Artists in the University

Jenny Wilson is an honorary fellow at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne.  During a long career as a senior administrator in Australian and UK universities, she has been instrumental in the establishment of many new higher-education initiatives and centres of research excellence. She was invited as a consultant to the European Commission’s Green Paper on Innovation in 1995 and played a key role in the development of the Forum on European-Australian Science and Technology cooperation (FEAST).  She is now an independent consultant to universities and academic organisations.  She acts as research officer for the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts and is editor of their online publication, ‘NiTRO’. Jenny’s research interests centre on the relationship between the university, its management systems and the ‘academic tribes’ which inhabit them. She is a regular contributor to the discussion on artistic research in the higher-education sector. She has an honours degree in law (LLB), a professional postgraduate qualification from the UK Chartered Institute for Marketing and a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Foreword.- Artists in the University: An introduction.-  Worlds colliding - the ongoing influence of amalgamation.- The University as a Site for Artistic Practice .- Is Artistic Practice Research?.- Artistic Research Within National Research Policy.- Artistic Research and university research management practices.- Institutional research management from the inside.- Beyond Equivalency:  Repositioning Artistic Research Within higher education.- Appendix.