Interdisciplinarity in practice: Casual academics, regional universities and doctoral supervision

It is impossible to ignore the importance of interdisciplinarity within the creative arts for our students and also our supervisors. Those of us in regional areas and universities will inevitably find ourselves in a position where we are having to reach beyond our discipline skills, and in fact often find critical mass within other fields completely (for example, nursing or tourism) because of the limitations of smaller disciplines and campuses. While discipline expertise cannot and should not be ignored, embracing broad interdisciplinarity can perhaps be a beacon in precarious industries like arts and academia.