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Associate Professor Katelyn Barney
Associate Professor

Katelyn Barney

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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

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

  • Facilitating pathways into higher education for Indigenous students

  • Indigenous/non-Indigenous research collaborations

  • Intercultural musical collaborations between women

Works

Search Professor Katelyn Barney’s works on UQ eSpace

117 works between 2004 and 2025

41 - 60 of 117 works

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.

Improving the evidence about “what works” for effective outreach strategies for Indigenous students

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

“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

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

Editorial JIE 50.1

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.

Diversity of the regional, rural and remote university experience

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.

Connections, culture, and confidence: Indigenous student and caregiver perspectives on reimagining outreach camps

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

Editorial December 2020

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

Effective outreach programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students during COVID-19: university outreach staff are moving face-to-face camps on-line

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.

What works? Success factors of outreach camps for Indigenous students

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

Editorial

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.

Articulating my own black history: success and inhibiting factors in an Aboriginal student's pathway from undergraduate to postgraduate study

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.

For, by, about women: a case study of intercultural collaboration between Indigenous Australian women and women from diverse nations

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

Editorial

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.

Building a stronger evidence base to support effective outreach strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students: a preview of a NCSEHE Equity Fellowship

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

Editorial

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.

Considering issues of identity and belonging in a collaborative music research project on Torres Strait Islander women performers

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

Community gets you through: success factors contributing to the retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students

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

Editorial

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

'We need more mob doing research': developing university strategies to facilitate successful pathways for Indigenous students into Higher Degrees by Research

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.

I am here, now: Tiwi voices past and present in new musical conversations, RRR75 (B Wheatley, G Campbell)

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

Not just black and white: a conversation between a mother and daughter

Funding

Past funding

  • 2024 - 2025
    Enabling programs and Indigenous student university completion: Building the evidence
    Student Equity in Higher Education Research Grants Program
    Open grant
  • 2023
    Indigenising the musicology curriculum: Developing resources for teaching and learning in higher education
    Musicological Society of Australia Special Funding Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2022
    Building capabilities for success: Targeting preparedness for ongoing learning (Commonwealth Department of Education Regional Partnerships seed project led by James Cook University)
    James Cook University
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Building the evidence to improve completion rates for Indigenous students
    Student Equity in Higher Education Research Grants Program
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Building a stronger evidence base about effective outreach strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students: Increasing impact and university participation
    Curtin University
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2017
    Pathways to Postgraduate Study for Indigenous Australian Students: Enhancing the Transition to Research Higher Degrees
    OLT Teaching Fellowship
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2014
    Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network
    ALTC Discipline Studies
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    Exploring Problem-Based Learning Pedagogy as Transformative Education in Indigenous Australian Studies
    ALTC Priority Projects
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Associate Professor Katelyn Barney is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The value in developing a community centred archive of Quandamooka fibre work

    Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Narrative Techniques in Concept Albums

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Leah Henrickson

Completed supervision

Media

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