Dr Carolyn Beasley

Biography

Carolyn is the Course Director of the Masters of Writing and the Discipline Coordinator of the Literature and Creative Writing major.

She is also the Academic Director of Research Training for the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education. This role supports Masters and PhD research students across their candidature. She has supervised over 20 of her own students to PhD completion.

She has taught Creative Writing, Writing, Journalism, Liberal Arts, Public Relations, and English as a Second Language at Victoria University, Kangan TAFE, and a number of RTOs before joining Swinburne's Writing Discipline as a sessional in 2004 and then as a permanent staff member in 2009.

Carolyn is a multiple award-winning short story writer. She has also worked as a photographer, journalist, and freelance writer. She also regularly judges literary awards. Her journalism and fiction has been published both nationally and internationally. She has been awarded an ALTC and Swinburne's Vice Chancellor's Award for her teaching in prisons and a Vice Chancellor's Award for her support of Masters and PhD students. Carolyn was also the recipient of three internal team research grants, two Faculty teaching Innovation Awards, a Learning Futures grant, and the Faculty Leadership and Service Award for 2017.

Her research focuses on creative practice, particularly in writing, the teaching of creative practice, and the genre of crime fiction (particularly antiheroes and criminal as protagonist).