Dr Sarah Casey is Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Communication. She holds a PhD in Media, Communication, and Feminist Cultural Studies. Sarah has extensive teaching experience in Media Studies, Communication Studies, Academic Skills, Sociology, Social Enterprise, Creative Entrepreneurship, Screen Studies, Ethics, Social Media, Campaigning, and Gender Studies. She is the President for the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association, the peak body for such research in Australia. Her research is cross-disciplinary, and she collaborates with a range of colleagues across creative industries, business, the sciences, and health. Sarah has led industry and government funded projects exploring the lived experiences of rural women. She is regularly invited to provide opinion to government and media about issues such as innovative solutions for women's economic security due to conditions such as long-term drought. Sarah leads a series of projects called ‘Stories of Country Women’, and is committed to the public, accessible dissemination of academic research through microdocumentaries and podcasts. Sarah’s work was included in The Conversation’s annual yearbook, 2022: Reckoning With Power and Privilege. She is the co-author of two academic books, and is published in high-ranking journals such as Sociologica Ruralis, Gender and Education, and Feminist Media Studies. She is an experienced supervisor and has supported several Honours and Higher Degree by Research students to completion. Sarah is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).
Professional memberships
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Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association (President)
- International Communication Association
Awards and Fellowships
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)
- Griffith University Australian Post-graduate Award scholarship (approximately $80,000)
- Griffith University School of Humanities completion scholarship (approximately $12,000)
Professional Social Media
Research grants and projects
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Grant/Project name |
Investigators |
Funding body and A$ value |
Year(s) |
Focus |
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Bushfire resilience, fuelled by artificial intelligence and citizen science |
Mark Brown, Sam Van Holsbeeck, Paul Salmon, Andy Ward, Sarah Casey, Harry Dugmore, Shannon Horsfall |
AusIndustry Citizen Science Grants $498,426
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2021-2025 |
Develop a fire prediction and modelling system – NOBURN (NatiOnal BUshfire Resilience Network) in collaboration with citizen scientists
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Creative Conversations |
Dr Andrew Ward; Dr Briony Luttrell; Prof Christopher Askew; APrf Alison Craswell; APrf Mia Schaumberg; Dr Daniel Wadsworth; Dr Gordana Dermody; Dr Angus Goold; Dr Hannah Banks; Dr Sarah Casey; APrf Nicholas Stevens |
Keyton $144,746 |
2022-2025 |
A national study of the Australian retirement living industry with a cross-disciplinary approach. |
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Women’s empowerment, strategic communication and business leadership: Capacity building within the Balonne Shire ‘Real Rural Women’s Leadership’ |
Sarah Casey (Lead), Crimmins, Gail, Ewart, Jacqueline, (Griffith University), Hands, Karen and de Klerk, Saskia. |
Australian Government: Department of Agriculture and Water Resources $85,000 |
2021-2022 |
Discovering and supporting the specific leadership and business development needs of women managing businesses in the Balonne Shire, in relation to: Women’s leadership; Strategic communication; Identifying new markets; and Forming and leveraging networks.
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Discovering and supporting the digital literacy and business communication needs of people living in St George and Dirranbandi ‘Real Rural Digital Solutions’ |
Sarah Casey (Lead), Crimmins, Gail, O’Sullivan, Sandy, Sutherland, Karen. |
Australian Government: Department of Agriculture and Water Resources $75,000 |
2019-2020 |
Develop and facilitate a digital media and communication project including workshops and a digital repository to enhance digital literacy for businesses and community in South-West Queensland. |
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Real Stories of Country Women |
Sarah Casey (Lead), Crimmins, Gail, McIntyre, Joanna. |
AGL Energy Ltd with Lifeline Darling Downs $20,000 |
2018-2019 |
Develop a series of microdocumentaries about the lived experiences of women living in long-term drought conditions in South-West Queensland |
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Investigating how leaders in L&T units across Australian regional universities employ SET to ensure fairness and optimise their L&T benefit’ |
Crimmins, G, Casey, S, Greenaway, Ruth, Mitchell, Maxine, Amato Ali, Dionne, Smith, David, Ames, Kate, Warburton, |
Council of Australasian University Leaders in Learning and Teaching (CAULLT) $9,665 |
2022-2023 |
Exploring how leaders in learning and teaching in regional Australian universities use Student Evaluation of Teaching to help support fairness and enhance learning and teaching outcomes. |
Research areas
- Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
- Communication and Media Studies
- Rural Sociology
- Gender
- Feminism
- Campaigning
- Women’s Leadership
Teaching areas
Dr Sarah Casey’s specialist areas of knowledge include: feminisms, media studies, communication, digital media activism, and woman adapting due to climate variability.