Research to accredit young people in the arts

A new project aims to improve the employment profile of young arts workers through micro-credentials.

Young people will soon be accredited for the invaluable skills they learn while taking part in youth arts activities, thanks to a newly funded research project conducted by universities and the Australian Council for the Arts.

The Australian Research Council linkage project, Vital arts: young people and skills for their futures will be run by researchers at RMIT, RMIT Vietnam, Deakin University, and the Australian Council and was awarded $900,000 for research to be conducted between early 2022 and 2024.

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Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.