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Dr Lekkie Hopkins

Dr Lekkie Hopkins

Dr Lekkie Hopkins

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: (61 8)  6304 5546  
Email: l.hopkins@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO4.113  

 

Current Teaching

Dr Hopkins currently co-ordinates former women’s studies undergraduate units which have been mainstreamed into the Bachelor of Social Science (Y21) award, including CSV3105 Gender Issues, term and debates; CSV3202 Working with Groups; and CSV3207 Sex, Bodies, Narratives and Self. She also co-ordinates and teaches the unit COU1202 Cross Cultural Issues in Therapeutic Practice which is part of the undergraduate counselling program.

Background

Dr Lekkie Hopkins’ professional background is as an archivist, radio broadcaster, oral historian and teacher.

Professional Memberships

  • Association for the Study of Australian Literature
  • Australian Association of Writing Practitioners
  • Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association
  • Oral History Association of Australia

Awards and Recognition

University and National Teaching Awards

  • 2005 - Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 2006 - CAAUT Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning For developing and articulating a passionate pedagogy that inspires students to thrive, to strive for excellence, and to become lifelong learners.

Other

  • 2004 - Life member, Centre for Research for Women, WA
  • 2011 - One of 100 women to be inducted into UNIFEM’s inaugural Western Australian Women’s Hall of Fame, to celebrate the centenary of International Women’s Day.

Research Areas and Interests

Dr Lekkie Hopkins’ research work is feminist, qualitative and poststructuralist. She is particularly interested in the history of social protest, and has recently worked with a team of researchers to write a life story of former Australian senator Patricia Giles. In the past decade she has collaborated on research projects investigating services to people who experience interpersonal violence in Western Australia; workplace responses to domestic and family violence in Western Australia; the writing of collective biography; and the uses of narrative in qualitative research.

  • Feminist poststructuralist theories and research methodologies
  • Biography/autobiography/lifewriting
  • Social activisms
  • Oral history
  • Arts-based research methodologies

Staff Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, James Cook University, 2001 .
  • Diploma in Education, Sydney Teachers College, 1970 .
  • Bachelor of Arts, James Cook University, 1969 .

Research

Recent Research Grants

  • Freedom from fear program impact of domestic violence in the workplace project,  Office for Women`s Policy WA,  Grant,  2004,  $5,000.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Books

  • Hopkins, L., Roarty, L., (2010), Among the chosen : the life story of Pat Giles., 288, Fremantle, WA..
  • Hopkins, L., (2009), On Voice and Silence. Giving life to a story and story to a life., 260, Saarbrucken, Germany.

Book Chapters

  • Hopkins, L., (2008), Women's Studies and Arts-informed Research: Some Australian Examples. Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples, and Issues, 557 - 568, Thousand Oaks.

Journal Articles

  • Robson, J., Brady, D., Hopkins, L., (2010), From practice to the page: Multi-disciplinary understandings of the written component of practice-led studies. Australasian Drama Studies, 57(October), 188-199, Australia.
  • Hopkins, L., (2009), Why narrative? Reflections on the politics and processes of using narrative in refugee research. Tamara Journal for Critical Organisation and Inquiry, 8(8.2), 135-145, United States.
  • Hopkins, L., (2008), Watch That Gap: Reflections on the Struggle for Equality. Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, 2008(Spring), 12 pages, Urbana IL, USA. .
  • Hopkins, L., Roarty, L., Saggers, S., (2008), Pat Giles as critical actor within the trade union movement of the 1970s. Women's Studies International Forum, 31(5), 400-412.
  • Hopkins, L., (2008), Pat Giles, Perth and the Politics of Dress. Outskirts. Feminisms along the edge, 19(November 1), 12 pages, Perth WA. http://www/chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume 19.

Conference Publications

  • Hopkins, L., (2008), Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table. Watch that gap: reflections on the struggle for equality, Spring 08(16-21 March 08), n/a, Urbana IL, USA. .

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy,  No Place For A White Woman? An Exploration Of The Interplay Of Gender, Race And Class On Power Relations Experienced By White Western Women In Cross- Cultural Settings & Swimming Without Water.
  • Doctor of Philosophy,  Producing The Moon: An Account Of The Festival Of Perth: 1953-1999.

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy,  Plants, People And Place: Cultural Botany And The Southwest Australian Flora.
  • Master of Arts,  "often Treated Harshly": Girls And Young Women In 1957 Perth..