Dr Kate Cantrell
Name | Dr Kate Cantrell |
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Email Address | kate.cantrell@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Senior Lecturer (Writing, Editing, and Publishing) |
Qualifications | BCI(Hons) QUT, PGDipELTA Oxford, PhD QUT |
Department | School of Creative Arts |
Affiliations | Centre for Health Research |
Centre for Heritage and Culture | |
Institute for Resilient Regions | |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5689-614X |
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Biography
Kate Cantrell is a writer, editor, and advocate working at the intersection of trauma studies, narrative health, and arts advocacy. Her research specialisation is narrative representations of childhood trauma and illness, with a special focus on the lived experience of childhood cancer and survivorship, including the impacts on informal caregivers. Kate has published over 80 journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in top-ranked publications in trauma studies, health education, and the creative arts, as well as impact articles in high-profile outlets such as The Conversation, the ABC, and Times Higher Education. Her short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry appear in highly-esteemed magazines and journals such as Overland, Meanjin, and Westerly. Kate’s work is driven by a natural concern with impact and engagement, as well as a commitment to seeking out alternative forums of output and audience. She has produced commissioned output for several community organisations and has consulted on global health and education campaigns at the United Nations. She is an award-winning educator who has won numerous teaching prizes and awards, including an AAUT citation for trauma-informed pedagogy. Kate has held international research and teaching positions at the University of Oxford, City University of London, and Otsuma Women's University in Tokyo, Japan.
Expertise
— Childhood and adolescence
— Trauma and trauma-informed care
— Cancer care and survivorship
— Narrative health and health promotion
— Arts advocacy
Teaching
— PUB5001 Introduction to Editing and Publishing
— PUB5002 Writing for Editors
— PUB5003 Editing in Practice
— PUB5004 Professional Practice in Editing and Publishing
— MAR8003 Master of Arts Project A
— MAR8003 Master of Arts Project B
Fields of Research
- 420601. Community child health
- 420603. Health promotion
- 470208. Culture, representation and identity
- 470506. Children's literature
Professional Membership
Professional Membership | Year |
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Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) | |
Australian Federation of Graduate Women (AFGW) | |
Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) | |
Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) | |
Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) |
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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Redemption Arcs and Paper Cranes: Dramione as Genre and the Mapping of a Reading Community | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
Weird Fiction Monsters: Hauntology and Affectivity | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
Menopause and Returning to Self: Subverting the Transition from Mother to Crone through Contemporary Art Practice | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
Implementing a Trauma-informed Editing Framework: Practical Benefits to Editor Wellbeing and the Role of Self-care in Australian Editing Praxis | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
GENRE FICTION AND SELF-PUBLISHING:A GLOBAL COMPARISON OF ONLINE AUTHOR PLATFORMS FOR AUTHOR-DRIVEN PUBLISHER FICTION WORKS | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
The State of Subsidised Youth Arts in Australia. | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Fandom Files: Fictocriticism, Fanfiction and Creative Writing Pedagogy | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Project title | Details | Year |
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Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Whole-of-University Framework | UniSQ Grant for Embedded Learning and Teaching Strategy (GELTS)—$7931 | 2022 |
How Stories Enable Coping in People Facing Traumatic Diagnosis | UniSQ Research Capacity Building Grant (Health)—$14,686 | 2022 |
Early Career Research Grant | Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)—$1000 | 2021 |
Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
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2021 | BELA Excellence Award for Early Career Research | University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) | |
2021 | Keynote | University of Queensland (UQ) 25th Work-in-Progress Conference (25th Anniversary), Global Change Institute (GCI) | |
2021 | Invited Panellist | Queensland College of Health Psychologists | |
2021 | Invited Panellist | Queensland Museum | |
2021 | Special Issues Editor | TEXT | |
2021 | Associate Editor | Queensland Review | |
2016 | Heinrich Böll Writer-in-Residence | The Heinrich Böll Association, Achill Island, Ireland | |
2015 | Stiwdio Maelor Writer-in-Residence | Stiwdio Maelor, Corris, Wales |