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Jen WEBB

Distinguished Professor, Creative Practice

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4912-7021
1997 …2026

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Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra. She was the inaugural director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research (2013 to 2019), and remains a core member of that Centre; and was Dean, Graduate Research Office, from 2019 to 2023.
 
 
Her main research interest is the relationship between what Pierre Bourdieu termed 'the field of cultural production'—the broad sphere of creative practice—and the social domain, including the political and sociocultural, the practical and the economic, the local and the global. Her current major projects investigate aspects of creativity, and creative production, and the creative producer, and she has been supported in this by several ARC Discovery projects. Her focus is now primarily on arts/health intersections.
 
Academics working in the creative field typically have their own creative practice, and Jen's works include lyric and prose poetry, short fictions, and artist books. She is the holder of the inaugural ACT Poet of the Year Award, as well as many other literary awards. She was the ACT editor for the Australian Book Review's States of Poetry mini-anthologies (2015–2017), chair of the NSW Premier's Literary Award (Kenneth Slessor Award for Poetry, 2017–2018), and is co-editor of the Australasian Association of Writing Program's literary journal, Meniscus, and of the scholarly journal Axon: Creative Explorations.
 
Jen's recent works include the scholarly volumes Gender and the Creative Labour Market (with Scott Brook et al., Palgrave 2022); Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts (with Caroline Turner; Manchester UP, 2016); Researching Creative Writing (Frontinus, 2015); and the Oxford University Press bibliography entry for Pierre Bourdieu (2017). Her recent volumes of poetry include The Daily News (Recent Work Press 2024, shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year 2025); Moving Targets (RWP 2018); and Stolen Stories, Borrowed Lines (Mark Time Press, 2015).  

Education/Academic qualification

Master, Master of Research Management and Commercialisation, Queensland University of Technology

Award Date: 23 Jul 2014

PhD, Preparing a Labyrinth: doctor of creative arts, University of Technology Sydney

Award Date: 29 Sept 2008

PhD, Artistic production in the Central Queensland region: politics and practice, Central Queensland University

Award Date: 27 Jun 1998

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

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