Craig Batty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Batty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Batty |
| SIGNATURE | BATTY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8542-4763 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Australian screenwriting
Australian screen storytelling is in a state of crisis. Culturally relevant stories that reflect the sensibility of Australians are disappearing from our television and cinema screens and rarely appear on the streamers. This has occurred while government ministers proclaim Australian stories are essential to well-being, social cohesion, and nation-building. In this article we argue that underlying the quantitative drop in Australian drama is a mo…
Evaluating creative practice research
It has been widely noted that creative practice research agitates in positive ways certain attitudes, understandings and/or practices towards ‘knowledge’ and ‘research’ within the university context. Not only this, or partly because of this, creative practice research complicates established scholarly protocols of assessment and evaluation. This has been a topic of concern and debate for the field for the past 30 years (since the emergence of the…
Research, practice, knowledge
Amongst a myriad of articles, chapters and books that argue for different ways to understand and conduct creative practice research – or as it is otherwise known, artistic research, arts-based research, practice-led research, practitioner-based research, and so on – this article goes to the heart of the affordances of creative practice research and offers what the authors believe is more generative model for this work, with more productive termin…
An action research evaluation using films in a workshop for nursing clinical educators
Clinical nurse educators within Queensland, Australia, tend to be selected for the job based on their clinical expertise and consequently may lack knowledge of educational theories and practices. Within the Nursing School in which this project was based, there is interest in developing expertise in Transformative Learning theory. To share this knowledge with clinical educators, a workshop was designed using short films produced by the research te…
One for the team
Drawing on interviews from industry professionals, this article explores both the collaborative and, less documented, individual manifestations of script development. Researchers have noted that within screenwriting and screen production, script development practices and processes defy definition over various modes, media, global contexts and production cultures. This article argues that part of this flux is the ways in which individual pursuits …
Collaborative story development across the creative arts and nursing
This article describes an interdisciplinary creative collaboration between a group of academic researchers from the creative arts and nursing education, along with professional actors, who co-created a series of short film scenarios for pedagogic impact. The scenarios were intended to improve the experiences of nursing students on placement by supporting nurse educators to experiment with a transformative learning praxis in their pre-and post-pla…
Creative histories’ and the Australian context
This article brings together a group of history practitioners who, prompted by their experiences of creative approaches to the theory and practice of history, are exploring how the term ‘Creative Histories’ might apply within the Australian context. While the term and practice of Creative Histories has gained international currency in recent years, little has been done to consider its development and relevance in Australia. Here we develop a work…
Vectors of knowledge exchange
The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture
Mapping the emotional journey of the doctoral ‘hero’
This article discusses how doctoral candidates identify and navigate personal learning challenges on their journey to becoming researchers. Our study asked creative arts and humanities candidates to think beyond the research project itself and reflect on emotional hurdles they were facing or had overcome. The findings point to a great deal of ‘invisible’ work that underpins doctoral study, and show that such hidden work can have a major influence…
Hass PhD graduate careers and knowledge transfer
Rising worldwide scrutiny of the PhD has focused on issues such as return on investment and career outcomes. This article investigates PhD graduate careers and knowledge transfer looking at the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). Firstly, our extensive literature review of PhD graduate outcomes reveals limited knowledge of HASS careers and a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) bias. Secondly, our case study of graduat…
The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production
Screen Production Research
Exploring a new era of screen production research
Writing from the perspective of the peak body for screen production education and research in Australia, ASPERA, the authors report on a research symposium held in 2017 that brought together the academy and industry to explore strategies for what the engagement and impact agenda might mean for the ASPERA community. In this context they explore what engagement looks like and how it can be structured as a pathway to impact; the implications and mec…
Screen Production Research
Not just for laughs
This article examines how the inclusion of a pilot as part of the proposal for a narrative comedy series, which might include the web series as pilot, can increase the chances of the project being commissioned by a television network. It draws on a series of interviews conducted with Australian television comedy writers, producers and commissioners, and funding agencies, about the importance of the pilot in the pitching process. This includes the…
Collaboration, critique and a community of peers
In response to both my own desire for professional development and candidates' desires for more support, in 2012 I began to coordinate a peer-to-peer learning group for creative writing research degree students at RMIT University. Still going strong over three years later, the group brings together creative practice higher degree by research (HDR) candidates working in areas such as prose fiction and nonfiction, screenwriting, poetry and digital …
The problem of peer review in screen production
With traditional academic work, the process of peer review is seemingly clear – work is refereed as a way of gatekeeping ideas and research contributions, to ensure it is not publicly available until it has passed a test of rigour, originality, clarity and significance to the field. Those with assumed knowledge of the discipline are the said gatekeepers, tasked with assessing the work on the basis of disciplinary knowledge and general research ex…
Show, don't tell
