
Overview
Background
Katelyn Barney is an Associate Professor in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit and affiliated with the School of Music. Katelyn is also Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Principal Practitioner in the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation. Her teaching has been recognised through a UQ Teaching Excellence Award with her colleague Professor Tracey Bunda for their innovative and inclusive co-teaching approach, developing the podcast Indigenising Curriculum in Practice and embedding storying in teaching.
In 2025 she is co-leading a number of projects with Indigenous colleagues including exploring staff and student perspectives of Indigenised curriculum with Professor Tracey Bunda and examining the role of music in sustaining Indigenous languages with Professor Anita Heiss and Deline Briscoe. Katelyn is also working with Professor Bronwyn Fredericks and colleagues across three universities to explore the links between pathway programs and university completion which builds on their previous ACSES-funded project on improving completion rates for Indigenous tertiary students.
Her latest edited book Musical Collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous People in Australia: Exchanges in the Third Space received the Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize. She has previously held an Equity Fellowship with the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (formerly NCSEHE) and has developed a range of resources on evaluating programs for Indigenous students. She is an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow and also the Managing Editor of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education.
Availability
- Associate Professor Katelyn Barney is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Music, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
- Graduate Certificate in Education, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Facilitating pathways into higher education for Indigenous students
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Indigenous/non-Indigenous research collaborations
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Intercultural musical collaborations between women
Works
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2021
Conference Publication
Improving the evidence about “what works” for effective outreach strategies for Indigenous students
Barney, Katelyn (2021). Improving the evidence about “what works” for effective outreach strategies for Indigenous students. Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) Data Insights at DESE series, Online, 26 August 2021.
2021
Journal Article
“A stepping stone that just pushed me further into wanting to go to university”: Student perspectives on ‘what works’ for effective outreach strategies for Indigenous students
Barney, Katelyn and Williams, Hayley (2021). “A stepping stone that just pushed me further into wanting to go to university”: Student perspectives on ‘what works’ for effective outreach strategies for Indigenous students. Student Success, 12 (2), 8-17. doi: 10.5204/ssj.1913
2021
Journal Article
Editorial JIE 50.1
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Nakata, Martin and Barney, Katelyn (2021). Editorial JIE 50.1. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 50 (1), 1-1. doi: 10.1017/jie.2021.3
2021
Conference Publication
Diversity of the regional, rural and remote university experience
Barney, Katelyn, Crawford, Nicole, Delahunty, Janine, Eckstein, David, Pitman, Timothy and Simpson, Andrea (2021). Diversity of the regional, rural and remote university experience. National Conference for Regional, Rural and Remote Education, Online, 21-24 April 2021.
2021
Conference Publication
Connections, culture, and confidence: Indigenous student and caregiver perspectives on reimagining outreach camps
Barney, Katelyn and Williams, Hayley (2021). Connections, culture, and confidence: Indigenous student and caregiver perspectives on reimagining outreach camps. Australian Association for Research in Education, Virtual, 29 November to 2 December 2021.
2020
Journal Article
Editorial December 2020
Nakata, Martin, Fredericks, Bronwyn and Barney, Katelyn (2020). Editorial December 2020. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 49 (2), 107-107. doi: 10.1017/jie.2020.25
2020
Other Outputs
Effective outreach programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students during COVID-19: university outreach staff are moving face-to-face camps on-line
Barney, Katelyn and Williams, Hayley (2020, 11 29). Effective outreach programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students during COVID-19: university outreach staff are moving face-to-face camps on-line Campus Morning Mail
2020
Conference Publication
What works? Success factors of outreach camps for Indigenous students
Barney, Katelyn (2020). What works? Success factors of outreach camps for Indigenous students. NCSEHE Student Equity Snapshot Forum, Online, 26-30 October 2020.
2020
Journal Article
Editorial
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Nakata, Martin and Barney, Katelyn (2020). Editorial. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 49 (1), 1-1. doi: 10.1017/jie.2020.4
2020
Book Chapter
Articulating my own black history: success and inhibiting factors in an Aboriginal student's pathway from undergraduate to postgraduate study
Akhurst, Graham and Barney, Katelyn (2020). Articulating my own black history: success and inhibiting factors in an Aboriginal student's pathway from undergraduate to postgraduate study. Indigenous postgraduate education: intercultural perspectives. (pp. 47-59) edited by Karen Trimmer, Debra Hoven and Pigga Keskitalo. Charlotte, NC, United States: Information Age Publishing.
2019
Conference Publication
For, by, about women: a case study of intercultural collaboration between Indigenous Australian women and women from diverse nations
Barney, Katelyn and Solomon, Lexine (2019). For, by, about women: a case study of intercultural collaboration between Indigenous Australian women and women from diverse nations. Musicological Society of Australia, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 5-7 December 2019.
2019
Journal Article
Editorial
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Nakata, Martin and Barney, Katelyn (2019). Editorial. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 48 (2), iii-iii. doi: 10.1017/jie.2019.22
2019
Conference Publication
Building a stronger evidence base to support effective outreach strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students: a preview of a NCSEHE Equity Fellowship
Barney, Katelyn (2019). Building a stronger evidence base to support effective outreach strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students: a preview of a NCSEHE Equity Fellowship. Queensland Widening Participation Forum, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 15 November 2019.
2019
Journal Article
Editorial
Fredericks, Bronwyn, Nakata, Martin and Barney, Katelyn (2019). Editorial. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 48 (1), III-III. doi: 10.1017/jie.2019.7
2019
Book Chapter
Considering issues of identity and belonging in a collaborative music research project on Torres Strait Islander women performers
Barney, Katelyn and Solomon, Lexine (2019). Considering issues of identity and belonging in a collaborative music research project on Torres Strait Islander women performers. The difference identity makes: Indigenous cultural capital in Australian cultural fields. (pp. 124-140) edited by Lawrence Bamblett, Fred Myers and Tim Rowse. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
2018
Journal Article
Community gets you through: success factors contributing to the retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students
Barney, Katelyn (2018). Community gets you through: success factors contributing to the retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students. Student Success, 9 (4), 13-23. doi: 10.5204/ssj.v9i4.654
2018
Journal Article
Editorial
Nakata, Martin and Barney, Katelyn (2018). Editorial. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 47 (2), iii-iv. doi: 10.1017/jie.2018.18
2018
Journal Article
'We need more mob doing research': developing university strategies to facilitate successful pathways for Indigenous students into Higher Degrees by Research
Barney, Katelyn (2018). 'We need more mob doing research': developing university strategies to facilitate successful pathways for Indigenous students into Higher Degrees by Research. Higher Education Research & Development, 37 (5), 908-922. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2018.1467382
2018
Journal Article
I am here, now: Tiwi voices past and present in new musical conversations, RRR75 (B Wheatley, G Campbell)
Barney, Katelyn (2018). I am here, now: Tiwi voices past and present in new musical conversations, RRR75 (B Wheatley, G Campbell). Yearbook for Traditional Music, 50, 235-236.
2017
Journal Article
Not just black and white: a conversation between a mother and daughter
Barney, Katelyn (2017). Not just black and white: a conversation between a mother and daughter. Queensland Review, 24 (2), 324-325. doi: 10.1017/qre.2017.43
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
The value in developing a community centred archive of Quandamooka fibre work
Associate Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Narrative Techniques in Concept Albums
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Leah Henrickson
Completed supervision
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Navigating the Interface: A critical insight into some of the key challenges with working, learning and contemporary policy in Indigenous education at University through storied experiences
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Tracey Bunda
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