Associate Professor
Kathy Mills
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
Associate Professor Kathy A. Mills (PhD, GradCertAP, M.Ed, GradDipChrStuds, B. Ed) is a Principal Research Fellow with a continuing academic appointment in the Faculty of Education, School of Curriculum at QUT. She is a second time Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council. Kathy Mills has contributed 70 peer-reviewed publications to the field of literacies and digital culture, including 5 sole-authored books, and over 40 scholarly journal articles and chapters in books with reputable publishers. Dr Mills’ research has over 900 citations (Google Scholar), focusing on literacies, multimodality, and sensory studies. Her most cited work is “A Review of the Digital Turn in the New Literacy Studies” published in the Review of Educational Research (ISI Ranked 1 in Education Research, IF: 5.0, 2014). Her research monographs, Literacy Theories for the Digital Age (2016) and The Multiliteracies Classroom (2011) are highly acclaimed. Kathy is Associate Editor of the Australian Educational Researcher (2014-). Kathy is the Program Chair of the American Educational Research Association, Writing and Literacies SIG, Washington DC, past Treasurer, and future Chair (2011-2018). She serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Literacy Research (Arizona, 2014-), and the editorial review board of English Teaching Practice and Critique. A/Prof Mills serves on the Review Board of the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (2014-). Kathy also serves on the Review Board of the Reading Teacher (International Reading Association, New Jersey).Personal details
Keywords
multimodal literacy, digital writing and literacies, literacy theories, text production, pedagogy and curriculum, reading comprehension strategies, critical ethnography, Indigenous language practices, power relations in institutions and society, learning spaces for digital communication
Discipline
Curriculum and Pedagogy, Specialist Studies in Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master of Education (Christian Heritage College)
- Graduate Diploma Christian Studies (Australian College of Theology)
- Grad Cert Academic Practice (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Education (Christian Heritage College)
Professional memberships and associations
Executive Leadership of Learned Societies
• American Educational Research Association, Writing & Literacies Dr Mills is serving a term of 8 years on the Executive Committee of the American Educational Research Association (Washington DC), Writing and Literacies SIG, connecting key literacy educators worldwide.
Journal Editor
• Australian Educational Researcher, IF 0.102 (Assoc Editor, 2014-) International Journal Editorial Review Boards
• Journal of Literacy Research, Arizona IF 0.39 (Editorial Review Board)
• The Reading Teacher, New Jersey IF 0.355 (Review Board, -2013)
Membership of Learned Societies
• Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
• American Educational Research Association, Washington DC
• International Reading Association, New Jersey
• Australian Literacy Educators' Association, South Australia
Reviewing for International Editorial Boards, Books, and Grant Foundations
• Australian Educational Researcher
• Czech Science Foundation
• Routledge
• The Reading Teacher
• Ethnography and Education
• Language and Education
• Australian Journal of Literacy Education
• Pedagogies: An International Journal
• Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association
• Teaching Education
Research Keywords: literacy, digital media, education research paradigms, critical sociology, ethnography, classroom observation, discourse analysis, multimodal analysis
Website: https://iwmlresearch.wordpress.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheIWMLResearch
TV: A/Prof Mills on Chanel 9 News, NAPLAN: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bt6xe02t9cydd4a/Channel_9News_Mills.m4v?dl=0
Radio: Dr Mills on ABC's Speaking Out program: https://soundcloud.com/abcspeakingout/dr-kathy-mills-from-qut-on
NAPLAN testing (Radio 5AA Adelaide): https://db.tt/SXQvhqMH
Keynote Address: Colorado https://altec.colorado.edu/speakers/Mills-04-2012.shtml
Newspaper and News Media
Large schools, Brisbane Times: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/supersized-schools-loom-large-20130619-2oj6f.html;
Large schools, Courier Mail: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/teachers-warn-queensland-schools-becoming-too-big-due-to-booming-student-populations/story-fnihsrf2-1226706822032
A/Prof Kathy Mills' Indigenous Literacy Research (Australian Research Council):https://www.qut.edu.au/education/about/news/news?news-id=79438/
Prof Mills on Microblogging Technology in Higher Education (QUT media) http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=35257
QUT Media http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=35257
• American Educational Research Association, Writing & Literacies Dr Mills is serving a term of 8 years on the Executive Committee of the American Educational Research Association (Washington DC), Writing and Literacies SIG, connecting key literacy educators worldwide.
