Anna Hickey-Moody
Anna Hickey-Moody is a Professor of Media and Communications at RMIT University and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2017-2021. Between 2013 and 2016 Anna was the Director of the Centre for Arts and Learning at Goldsmiths College, London and Head of the PhD in Arts and Learning. Anna has also held teaching and research positions at The University of Sydney, Monash and UniSA.
Anna is known for her theoretical and empirical work with socially marginalized figures, especially young people with disabilities, young refugees and migrants, those who are economically and socially disadvantaged, and men at the margins of society. She is also known for her methodological expertise with arts practice, or practice research, ethnography and methodological invention.
Her books include ”Imagining University Education: Making Educational Futures’ (Routledge, 2016), Youth, Arts and Education’ (Routledge, 2013), ‘Unimaginable Bodies’ (Sense Publishers, 2009) and ‘Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis’ (Palgrave, 2006).
Showing leadership in the fields across which she works, Anna has also edited a number of collected works: books and journal editions. Recently, she published a themed edition of the journal ‘Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies’ 2016 38(1) and an anthology on art practice with Rowman and Littlefield (‘Arts, Pedagogy & Cultural Resistance’, 2015).
Anna has also published collections on disability and media, (‘Disability Matters’, Routledge, 2011) and Deleuze and social politics (‘Deleuzian Encounters’, Palgrave, 2006). Anna teaches and supervises in the areas of disability, youth culture, masculinity, arts practice as method and the cultural politics of schooling and aesthetics.
Labs
Creativity, Learning, Digital Arts, and Design
Creativity, Learning, Digital Arts, and Design positions research participants as ‘creative agents’ and authors of their own experience.
Projects
Interfaith Childhoods
The Interfaith Childhoods project works with schools, communities and religious organizations to collect and share stories of everyday life told by both secular people and those of faith in Australia...
Publications
Childhood, Citizenship and the Anthropocene: Posthuman Publics and Civics
The planet is dying. Our earth’s climate has reached a point where it can no longer regulate itself. Fires, floods, and natural disasters are sweeping countries across the world. What...
Arts-Based Methods for Research with Children
“Flying soccer balls that are ice-cream factories inside, cars with wings, mobile recycling plants, streets that are rivers. These are the inventions children have offered up to Hickey-Moody. This is...
News
ARC Linkage Project Success!
August 5, 2021
We are very excited by the news that Anna Hickey-Moody and her colleagues have been funded for an ARC Linkage Project on the very timely and important topic of creative...