Prof Andrew Hickey
Name | Prof Andrew Hickey |
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Email Address | andrew.hickey@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Professor (Communications) |
Qualifications | BA(Hons) USQ, GDipAppSc Charles Sturt, MAppSc Charles Sturt, PhD USQ |
Department | School of Humanities and Communication |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9862-6444 |
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Biography
Andrew Hickey is Professor of Communications in the School of Humanities and Communication and Program Lead for the Youth Community Futures research program. His research has explored the influence of mass communication and 'public pedagogical artefacts' on public modes of learning and the development of community, with his publications crossing critical pedagogy, public pedagogies and emancipatory social practice. He has led large-scale funded research projects in schools and school systems exploring the function of relational pedagogies, alternative learning programming and school-community partnerships. Andrew has also led funded research into innovative qualitative research methods and applications of ethnography in community development.
Andrew can be contacted via the School of Humanities and Communication, USQ. E: andrew.hickey@usq,edu.au
Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Professor (Communications) | School of Humanities and Communication, University of Southern Queensland | 2000 | 2023 |
Expertise
Sociology
Sociology of Youth
Critical Pedagogy
Relational Pedagogy
Schooling Reform
Fields of Research
- 390107. Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management)
Professional Membership
Professional Membership | Year |
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Cultural Studies Association of Australasia | |
The Australian Sociological Association | |
Australian Association for Research in Education |
Supervision Interests
Sociology of Education
Sociology of Youth
Community Engagement
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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Leading over the rainbow: The impact, challenges and complexities of being a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender primary school leader in Australia | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
How can alternative theoretical frameworks be drawn upon to assist social workers to act against structural violence? | Associate Supervisor | Masters | 2024 |
Prisoner Perceptions of Correctional Rehabilitation | Associate Supervisor | Masters | 2024 |
The role of walking routes incorporating mural street art on health and wellbeing in Toowoomba | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
The contemporary teacher as a dual agent: The enactment of autonomy, agency and professionalism | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Dialogue in the Community Development Space: Privileging First Nations Knowledges | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Equity in the cration and implementatin of education policy in Queensland schools | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Ren(Ed)gades of Funk: Hip-hop as a pedagogical approach in Queensland schools | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Notions of the Spook: Recollections and Nostalgia Through Personal Artist Experiences of the Contemporary Australian Landscape | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2017 |
Completed Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
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Constructing History: Selective Representations of Indigenous Australians and British Heritages in Queensland History Curriculum | Principal | Doctoral | 2010 |
The Affordances of Place: Implications of Ecological Psychology for Inclusive Education | Principal | Doctoral | 2015 |
The Urban Intangibles of Maoriness: An Ethnographic Study | Principal | Doctoral | 2014 |
The Lived Experience of Academic Practice: Academics Beliefs and Their Practices of Assessment | Principal | Doctoral | 2018 |
Inside-Out: Mapping an Understanding of Undergraduate Study Abroad Programs | Principal | Doctoral | 2018 |
An Auto/Ethnographic Study of the Influences on a Student's Dispositions to Drop Out of Doctoral Study | Principal | Doctoral | 2015 |
Creating practiced space for freedom and democracy in the international school | Principal | Doctoral | 2015 |
Working the Space: Locating Teachers’ Voices in Large-Scale, Mandated Curriculum Reform | Principal | Doctoral | 2016 |
Exploring the intentions behind the inclusion of the cross-curriculum priority ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures’ in the Australian Curriculum | Principal | Doctoral | 2014 |
Tear My Stillhouse Down: An exploration of collaborative studio practice in record production | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
REFLEXIVELY DEVELOPED CONCEPTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH-SPEAKING STAGE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Intergenerational ambivalence in cohabiting parent-adult child families:An anti-narrative account of cohabiting families in regional Australia | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
(UN)DOING OLD BOY: PERFORMATIVITY AT THE INTERSECTION OF ELITISM, MASCULINITY, AND PRIVILEGE | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Temporariness, belonging, and place: Working holidaymakers negotiating regional Australia through seasonal agricultural labour | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
In the room where it happens: Teaching musical theatre and Contemporary and Commercial Music (CCM) singing | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
I'm not who you think I am: Identity formation and the experience of informal learning for regional young people | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Inside out: Mapping an understanding of undergraduate study abroad programs | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2018 |
The lived experience of academic practice: Academics' beliefs and their practices of assessment | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2017 |
Project title | Details | Year |
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Youth Community Futures | Funding Agency: Queensland Department of Science and Environment. | 2022 |
Live Music Strategy | Funding Agency: Live Music Office and Toowoomba Regional Council. | 2021 |
Oakey Youth Project | Funding Agency: Public Health Network | 2020 |
Informal Learning in the Secondary School | Funding Agency: Queensland Department of Education | 2018 |
Performing Lines: Innovations in Sensory Research Methodologies | Funding Agency: Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canadian Government. | 2016 |
Engaging Community with Social Research | Funding Agency: Australian Centre for Excellence in Local Government. | 2014 |
Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
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2023 | Sustainable Communities Award | Queensland Department of Science and Environment | Youth Community Futures |
2020 | UniSQ Publication Excellence Award | University of Southern Queensland | |
2019 | Ronel Erwee Memorial Award for Excellence in Research Supervision | University of Southern Queensland | |
2016 | Showcase Award | Queensland Department of Education and Training | Informal learning in the secondary school: behaviour remediation programs and the informal learning environment as a space for re-engagement |
2009 | Excellence in Education Award | Australian College of Educators | |
2009 | Postgraduate Research Award | Australian College of Educators | |
2020 | Faculty of Business Education, Law and Arts Postgraduate Supervision Award | University of Southern Queensland |