Personal
- Name
- Dr Ruth Bridgstock
- Position(s)
- Lecturer
Creative Industries Faculty,
CIF Academic Programs,
Academic Programs and Services - Discipline *
- Communication and Media Studies, Performing Arts and Creative Writing
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 8587
- r.bridgstock@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
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PhD (Queensland University of Technology), M Ed (Higher Education) (Queensland University of Technology)
Biography
Ruth is Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow. She researches lifelong individual creative career development in the 21st century, and how higher and further education can contribute to creative career success. Ruth’s fellowship project Creating Innovators is concerned with building and testing theory relating to effective university education for careers in the innovation sectors.
She also co-ordinates the core first year units of the Bachelor of Creative Industries program.
Teaching
Dr Ruth Bridgstock co-ordinates two large core first year units within the Bachelor of Creative Industries, and also teaches into the Master of Creative Industries. Her focus areas of teaching and scholarship are career identity development, creative entrepreneurship, and quantitative research methododologies. Ruth is an accredited supervisor for Honours, Masters and Doctoral studies. Current student research projects include:
- social learning in the digital content industries
- innovative teaching for creativity in higher education
- mid career shifts among Australian opera singers
- career paths of Australian technical production professionals
- teaching ‘digital natives’ in vocational education contexts
Publications
- Bridgstock R, (2011) Making it creatively: building sustainable careers in the arts and creative industries, Australian Career Practitioner Magazine p11-13
- Bridgstock R, Dawson S, Hearn G, (2011) Cultivating innovation through social relationships: A qualitative study of outstanding Australian innovators in science and technology and the creative industries, Technology for Creativity and Innovation: Tools, Techniques and Applications p104-120
- Bridgstock RS, (2011) Skills for creative industries graduate success, Education and Training p9-26
- Hearn G, Bridgstock RS, (2010) Education for the creative economy: Innovation, transdisciplinarity and networks, Education in the Creative Economy p93-115
- Bridgstock RS, Lettice F, Ozbilgin MA, Tatli A, (2010) Diversity management for innovation in social enterprises in the UK, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development p557-574
- Bridgstock RS, (2009) The graduate attributes we've overlooked: Enhancing graduate employability through career management skills, Higher Education Research and Development (HERDSA) p31-44
- McWilliam EL, Bridgstock R, Lawson AJ, Evans T, Taylor PG, (2008) Who's Dean today? Acting and interim management as paradoxes of the contemporary university, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management p297-307
- Bridgstock RS, (2007) Self-Motivated and Self-Managing: Predicting Tertiary Arts Graduate Career Success Using a Prospective Regression Tree Approach, Partnerships for World Graduates Conference 2007 p1-14
- Bridgstock RS, (2007) Development of a Brief Measure of Career Development Influences Based on the Systems Theory Framework, Australian Journal of Career Development p19-30
- Bridgstock R, (2005) Australian Artists, Starving and Well-Nourished: What Can We Learn from the Prototypical Protean Career?, Australian Journal of Career Development p40-48
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
