Associate Professor
Christy Collis
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
Background Christy Collis is a researcher in cultural geography and in the scholarship of learning and teaching. Christy has a track record of industry-engaged curriculum design and leadership, including designing the Creative Industries Faculty's Work-integrated Learning program, and designing and founding the successful QUT Bachelor of Entertainment Industries course. She was founding Head of the discipline of Entertainment and Arts Management between 2013-2017. Christy is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Reviewer with the Queensland Academy of Learning and Teaching. She is an Expert Peer Reviewer for QUT's internal teaching evaluation program, a lead reviewer for the QUT Curriculum Standards Committee, and an elected member of the QUT University Academic Board. She is an executive member of Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Qld.Personal details
Keywords
creative industries, authentic learning, antarctica, legal geography, cultural geography, scholarship of teaching and learning
Discipline
Cultural Studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (La Trobe University)
- Grad Cert (Higher Ed) (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, executive member; Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) executive member (QLD), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Selected publications
- Collis C, (2016) Res communis?: A critical legal geography of outer space, Antarctica, and the deep seabed. In JS Ormrod & P Dickens, The Palgrave handbook of society, culture and outer space, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 270-293.
- McKee A, Collis C, Nitins T, Ryan M, Harrington S, Duncan B, Carter J, Luck E, Neale L, Butler D, Backstrom M, (2014) Defining entertainment: an approach, Creative Industries Journal, 7 (2), pp. 108-120.
- Collis C, Freebody S, Flew T, (2013) Seeing the outer suburbs: Addressing the urban bias in creative place thinking, Regional Studies, 47 (2), pp. 148-160.
- Nitins T, Collis C, (2013) 'Grounding the internet': Categorising the geographies of locative media, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, 2013 (146), pp. 69-78.
- Collis C, (2012) The geostationary orbit: A critical legal geography of space's most valuable real estate. In L Parks & J Schwoch, Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries, and Cultures, Rutgers University Press, pp. 61-81.
- McKee A, Collis C, Hamley B, (2011) Entertainment Industries: Entertainment as a Cultural System, Routledge.
- Collis C, Felton E, Graham P, (2010) Beyond the inner city: Real and imagined places in creative place policy and practice, Information Society, 26 (2), pp. 104-112.
- Collis C, McKee A, Hamley B, (2010) Entertainment industries at university: Designing a curriculum, Continuum, 24 (6), pp. 921-932.
- Felton E, Collis C, Graham P, (2010) Making Connections: creative industries networks in outer-suburban locations, Australian Geographer, 41 (1), pp. 57-70.
- Collis C, (2010) Developing work-integrated learning curricula for the creative industries: Embedding stakeholder perspectives, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LATHE), 2010 (4-1), pp. 3-19.
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence for: Learning and Teaching, Partnerships and Engagement, Client Focus, and Innovative and Creative Practice
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence for: Learning and Teaching, Partnerships and Engagement, Client Focus, and Innovative and Creative Practice
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2009
- Details
- QUT Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence for:Learning and Teaching, Partnerships and Engagement, Client Focus, and Innovative and Creative Practice
Research projects
- Title
- Australian Cultural and Creative Activity: A Population and Hotspot Analysis
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP160101724
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
- Title
- Creative Suburbia: A Critical Evaluation of the Scope for Creative Cultural Development in Australia's Suburban and Peri Urban Communities
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0877133
- Start year
- 2008
- Keywords
- Creative Industries; Cultural Studies; Suburban Communities; Innovation Culture and Economy; Cultural Geography; Urban Planning
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- It's Not The Heat, It's The Humidity: Developing a practice-based method for cultural history curation and dissemination (2017)
- Gay Men, Social Media and Self-Presentation: Managing Identities in Gaydar, Facebook and Beyond (2013)
- Australian Queer Student Activists' Media Representations of 'Queer (2010)
- Listening in to Others: In between noise and silence (2010)
- The Role of Online Networks in Supporting Young People's Digital Inclusion and the Implications for Australian Government Policies (2009)