Associate Professor Gail Crimmins is a trained actor and director and currently engaged as Associate Professor in Communication. She is an active researcher within the areas of gender, education, and arts-informed research.
Gail published a monograph in 2018 and two edited volumes of essays (2019 and 2020), for the Gender and Education Series for Macmillan/Springer, UK., and authored over 30 journal articles and book chapters published in peer reviewed publications, including the Q1 Journals: Higher Education Research and Development, Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics and Education, and Gender and Education.
Professional memberships
- Editorial Board of Higher Education Research & Development (HERD)
- Editorial Board of Gender and Education
- Universities Australia Executive Women's Group
- Gender and Education Association (GEA)
- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK
Awards
- Citation Award, 2017, Commonwealth Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT). Awarded to Gail as part of the COR109 team in recognition for a collaborative transdisciplinary team culture, which facilitates an exemplary supportive tertiary education experience for first year students through scholarly and informed curricula and resources.
- Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship, 2016, in recognition and reward of teaching excellence
- USC Advance Awards, 2016: AQT award for Advancing Quality Teaching. Awarded to teaching staff and teaching teams who engage students in a quality learning experience by applying rich and engaging teaching approaches that substantially improve students' learning experiences. Awarded to the COR109 team (including Gail Crimmins)
- HDR Special Presentation Award, Research Week, University of the Sunshine Coast, 2014
- People's Choice Best Presentation Award, Learning and Teaching Week, University of the Sunshine Coast, 2014
- Good Practice BLASST award for benchmarking leadership and advancement of standards for sessional teaching, National Office of Learning and Teaching, 2013
- Graduate Women Queensland Sunshine Coast Postgraduate Bursary, 2013
Research areas
- Gender and Higher Education
- Feminist research
- Arts-informed research
- Narrative Inquiry
Teaching areas
- Communication
- Creative Industries
- Theatre and Performance
Key recent research publications
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Consideration of student evaluations of teaching (SET) and learning: perspectives of learning and teaching leaders through the ethical lens of “first, do no harm” by Gail Crimmins, Sarah Casey, Ian Weber and Shahab Pourfakhimi Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol. Advanced access Creative industries curriculum design for living and leading amid uncertainty Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity, pp.20-36 Routledge 2024 DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003451617-3
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Strategies for Supporting Inclusion and Diversity in the Academy: Higher Education, Aspiration and Inequality, 2nd Edition by Gail Crimmins Springer International Publishing, 2nd Edition 2022 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04174-7
- The spaces and places that women casual academics (often fail to) inhabit, G Crimmins - Higher Education Research & Development, 2016
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Theatricalising narrative research on women casual academics, G Crimmins, Springer, 2018
Dr Gail Crimmins specialises in feminist research, gender and higher education, inclusivity and diversity in higher education, and arts-informed and narrative approaches to research.
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