Adjunct Associate Professor
Barbara Adkins
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Personal details
Keywords
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
Research field
Design Practice and Management, Communication and Media Studies, Sociology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Ph.d (University of Queensland)
- BA(Hons) (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Teaching
- Design in Society
- Environments in Transition
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Logic of Social Inquiry
Publications
- Adkins, B., Summerville, J., Knox, M., Brown, A. & Dillon, S. (2013). Digital technologies and musical participation for people with intellectual disabilities. New Media and Society, 15(4), 501–518. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/54209
- Adkins, B., Summerville, J., Danby, S. & Matthews, J. (2012). Pedagogies of industry partnership. In A. Lee & S. Danby (Eds.), Reshaping doctoral education : International approaches and pedagogies (pp. 156–169). Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41997
- Callisen, C. & Adkins, B. (2011). Pre-digital virtuality: Early modern scholars and the Republic of Letters. In DW. Park, S. Jones & NW. Jankowski (Eds.), The Long History of New Media : Technology, Historiography, and Contextualizing Newness (pp. 55–72). Peter Lang Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41702
- Adkins, B. & Nasarczyk, J. (2009). Asynchronicity and the 'time envelope' of online annotation: The case of the photosharing website, Flickr. Australian Journal of Communication, 35(3), 115–140. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/29556
- Adkins, B., (2009). PhD pedagogy and the changing knowledge landscapes of universities. Higher Education Research and Development, 28(2), 165–177. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16980
- Summerville, J., Adkins, B. & Kendall, G. (2008). Community participation, rights, and responsibilities: the governmentality of sustainable development policy in Australia. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 26(4), 696–711. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/18332
- Adkins, B. & Grant, E. (2007). Backpackers as a Community of Strangers: The Interaction Order of an Online Backpacker Notice Board. Qualitative Sociology Review, 3(2), 188–201. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/6618
- Adkins, B., Foth, M., Summerville, J. & Higgs, P. (2007). Ecologies of Innovation: Symbolic Aspects of Cross-Organisational Linkages in the Design Sector in an Australian Inner-City Area. American Behavioral Scientist, 50(7), 922–934. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/3916
- Summerville, J. & Adkins, B. (2007). Enrolling the Citizen in Sustainability: Membership Categorization, Morality and Civic Participation. Human Studies, 30(4), 429–446. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/12492
- Adkins, B., Smith, D., Barnett, K. & Grant, E. (2006). Public Space as 'Context' in Assistive Information and Communication Technologies for People with Cognitive Impairment. Information, Communication and Society, 9(3), 355–372. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/4565
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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 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)