Overview
Background
Katelyn Barney is an Associate Professor in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit and also affiliated with the School of Music. Her research focuses on improving pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students into and through higher education and advancing understanding about the role of collaborative research and music making between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people. She has published across these areas and her latest edited book is Musical Collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous People in Australia: Exchanges in the Third Space. She is also Managing Editor of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education.
She was an Equity Fellow with the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (formerly NCSEHE) and her fellowship explored effective evaluation of university outreach with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary school students. Katelyn co-hosts a podcast with her colleague Professor Tracey Bunda: "Indigenising Curriculum in Practice" and co-hosted a previous series "Indigenous Success: Doing it, Thinking it, Being it". Katelyn has also collaborated with Professor Bronwyn Fredericks and colleagues across five universities to undertake a ACSES funded project to build the evidence to improve completion rates for Indigenous tertiary students.
Katelyn is an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow and her National Teaching Fellowship focused on developing pathways for Indigenous students from undergraduate study into Higher Degrees by Research.
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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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
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.
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
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
2017
Conference Publication
Articulating my own black history: success factors in the pathway from undergraduate to postgraduate study
Akhurst, Graham and Barney, Katelyn (2017). Articulating my own black history: success factors in the pathway from undergraduate to postgraduate study. Australian Associate for Research in Education (AARE) Conference, Canberra, ACT Australia, 26-30 November 2017.
2017
Journal Article
Editorial
Barney, Katelyn and Nakata, Martin (2017). Editorial. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 46 (1), iii-iii. doi: 10.1017/jie.2017.6
2017
Book Chapter
Turning the colonial tide: working towards a reconciled ethnomusicology in Australia
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Barney, Katelyn (2017). Turning the colonial tide: working towards a reconciled ethnomusicology in Australia. A distinctive voice in the Antipodes: essays in honour of Stephen A. Wild. (pp. 171-192) edited by Kirsty Gillespie, Sally Treloyn and Don Niles. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/dva.07.2017.06
2017
Book Chapter
Turning the colonial tide: working towards a reconciled ethnomusicology in Australia
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Barney, Katelyn (2017). Turning the colonial tide: working towards a reconciled ethnomusicology in Australia. A distinctive voice in the Antipodes: essays in honour of Stephen A. Wild. (pp. 171-193) edited by Kirsty Gillespie, Sally Treloyn and Don Niles. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press.
2016
Conference Publication
Experiences of mainland Torres Strait Islander women performing contemporary music
Solomon, Lexine and Barney, Katelyn (2016). Experiences of mainland Torres Strait Islander women performing contemporary music. International Association for the Study of Popular Music Australia New Zealand Branch, Mackay, QLD Australia, 7-9 December 2016.
2016
Conference Publication
Collaborations, conversations, contestations: Indigenous and non-Indigenous encounters through music research
Barney, Katelyn and Solomon, Lexine (2016). Collaborations, conversations, contestations: Indigenous and non-Indigenous encounters through music research. Australian Cultural Fields: The Difference that Identity Makes, Sydney, NSW Australia, 14-15 July 2016.
2016
Book Chapter
At the contact zone and the cultural interface: theorising collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in research and contemporary music practices
Barney, Katelyn (2016). At the contact zone and the cultural interface: theorising collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in research and contemporary music practices. The Routledge international handbook of intercultural arts research. (pp. 102-114) edited by Pamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay and Kimberly Powell. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315693699-21
2016
Journal Article
Listening to and learning from the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to facilitate success.
Barney, Katelyn (2016). Listening to and learning from the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to facilitate success.. Student Success, 7 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.5204/ssj.v7i1.317
2015
Conference Publication
Reflection, collaboration and PEARL pedagogy: enhancing student learning in an Indigenous Australian music course
Barney, Katelyn (2015). Reflection, collaboration and PEARL pedagogy: enhancing student learning in an Indigenous Australian music course. Teaching and Learning Ethnomusicology Symposium, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 16 December 2015.
2014
Journal Article
PEARLs, problems and politics: exploring findings from two teaching and learning projects in indigenous Australian studies at the university of Queensland
Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Barney, Katelyn (2014). PEARLs, problems and politics: exploring findings from two teaching and learning projects in indigenous Australian studies at the university of Queensland. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 43 (Special Issue 1), 31-41. doi: 10.1017/jie.2014.5
Funding
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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
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Butler
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Doctor Philosophy
Narrative Techniques in Concept Albums
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno, Dr Leah Henrickson
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Doctor Philosophy
The value in developing a community centred archive of Quandamooka fibre work
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Butler
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, Dr Liz Mackinlay
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