Journal Editor
• Australian Educational Researcher, IF 0.102 (Assoc Editor, 2014-) International Journal Editorial Review Boards
• Journal of Literacy Research, Arizona IF 0.39 (Editorial Review Board)
• The Reading Teacher, New Jersey IF 0.355 (Review Board, -2013)
Membership of Learned Societies
• Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
• American Educational Research Association, Washington DC
• International Reading Association, New Jersey
• Australian Literacy Educators' Association, South Australia
Reviewing for International Editorial Boards, Books, and Grant Foundations
• Australian Educational Researcher
• Czech Science Foundation
• Routledge
• The Reading Teacher
• Ethnography and Education
• Language and Education
• Australian Journal of Literacy Education
• Pedagogies: An International Journal
• Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association
• Teaching Education
Research Keywords: literacy, digital media, education research paradigms, critical sociology, ethnography, classroom observation, discourse analysis, multimodal analysis
Website: https://iwmlresearch.wordpress.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheIWMLResearch
TV: A/Prof Mills on Chanel 9 News, NAPLAN: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bt6xe02t9cydd4a/Channel_9News_Mills.m4v?dl=0
Radio: Dr Mills on ABC's Speaking Out program: https://soundcloud.com/abcspeakingout/dr-kathy-mills-from-qut-on
NAPLAN testing (Radio 5AA Adelaide): https://db.tt/SXQvhqMH
Keynote Address: Colorado https://altec.colorado.edu/speakers/Mills-04-2012.shtml
Newspaper and News Media
Large schools, Brisbane Times: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/supersized-schools-loom-large-20130619-2oj6f.html;
Large schools, Courier Mail: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/teachers-warn-queensland-schools-becoming-too-big-due-to-booming-student-populations/story-fnihsrf2-1226706822032
A/Prof Kathy Mills' Indigenous Literacy Research (Australian Research Council):https://www.qut.edu.au/education/about/news/news?news-id=79438/
Prof Mills on Microblogging Technology in Higher Education (QUT media) http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=35257
QUT Media http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=35257
Teaching
A/Prof Kathy Mills began lecturing in higher education in the year 2000 in the following teaching and research areas:
A/Prof Mills is an experienced higher degrees by research supervisor, with PhD and M Ed student completions as both Principal and Associate Supervisor.
- Multimodal literacies
- Multliteracies
- Critical literacy
- Reading comprehension strategies
- English and literacy pedagogy, curriculum and assessment
A/Prof Mills is an experienced higher degrees by research supervisor, with PhD and M Ed student completions as both Principal and Associate Supervisor.
Experience
Associate Professor Kathy A. Mills is Director of Literacies, Culture and Digital Media in the Faculty of Education at QUT. Kathy is a widely recognised international scholar of literacy studies in digital cultures, including sensory literacies, multimodality, socio-spatial literacies, new literacy studies, multiliteracies, critical literacy, and understanding social disadvantage in education. She is currently a Principal Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council on a project to embed Indigenous ways of knowing and being in multimodal literacy practices in schools. She leads multiple ARC research grants with industry partners that have included the QCT, QTU, DET, Hymba Yumba Listening and Learning Place, and Big Picture Industries Inc. A/Prof Mills publishes prolifically, and supervises PhD students in her research field. Kathy is regularly invited to speak at media and education events for stakeholders, and has international and national research leadership roles for the American Educational Research Association (Program Chair, Writing and Literacies), Australian Educational Researcher (Associate Editor), Journal of Literacy Research (Editorial Review Board), The Reading Teacher (Review Board), English Teaching Practice and Critique (Review Board), and the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (Review Board). Kathy has over 16 years of experience in higher education, and 7 years in teaching and school leadership. She was awarded a PhD in literacy studies in 2006 (QUT).
