Ruth Rentschler OAM has held leadership roles in the Business School at the University of South Australia, such as Head School of Management and Associate Dean: Research Education. She is Professor Arts and Cultural Leadership. She has more than 25 years’ experience working in governance, management and marketing in the non-profit sphere at local, state, national and international levels. Ruth has significant leadership experience in entrepreneurial, start-up, business, government and higher education positions in roles such as Research Centre Director, Chair Academic Board and Discipline Leader, to name a few. She is a DAAD scholar, a St Hilda's College, University of Melbourne scholar and recipient of various awards and... Read more
About me
Ruth Rentschler OAM has held leadership roles in the Business School at the University of South Australia, such as Head School of Management and Associate Dean: Research Education. She is Professor Arts and Cultural Leadership. She has more than 25 years’ experience working in governance, management and marketing in the non-profit sphere at local, state, national and international levels. Ruth has significant leadership experience in entrepreneurial, start-up, business, government and higher education positions in roles such as Research Centre Director, Chair Academic Board and Discipline Leader, to name a few. She is a DAAD scholar, a St Hilda's College, University of Melbourne scholar and recipient of various awards and prizes. She graduated first class honours, first place, from the University of Melbourne. She completed her PhD at Monash University.
Ruth's long service on non-profit boards includes health, for e.g., VicHealth; arts for e.g., Australian Dance Theatre, No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Multicultural Arts Victoria and the Duldig Museum and Sculpture Garden, in education, for e.g., Deakin University Council, Chair Academic Board. She is chair of the board of Australian Dance Theatre. Her interest in governance is wide and deep, linking research, policy and praxis. She is a member of the Contemporary collector's Commitee at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
She has conducted governance research in Australia for visual arts organisations, arts ministries, performing arts organisations (to name a few) and has spoken internationally on the topic in the UK, Europe and Asia as an invited key note speaker. Ruth's other research interests focus on diversity and inclusion in the cultural and creative and cultural industries. During her time in universities, she has been active in obtaining research grants (including category 1 grants) to investigate social and economic policy issues. In 2015, Ruth completed a research monograph on arts governance as the first in a series on the cultural and creative industries for Routledge, Oxon. (an A category publisher). In 2020, she co-authored an exciting new research book on Indian Movie Entrepreneurship (with Rajeev Kamineni) (Routledge, Oxon.), rated as one of the best books in its field.
She has designed postgraduate level programs in arts management and in doctoral studies. She initiated and designed arts management programs at various universities, bringing them to the forefront of postgraduate education nationally and internationally. She has conducted key note addresses in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia on a range of contemporary issues in her field, such as arts governance, audience diversity, arts marketing and arts management. She redesigned the arts mangement program at UniSA, boosting student numbers. She also designed the doctoral studies programs at two universities, including UniSA, providing research students with structured coursework to complement their research work.
She has published widely including research books, for e.g., The Entrepreneurial Arts Leader Brisbane: University of Queensland Press; Creative Marketing Palgrave MacMillan, London (with Ian Fillis); Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing Routledge, London (with Daragh O’Reilly and Theresa Kirchner); Marketing Museums: Competing in the Global Marketplace Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxon. (with Anne-Marie Hede); Innovative Arts Marketing, Allen and Unwin, Sydney. She has published extensively in journals such as the Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, European Journal of Marketing, British Journal of Management, Australian Journal of Management, Personnel Review and International Journal of Cultural Policy, to name a few.
Ruth has received recognition with various awards. At UniSA in 2017, she was awarded the Cutting Red Tape award. In 2012, she was awarded a Medal for the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to education, to the arts and to the community. At Deakin University she was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Community Service, the Faculty of Business and Law Award for Outstanding Research, Best Doctoral Supervisor Award in the Faculty of Business and Law. She has also received best paper awards at conferences. She is on the editorial board of various international journals. She is the book editor and governance associate editor for the International Journal of Arts Management. She is a member of the scientific committee for AIMAC.
