Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career
Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Qualitative research
  • Community & liberation psychologies
  • Racism and whiteness studies
  • Community based participatory research

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

About Amy Quayle

Amy is a lecturer in Psychology in the College of Sport, Health and Engineering, and a research fellow in the Institute for Health and Sport.

Informed by community, cultural and liberation psychologies, Amy’s research focuses on understanding different forms of oppression, particularly racialised and colonial oppression: how it is experienced, the psychosocial implications for identities, communities, and intergroup relations, as well as the resilient and resistant ways individuals and communities respond. A strong focus has also been on the potentially transformative role of community arts and cultural development, as public pedagogy, in identity and community making processes. Her research has predominantly involved qualitative methodologies including critical narrative inquiry and discourse analysis.

Qualifications

  • PhD, Victoria University, Australia, 2017
  • MAppPsych(Community), Victoria University, 2011
  • BPsych (Hons), Victoria University, 2007
  • GradCert in Block Teaching, Victoria University (Currently undertaking)

Key publications

Amy has over 28 publications, with a selection listed here.


A more comprehensive list of Amy's publications is available in the VU Research Repository.

Year Citation
2024 Sonn, C., Agung-Igusti, R., Jayawardana, R., Quayle, A., & Keast, S. (240425). Community arts, decoloniality, and epistemic justice In Christens, B. (Ed.) (pp. 480-503). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

doi: 10.1017/9781009153737
2022 Quayle, A., & Sonn, C. (221213). Critical narrative inquiry as psychosocial accompaniment with Aboriginal communities (pp. 160-179).

doi: 10.4337/9781800376625.00019
2022 . (220101). Decolonial Enactments in Community Psychology In Kessi, S. ;. (Ed.) Springer International Publishing.

doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-75201-9

Year Citation
2025 Ali, L., Balla, P., Jackson, K., Price, R. K., Quayle, A., Singh, L. J., & Sonn, C. (250101). The Blak Women's Healing Project: Supporting Blak Women s Healing through Cultural Practice and Connecting to Country. Melbourne, Victoria: Moondani Balluk: Indigenous Academic Unit, Victoria University.

doi: 10.26196/6y1p-he36
2022 Baker, A., Hopman, J., & Quayle, A. (221130). A TOOLKIT FOR YOUTH ECO-ACTION: THE REGENERATIVE CITY LIVING LAB. Melbourne:
2021 Baker, A., Quayle, A., & Agung-Igusti, R. (210701). You have to leave to chase another dream : Why young people choose to stay and leave country VIC.

Year Citation
2023 Balla, P., Jackson, K., Price, R., Quayle, A. F., & Sonn, C. C. (230101). Blak Women s Healing: Cocreating Decolonial Praxis Through Research Yarns. Peace and Conflict, 29(1), (21-30).

doi: 10.1037/pac0000637
2022 Balla, P., Jackson, K., Quayle, A. F., Sonn, C. C., & Price, R. K. (221201). Don't let anybody ever put you down culturally. it's not good : Creating spaces for Blak women's healing. American Journal of Community Psychology, 70(3-4), (352-364).

doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12607
2020 Sonn, C., Agung, Igusti., Keast, S., & Quayle, A. (200910). Unsettling psychology: Whiteness and the cost to black lives. InPsych, 42(4), (16-21).
2019 Quayle, A. F., & Sonn, C. C. (190901). Amplifying the Voices of Indigenous Elders through Community Arts and Narrative Inquiry: Stories of Oppression, Psychosocial Suffering, and Survival. American Journal of Community Psychology, 64(1-2), (46-58).

doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12367

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

Resilience: Regenerative City Living Lab
From: Victorian Higher Education Strategic Investment Fund
Other investigators: Dr Jean Hopman, Prof Debra Smith, Aspr Alison Baker, Dr Daniel Ooi, Ms Karen Jackson, Dr Thinh Nguyen
For period: 2021-2022
 $590,000
Blak Women's Healing
From: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Other investigators: Ms Karen Jackson, Ms Paola Balla, Ms Rowena Price, Prof Christopher Sonn
For period: 2021-2023
 $164,610

Developing a place-based youth led action research model: The We Hear YOUth project
From: Thorne Harbour Health, The Foundation For Young Australians
Other investigators: Aspr Alison Baker
For period: 2020-2021
 Not disclosed

CBTL (Colour between the line): Creating Solidarities Across Communities of Difference through Arts and Activism
From: CoHealth
Other investigators: Prof Christopher Sonn
For period: 2018-2020
 Not disclosed

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
2 PhD Associate supervisor
1 PhD Integrated Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (2) Associate supervisor
PhD Integrated (1) Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
2 PhD Associate supervisor
1 PhD Integrated Principal supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (2) Associate supervisor
PhD Integrated (1) Principal supervisor

Teaching activities & experience

Amy is currently the Unit Convenor for APS2030: Qualitative Social Research Methods and APP3028: Fieldwork. Amy also teaches into APH4018: Social Research Methods in Context (Qualitative).

Key academic roles

Dates Role Department / Organisation
Dec 2017 - Dec 2020
Academic Teaching Scholar, First Year College
Victoria University
Dates Role & Department/Organisation
Dec 2017 -
Dec 2020
Academic Teaching Scholar, First Year College
Victoria University

Awards

Year Award
2017

University Medal for Excellence in Higher Degree Research - Victoria University

Professional memberships

  • Registered psychologist, Psychology Board of Australia