Doctor Rachel Morley
Associate Dean, Engagement,
Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Senior Lecturer,
Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
Senior Lecturer,
Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
Biography
Dr Rachel Morley is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media, and Associate Dean of Engagement in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. She is also a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre and the Digital Humanities Research Group.
Rachel teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in creative writing, networked writing cultures, and media studies. She has received numerous awards for her contributions to student learning including two Western Sydney University Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2013 and 2014), a Vice Chancellor's Excellence Award for Postgraduate Training and Supervision (highly commended, 2014), a Vice Chancellor's Excellence Award for Learning and Teaching (2015), and a Vice Chancellor's Professional Development Scholarship (2015). Rachel's research interests and publication areas include literary and creative practice (with a particular interest in biography and autobiography); new media writing technologies; postgraduate pedagogies and academic literacies; theories and practices in qualitative research (including ethnographies of writing and representation); and ageing, creativity and cognition. She has held an ARC grant for a research project based in Central Australia (2012-2016) and has also received funding for an existing collaborative project, 'Ageing Creatively: Creative Writing as a Tool for Healthy Ageing'. Rachel is Assistant Editor and Postgraduate Editor of Global Media Journal - Australian Edition and convenor of the award winning national training event, 'Creative Ecologies: A Postgraduate Retreat in Creative Arts Scholarship'. Her creative praxis PhD, 'Re-membering Michael Field: Scenes From a Biographical Praxis' (Macquarie University, 2009), used fictocriticism and autoethnography to explore the processes and experiences that inform the making of a biographical text in an attempt to understand the effects of those experiences on research and writing, and the production of biographical knowledge more broadly.
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Qualifications
- PhD Macquarie University
- MA University of Western Sydney
Professional Memberships
- Writing and Society Research Centre, UWS (2009)
- Digital Humanities Research Group (2014)
Awards
- UWS Learning and Teaching Award: Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 2013-12-10
- UWS Learning and Teaching Award: Citation for Outstanding Contribution To Student Learning 2014-12-09
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts
- Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
- Communication, Creative Industries & Screen Media
Committees
- First Year Communication Arts Academic Course Advisor
Contact
| Email: | R.Morley@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9685 4668 |
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| Location: | ED.G.43 Parramatta |
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Publications
Chapters in Books
- Cohen, H., Morley, R., Dallow, P. and Kaufmann, L. (2010), 'Database Narratives: Conceptualising Digital Heitage Databases in Remote Aboriginal Communities', Information Visualization, IEEE computer society, Conference Publishing Services (CPS) 9780769541655.
- Morley, R. (2007), 'From Demidenko to Darville: Scenes from a Literary Carnivale', Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing, Palgrave Macmillan 9780230005044.
- Morley, R. (2007), 'Between the Sheets with Michael Field: Conversations in Auto/Bio/Graphy', Michael Field and Their World, Rivendale Press 1904201083.
- Morley, R. (2005), 'A Stitch in Time: An Experiment in Collaboration', Lesbian Academic Couples, Harrington Park Press 9781560236184.
Journal Articles
- Jewell, M., Morley, R. and Uhlmann, A. (2019), 'New writing in an aged care setting', New Writing, vol 16, no 2 , pp 206 - 219.
- Cohen, H., Cohen, H., Morley, R., Morley, R. and Moenandar, S. (2017), 'And then an elephant came along', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, vol 11, no 1 .
- Cohen, H., Cohen, H., Morley, R., Morley, R. and Moenandar, S. (2017), 'And then an elephant came along', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, vol 11, no 1 .
- Cohen, H., Morley, R. and Moenandar, S. (2017), 'Narrative resistance', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, vol 11, no 1 .
- Morley, R. (2016), 'In conversation with Juan Francisco Salazar', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, vol 10, no 1 .
- Cohen, H. and Morley, R. (2015), 'The visual remediation of a complex narrative : reimagining the "small world" stories of Journey to Horseshoe Bend', Scholarly and Research Communication, vol 6, no 4 .
- Morley, R. (2015), 'Carmel Bird : 'flying about the place'', Sydney Review of Books, vol December 4, 2015 .
- Morley, R. (2015), 'Everyday intimacies : an interview with Fiona Wright', Sydney Review of Books, vol October 9, 2015 .
- Morley, R. (2015), '25 'Week in Review' essays in Sydney Review of Books', Sydney Review of Books, .
- Morley, R. (2012), 'Fighting feeling : re-thinking biographical praxis', Life Writing, vol 9, no 1 , pp 77 - 95.
- Morley, R. (2011), 'Writing Intimate Lives: Mediations in Biographical Praxis', Literature Compass, vol 8, no 12 , pp 962 - 971.
- Morley, R. (2009), 'The trial of Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper : poets and lovers', Michaelian, vol 1, no 1 .
- Morley, R. (2005), ''A New Sketch of Edith Cooper'', Notes and Queries, vol 52, no 1 , pp 81 - 82.
- Morley, R. (2005), 'A stitch in time: An experiment in collaboration', Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol 9, no 4 , pp 13 - 24.
