# REACH

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Department of Economics
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Level 4, 4 Eastern Road
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Macquarie University Wallumattagal Campus NSW 2109

Learn more about the researchers working in REACH

[Emeritus Professor David Throsby](https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/david-throsby/publications/)
[Associate Professor Jordi McKenzie](https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/jordi-mckenzie/publications/)
[Dr Paul Crosby](https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/paul-crosby/projects/)

## Global research in arts and culture economics

The Research in the Economics of the Arts, Culture and Heritage (REACH) network conduct applied research in the economics of the arts and culture.

The REACH network has an extraordinary record of international collaborative activities involving universities, international organisations, federal and state government agencies, NGOs, and business corporations in the arts and culture including UNESCO, the World Bank, the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Federal Government.

Our research areas include:

- arts professionals
- copyright and digital rights management
- culture in sustainable development
- demand for cultural goods and services
- evaluation of cultural heritage
- impact of digital distribution platforms
- the creative economy.

### Research reports

National survey of remote Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander artists:

- [Integrating Art Production and Economic Development in the Kimberley](https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/groups/research-in-the-economics-of-the-arts,-culture-and-heritage-reach/publications/KimberleyReport_final28Nov.pdf)
- [Remote Indigenous Cultural Practitioners in East Arnhem Land: Survey Methodology and Results](https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/groups/research-in-the-economics-of-the-arts,-culture-and-heritage-reach/publications/01_2015_RemoteIndigenousCulturalPractitioners_Final.pdf)

Individual artists survey (2016):

- [Making Art Work: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia](https://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/705869/making-art-work-throsby-report-5a05106d0bb69.pdf)

The Australian Book Industry: Authors, publishers and readers in a time of change:

- [Australian Book Readers: Survey Methods and Results](https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/groups/research-in-the-economics-of-the-arts,-culture-and-heritage-reach/publications/Readers-Report-10-05-17_final.pdf)
- [Book Authors and their Changing Circumstances: Survey Method and Results](https://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/705865/BookAuthors_WorkingPaper_2015.pdf)
- [Disruption and Innovation in the Australian Book Industry: Case Studies of Trade and\
  Education Publishers](https://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/705866/DisruptionandInnovationintheAustralianBookIndustryFINAL16Feb.pdf)