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Dr Jo Pollitt

Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5029
Mobile: 0407 473 241
Email: j.pollitt@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML17.235  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2821-7768

Jo is a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2019.
  • Master of Arts (Creative Arts), Edith Cowan University, 2002.

Research Outputs

Book Chapters

  • Blaise, M., Gray, E., Pollitt, J., Acton, R., Barraclough, S., Bodén, L., Cullen, F., Dekker, K., Gröndal, H., Leon-Dyer, S., Murray, P., Nordstrom, S., Rahm, L., Sjödin, ES., Tudor, R. (2024). Creatively attending to unfinished business, everyday sexisms, COVID-19, and Higher Education: The #FEAS FAKE JOURNAL. The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis (380-412). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003303558-45.

Journal Articles

  • McKenzie, V., Pollitt, J., Sun, E. (2024). TRANSLATE | TRANSFORM | TRANSDISCIPLINE: Collaborative practice across divides. Axon: Creative Explorations, 14(1), 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.54375/001/5e1qzvv97s.
  • Gray, E., Ullman, J., Blaise, M., Pollitt, J. (2024). Masculinism, institutional violence and #MeToo: understanding Australian University responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2024(Article in press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2024.2317386.
  • Mereweather, J., Pollitt, J., Blaise, M. (2024). Young Children Moving through Ecological Anxiety and Grief: Dancing with Demolition. Journal of Dance Education, 2024(Article in press), 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2024.2403757.

Book Chapters

  • Pollitt, J. (2023). Choreographies of Presence: Improvisation as Feminist Practice. Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations and Practices (48-60). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145615.

Journal Articles

  • Blue, L., Pollitt, J., Blaise, M. (2023). Conversations with rain: Proposing poetic and non-linear interpretation strategies in the Art Gallery. International Journal of Education and the Arts, 24(1.2), 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.26209/ijea24si1.2.
  • Pollitt, J., Gray, E., Blaise, M., Ullman, J., Fishwick, E. (2023). Performing feminist research: creative tactics for communicating COVID-19, gender, and higher education research. Gender and Education, 35(5), 487-504. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2213727.
  • Gray, E., Ullman, J., Blaise, M., Pollitt, J. (2023). ‘I'm broken but I'm alive’: gender, COVID-19 and higher education in Australia. Higher Education Research and Development, 42(3), 588-602. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2022.2096576.

Book Chapters

  • Blaise, M., Pollitt, J., Merewether, J., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2022). Resilience as More-Than-Human. Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene (17-30). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Pollitt, J., Blaise, M., Gray, E. (2022). Enacting a feminist pause: Interrupting patriarchal productivity in higher education. Creative Approaches to Health Education: New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning (28-40). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003126508-3.

Journal Articles

  • Berry, A., Pollitt, J., Nelson, N., Hodgins, BD., Wintoneak, V. (2022). Dis/orientating the Early Childhood Sensorium: A Palate Making Menu for Public Pedagogy. Journal of Childhood Studies, 47(3), 74-91. https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs202218330.
  • Gray, EM., Pollitt, J., Blaise, M. (2022). Between activism and academia: Zine-making as a feminist response to COVID-19. Gender and Education, 34(8), 887-905. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2021.1931045.
  • Mauro-Flude, N., Pollitt, J. (2022). I am _your_ Pyrate Dancer: Choreographic Computabilities Dancing Inside the Interstices of a Visceral World. Leonardo, 2022(November 28), 55-62. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02301.

Journal Articles

  • Pollitt, J., Kind, S., Delgado Vintimilla , C., Blue, L. (2021). Choreographing collaboratories: studios of situated improvisations. Children's Geographies, 2021(Article in press), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2021.2006144.
  • Pollitt, J., Blaise, M., Rooney, T. (2021). Weather bodies: Experimenting with dance improvisation in environmental education in the early years. Environmental Education Research, 27(8), 1141-1151. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2021.1926434.
  • Pahara, T., Pollitt, J., Raheem, A., Schmidt, T. (2021). Ensemblography: Making collaboration through performing writing. Global Performance Studies, 4(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv4n2a2.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pollitt, J. (2020). The dancer in your hands <>. . UWA Publishing.

Journal Articles

Creative Arts Research Outputs

Journal Articles

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Francis, M., Pollitt, J., Leach, P., Polain, M. (2012). Quiet Beast. Jo Pollitt and Paea Leach.
  • Lehrer, J., McCarthy, K., Peacock, S., Pollitt, J., Whaites, M. (2012). Diversify. Michael Whaites.

Research Projects

  • Contemporary Ecofeminist Education: a critical and creative response to ecofeminists legacy of human-environment relations in crisis, Academic Staff Association of Edith Cowan University, Solidarity Research Fund (SRF), 2024, $14,833.
  • Early-Career Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowships, Forrest Research Foundation, Early-Career Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowships, 2022 ‑ 2023, $239,804.

Research Student Supervision

Associate Supervisor

  • Master of Education, Leadership Beyond the Studio: Investigating Secondary School Dance Teachers' Striving for Leadership Positions

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Walking-With Derbarl Yerrigan/Swan River: Experimentations With Methodological and Pedagogical Practices in Early Childhood Education
  • Master of Education, PAYING ATTENTION TO WATER RELATIONS: Poetic Inquiry and Pedagogical documentation as curious practices
  • Master of Education, Drama, Education, Artistry: Australian Practitioners Fostering Connection Across Cultures and Disciplines in China
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Talking back: A new theatrical representation of Noongar women's experience
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Slow Choreographies: Addressing everyday sexisms in Australian Universities through embodied creative methods.
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