Anna Hickey-Moody is an Australian academic specialising in cultural studies. She is a professor of intersectional humanities at Maynooth University, Ireland. [1] She is also affiliated with media and communication at RMIT University. [2] [3] Hickey-Moody holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2017-2021). [2] [4]
Hickey-Moody completed a Bachelor of Arts (Social Anthropology, Theatre Studies) at the University of Adelaide. [5] She completed her PhD at the University of South Australia on the work of Restless Dance Theatre. [6] [5]
Hickey-Moody worked at the University of South Australia as a lecturer from 2000 to 2005. [7]
From 2004 to 2007, Hickey-Moody was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Monash University where she worked on the Youth Arts Beyond Risk project. [7] The book based on this work is called Youth, Arts and Education and was published with Routledge in 2013. [8]
Hickey Moody later went on to lecture at Monash University from 2007 to 2009, during which time she co-founded and led the Space, Place and Body Research Group. [7]
In 2009, Hickey-Moody moved to the University of Sydney where she held a number of teaching and supervision positions, including working as the Departmental Undergraduate Coordinator until 2013. [7] During this time she also published Unimaginable Bodies (Sense/Brill) and a number of edited collections. [9]
Between 2013 and 2016, Hickey-Moody worked at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she was the Director of the Centre for Arts and Learning and the Head of the PhD in Arts and Learning. [7] While at Goldsmiths College, Hickey-Moody also co-founded the Disability Research Centre and held a number of teaching positions. [10]
In 2016, Hickey-Moody was made associate professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. [7]
In 2017, Hickey-Moody was made Professor of Media and Communications at RMIT University, where she continues to work (as of September 2020). [3] [2] At RMIT Hickey-Moody is a core member of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre, leading the Creative Research Interventions in Methods and Practice (CRiMP) lab. [3]
Hickey-Moody was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2017. [4] She currently acts as project lead for the Future Fellowship project: “Interfaith Childhoods”. [2] [11]
Hickey-Moody is a Visiting Research Fellow with the Education and Social Research Institute at the Manchester Metropolitan University and a Visiting Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. [5]
Hickey-Moody is considered a leading expert in art-based research practices, Deleuzian theory and affect theory. [12] [2] [13] Hickey-Moody uses a philosophically informed cultural studies approach to her research, working in both qualitative and quantitative research methods. [2] She is known for her work with young people, people with disabilities, migrant communities, and marginalised communities. [14]
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