‘Show, don’t tell’ is a well-known – if not clichéd – screenwriting principle, ingrained in\npractitioners to encourage them to use the visuality of the screen to tell their stories\nrather than rely on dialogue. This includes using actions, objects and worlds to create\nmeaning, and giving performers things to do to show the backstory and inner landscape\nof their character. It is also a principle that a director or cinematographer might use on-…
A question of ethics
As journalism programmes continue to grow, journalism research – especially that which is practice-based – is declining. In Australia this is recognised by fewer universities submitting research outputs to the ‘Journalism and Professional Writing’ Field of Research Code, and in the latest Excellence in Research for Australia evaluation, no university scoring above 3 (‘at world standard’) out of 5 (‘well above world standard’). For journalists tra…
A screenwriter's journey into theme, and how creative writing research might help us to define screen production research
Although critical works relevant to screen production research exist, they are often fragmented (screen production placed alongside general media production) and, I want to suggest, not brave enough to embrace the term screen production research. With ‘dirty’ connotations to an industry some see far removed from the academy, screen production research has not yet been able to justify its existence, unlike, for example, the discipline of creative …
Looking back in order to look forward
Filmmakers who are also academics want to make creative works as research. This has proven to be a challenging and time-consuming objective for practitioner-academics, despite governmental policy (namely, Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)) advocating non-traditional research outputs. For example, it is one thing to make a\nfilm as research – but it is another to have it recognised as research within an institution, which usually includes…
Constellations and connections
The academic space for creative practice research is dynamic and ‘is always in the process of being made. It is never finished: never closed’ [Massey, D. 2005. For Space. London: Sage, 9]. It is a research space filled with constellations of connections, which serves as a vital incubator for risk taking, reflexivity and fearless critical thinking. Higher degree by research candidates working in this space move fluidly between thinking and making,…
Show Me Your Slugune and I'll Let You Have the Firstlook
Today's market is inundated with digital screenwriting tools and apps. From the introduction of formatting software that promised to give writers access to industry standard screenplay layout (Final Draft, Celtx) comes an era in which technologists are seeking to influence screenwriting practice itself (Scrivener, Slugline, Plotbot, StorySkeleton). Although perhaps not as explicit in their claims of success as the plethora of seminars by screenwr…
Hass PhD graduate careers and knowledge transfer
Rising worldwide scrutiny of the PhD has focused on issues such as return on investment and career outcomes. This article investigates PhD graduate careers and knowledge transfer looking at the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). Firstly, our extensive literature review of PhD graduate outcomes reveals limited knowledge of HASS careers and a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) bias. Secondly, our case study of graduat…
Creative histories’ and the Australian context
This article brings together a group of history practitioners who, prompted by their experiences of creative approaches to the theory and practice of history, are exploring how the term ‘Creative Histories’ might apply within the Australian context. While the term and practice of Creative Histories has gained international currency in recent years, little has been done to consider its development and relevance in Australia. Here we develop a work…
Show Me Your Slugune and I'll Let You Have the Firstlook
Today's market is inundated with digital screenwriting tools and apps. From the introduction of formatting software that promised to give writers access to industry standard screenplay layout (Final Draft, Celtx) comes an era in which technologists are seeking to influence screenwriting practice itself (Scrivener, Slugline, Plotbot, StorySkeleton). Although perhaps not as explicit in their claims of success as the plethora of seminars by screenwr…
A screenwriter's journey into theme, and how creative writing research might help us to define screen production research
Although critical works relevant to screen production research exist, they are often fragmented (screen production placed alongside general media production) and, I want to suggest, not brave enough to embrace the term screen production research. With ‘dirty’ connotations to an industry some see far removed from the academy, screen production research has not yet been able to justify its existence, unlike, for example, the discipline of creative …
Looking back in order to look forward
Filmmakers who are also academics want to make creative works as research. This has proven to be a challenging and time-consuming objective for practitioner-academics, despite governmental policy (namely, Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)) advocating non-traditional research outputs. For example, it is one thing to make a\nfilm as research – but it is another to have it recognised as research within an institution, which usually includes…
Constellations and connections
The academic space for creative practice research is dynamic and ‘is always in the process of being made. It is never finished: never closed’ [Massey, D. 2005. For Space. London: Sage, 9]. It is a research space filled with constellations of connections, which serves as a vital incubator for risk taking, reflexivity and fearless critical thinking. Higher degree by research candidates working in this space move fluidly between thinking and making,…
Collaboration, critique and a community of peers
In response to both my own desire for professional development and candidates' desires for more support, in 2012 I began to coordinate a peer-to-peer learning group for creative writing research degree students at RMIT University. Still going strong over three years later, the group brings together creative practice higher degree by research (HDR) candidates working in areas such as prose fiction and nonfiction, screenwriting, poetry and digital …
The problem of peer review in screen production
With traditional academic work, the process of peer review is seemingly clear – work is refereed as a way of gatekeeping ideas and research contributions, to ensure it is not publicly available until it has passed a test of rigour, originality, clarity and significance to the field. Those with assumed knowledge of the discipline are the said gatekeepers, tasked with assessing the work on the basis of disciplinary knowledge and general research ex…
