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Lynnette

Lounsbury

Position: Head of School (Arts & Business)
Affiliations: School of Arts & Business; Scripture, Spirituality & Society Research Centre →

Biography

Career

Outputs

Dr Lynnette Lounsbury is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, English and Communication at Avondale University, as well as an author and filmmaker. Her PhD is in Speculative Histories. Her creative practice spans literary fiction, young adult fiction and documentary, and her research is cross-disciplinary at the intersection of film, media, and history, with a particular focus on dystopian narratives and the speculative mode. Her work explores how imagined futures and alternative pasts function as critical tools for cultural reflection and social commentary.

Professional associations

Sydney Cinema and Literature Network
Research and Creative Practice

Expertise

Speculative fiction and histories.

Dystopian fiction.

Young Adult Literature

Film and Television

School Resistance

Creative Practice, Writing, Filmmaking


Education

PhD
University of New England
Bachelor of Education
Avondale University
Masters of Ancient History
University of New England
Master of Arts
Deakin University

Journal articles

  • 2025
    Northcote, M., Kilgour, P., Rickett, C., Lounsbury, L., & Browning, C. (2025). With us, for us: Outcomes of a training program for novice research supervisors designed using a participatory design approach. TEACH Journal of Christian Education, 19(1), 26-39. https://doi.org/10.55254/1835-1492.1554
  • 2024
    Lounsbury, L., King, A., & Lounsbury, J. (2024). Unlocking innovation and critical thinking: The transformative role of creative practice in Humanities Education. TEACH Journal of Christian Education, 18(1), 4-13. https://doi.org/10.55254/1835-1492.1544
  • 2023
    Kilgour, P., Northcote, M., Lounsbury, L., & Browning, C. (2023). Designing a supervisor training program with research supervisor's voices. TEACH Journal of Christian Education, 17(1), 45-55. https://doi.org/10.55254/1835-1492.1537
  • 2022
    Costigan, B., Wells, E., & Lounsbury, L. (2022). New thoughts on school refusal. TEACH Journal of Christian Education, 16(2), 38-45. https://doi.org/10.55254/1835-1492.1522
  • 2020

    Barnes, L., Northcote, M., Rickett, C., Lounsbury, L., Arasaratnam-Smith, L. A., Josey, K., & Obers, N. (2020). Women in higher education: The challenge remains, who wears the "pants". Universal Journal of Educational Research, 8(12), 6885 - 6892. doi: 10.13189/ujer.2020.081254.

  • 2020

    Lounsbury, L. (2020, January). The gentle art of spiritual death cleaning or 'what would Jesus chuck?' West of Byron (WoB) New and Experimental Writing, 2, 6-9.

  • 2020
    Lounsbury, L., & O'Neill, C. (2020). Time travel: Teaching Australian history through speculative fiction. TEACH Journal of Christian Education, 14(2), 28-34. doi:10.55254/1835-1492.1438
  • 2020
    Threshold Concepts of Higher Degree Research (HDR) Supervisors at Avondale
  • 2019
    Lounsbury, L., Rickett, C., Bogacs, P., & Race, P. T. (2019). Teaching YA cancer narratives: The fault in our stars and issues with voicing illness. TEACH Journal of Christian Education, 13(1), 37-45. doi:10.55254/1835-1492.1404
  • 2018

    Hale, E., & Lounsbury, L. (2018, April 19). Why treehouses are all the rage in children's books. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/au

  • 2017

    Lounsbury, L. (2017). A girl and the beats. Nieuwe Vide Journal of Humanity, 2(5), 22-28.

  • 2015

    Morton, L., & Lounsbury, L. (2015). Inertia to action: From narrative empathy to political agency in young adult fiction. Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 23(2), 53-70.

  • 2014
    Higher Education Students' Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and their use of Technology for Assessment Purposes

Books

  • 2022

    Lounsbury, L., & Costigan, B. (Eds.). (2022). A type of vertigo. Amazon Publishing.

  • 2016

    Lounsbury, L. (2016). We ate the road like vultures. Melbourne, Australia: Inkerman & Blunt.

  • 2014

    Lounsbury, L. (2014). Afterworld. Sydney, Australia: Allen and Unwin.

Chapters

  • 2021

    Lounsbury, L. (2021). Marriage and relationships. In B. Watson (Ed.), Remembering Mona Mona: The mission in the rainforest (pp. 230-244). Signs.

Conference Publications

  • 2021
    Learning to be a postgraduate supervisor: A revised professional learning framework
  • 2021

    Northcote, M., Kilgour, P., Lounsbury, L., & Sandoval, F. (2021, July 7-10). Learning to be a postgraduate supervisor: A revised professional learning framework [Video presentation]. Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) 2021 Annual Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. https://conference.herdsa.org.au/2021/program/ (Conference cancelled)

  • 2016
    Engaging students in the use of technologies for assessment within Personal Learning Environments (PLEs): The development of a framework
  • 2016

    Bolton, D., Mindenhall, P., Sim, K.N., Lounsbury, L. & Northcote, M. (2016). Engaging students in the use of technologies for assessment within Personal Learning Environments (PLEs): The development of a framework. In S. Barker, S. Dawson, A. Pardo, & C. Colvin (Eds.), Show Me The Learning - Proceedings ASCILITE 2016 Adelaide (pp. 57-66). Retrieved from https://ascilite.org/past-proceedings/

  • 2016

    Lounsbury, L. (2016). Haunted: Claws and teeth. Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). Bukker Tillibul: The Online Journal of Writing and Practice-led Research, 10(1) "Hauntings (Special Issue)". Retrieved from http://bukkertillibul.net/Archive.html

  • 2015
    Higher education students' use of technologies for assessment within Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)
  • 2015

    Lounsbury, L., Bolton, D., Mildenhall, P., & Northcote, M. (2015, November). What offline and online technologies do higher education students use to complete assessment tasks? Poster presented at the Sciences and Technologies of Learning (STL) Research Fest, Sydney, Australia.

  • 2015

    Lounsbury, L., Mildenhall, P., Bolton, D., Northcote, M., & Anderson, A. (2015). Higher education students' use of technologies for assessment within Personal Learning Environments (PLEs).In T. Reiners, B.R. von Konsky, D. Gibson, V. Chang, L. Irving, & K. Clarke (Eds.), Globally connected, digitally enabled. Proceedings ascilite 2015 in Perth (pp. 202-215). Retrieved from http://www.2015conference.ascilite.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ascilite-2015-proceedings.pdf

Creative Works

Research Report for External Bodies

Other

  • 2025
    Lounsbury, L. (2025). Meditations on creation in an era of extinction (Review). TEACH Journal of Christian Education, 19(1), 62-63. https://doi.org/10.55254/1835-1492.1558
  • 2024
    Browning, C., Elisha, J., Haihavu, L., Kilgour, P., Lounsbury, L. Napasu, A., Rickett, C., Sailo, D., & Tasker, C. (2024, April 17-19). Using the grassroots approach: Incorporating recent graduate researcher voices in the design and delivery of research supervisor training [Abstract]. Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) Conference, Adelaide, South Australia. https://www.qpr.edu.au/
  • 2024
    Lounsbury, L. (2024, July 26). Game cleared: Alice from wonderland to borderland. In R. Twomey (Chairs), Audio/visual adaptation [Symposium]. Sydney Literature and Cinema Network, Sydney, Australia.
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