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Selected publications
- Mills K, (2016) Literacy theories for the digital age: Social, critical, multimodal, spatial, material and sensory lenses, Multilingual Matters.
- Mills K, Davis-Warra J, Sewell M, Anderson M, (2016) Indigenous ways with literacies: transgenerational, multimodal, placed, and collective, Language and Education, 30 (1), pp. 1-21.
- Mills K, (2015) Doing digital composition on the social web: Knowledge processes in literacy learning. In B Cope & M Kalantzis, A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Learning by design, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 172-185.
- Mills K, Dreamson N, (2015) Race, the senses, and the materials of writing practices. In C Brock, G Barton & J Turbill, Teaching writing in today's classrooms : looking back to look forward, Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA), pp. 301-315.
- Mills K, Comber B, (2015) Socio-spatial approaches to literacy studies: Rethinking the social constitution and politics of space. In K Pahl & J Rowsell, The Routledge handbook of literacy studies [Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics], Routledge, pp. 91-103.
- Unsworth L, Mills K, (2016) The literacy curriculum: a critical review. In D Wyse, J Pandya & L Hayward, The SAGE handbook of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 621-637.
- Bellocchi A, Mills K, Ritchie S, (2016) Emotional experiences of preservice science teachers in online learning: the formation, disruption and maintenance of social bonds, Cultural Studies of Science Education, 11 (3), pp. 629-652.
- Yuan Y, Tangen D, Mills K, Lidstone J, (2015) Learning English pragmatics in China: An investigation into Chinese EFL learners' perceptions of pragmatics, TESL-EJ: The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language, 19 (1), pp. 1-16.
- Chandra V, Mills K, (2015) Transforming the core business of teaching and learning in classrooms through ICT, Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 24 (3), pp. 285-301.
- Mills K, Exley B, (2015) Decolonizing digital heritage practices for Indigenous literacy: A multimodal analysis of iPad Tellagami videos, Proceedings of the 2015 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, pp. 1-12.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kathy, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Research Fellowship - DECRA (Australian Research Council) (2014-2016)Cat 1- Australian Competitive Grants, DE140100047Developing the multimodal literacy learning of Indigenous Australian primary students through Indigenous ways of knowing and being
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2009
- Details
- Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Australian Research Council, 2009) Cat 1 - Australian Competitive Grants, LP0990289.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Associate Editor of the Australian Educational Researcher, leading journal of the Australian Educational Research Association
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Elected to American Educational Research Association Executive Committee, Writing and Literacies SIG (Washington DC), 8-year progression of roles: 2011-2019
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Invited to the Editorial Review Board of the rigorous and international Journal of Literacy Research (IF 0.393)
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Invited to serve on the Editorial Review Board of the leading journal in literacy curriculum and pedagogy, The Reading Teacher - two terms, 2011-2013; 2014-2016.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- View International Keynote Address for the University of Colorado and Anderson Language and Technology Center, USA. Honorarium: http://altec.colorado.edu/speakers/Mills-04-2012.shtml
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Invited to serve on the Editorial Review Board of the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2014 - continuing
- Type
- Other
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Dr Mills was awarded a Graduate Certificate of Academic Practice in 2013 for completion of a postgraduate degree in principles and practices of university teaching and research.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Dr Kathy Mills was the recipient of a QUT Outstanding Thesis Award in 2007 for her 2006 thesis: Multiliteracies: a critical ethnography: Pedagogy, power, discourse and access to multiliteracies.
Research projects
- Title
- Developing the Multimodal Language of Emotions of Low SES Primary Students
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP150100030
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Title
- Developing the Multimodal Literacy Learning of Indigenous Australian Primary Students through Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE140100047
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- multimodal literacy; Indigenous literacy; cultural negotiation
- Title
- Digital Learning and Print Literacy: A Design Experiment for the Reform of Low Socio-economic, Culturally Diverse Schools.
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0990289
- Start year
- 2009
- Keywords
- Literacy; Digital Literacies; Pedagogy; Media Arts; Primary Education