Personal
- Name
- Adjunct Associate Professor Barbara Adkins
- Position(s)
- Sessional Academic
Division of Research and Commercialisation,
Research and Research Training Office,
Research and Research Training - Director's Office - Adjunct Associate Professor
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Design Office - Discipline *
- Design Practice and Management, Communication and Media Studies, Sociology
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 4765
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 0354
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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Ph.d (University of Queensland), BA(Hons) (University of Queensland)
- Professional memberships
and associations International Sociological Association
- Keywords
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Sociology of Design, Sociology Of Communication And Technology, New Media, Urbanism And Social Networks, Sociology Of Higher Education Pedagogy, Sociology Of The Arts And Creative Work
* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Biography
Research Interests: Design for Health and Social Inclusion; The role of technologies and new media in social participation; qualitative inquiry; The pedagogy of research supervision
This information has been contributed by Adjunct Associate Professor Barbara Adkins.
Teaching
- Design in Society
- Environments in Transition
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Logic of Social Inquiry
This information has been contributed by Adjunct Associate Professor Barbara Adkins.
Publications
- Adkins B, Summerville J, Knox M, Brown AR, Dillon SC, (2013) Digital technologies and musical participation for people with intellectual disabilities, New Media and Society p501-518
- Adkins B, Summerville J, Danby SJ, Matthews J, (2012) Pedagogies of industry partnership, Reshaping doctoral education : International approaches and pedagogies p156-169
- Callisen C, Adkins B, (2011) Pre-digital virtuality: Early modern scholars and the Republic of Letters, The Long History of New Media : Technology, Historiography, and Contextualizing Newness p55-72
- Adkins B, Nasarczyk J, (2009) Asynchronicity and the 'time envelope' of online annotation: The case of the photosharing website, Flickr, Australian Journal of Communication p115-140
- Adkins B, (2009) PhD pedagogy and the changing knowledge landscapes of universities, Higher Education Research and Development (HERDSA): Journal of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia p165-177
- Summerville JA, Adkins B, Kendall GP, (2008) Community participation, rights, and responsibilities: the governmentality of sustainable development policy in Australia, Environment and Planning C: Government & Policy p696-711
- Adkins BA, Grant EL, (2007) Backpackers as a Community of Strangers: The Interaction Order of an Online Backpacker Notice Board, Qualitative Sociology Review p188-201
- Adkins BA, Foth M, Summerville JA, Higgs PL, (2007) Ecologies of Innovation: Symbolic Aspects of Cross-Organisational Linkages in the Design Sector in an Australian Inner-City Area, American Behavioral Scientist p922-934
- Summerville JA, Adkins BA, (2007) Enrolling the Citizen in Sustainability: Membership Categorization, Morality and Civic Participation, Human Studies p429-446
- Adkins B, Smith DJ, Barnett KR, Grant E, (2006) Public Space as 'Context' in Assistive Information and Communication Technologies for People with Cognitive Impairment, Information, Communication and Society p355-372
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- New Media in the Urban Village: Mapping Communicative Ecologies and Socio-Economic Innovation in Emerging Inner-City Residential Developments
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0663854
- Start year
- 2006
- Keywords
- New Media; Urban Renewal; Social Networks; Inner City Neighbourhoods; Community Informatics; Social Capital
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Governing Self: SNSs as Tools for Self-Formation (2013)
- A Case of Community Safety: Displacing Complex 'Social' Problems in Fortitude Valley (2012)
- The lived experience of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for children of Australian Vietnam veterans in Australia (2011)
- My Place through My Eyes: A social constructionist approach to researching the relationships between socioeconomic living contexts and physical activity (2009)
- Revealing the Nature of Interaction between Designers and Physical and Virtual Artifacts to Support Design Reflection and Discovery (2008)
- The Praxis of Voluntary Service: an investigation of the logic of service in Rotary and Zonta (2008)
- Governmentality , Pedagogy and Membership Categorization: a case of enrolling the citizen in sustainable regional planning (2007)
- Workplace Design in the Knowledge Economy: Case of the NetWork Place TM© (2007)
- Transformation of Communication Practices: a Case Study of Older Adults' Participation in the Information Society (2003)