Australian Creative Graduate Tracking Studies
Dr Ruth Bridgstock
‘Say Goodbye to the Fries’ study
n=403
Phone surveys of QUT graduates 2000-2010
23 degrees: media/comms, mass comms, journalism, humanities, cultural studies
‘Say Goodbye to the Fries’ studyDestinations of Australian humanities graduates
80% full-time employment
70% at degree level or higher
25% embedded; 39% specialist; 3.3% support (media/com grads high levels of embeddedness)
62% directly related to area of study
65% private sector; 29% government
film, tv & radio
publishing
music
performing arts
visual arts
Cultural production disciplines
precarious creative labour
creative graduate oversupply
creative value
Graduates 2006-2013Cross-sectional retrospective
N = 913 graduates
<1 to 6 years after course completionWeb survey
Queensland University of Technology
Griffith University
James Cook University
University of Sydney
University of Melbourne
Curtin University
University of Tasmania
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Edith Cowan University
Swinburne University
University partners
1. Early career trajectories
2. Career patterns – the ‘creative trident’ & the portfolio career
3. Career aspirations
4. Creative value-add through career
5. Capabilities, reflections on course experiences
6. Creative diaspora & career movements
7. Career building strategies
8. Process of career identity growth and transformation
Topics covered
Preliminary top-level findings
Multi disciplinarity
Embedded work
Creative value in ‘non-creative’ work
Prior / subsequent tertiary study
Subsequent study339 (37.01%)
Prior / concurrent study 269 (23.37%)
55.4%
13.0%18.6%
12.3%
25.3%
14.1%
Cultural ProductionEducationSTEM, HealthBusiness/Man-agementHumanitiesCreative Services
38.94%
28.91%
22.42%
11.50%
9.44%
7.96%
more than half have formal qualifications outside their discipline of cultural production
Career patterns
CI Sectors Non-CI SectorsCI Occupations 33.99% 10.94%Non-CI Occupations
7.95% 47.12%
Current jobsavg = 1.4 jobs per graduate
46.77% in full-time employment
1-5 employability rating M=4.12 (SD=1.02)
Career patterns
44.93% current jobs = ‘creative occupations’
‘Non-creative work’ vs ‘creative work’?
64.4% of participants with ‘non-creative’ jobs say that at in at least one of these jobs they add significant creative value
‘administration officer’
‘teacher’
Adding creative value in ‘non-creative’ jobs
creative value career satisfaction
public speaking / performance
visual aesthetic / design input
writing / editing
critical thinking
imagination / creative views / ideas
0.00% 20.00% 40.00% 60.00% 80.00% 100.00%
37.00%
40.10%
42.00%
52.60%
57.10%
Australian Creative Graduate Tracking Studies
Dr Ruth Bridgstock
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