Show, don't tell
‘Show, don’t tell’ is a well-known – if not clichéd – screenwriting principle, ingrained in\npractitioners to encourage them to use the visuality of the screen to tell their stories\nrather than rely on dialogue. This includes using actions, objects and worlds to create\nmeaning, and giving performers things to do to show the backstory and inner landscape\nof their character. It is also a principle that a director or cinematographer might use on-…
A question of ethics
As journalism programmes continue to grow, journalism research – especially that which is practice-based – is declining. In Australia this is recognised by fewer universities submitting research outputs to the ‘Journalism and Professional Writing’ Field of Research Code, and in the latest Excellence in Research for Australia evaluation, no university scoring above 3 (‘at world standard’) out of 5 (‘well above world standard’). For journalists tra…
Screen Production Research
Not just for laughs
This article examines how the inclusion of a pilot as part of the proposal for a narrative comedy series, which might include the web series as pilot, can increase the chances of the project being commissioned by a television network. It draws on a series of interviews conducted with Australian television comedy writers, producers and commissioners, and funding agencies, about the importance of the pilot in the pitching process. This includes the…
Screen Production Research
Exploring a new era of screen production research
Writing from the perspective of the peak body for screen production education and research in Australia, ASPERA, the authors report on a research symposium held in 2017 that brought together the academy and industry to explore strategies for what the engagement and impact agenda might mean for the ASPERA community. In this context they explore what engagement looks like and how it can be structured as a pathway to impact; the implications and mec…
Mapping the emotional journey of the doctoral ‘hero’
This article discusses how doctoral candidates identify and navigate personal learning challenges on their journey to becoming researchers. Our study asked creative arts and humanities candidates to think beyond the research project itself and reflect on emotional hurdles they were facing or had overcome. The findings point to a great deal of ‘invisible’ work that underpins doctoral study, and show that such hidden work can have a major influence…
Hass PhD graduate careers and knowledge transfer
Rising worldwide scrutiny of the PhD has focused on issues such as return on investment and career outcomes. This article investigates PhD graduate careers and knowledge transfer looking at the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). Firstly, our extensive literature review of PhD graduate outcomes reveals limited knowledge of HASS careers and a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) bias. Secondly, our case study of graduat…
The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production
Vectors of knowledge exchange
The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture
Collaborative story development across the creative arts and nursing
This article describes an interdisciplinary creative collaboration between a group of academic researchers from the creative arts and nursing education, along with professional actors, who co-created a series of short film scenarios for pedagogic impact. The scenarios were intended to improve the experiences of nursing students on placement by supporting nurse educators to experiment with a transformative learning praxis in their pre-and post-pla…
Creative histories’ and the Australian context
This article brings together a group of history practitioners who, prompted by their experiences of creative approaches to the theory and practice of history, are exploring how the term ‘Creative Histories’ might apply within the Australian context. While the term and practice of Creative Histories has gained international currency in recent years, little has been done to consider its development and relevance in Australia. Here we develop a work…
An action research evaluation using films in a workshop for nursing clinical educators
Clinical nurse educators within Queensland, Australia, tend to be selected for the job based on their clinical expertise and consequently may lack knowledge of educational theories and practices. Within the Nursing School in which this project was based, there is interest in developing expertise in Transformative Learning theory. To share this knowledge with clinical educators, a workshop was designed using short films produced by the research te…
One for the team
Drawing on interviews from industry professionals, this article explores both the collaborative and, less documented, individual manifestations of script development. Researchers have noted that within screenwriting and screen production, script development practices and processes defy definition over various modes, media, global contexts and production cultures. This article argues that part of this flux is the ways in which individual pursuits …
Research, practice, knowledge
Amongst a myriad of articles, chapters and books that argue for different ways to understand and conduct creative practice research – or as it is otherwise known, artistic research, arts-based research, practice-led research, practitioner-based research, and so on – this article goes to the heart of the affordances of creative practice research and offers what the authors believe is more generative model for this work, with more productive termin…
Australian screenwriting
Australian screen storytelling is in a state of crisis. Culturally relevant stories that reflect the sensibility of Australians are disappearing from our television and cinema screens and rarely appear on the streamers. This has occurred while government ministers proclaim Australian stories are essential to well-being, social cohesion, and nation-building. In this article we argue that underlying the quantitative drop in Australian drama is a mo…
Evaluating creative practice research
It has been widely noted that creative practice research agitates in positive ways certain attitudes, understandings and/or practices towards ‘knowledge’ and ‘research’ within the university context. Not only this, or partly because of this, creative practice research complicates established scholarly protocols of assessment and evaluation. This has been a topic of concern and debate for the field for the past 30 years (since the emergence of the…
Sociology (18 works) · Artistic and Creative Research (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Visual arts (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (8 works) · Engineering ethics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)