Dr Christy Collis

Background

Christy Collis is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication. Christy is a researcher in cultural geography and a lecturer in the QUT Creative Industries Faculty since 2005. In her three theses, her postdoctoral research fellowship at UQ (2000-03), her research fellowship at ANU (2004), and her visiting fellowships at Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University (2003 & 2004), she studied the cultural and legal ways in which vast and sparsely-populated geographies–the Canadian high Arctic, the Australian central deserts, and Antarctica–have been made into possessions. She has also published on the legal geographies of Outer Space.

She is currently

• one of the chief investigators of an ARC Discovery grant project, ‘Creative suburbia,’ which is investigating creative industries work in outer-suburban Australia (2008-11)
• one of the chief investigators of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) grant on reflective writing (2010-2011)
• a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network (2004-09), in which she was convenor of the Cultural Technologies node
• a researcher in the New Media Services section of the Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre.

Christy is a member of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia’s executive, and of the Institute of Australian Geographers.

Achievements

• 2006-2008: designer and director of the Creative Industries ‘Transitions’ work-integrated learning program, a program which now sees over 200 students a year undertake industry placements and projects
• 2006-2009: researcher in the QUT large commissioned grant, ‘Transitions Out Project’.
• 2010: one of the founders and coordinators of the QUT Entertainment Industries program
• has held two QUT teaching and learning grants, and has published widely on authentic learning.