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Associate Professor Katelyn Barney
Associate Professor

Katelyn Barney

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Overview

Background

Katelyn Barney's research focuses on improving pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students into and through higher education, and advancing understandings about the role of collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. She is a 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 podcast Indigenising Curriculum in Practice and embedding storying in teaching.

Her 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 and has developed a range of resources on evaluating programs for Indigenous students. She is also the Managing Editor of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education and an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow.

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

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125 works between 2004 and 2025

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2006

Other Outputs

Playing musical hopscotch : how Indigenous Australian women perform around, within and against Aboriginalism

Barney, Katelyn Sarah (2006). Playing musical hopscotch : how Indigenous Australian women perform around, within and against Aboriginalism. PhD Thesis, School of Music, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/158217

Playing musical hopscotch : how Indigenous Australian women perform around, within and against Aboriginalism

2006

Journal Article

Playing Hopscotch: How Indigenous women performers resist Aboriginalist constructs of race.

Barney, K. S. (2006). Playing Hopscotch: How Indigenous women performers resist Aboriginalist constructs of race.. Crossings, 11 (1), 1-11.

Playing Hopscotch: How Indigenous women performers resist Aboriginalist constructs of race.

2005

Book Chapter

Celebration or Cover Up? "My island home" Australian national identity and the spectacle of Sydney 2000.

Barney, K.S. (2005). Celebration or Cover Up? "My island home" Australian national identity and the spectacle of Sydney 2000.. Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance. (pp. 141-150) edited by E. Mackinlay, D. Collins and S. Owens. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Celebration or Cover Up? "My island home" Australian national identity and the spectacle of Sydney 2000.

2004

Journal Article

"Where is their costume, where is their paint?" Exploring how Indigenous Australian women construct and negotiate their Indigeneity through contemporary music

Barney, K.S. (2004). "Where is their costume, where is their paint?" Exploring how Indigenous Australian women construct and negotiate their Indigeneity through contemporary music. Perfect Beat. The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture., 7 (1), 42-59.

"Where is their costume, where is their paint?" Exploring how Indigenous Australian women construct and negotiate their Indigeneity through contemporary music

2004

Book Chapter

Repositioning Music Analysis: Preparatory thoughts for a case study of Indigenous Australian women's contemporary music

Barney, K.S. (2004). Repositioning Music Analysis: Preparatory thoughts for a case study of Indigenous Australian women's contemporary music. Music Research: New Directions for a New Century. (pp. 156-165) edited by M. Ewans, R. Halton and J.A. Philips. Buckinghamshire: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Repositioning Music Analysis: Preparatory thoughts for a case study of Indigenous Australian women's contemporary music

Funding

Current funding

  • 2026
    Enhancing First Nations Languages through Music
    UQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Strategic Initiatives
    Open grant
  • 2025 - 2026
    Sounding Country: Developing resources on musical acknowledgement of Country for tertiary contexts
    Musicological Society of Australia Special Funding Scheme
    Open grant

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

    Narrative Techniques in Concept Albums

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Leah Henrickson

  • Doctor Philosophy

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

    Associate Advisor

Completed supervision

Media

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