Dr Kate Power
Senior Lecturer
School of Business
+61 7 334 68035
Researcher biography
I'm a researcher and lecturer at The University of Queensland Business School. My expertise is in critically evaluating how people and organisations use language to communicate about themselves and shape the world around them. I'm committed to doing research that promotes justice and equity, and helps government, the media, and industry communicate for the common good.
My recent research has explored sustainability in the arts and culture sector, news reporting on violence against women and girls, and COVID-19 crisis communication.
I've recently collaborated with various peak bodies in the Australian arts and culture sector such as Theatre Network Australia, and arts companies of various sizes (e.g., Queensland Ballet and La Boite Theatre) to develop a free peer coaching program known as "Creating out Loud." This program builds networks of mutual support for artists and arts workers across all levels of the arts and culture sector.
Enriching the arts and culture sector is of high importance to me. In 2021, I was awarded an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship to support arts workers recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
To find out how I can help your organisation, email me at k.power@business.uq.edu.au. You can also follow me on LinkedIn.
Book Chapters
Power, Kate (2024). Religious identity in discourse. The Routledge handbook of language and religion. (pp. 372-389) edited by Stephen Pihlaja and Helen Ringrow. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003301271-30
Power, Kate (2021). Institutions. Analysing Religious Discourse. (pp. 126-143) edited by Pihlaja, Stephen. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Power, Kate (2021). Transgender identities in writing classes. Linguistic perspectives on sexuality in education: representations, constructions and negotiations. (pp. 183-219) edited by Łukasz Pakuła. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-64030-9_7
Power, Kate, Ali, Tanweer and Lebdušková, Eva (2019). Conclusion. Discourse analysis and austerity: critical studies from economics and linguistics. (pp. 332-340) edited by Kate Power, Tanweer Ali and Eva Lebdušková. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315208190-23
Power, Kate, Ali, Tanweer and Lebdušková, Eva (2019). Introduction: Interdisciplinary* approaches to austerity discourses: a case study in why and how economists and discourse analysts should work together. Discourse analysis and austerity: critical studies from economics and linguistics. (pp. 1-14) edited by Kate Power, Tanweer Ali and Eva Lebdušková. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom : Routledge.
Power, Kate (2015). Religion, power and public self-presentation. Shifting visions: gender and discourses. (pp. 49-68) edited by Allyson Jule. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Power, Kate (2015). Charity chicks: a discourse-analysis of religious self-identification by rural Canadian Mormon women. Canadian women shaping diasporic religious identities. (pp. 139-194) edited by Becky R. Lee and Terry Tak-ling Woo. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
Power, Kate (2014). Talking sexuality: religious identity constructions in rural Canada. Globalized religion and sexual identity: contexts, contestations, voices. (pp. 62-85) edited by Heather Shipley. Leiden, Germany: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004271371_005
Journal Articles
Power, Kate (2024). Art and politics – government and the arts in Australia: a historical and critical analysis : by Josephine Caust, London & New York, Routledge, 2024, 262 pp., £135.00 (hardcover), £36.99 (softcover), ISBN 9781032040714 (hardcover), ISBN 9781032040721 (softcover). International Journal of Cultural Policy, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/10286632.2024.2416189
Vincent, Benet, Power, Kate, Crosthwaite, Peter and Gardner, Sheena (2023). Directives in Covid-19 government guidance: an international comparison. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3 (3) 100063, 10006. doi: 10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100063
Power, Kate (2023). Pacific-based newspaper reporting on violence against women and girls. Communication Research and Practice, 9 (1), 83-100. doi: 10.1080/22041451.2023.2188696
Power, Kate and Crosthwaite, Peter (2022). Constructing COVID-19: A corpus-informed analysis of prime ministerial crisis response communication by gender. Discourse & Society, 33 (3), 1-27. doi: 10.1177/09579265221076612
POWER, Kate (2021). ‘Sustainability’ and the performing arts: discourse analytic evidence from Australia. Poetics, 89 101580, 101580. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101580
van Enk, Anneke and Power, Kate (2017). What is a research article?: genre variability and data selection in genre research. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 29, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jeap.2017.07.002
Power, Kate (2016). Book review: Christopher Hart and Piotr Cap (eds), Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies. Discourse and Society, 27 (6), 582-585.
Power, Kate (2016). "Church trailblazer Rev Pat Storey on Weight Watchers, caffeine and how she named her dog after former New York Mayor": news representations of the first female Anglican Bishop in the UK and Ireland. Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, 16 (1), 96-114. doi: 10.21427/D78T67
Power, Kate (2015). Book review: Jodie Clark, Language, Sex and Social Structure: Analyzing Discourses of SexualityClarkJodie, Language, Sex and Social Structure: Analyzing Discourses of Sexuality. Discourse & Society, 26 (4), 511-513. doi: 10.1177/0957926515591689e
Kotwal, Ashok and Power, Kate (2015). Eating words: a discourse historical analysis of the public debate over India’s 2013 National Food Security Act. On the Horizon, 23 (3), 174-189. doi: 10.1108/OTH-05-2015-0019
Power, Kate (2012). Investigating religious “identity”: the promise and problem of discourse analytic methods for religious studies inquiries. Fieldwork in Religion, 8 (1), 7-26. doi: 10.1558/firn.v8i1.7
Power, Kate (2012). Book review: Lesbian discourses: images of a community. Critical Discourse Studies, 9 (1), 95-97. doi: 10.1080/17405904.2011.637686
Power, Kate (2007). Book Review of Ian S. Markham, A Theology of Engagement. Challenges in ContemporaryTheology. Series Editors: Gareth Jones and Lewis Ayres. Malden, MA,Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 264, ISBN 0631236023. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 20 (2), 252.
