Anna Hickey-Moody is a

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of media and communication at

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. Hickey-Moody holds an

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Future Fellowship (2017-2021).

Biography

Hickey-Moody completed a

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(

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) at the

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. She completed her PhD at the

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on the work of

Restless Dance Theatre Restless Dance Theatre, formerly Restless Dance Company, is a dance theatre company based in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Founded in 1991, Restless works with people with and without disability. History The Restless Dance Company w ...

. Hickey-Moody worked at the University of South Australia as a

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from 2000 to 2005. From 2004 to 2007 Hickey-Moody was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...

where she worked on the Youth Arts Beyond Risk project. The book based on this work is called Youth, Arts and Education and was published with

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in 2013. Hickey Moody later went on to

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at Monash University from 2007 to 2009, during which time she co-founded and led the Space, Place and Body Research Group. In 2009 Hickey-Moody moved to the

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where she held a number of teaching and supervision positions, including working as the Departmental Undergraduate Coordinator until 2013. During this time she also published Unimaginable Bodies (Sense/Brill) and a number of edited collections. Between 2013 and 2016, Hickey-Moody worked at

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, where she was the Director of the Centre for Arts and Learning and the Head of the PhD in Arts and Learning. While at Goldsmiths College, Hickey-Moody also co-founded the Disability Research Centre and held a number of teaching positions. In 2016 Hickey-Moody was made

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in the Department of

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and

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at The University of Sydney. In 2017 Hickey-Moody was made

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of Media and Communications at RMIT University, where she continues to work (as of September 2020). 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. Hickey-Moody was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2017. She currently acts as project lead for the Future Fellowship project: “ Interfaith Childhoods”. Hickey-Moody is a Visiting Research Fellow with the Education and Social Research Institute at the

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and a Visiting Professor in

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at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Expertise/Research Areas

Hickey-Moody is considered a leading expert in art-based research practices, Deleuzian theory and affect theory. Hickey-Moody uses a philosophically informed

cultural studies Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...

approach to her research, working in both qualitative and

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methods. She is known for her work with

young people Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood ( maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as being a young adult. You ...

, people with

disabilities Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, se ...

, migrant communities, and marginalised communities.

Selected publications

* Hickey-Moody, Anna. (2020). Faith. Philosophy Today. 63. 10.5840/philtoday202019302. * Hickey-Moody, A. (2019). New Materialism, Ethnography, and Socially Engaged Practice: Space-Time Folds and the Agency of Matter In: Qualitative Inquiry, 1 - 9 * Hickey-Moody, Anna. (2019). Deleuze and Masculinity Palgrave, New York. * Harwood, V. Hickey-Moody, A.,et al. (2018). The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People Routledge, Oxon, United Kingdom * Hickey-Moody, A. (2017). Arts practice as method, urban spaces and intra-active faiths In: International Journal of Inclusive Education, 21, 1083 - 1096 * Hickey-Moody, A. (2017). Integrated Dance as a Public Pedagogy of the Body. In: Social Alternatives, 36, 5 - 13 * Hickey-Moody, Anna. Youth, Arts and Education : Reassembling Subjectivity through Affect. First edition. ed. New York: Routledge, 2013. Print. * Hickey-Moody, Anna. Unimaginable Bodies : Intellectual Disability, Performance and Becomings. Rotterdam, NL: Sense, 2009. Print. * Kenway, Jane, Kraack, Anna, Hickey-Moody, Anna, and Kenway, Jane, Author. Masculinity beyond the Metropolis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.

References

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