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Dr Lucy Hopkins

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5546
Email: lucy.hopkins@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO4.113  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0392-5186

Lucy is a Lecturer in Children and Family Studies in the discipline of Social Sciences at the School of Arts and Humanities.

Current Teaching

  • CSV2108 - Culture, Equity and Diversity
  • CHN3130 - Purpose of Play
  • CHN3203 - Child Rearing

Background

2013-2014 Lecturer, sociology, Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan
2008-2012: Research Assistant and Sessional Lecturer, Institute for Culture and Society and School of Education, University of Western Sydney, Australia
2006-2009: Sessional Lecturer, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Research Areas and Interests

Lucy Hopkins is a researcher in cultural studies, literature, education and sociology, with a particular interest in social justice. She works on ‘global’ childhoods and issues of ethics and subjectivity in discourses of childhood, discourses of 'whiteness’, and poststructuralist and feminist theories.  

Current research areas include:

  • Bhutanese youth and the politics of hair
  • Picturing Childhoods: Bhutanese yak herder children’s understandings of poverty, education and childhood
  • Figuring Childhood: the politics of the child subject in contemporary literary fiction

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Western Sydney, 2013.

Research Outputs

2023

Journal Articles

2019

Journal Articles

  • Pelden, S., Boyd, E., Grobbelaar, M., Adusei-Asante, K., Hopkins, L. (2019). Ladies, Gentlemen and Guys: The Gender Politics of Politeness. Social Sciences, 8(2), Article number 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8020056.

2018

Journal Articles

2016

Book Chapters

  • Hopkins, L. (2016). Picturing education, poverty and childhood from the perspectives of yak herder children in Bhutan. The 'Poor Child': The Cultural Politics of Education, Development and Childhood (168-190). Routledge.
  • Hopkins, L. (2016). The Child as Nation: Embodying the Nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Childhood and Nation: Interdisciplinary Engagements (39-53). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137477835.
  • Hopkins, L., Sriprakash, A. (2016). Unsettling the global child: Rethinking child subjectivity in education and international development. The 'Poor Child': The Cultural Politics of Education, Development and Childhood (3-19). Routledge.
  • Sriprakash, A., Hopkins, L. (2016). Revisioning 'development': Towards a relational understanding of the 'poor child'. The 'Poor Child': The Cultural Politics of Education, Development and Childhood (193-204). Routledge.

2013

Book Chapters

  • Hopkins, L. (2013). “Infinnate joy”: Play, performance, and resistance in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Children and Cultural Memory in Texts of Childhood (163-178). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203761830.

Journal Articles

2011

Journal Articles

  • Hopkins, L. (2011). 'What Will Sophie Mol Think?': Thinking critically about the figure of the white child in Arundhati Roy's 'The God of Small Things'. Global Studies of Childhood, 1(4), 280-290. https://doi.org/10.2304/gsch.2011.1.4.280.

Research Projects

  • Climate change and the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, Healthway (WA Health Promotion Foundation), Health Promotion Research - Exploratory Research Grants, 2023 ‑ 2025, $74,993.
  • Parents' perceptions of the effects of climate change on children s mental health, Edith Cowan University, Early-Mid Career Researcher Grant Scheme 2022 (Stream 2), 2023 ‑ 2024, $39,651.
  • Building a Future-Ready Organisation: Evaluability Assessment of Tenacious House , Tenacious House, Grant, 2021 ‑ 2022, $31,742.
  • Bhutanese youth and the cultural politics of hair, Edith Cowan University, School of Arts and Humanities Research Grant Scheme 2016, 2016 ‑ 2017, $1,000.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Exploring the transnational identity experiences of Bhutanese female students in Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Lullabies in Lock-Up: A Phenomenological Study of Women's Experiences of Pregnancy in a Western Australian Maximum Security Prison and its Impact on Maternal-Foetal Attachment

Completed Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Master of Social Science, It’s just the way it is: A single case study of silence in Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The aftermath of domestic violence: Listening to the women's voices of their experiences
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