Dr Liz Mackinlay
Dr

Liz Mackinlay

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Background

Elizabeth (Liz) Mackinlay is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland where she teaches Research Methods, Gender Studies and Arts Education. She holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from The University of Adelaide and a PhD in education from the University of Queensland. Her book, Teaching and learning like a feminist: Storying our experiences in higher educationwas published by Sense Publishers in 2016 and together with Briony Lipton, co-authored the 2017 Palgrave publication, We only talk feminist here: Feminist academics, voice and agency in the neo-liberal university. Her most recent book, Critical writing for embodied approaches: Autoethnography, feminism and decoloniality is due for publication by Palgrave in 2019. In 2007 she published her Education PhD as a book, Disturbances and dislocations: Teaching and learning Aboriginal women’s music and dancewith Peter Lang and has co-edited a number of books since then including Musical islands: Exploring connections between music, place and research (2009), Applied ethnomusicology: Historical and contemporary approaches (2010), The Routledge international handbook of intercultural arts (2015).

Liz is currently involved in a number of research projects which include "In-sister: reading and writing with Helene Cixous", decoloniality and education, critical autoethnography as heartline work, and feminism in higher education. She has professional associations with the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association, the Australian Association for Research in Education, the Association for Qualitative Research, and Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines.

Availability

Dr Liz Mackinlay is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Education

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Music, University of Adelaide
  • Bachelor (Honours), University of Adelaide
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Postgraduate Diploma, The University of Queensland

Search Professor Liz Mackinlay’s works on UQ eSpace

177 works between 1998 and 2024
All (177) Journal Article (89) Book Chapter (57) Conference Publication (7) Book (10) Other Outputs (2) Edited Outputs (12)

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2022

Book Chapter

Double the Danger in Writing

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2022). Double the Danger in Writing. The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology. (pp. 48-63) New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003043904-7

Double the Danger in Writing

2022

Book

Doing Rebellious Research : In and beyond the Academy

Burnard, Pamela, Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Rousell, David and Dragovic, Tatjana eds. (2022). Doing Rebellious Research : In and beyond the Academy. Boston, MA United States: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004516069

Doing Rebellious Research : In and beyond the Academy

2022

Book Chapter

Departing Radically in Academic Writing : Because, a Manifesto

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2022). Departing Radically in Academic Writing : Because, a Manifesto. Doing Rebellious Research. (pp. 137-147) Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004516069_012

Departing Radically in Academic Writing : Because, a Manifesto

2022

Book Chapter

Reflective Questions

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2022). Reflective Questions. Doing Rebellious Research. (pp. 237-237) edited by Pamela Burnard, Tatjana Dragovic, David Rousell and Elizabeth Mackinlay. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL. doi: 10.1163/9789004516069_018

Reflective Questions

2022

Book

Writing Feminist Autoethnography : In Love With Theory, Words, and the Language of Women Writers

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2022). Writing Feminist Autoethnography : In Love With Theory, Words, and the Language of Women Writers. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003037484

Writing Feminist Autoethnography : In Love With Theory, Words, and the Language of Women Writers

2022

Journal Article

Writing radically as women with Virginia Woolf: why?

Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Madden, Karen, Mickelburgh, Renee and Green, Mel (2022). Writing radically as women with Virginia Woolf: why?. Qualitative Inquiry, 28 (3-4), 107780042110668-343. doi: 10.1177/10778004211066879

Writing radically as women with Virginia Woolf: why?

2022

Book Chapter

100 words exactly: the art of thesis drabbling

Allotta, Elizabeth, Andriani, Dewi, Cooke, Emma, Doherty, Eloise, Green, Mel, Madden, Karen, Mickelburgh, Renee, Musofer, Muhammad Ali, Ream, Rebecca, Vayada, Preeti and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2022). 100 words exactly: the art of thesis drabbling. Doing Rebellious Research In and beyond the Academy. (pp. 168-187) edited by Pamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay, David Rousell and Tatjana Dragovic. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004516069_014

100 words exactly: the art of thesis drabbling

2022

Book Chapter

Writing feminist autoethnography: a memo/ry to the personal-is-political

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2022). Writing feminist autoethnography: a memo/ry to the personal-is-political. Handbook of autoethnography. (pp. 329-341) edited by Tony E. Adams, Stacy Holman Jones and Carolyn Ellis. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429431760-33

Writing feminist autoethnography: a memo/ry to the personal-is-political

2020

Journal Article

Before the door: storying the material, affective and ethical dimensions of inclusion for women academics

Lipton, Briony and Mackinlay, Liz Elizabeth (2020). Before the door: storying the material, affective and ethical dimensions of inclusion for women academics. Continuum, 34 (6), 914-922. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1842127

Before the door: storying the material, affective and ethical dimensions of inclusion for women academics

2020

Journal Article

The doorway effect: stories of feminist activism and survival in the neoliberal university

Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Lipton, Briony (2020). The doorway effect: stories of feminist activism and survival in the neoliberal university. Emotion, Space and Society, 35 100675, 100675. doi: 10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100675

The doorway effect: stories of feminist activism and survival in the neoliberal university

2020

Journal Article

Writing a global and Southern sisterhood between Indonesia and Australia: the possibilities of "difference" and collaborative autoethnography

Muflichah, Siti and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2020). Writing a global and Southern sisterhood between Indonesia and Australia: the possibilities of "difference" and collaborative autoethnography. Journal of International Women's Studies, 21 (2), 185-197.

