EOI: Call for Participants in the Arts and Creative Industries - Share Your Journey
Help shape the future of the arts sector
As part of our Scoping Creative Futures: Career Journey Mapping project, Service and Creative Skills Australia (SaCSA) is addressing ongoing workforce shortages by uncovering the gaps, challenges and opportunities within career pathways across the Arts. The project aims to capture real-world career pathways across Performing Arts; Visual Arts, Craft and Design; Writing and Publishing; Digital Games; Screen; and Music.
We are mapping creative, technical and administrative roles to better understand:
- How careers begin and progress
- Common transition points and challenges
- Skills development pathways
- Barriers to attraction and retention
Insights from this work will support improved training pathways, workforce planning and policy development.
Who can participate?
We are seeking people who are currently working, or have recently worked, in the below industries:
- Performing Arts
- Visual Arts, Craft and Design
- Writing and Publishing
- Digital Games
- Screen
- Music
We are interested in hearing from people at all career stages, including:
- Emerging practitioners
- Mid-career professionals
- Senior leaders
- Freelancers, sole traders and employees
We welcome participation from people in metropolitan, regional and remote areas.
What is involved?
Participation will include:
- A one-on-one online interview (approximately 45 to 60 minutes), and/or
- An online validation workshop with peers (approximately 60 to 90 minutes)
Sessions will be conducted online and scheduled at mutually convenient times. You may be invited to participate in one or both activities, depending on your interest and availability.
By taking part, you will:
Contribute
Help
Support
Ensure
Important Information
SaCSA does not provide honorariums for participation in research interviews, workshops, or consultation activities.
Our role as the Jobs and Skills Council for the arts and creative industries is to bring together professional insights from across the sector to inform workforce planning, policy advice, and system-level reform. Participation in our work is voluntary and is an opportunity for you to contribute towards shaping how the arts workforce is recognised, supported, and developed nationally.
We value the expertise and experience shared by those who take part and acknowledge the important role these contributions play in strengthening the future of the sector.
Information collected through this form will be used for the purposes of the Career Journey Mapping project and related workforce planning activities. Your data will be handled in accordance with SaCSA’s privacy obligations. We use a secure, custom AI tool to assist with organising data and identifying themes. No video or audio recordings are used, and all written content is de-identified (with personal details removed) before any analysis takes place. The data is not used to train AI models and is deleted once the task is complete.