Scott Brook

Scott Brook is Associate Professor of Communication in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, where he was Associate Dean for the Communication Discipline from 2018–2021. Prior to joining RMIT, he was Associate Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra, where he was a fulltime Research Fellow from 2014–2016.

Scott Brook is a communication and cultural studies researcher and teacher with a focus on work in the Creative and Cultural Industries. He has expertise in sociological approaches to creative vocations and the cultural field, including qualitative and quantitative approaches to studying creative labour. He is currently a Chief Investigator on ARC Linkage Project 'Creative industries pathways to youth employment in the COVID-19 recession' (LP200301027: 2021–23), which will build and trial a suite of micro-credentials to understand how digital badges articulate creative skills. He was previously a Lead Chief Investigator and Chief Investigator on two ARC Discovery projects studying creative graduate pathways in Australia and the UK: 'So what do you do?: Tracking creative graduates in Australia and the UK's Creative and Cultural Industries' (DP160101440: 2016–2021) and 'Working the Field: Creative graduates in Melbourne and Shanghai' (DP150101477: 2015–2017). He has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra (2014–16), Visiting Lecturer in the Cultural Management program, Strasbourg University (2017), and visiting scholar at the School of Communications, Shanghai Jiaotong University (2015), the Cultural Economy program, Monash (2014), and a Distinguished Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra (2022).

Scott Brook has long been active in the cultural policy and arts sectors in Australia, having undertaken cultural planning studies for local government, given evidence at a Senate Inquiry into Commonwealth arts funding, and received project funding and commissions from a range of bodies, including Copyright Agency Limited, SBS, and the Australia Council.