Anna Hickey-Moody

Anna Hickey-Moody is on career development leave for 3 years and during this period she is expanding her research leadership skills as the Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Maynooth University in Kildare, Ireland. You can read more about the Institute and its programs here: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/arts-and-humanities-institute Each year, the AHI runs a competitive fellowship scheme offering research time and resources to academics.

Anna maintains strong research connections with RMIT's School of Media and Communications through her continued involvement with two grants funded by the Australian Research Council. The first of these is an industry linkage project that is building micro-credentials which recognise the employable skills young people develop through the arts. You can read more about this project here: https://vital-arts.org/ We welcome new partners in this network. Contact Dr Tammy Hulbert for further information: Tammy.Hulbert@rmit.edu.au

The second research project that Anna supports at RMIT examines queer religious young people's experiences, with a focus on how they navigate discourses that are often conflicting. This grant also focuses on recognizing youth voice and experience, through employing digital research methods that Anna has developed specifically to engage young people. You can read more about this project here: https://www.youthreligionsexuality.com/ If you would like to learn more about the project, contact A/Prof Joel Windle: joel.windle@unisa.edu.au

Before moving to Maynooth in mid 2023, Anna was a Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University, where she taught media studies and cultural studies. Anna was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow between 2017–2021 and an RMIT University Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow. Anna was based in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre where she lead the 'Creative Research Interventions in Methods and Practice' (CRIMP) feminist research collective. She supervised 5 PhD students to completion during this period and held honorary appointments at Goldsmiths, London and Manchester Metropolitan University. You can read more about her ARC Future Fellowship here: https://www.interfaithchildhoods.com/.

Anna is known for her theoretical and empirical work with socially marginalised young people. She is internationally acclaimed for her methodological expertise with arts practice and ethnography as ways of approaching difficult subjects through 'doing' rather than just talking. Her books include "Faith Stories" (MUP, 2023), "Childhood, Citizenship + the Anthropocene" (Rowman + Littlefield, 2022), "Deleuze and Masculinity" (Palgrave, 2019), "Imagining University Education: Making Educational Futures" (Routledge, 2016), "Youth, Arts and Education" (Routledge, 2013), "Unimaginable Bodies" (Brill/Sense Publishers, 2009) and "Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis" (Palgrave, 2006). Showing leadership in the fields across which she works, Anna has also edited 8 collections of essays. This includes co-edited collections on "Deleuze and Childhood" (EUP, 2019), "Youth, Technology, Governance and Experience" (Routledge, 2018), and a co-edited themed edition of the journal "Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies," 2016, 38(1). She teaches and supervises in the areas of media studies, youth, disability, masculinity, and cultural studies.

Industry experience:
Arts industry, dance, disability arts, community arts, social practice.