About me
Australian Institute of Company Directors
Museums Australia
Research ambassador, German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst)
Scientific committee member Association International Management de l’art and de la culture (AIMAC)
Book review editor, International Journal of Arts Management
About me
Date | Title |
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08/06/2022 |
Film & TV Launch of Exciting New Disability Dance Collaboration Between Australia and Korea, https://glamadelaide.com.au/launch-of-exciting-new-disability-dance-collaboration-between-australia-and-korea/ |
19/05/2022 |
Dancing Against the Odds: Barriers melt away through Australia-Korea documentary co-production, https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/dancing-against-the-odds-barriers-melt-away-through-australia-korea-documentary-co-production |
16/05/2022 |
Dancing Against the Odds Doco Announcement, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_BQ-FUHK0 |
26/06/2020 |
The devil’s in the detail: how will the $250m arts package help SA?, https://indaily.com.au/inreview/2020/06/26/the-devils-in-the-detail-how-will-the-250m-arts-package-help-sa/ |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) The University of Melbourne
Professor Arts & Cultural Leadership, University of South Australia 2020-present
Head School of Management, University of South Australia 2017-2020
Associate Dean Reserch Education, Univeriyi of South Australia 2016-2017
Chair Academic Board Deakin University 2012-2016
Chair Arts Management Deakin University 2007-2016
Director External Research Program Deakin University 2011
Head School of Management & Marketing Deakin University 2008-2009
Executive Director Centre for Leisure Management Reseach Deakin University 2004-2009
Associate Head of School Research 2002-2009
Lecturer Deakin University 1993
Visiting Professor on multiple occassions, for example: University of Stirling, Scotland, HEC Montreal, Canada, Bordeaux Business School, France, La Salle College for the Arts, Singapore
Diversity and social inclusion
Nonprofit Governance
Nonprofit leadership
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Burdekin Shire Council Theatre and Library Service Review 2023, Burdekin Shire Council, 01/06/2023 - 30/11/2023
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2020 |
3
4
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2015 |
Rentschler, R 2015, Arts governance: people, passion, performance, Routledge, UK.
10
1
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2014 |
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2010 |
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Year | Output |
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2024 |
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2023 |
1
|
2023 |
Open access
1
|
2023 |
Open access
3
1
|
2023 |
|
2022 |
Open access
1
|
2022 |
|
2022 |
Open access
2
1
|
2020 |
|
2020 |
Open access
|
2018 |
5
|
2015 |
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2015 |
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2014 |
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2013 |
|
2012 |
2
|
2012 |
|
2010 |
4
|
Year | Output |
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2023 |
Open access
3
2
|
2023 |
Open access
2
3
2
|
2023 |
Open access
4
3
1
|
2023 |
Open access
3
1
|
2023 |
Open access
|
2023 |
1
1
|
2023 |
1
1
|
2023 |
6
4
|
2023 |
Open access
2
2
|
2022 |
15
12
1
|
2022 |
Open access
5
2
1
|
2022 |
6
4
2
|
2022 |
2
3
|
2022 |
Open access
9
7
|
2022 |
8
6
|
2021 |
|
2021 |
7
5
|
2021 |
Open access
12
11
2
|
2021 |
Open access
|
2020 |
Open access
10
7
49
|
2020 |
Open access
|
2019 |
6
6
|
2019 |
Open access
115
89
|
2019 |
|
2019 |
7
5
5
|
2018 |
25
22
|
2017 |
61
59
|
2017 |
Open access
36
32
2
|
2015 |
20
18
1
|
2015 |
3
|
2014 |
|
2014 |
49
48
1
|
2014 |
11
8
|
2014 |
|
2013 |
37
28
|
2012 |
59
53
|
2012 |
|
2012 |
12
|
2011 |
4
4
|
2011 |
6
4
|
2010 |
Open access
108
|
2009 |
6
7
|
2009 |
36
25
|
2008 |
1
1
|
2008 |
Open access
25
17
|
2008 |
|
2008 |
|
Year | Output |
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2019 |
Open access
35
3
|
2016 |
Open access
|
2016 |
Open access
|
2011 |
Open access
|
2010 |
|
2010 |
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Year | Output |
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2020 |
Open access
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2017 |
Open access
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2016 |
Open access
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2015 |
Open access
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2011 |
Open access
|
2008 |
Open access
|
2008 |
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2008 |
Open access
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Research
Diversity and social inclusion
Nonprofit Governance
Nonprofit leadership
Chair, Australian Dance Theatre
Active researcher with industry partners such as Department of Premier & Cabinet, South Australia, Adelaide Festival Centre, Restless Dance Theatre, South Australia, 29Dong, Seoul, South Korea, Islamic Museum of Australia, Melbourne, Multicultural Arts Victoria, Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, Department of Multicultural Interests, Arts Centre Melbourne, and Duldig Museum & Sculputure Garden.
