Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Dr Sasha Mackay is an early career researcher in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. Her professional background spans journalism and socially engaged arts in regional Australia, and her research interests include the practices and impacts of co-created life storytelling and participatory arts projects for underserved cohorts and communities. Sasha has been an online producer and editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Heywire storytelling project for rural and regional youth, and a producer at social impact arts organisation Creative Regions where she designed and delivered oral history and digital storytelling projects with and for regional communities. Currently, Sasha is the Research Project Manager for the Australian Research Council Linkage Project The Role of the Creative Arts in Regional Australia: A Social Impact Model (LP180100477), led by Prof Gattenhof, A/Prof Hancox, and Prof Klaebe.