Dr Elizabeth Ellison is the Deputy Dean (Research) for the School of Education and the Arts. She is Manager and Chief Investigator of a number of regional arts projects, including the Savannah Way Public Art Trail and the Regional Arts Services Network (2022 – 2025), funded through Arts Queensland. Until 2021, Dr Ellison was also the Academic Coordinator of ‘CARTA’, a Creative Arts Research Training Academy for postgraduate research students at CQU. She previously has completed research work on an OLT grant investigating higher degree research supervision in the creative arts, and with a number of regional arts projects with industry partners such as Sunshine Coast Council, Bundaberg Regional Council and Artslink Queensland.