reflections on the synergies of music in the creative knowledge economy. In Source details - Title: Sonic synergies: music, technology, community, identity (pp. xxi-xxviii). UK: Ashgate Publishing.
2008 Luckman, S. (2008). Introduction to part 2: placing music. In G. Bloustien, M. Peters, & S. Luckman (Eds.), Source details - Title: Sonic synergies: music, technology, community, identity (pp. 65-67). UK: Ashgate Publishing.
2008 Luckman, S. (2008). Up the down staircase: grassroots entrepreneurship in young people's music practices. In G. Bloustien, M. Peters, & S. Luckman (Eds.), Source details - Title: Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity (1st ed., pp. 195-209). UK: Ashgate Publishing.
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2008 Luckman, S. (2008). 'Unalienated labour' and creative industries: situating micro-entrepreneurial dance music subcultures in the new economy. In G. Bloustien, M. Peters, & S. Luckman (Eds.), Source details - Title: Sonic synergies: music, technology, community, identity (pp. 185-194). UK: Ashgate Publishing.
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2008 Luckman, S. (2008). Doof, dance and rave culture. In S. Homan, & T. Mitchell (Eds.), Source details - Title: Sounds of then, sounds of now: popular music in Australia (pp. 131-150). Australia: ACYS.
2008 Luckman, S. (2008). Music and the internet: filesharing, the iPod revolution and the industry of the future. In S. Homan, & T. Mitchell (Eds.), Source details - Title: Sounds of then, sounds of now: popular music in Australia (pp. 181-198). Australia: ACYS.
2004 Luckman, S. H. (2004). More than the sum of its parts : the humanities and communicating the 'hidden work' of research. In J. Kenway, & E. Robb (Eds.), Source details - Title: Innovation and Tradition : The Arts, Humanities and the Knowledge Economy (pp. 82-90). USA: Peter Lang.
2001 Luckman, S. H. (2001). Practice random acts : reclaiming the streets of Australia. In Source details - Title: FreeNRG : notes from the edge of the dance floor (pp. 322-347). Altona, Vic: Common Ground.
- Luckman, S. (n.d.). Precariously Mobile. In Cultural Work and Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Year Citation
2025 Luckman, S., Dziego, C., & Phillipov, M. (2025). Buying Local: A National Survey of Australian Consumer Preferences and Motivations. Australia: Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3).
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2023 Luckman, S., & Tower, A. (2023). The value of craft skills to the future of making in Australia. Australia: Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3), University of South Australia.
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2022 Luckman, S. (2022). Mentor=Mentee: a creative relationship (Final Report). Australia: University of South Australia.
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2021 Pacella, J., Luckman, S., & O'Connor, J. (2021). CP3 Working Paper 1: Keeping creative: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 emergency on the art and cultural sector & responses to it by governments, cultural agencies and the sector. Australia: University of South Australia.
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2020 Luckman, S. (2020). Mentor mentee: a creative relationship. Australia: University of South Australia.
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2019 Luckman, S., Andrew, J., & Taylor, S. (2019). Creative industries and the digital economy as drivers of EU integration and innovation (CIDEII). Australia: University of South Australia.
2018 Luckman, S., Andrew, J., & Crisp, T. (2018). Crafting self: promoting the making self in the creative micro-economy. Australia: University of South Australia.
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2009 Lea, T., Luckman, S., Gibson, C., Fitzpatrick, D., Brennan Horley, C., Willoughby Smith, J. A., & Hughes, K. (2009). Creative tropical city: mapping Darwin's creative industries. Australia: Charles Darwin University.
2008 Luckman, S., Willoughby Smith, J. A., & Brennan Horley, C. (2008). Creative tropical city: mapping Darwin's creative industries - ethnographic interviews progress report. Australia: Charles Darwin University.
2004 Rogers, I., Ninan, A., Hearn, G., Cunningham, S., & Luckman, S. H. (2004). Queensland music industry value web: from the margins to the mainstream. QLD: Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre (CIRAC).

2026-2029 ARC Discovery Project DP260102517 - Exploring Rural Women's Needs for Creative Spaces Through Co-design' (Category 1), with Prof Lia Bryant and Ass Prof Elizabeth Ellison, Adelaide University $AU502,244

Rural women make up a third of the nation’s female population but have more limited access to support services than urban counterparts. To help overcome this they crave women-only spaces for creative and social connection to combat social isolation. Through a series of co-design workshops and interviews with rural women the project will develop models for culturally diverse creative spaces that are unique to living in rural Australia. Based on robust evidence and successfully piloted approaches, expected outcomes from the project will directly address National Research Priorities providing models for rural women’s creative spaces. Benefits from the project include reduced social isolation and stronger individual and community wellbeing.

2026-2028 Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Digital Transformations (Category 3)

Distinguished Prof Anthony Elliott AM, Prof Susan Luckman FAHA, Prof Richard Pomfret, Dr Louis Everuss, Dr Ross Boyd, and Dr Eric Hsu ($352,288). Prof Luckman leads Work Package 3 ‘Creative Work in the age of GenAI’.

