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Dr Amber Gwynne
Dr

Amber Gwynne

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Overview

Background

Amber is a writer, editor, and communications strategist who teaches in the Writing, Editing and Publishing program. Her PhD, which received a Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Theses, focused on the experiences of readers with a history of depression who choose and use self-help books. This research considered the ways readers interact with texts, from a reader-response or reader-reception approach. Amber has an enduring interest in publishing ecosystems, popular psychology, illness narratives, and user-centred writing.

In addition to her teaching, Amber works as a communications adviser for the Queensland Department of Education and as production manager and copyeditor for the Journal of Australian Studies. Her essays and creative non-fiction have been published in Griffith Review, Overland, and Kill Your Darlings, among others.

Availability

Dr Amber Gwynne is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Masters (Coursework), The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • self-help books

  • reader response

  • reader reception

  • popular psychology

  • reader theories

  • user-centred writing

  • professional writing

  • autopathography

  • writing pedagogy

  • metalinguistic approach

Works

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15 works between 2011 and 2024

1 - 15 of 15 works

2024

Other Outputs

Mustard seed: faith, doubt and the legacy of leaving

Gwynne, Amber (2024). Mustard seed: faith, doubt and the legacy of leaving. Griffith Review, 86 (Leaps of Faith), 132-154.

Mustard seed: faith, doubt and the legacy of leaving

2024

Other Outputs

Am I The Asshole? How judging other people’s dirty laundry became the internet’s favourite pastime

Myers, Melanie and Gwynne, Amber (2024, 09 23). Am I The Asshole? How judging other people’s dirty laundry became the internet’s favourite pastime The Conversation

Am I The Asshole? How judging other people’s dirty laundry became the internet’s favourite pastime

2024

Journal Article

‘Up to you’: self-help books, depression and the reconstruction of reading

Gwynne, Amber E. (2024). ‘Up to you’: self-help books, depression and the reconstruction of reading. Media, Culture and Society, 46 (2), 324-342. doi: 10.1177/01634437231198431

‘Up to you’: self-help books, depression and the reconstruction of reading

2024

Other Outputs

James and the Giant BLEEP: Old books, bad words and the alchemical good of reading

Gwynne, Amber (2024). James and the Giant BLEEP: Old books, bad words and the alchemical good of reading. Griffith Review (83), 29-39.

James and the Giant BLEEP: Old books, bad words and the alchemical good of reading

2024

Other Outputs

Maid author Stephanie Land reveals the ‘constant, crushing’ panic of her hungriest year, but this college memoir is ‘emptier’

Gwynne, Amber (2024, 01 29). Maid author Stephanie Land reveals the ‘constant, crushing’ panic of her hungriest year, but this college memoir is ‘emptier’ The Conversation

Maid author Stephanie Land reveals the ‘constant, crushing’ panic of her hungriest year, but this college memoir is ‘emptier’

2024

Other Outputs

15 literary podcasts to make you laugh, learn and join conversations about books

Gwynne, Amber (2024, 01 04). 15 literary podcasts to make you laugh, learn and join conversations about books The Conversation

15 literary podcasts to make you laugh, learn and join conversations about books

2023

Other Outputs

Sell like a girl: Instagram ‘fempires’ and the rise of the activist-influencer

Gwynne, Amber (2023). Sell like a girl: Instagram ‘fempires’ and the rise of the activist-influencer. Griffith Review.

Sell like a girl: Instagram ‘fempires’ and the rise of the activist-influencer

2023

Other Outputs

Millie Bobby Brown’s debut novel is a bestseller. Does it matter that the 19-year-old actor didn’t write it?

Gwynne, Amber (2023, 09 27). Millie Bobby Brown’s debut novel is a bestseller. Does it matter that the 19-year-old actor didn’t write it? The Conversation

Millie Bobby Brown’s debut novel is a bestseller. Does it matter that the 19-year-old actor didn’t write it?

2023

Other Outputs

Can self-help books help with depression? I spoke to readers to find out

Gwynne, Amber (2023, 09 13). Can self-help books help with depression? I spoke to readers to find out The Conversation

Can self-help books help with depression? I spoke to readers to find out

2023

Other Outputs

Help yourself: giving a f*ck about self-help books

Gwynne, Amber (2023). Help yourself: giving a f*ck about self-help books. Griffith Review (Online).

Help yourself: giving a f*ck about self-help books

2023

Other Outputs

Reading the room: the dirty work of book reviewing

Gwynne, Amber (2023). Reading the room: the dirty work of book reviewing. Griffith Review (Online).

Reading the room: the dirty work of book reviewing

2023

Other Outputs

Consuming content: how SEO killed the food blog

Gwynne, Amber (2023). Consuming content: how SEO killed the food blog. Griffith Review (Online).

Consuming content: how SEO killed the food blog

2022

Other Outputs

Living like this

Gwynne, Amber (2022). Living like this. Kill Your Darlings.

Living like this

2021

Other Outputs

The harder questions we should be asking on R U OK? Day

Gwynne, Amber (2021). The harder questions we should be asking on R U OK? Day. Overland.

The harder questions we should be asking on R U OK? Day

2011

Journal Article

Whole of client health care in a gridlocked system: an insider dialogue between the theory and practice of community case management

Schmuttermaier, John R., Schmitt, David J., King, Catherine M. and Gwynne, Amber E. (2011). Whole of client health care in a gridlocked system: an insider dialogue between the theory and practice of community case management. Home Health Care Management and Practice, 23 (1), 36-49. doi: 10.1177/1084822310368631

Whole of client health care in a gridlocked system: an insider dialogue between the theory and practice of community case management

Supervision

Availability

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