Writing a global and Southern sisterhood between Indonesia and Australia: the possibilities of "difference" and collaborative autoethnography

2019

Book

Critical writing for embodied approaches: autoethnography, feminism and decoloniality

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2019). Critical writing for embodied approaches: autoethnography, feminism and decoloniality. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04669-9

Critical writing for embodied approaches: autoethnography, feminism and decoloniality

2018

Journal Article

Editorial

Santana, Carlos Rivera, Mackinlay, Elizabeth and Nakata, Martin (2018). Editorial. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 47 (1), iii-iv. doi: 10.1017/jie.2018.6

Editorial

2018

Book Chapter

Shrug off the old lies: writing decoloniality in and through critical autoethnograhy with Helene Cixous

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2018). Shrug off the old lies: writing decoloniality in and through critical autoethnograhy with Helene Cixous. Creative selves / creative cultures: Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy. (pp. 169-182) edited by Stacy Holman Jones and Marc Pruyn. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47527-1_11

Shrug off the old lies: writing decoloniality in and through critical autoethnograhy with Helene Cixous

2018

Book Chapter

Taking a trip through and with the sisterhood of the global south: storying our experiences as female academics in Indonesia and Australia

Muflichah, Siti, Andriani, Dewi and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2018). Taking a trip through and with the sisterhood of the global south: storying our experiences as female academics in Indonesia and Australia. Lived experiences of women in academia: metaphors, manifestos and memoir. (pp. 76-86) edited by Alison L. Black and Susanne Garvis. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315147444-8

Taking a trip through and with the sisterhood of the global south: storying our experiences as female academics in Indonesia and Australia

2018

Book Chapter

The white noise of music education: unsounding the possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty in the Australian curriculum

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2018). The white noise of music education: unsounding the possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty in the Australian curriculum. The Palgrave handbook of race and the arts in education. (pp. 535-550) edited by Amelia M. Kraehe, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández and B. Stephen Carpenter, II. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-65256-6_31

The white noise of music education: unsounding the possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty in the Australian curriculum

2017

Journal Article

Sensational pedagogies: Learning to be affected by country

Harrison, Neil, Bodkin, Frances, Bodkin-Andrews, Gawaian and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2017). Sensational pedagogies: Learning to be affected by country. Curriculum Inquiry, 47 (5), 504-519. doi: 10.1080/03626784.2017.1399257

Sensational pedagogies: Learning to be affected by country

2017

Journal Article

The wilful character of Indigenous educational research

Bright, David and Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2017). The wilful character of Indigenous educational research. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 47 (02), 1-8. doi: 10.1017/jie.2017.9

The wilful character of Indigenous educational research

2017

Journal Article

“I Am Woman Hear Me Draw”

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2017). “I Am Woman Hear Me Draw”. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 6 (2), 25-47. doi: 10.1525/dcqr.2017.6.2.25

“I Am Woman Hear Me Draw”

2017

Book Chapter

Teaching music interculturally: posing questions, creating possibilities

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2017). Teaching music interculturally: posing questions, creating possibilities. Teaching music creatively. (pp. 170-182) edited by Pamela Burnard and Regina Murphy. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315643298-13

Teaching music interculturally: posing questions, creating possibilities

Past funding

  • 2018 - 2021
    Community-based STEM professional learning for teachers of middle years
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Research on effective strategies for improving school attendance
    Queensland Department of Education and Training
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2015
    Mentoring program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pre-service teachers.
    University of South Australia
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    Becoming, belonging and being in the profession: a pilot mentoring program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pre-service teachers
    OLT Seed Projects
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2013
    Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives: an exploration of culturally responsive teaching practices in Queensland schools
    UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Closing the gap in Indigenous learning outcomes through targeted preservice teacher preparation
    UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Transformative Educational Practice in Indigenous Australian Studies: Primary and Secondary Contexts
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    Exploring Problem-Based Learning Pedagogy as Transformative Education in Indigenous Australian Studies
    ALTC Priority Projects
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2010
    Teaching, learning and Enacting the Education Principles on Indigenous Australian Matters (EPIAM)at the University of Queensland
    UQ Teaching & Learning Strategic Grants
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2008
    Performing on the margins: Torres Strait Islander women performing contemporary music
    Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2005
    Mothers' Experiences Of Using Lullabies As Part Of The Bedtime Ritual And Its Effects On Postnatal Depression
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2004
    Play School As A Site Of Cultural Production: An Historical Overview
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant

Availability

Dr Liz Mackinlay is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Master Philosophy

    Ladies who stitch - online craft communities and what they can teach workplace Learning & Development

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Louise Phillips

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Can I be feminist here? A critical autoethnographic perspective of feminist leadership in Australian girls' schools

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Christina Gowlett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Space Matters. A sense of belonging through the power of space in university for students from low socioeconomic (low SES) background in Australia and New Zealand

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Ms Carroll Go-Sam, Associate Professor Kelly Greenop

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Becoming Internationally Minded: Critical Reflection for the International Educator

    Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Becoming Internationally Minded: Critical Reflection for the International Educator

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Shiralee Poed

Completed supervision

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