Associate Professor Katelyn Barney

Associate Professor

Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement)
k.barney@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 57318

Overview

Katelyn Barney is an Associate Professor in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit and also affiliated with the School of Music. Her research focuses on improving pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students into and through higher education and advancing understanding about the role of collaborative research and music making between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people. She has published across these areas and her latest edited book is Musical Collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous People in Australia: Exchanges in the Third Space. She is also Managing Editor of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education.

She was an Equity Fellow with the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (formerly NCSEHE) and her fellowship explored effective evaluation of university outreach with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary school students. Katelyn co-hosts a podcast with her colleague Professor Tracey Bunda: "Indigenising Curriculum in Practice" and co-hosted a previous series "Indigenous Success: Doing it, Thinking it, Being it". Katelyn has also collaborated with Professor Bronwyn Fredericks and colleagues across five universities to undertake a ACSES funded project to build the evidence to improve completion rates for Indigenous tertiary students.

Katelyn is an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow and her National Teaching Fellowship focused on developing pathways for Indigenous students from undergraduate study into Higher Degrees by Research.

Research Interests

  • Facilitating pathways into higher education for Indigenous students
  • Indigenous/non-Indigenous research collaborations
  • Intercultural musical collaborations between women

Qualifications

  • Graduate Certificate in Education, The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Music, The University of Queensland

Publications

  • Fredericks, Bronwyn, Nakata, Martin and Barney, Katelyn (2023). Editorial. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 52 (2) ARTN 1028. doi: 10.55146/ajie.v52i2.1028

  • Fredericks, Bronwyn, Barney, Katelyn, Bunda, Tracey, Hausia, Kirsten, Martin, Anne, Elston, Jacinta and Bernardino, Brenna (2023). The importance of Indigenous centres/units for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students: ensuring connection and belonging to support university completion. Higher Education Research & Development, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2023.2258825

  • Fredericks, Bronwyn, Nakata, Martin and Barney, Katelyn (2023). Editorial. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 52 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.55146/ajie.v52i1.682

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