- Morley, R. (2004), 'Constructing the self, composing the other : auto/fixation and the case of Michael Field', Colloquy, , no 8 .
- Morley, R. (2003), ''Boxed In: Muscling in on Masculine Identities'', Journal of Australian Studies, vol 76, no 2003 , pp 109 - 116.
Other Publications
- 2022, 'Out-of-Home-Care (OOHC) Digital Lives: A Collaborative Investigation into Digital Opportunities for the Personal Narratives of Young People in Care', Report
- 2016, 'Ntaria Heroes', Recorded Work
- 2013, 'Shelf Life', Recorded Work
Previous Projects
| Title: | Ageing Creatively: Creative Writing as a Tool for Healthy Ageing |
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| Western Researchers: | Anthony Uhlmann, Paul Arthur, Christopher Davis, Denis Burnham, Esther Chang, Hazel Smith, Jason Ensor, Rachel Hendery, Rachel Morley and Melinda Jewell |
| Years: | 2015-03-01 - 2016-06-30 |
| ID: | P00022526 |
| Title: | Digital Archives, Datadiversity and Discoverability: The Strehlow Collection as Knowledge Resource for Remote Indigenous Communities |
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| Western Researchers: | Hart Cohen, Rachel Morley and Juan Francisco Salazar Sutil |
| Years: | 2012-01-24 - 2016-05-31 |
| ID: | P00019985 |
Supervision
Doctor Morley is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Thesis Title: | Cultural Work: Writing about Albums as Cultural Artefacts. |
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| Thesis Title: | On the Road to Damascus: Theorising Transformational Encounters in Art Galleries and Museums |
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| Thesis Title: | Visualising Empathy: An Alchemist in the Landscape |
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| Thesis Title: | AS I SAT DYING: Bringing theological, philosophical and literary tools of inquiry to interface with human experience on Rev. Carl Strehlow's 1922 journey to his death at Horseshoe Bend in the Desert of Central Australia |
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| Thesis Title: | I Witness - Titrating Grace: Towards Wholehearted Living. |
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| Thesis Title: | A Brief History of Starvation |
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| Thesis Title: | Contemporary Feminist Autoethnographic Account and Modern Reconstruction: Responses to Early Twentieth Century Female Missionary Writing about Northwest China |
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| Thesis Title: | The Significance of Aboriginal Film Culture for Aboriginal People. An Auto-ethnographic study |
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Previous Supervision
| Thesis Title: | A Heuristic Inquiry into the Writing Process of a Feature Film Script - The Red Sun Trail |
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| Field of Research: | Audio Visual Studies; History; Drama And Theatre Studies; Gender Specific Studies |
| Thesis Title: | Amergein and Burilda: A Story Told on Film |
| Field of Research: | Communication And Media Studies, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | Beside Our Selves: Panic as Unbecoming |
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| Thesis Title: | From Rant to Revolution: The Possibilities and Limitations of Motherhood Memoir |
| Field of Research: | Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | In Search of Lost Objects |
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| Thesis Title: | Is there such a thing as a too `safe place for change'? An enquiry into how client dependency is understood by therapists and their clients |
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| Thesis Title: | It's Not the Biggest Story Ever, I Know, but it's Telling': Women, Music, and the Confessional Mode; and Her Fidelity: A Novel |
| Field of Research: | Music |
| Thesis Title: | Reading Books in Buenos Aires |
| Field of Research: | Written Communication; Literature |
| Thesis Title: | Becoming on YouTube: Exploring the Automedial Identities and Narratives of Australian Mummy Vlogging |
| Field of Research: | Communication And Media Studies |
| Thesis Title: | Graving another Testament: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Sydney Anglicans Under Peter Jensen 2001- 2010 |
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| Thesis Title: | Green room Gidgets: deconstructing the female surf protagonist in Australian Young Adult fiction |
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| Thesis Title: | Of Cancer and Other Things: Conversations with the Royal Philosopher on Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella |
| Field of Research: | Other Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | One Giant Leap for Jazz: The Life and Work of Roger Frampton |
| Field of Research: | Communication And Media Studies; Language And Literature |
| Thesis Title: | Power and the Passion: Representation of Single Motherhood in Contemporary Australian Fiction since Whitlam and a novel, The Verge |
| Field of Research: | Other Creative Arts; Gender Specific Studies |
| Thesis Title: | Tilraji?s Cry: A Life from the Margins. Statement of Problem and Context of Practice |
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| Thesis Title: | Unbroken: Personal Storytelling as a Method of Illuminating Parenting Experiences of Disability, Illness and Diversity |
| Field of Research: | Journalism; Other Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Being There, Online: Structuring for sociality at online writers? festivals |
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| Thesis Title: | Embodied belonging and the politics of race in Australian poetry slams |
| Field of Research: | Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | Roger Frampton Comes Alive: Finding the Father, Sleuthing the Self Through an Analysis of Grief, Patriography and Documentary Film |
| Field of Research: | Audio Visual Studies; Psychology; Music |
| Thesis Title: | The Contextual Relevance of Freedom of Speech and Public Opinion as Mediated by the Class Structures of the Real and Digital Spheres |
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