Conducted high-level forums, seminars and workshops for board directors and senior executives in industry to boost impact, such as with Australian Institute of Company Directors and Leadership Victoria.
Member, scientific committee AIMAC (Association International Management de l’art and de la culture) 2013-present
Devised and introduced doctoral program to extend the international arts management conference, AIMAC 2013-present
Member Emeritus Circle Multicultural Arts Victoria, 2016
Initiated doctoral symposium programs as an alumnus for DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program), Sydney
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Amrita University | INDIA |
Auckland University of Technology | NEW ZEALAND |
Bilkent University | TURKEY |
Burgundy School of Business | FRANCE |
Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Edith Cowan University | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Hampton University | UNITED STATES |
HEC Montreal | CANADA |
John Moores Business School | UNITED KINGDOM |
Jyoti Nivas College | INDIA |
Liverpool John Moores University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Melbourne Business School | AUSTRALIA |
Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
President University | INDONESIA |
RMIT University | AUSTRALIA |
Sunway University | MALAYSIA |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
University of Parma | ITALY |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of Seoul | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH) |
University of Sheffield | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Stirling | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Verona | ITALY |
University of Wollongong | AUSTRALIA |
Victoria University | AUSTRALIA |
York University | CANADA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing |
2018 |
Board MemberArt Gallery of Ballarat |
2017 |
Board MemberMulticultural Arts Victoria |
2017 |
Board MemberDuldig Museum and Sculpture Garden |
2017 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing |
2017 |
MemberMuseums Australia |
2017 |
MemberAustralian Institute of Company Directors |
2017 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing |
2016 |
Chair Academic BoardDeakin University |
2015 |
Editorial Board MemberAsia-Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management |
2015 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing |
2015 |
Keynote SpeakerNational Museums Conference, Seoul, South Korea |
2015 |
Chair Academic BoardDeakin University |
2014 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing |
2014 |
Editorial Board MemberAsia-Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management |
2014 |
Keynote SpeakerInternational University Museum Marketing conference, Tainan |
2014 |
Chair Academic BoardDeakin University |
2013 |
Editorial Board MemberAsia-Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management |
2013 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing |
2013 |
Chair Academic BoardDeakin University |
2012 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing |
2012 |
Editorial Board MemberAsia-Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management |
2012 |
Keynote SpeakerTainan International Museum Governance Conference |
2012 |
Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)Order of Australia |
2012 |
Board MemberVicHealth |
2011 |
Deputy Chair and Board MemberMulticultural Arts Victoria |
2011 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing |
2011 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal of Arts Management |
2011 |
Editorial Board MemberAsia-Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management |
2011 |
Keynote SpeakerSir John Monash Lecture Cultivating a Creative Community, Monash Gallery of Art |
2011 |
Keynote SpeakerThe City and Tourism, Sun-Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung |
2011 |
Board MemberArt Gallery of Ballarat |
2010 |
Deputy Chair and Board MemberMulticultural Arts Victoria |
2010 |
Editorial Board MemberArts Marketing: An international Journal |
2010 |
Editorial Board MemberAsia-Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management |
2010 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing |
2010 |
Academic Board, University Council, including holding leadership roles such as chair, deputy chair, secretary.
Research ambassador, German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst)
Scientific committee member Association International Management de l’art and de la culture (AIMAC)
Book review editor, International Journal of Arts Management
Series Editor, Routledge UK, Discovering the Creaitve Industries
Program design for higher degree by research (PhD) UniSA Business School
Program design for Master of Arts & Cultural Leadership UniSA Business School
Arts leadership and governance
Qualitative research for doctoral students
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Articulating artistic and financial voices in arts governance: the case of the performing arts | Current |
How museum experiences support transformative learning processes to build understanding in conflict and post-conflict environments | Current |
Legitimacy in the digital era: surviving and sustaining in the art market | Current |
Video game production in small to medium studios: A three-nation study of inclusion | Current |
From community participation to empowerment: a case study of community-based tourism in Hoi An, Vietnam | Completed |
Leisure experiences and subjective well-being of digital creative workers | Completed |
Museums and Muslim women's empowerment: a case study of the Islamic Museum of Australia | Completed |
Tourist experience and language barriers in intercultural tourist-host contact: a case study of Chinese tourists' experiences | Completed |
Transformational festival experiences and innovation processes: a case study | Completed |