2022-2026 ARC Discovery Project DP220100110 - 'Artisanal Making and the Future of Small-Scale Local Production' (Category 1), with Dr Michelle Phillipov, $AU390,979

Artisanal making and the future of small-scale local production. Small-scale local production is essential to Australia’s post-COVID social and economic recovery. Employing a mixed methods approach, this project aims to identify the consumer identities, decision-making and sustainable artisanal production models underpinning contemporary demand for locally made goods. Moving innovatively beyond binaries of production/consumption and individual production sectors, the project expects to generate vital new knowledge about how markets for small-scale Australian production can be expanded. Expected outcomes of this project include the generation of robust data to inform strategies that will benefit operators in remaining competitive and support the development of new and emerging artisanal businesses.

2022-2025 UniSA Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (Category 3)

Prof Anthony Elliott, Prof Susan Luckman. Prof Robert Holton, Dr Eric Hsu, Dr Ross Boyd, Dr Louis Everuss ($156, 958). Prof Luckman leads Work Package 3 which explores the creative economy and workplace transformation. 

 2019-2024 ARC Discovery Project DP190100349 - The value of craft skills to the future of making in Australia (Category 1), $AU333,000 

This project aims to enhance the future of advanced manufacturing in Australia by mapping intersectional craft work within the Australian economy. Craft skills embedded and working in collaboration with industry are essential to innovation as Australia looks to develop high-end advanced manufacturing. This project will identify ways in which the skills of ‘making’ required to sustain and grow future manufacturing can be maintained and extended, supporting the survival and updating of current production; such skills will enable the kind of fertile ground out of which the innovation necessary for developing advanced manufacturing can grow.

2018 – 2021 Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Projects, Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (Category 3)

Prof Anthony Elliott, Prof Susan Luckman. Prof Robert Holton, Dr Eric Hsu, Dr Ross Boyd, Dr David Radford, Dr Louis Everuss ($157,735).

2018-2020 ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Project ‘Linked Semantic Platforms for Social and Physical Infrastructure and Wellbeing’ (LE180100094) (Category 1), $AU1,361,651

Through growing the information infrastructure and innovating the user interface of the Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO) https://apo.org.au/ the project aims to develop the next generation of decision-support tools for interdisciplinary research on critical public policy issues, thus further enabling the accessibility of university research to policy makers, NGOs, businesses and the public more generally. It uses linked open data, knowledge graphs and collaborations across existing research infrastructure projects. Expected outcomes include inter-operability across major social science databases and new analytical tools that will transform the research capabilities for evidence-based policy making. Outcomes are expected on sustainable built environments and transport in urban and regional communities, social care and health in the community, work and wellbeing, cultural policy and creative industries, digital inclusion and digital health. Led by Swinburne University of Technology.

2019-2021 Guildhouse/Ian Potter Foundation (Category 2)

Extending the work of the ARC project ‘Promoting the making self in the creative micro-economy’ this project will provide a research-informed evaluation of Guildhouse’s new 3 year ‘Catapult’ mentorship program which will be examining the impact of mentorships on artistic careers over time (UniSA income: Total over the project $21,000 -$11,000 in 2019; $6,000 in 2020; $4,000 in 2021)

2017-2019 Erasmus+ Programme Jean Monnet Activities (Category 3) 587080-EPP-1-2017-1-AU-EPPJMO-PROJECT "Creative Industries and the Digital Economy as Drivers of EU Integration and Innovation (CIDEII)" €60,000 ($AU90,000), Project Leader

2017-2018 Cheney Senior Fellowship, University of Leeds

2015-2018 ARC Discovery Project DP150100485 - Promoting the making self in the creative micro-economy (Category 1), $AU326,019

The project will analyse a new workplace phenomenon: not simply the negotiation of work–life or public–private boundaries, but their deliberate collapse. Focussing on handmade creative micro-enterprise, it will identify the ‘self-making’ skills for success in the competitive ‘long tail’ craft marketplace. By examining the soft skills required to engage in online retail, the research will identify ways of improving the ability of creative Australians to run a micro-enterprise. It will advance the knowledge base of interdisciplinary scholarship on creative industries, cultural work, and on the impact of social media upon work/life relationships and personal privacy and identity construction.

2014-2017 Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations (Category 3), European Commission, Total $AU723,550

The Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations seeks to develop dialogue and cooperation between the European community and Australia in regards to matters of migration, asylum and refugee protection. Susan Luckman - Lead Investigator of Work Package on ‘Creative Industries and Work Mobilities: The Movement of Skilled EU and Australian Knowledge Workers in the Global Economy’ Work Package

2006-2008 ARC Linkage Project LP0667445 - Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin's Creative Industries (Category 1), $AU229,000

Ass. Prof. Tess Lea (CDU), Dr Susan Luckman (UniSA), and Prof. Chris Gibson (Wollongong). Partner Organisations: NT Tourist Commission, Darwin City Council and Department of Chief Minister. Administering Institution: Charles Darwin University

2005-2007 ARC (Australian Research Council) Research Network Funding (Category 5)

Dr Susan Luckman, ECR and Postgraduate Development Node Convenor 

 

 

 

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor Local Government and the Promotion of Cultural Economy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Tara Poole
2021 Co-Supervisor From Policy Makers to Policy Takers: The Impact of Neoliberalism on the Arts Council of Australia, Finland, and Ireland Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Satu Teppo

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