Conference Papers
Power, Kate (2024). “Easy Read” peer coaching: supporting inclusion for artists who have intellectual disability and/or low literacy. World Down Syndrome Congress 2024, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 10 - 12 July 2024.
Williams, Rod, Power, Kate and Coombs, Samantha (2024). “First Nations Charters” in Australia’s arts and culture sector. 15th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Actions, Alternatives, Assumptions, Bristol, United Kingdom, 1 - 2 July 2024.
Power, Kate, Faragher, Rhonda and Lloyd, Janette (2024). Easy Read peer coaching: supporting inclusion for artists who have intellectual disability and/or low literacy. iMean Conference 2024, Bristol, United Kingdom, 19 - 21 June 2024.
Power, Kate (2024). Researching the shared repertoires of ethical business communication. RMLE Unlearning Conference, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, June 13-14 2024.
Power, Kate (2021). Pacific news reporting on gender equality and violence against women and girls. NZ Discourse Conference 8, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10-11 December 2021.
Power, Kate (2021). Peer coaching in the arts and culture sector. 1st International Music Livelihoods Symposium, Brisbane, Australia, 6-7 December 2021.
Vincent, Benet and Power, Kate (2021). Directives in Covid-19 government guidance: an international comparison . Language of COVID-19 conference, Sussex, United Kingdom, 22-23 October 2021.
Power, Kate and Crosthwaite, Peter (2021). Communicating COVID DownUnder. Language of COVID-19 conference, Sussex, United Kingdom, 22–23 October 2021.
Vincent, Benet, Gardner, Sheena, Power, Kate, Crosthwaite, Peter and Beauchamp, David (2021). Directives in government guidance on COVID-19: an international comparison. Corpus Linguistics 2021, Limerick, Ireland, 13-16 July 2021.
Power, Kate and Crosthwaite, Peter (2021). Communicating COVID DownUnder: a corpus-informed critical discourse analysis of Prime Ministerial public statements during the pandemic. Corpus Linguistics 2021, Limerick, Ireland, 13-16th July 2021.
Power, Kate (2021). Cultural sustainability: Applying arts sector conceptualizations . EGOS2021, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8-10 July 2021.
Power, Kate and Crosthwaite, Peter (2021). Communicating COVID DownUnder: a corpus-informed critical discourse analysis of Prime Ministerial public statements during the pandemic. E-Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, Hong Kong, China, 7-10 June 2021.
Power, Kate (2021). Gender equality and violence against women and girls: a critical discourse analysis of Pacific Islands news reporting. Research for Development Impact (Pre-conference Series), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 1-2 July 2021.
Power, Kate (2020). Company, career and culture: conceptualizations of 'sustainability' across the Australian performing arts sector. 36th EGOS Colloquium, Hamburg, Germany, 30 June - 4 July 2020.
Power, Kate (2020). Towards critically appreciative activist research: designing organizational discourse for ‘positive’ change. 14th International Conference on Organizational Discourse “Interstices, Intervals and Interrogations”, Vrije, Amsterdam (online), 8 - 10 July 2020.
Power, Kate (2019). 'Sustainability' in the performing arts: mapping Australian arts management using appreciative inquiry and positive discourse analysis. i-Mean 6, Wellington, New Zealand, 15-17 April 2019.
Power, Kate (2018). Women in business media: a critical discourse analysis of representations of women in Forbes, Fortune and Bloomberg Businessweek, 2015-2017. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across the Disciplines , Aalborg, Denmark, 4-6 July 2018.
Power, Kate and Ali, Tanweer (2017). Discourses of austerity: reporting on interdisciplinary collaboration between linguists and economists. 18th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23-27 July 2017.
Hornstein, Olivia, Power, Kate and van Enk, Anneke (2017). Scholarly and practical orientations in education research articles: a genre-based study. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR, United States, 15-18 March 2017.
Power, Kate and Rea, Jaclyn (2016). Academic writing in the faculty of arts: genre learning and knowledge transfer. Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse & Writing, Calgary, Canada, 28-30 May 2016.
Power, Kate and van Enk, Anneke (2016). What is a research article?. Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW), Calgary, Canada, 28-30 May 2016.
Power, Kate (2016). Transgendered transitions: apprentice academics reflecting on their adoption of scholarly identities via transgender research. International Gender & Language Association (IGALA), Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 19-21 May 2016.
Power, Kate (2015). Religious elections discourse: a critical discourse analysis. New Zealand Discourse Conference 5, Auckland, New Zealand, 7-9 December 2015.
Power, Kate (2014). MCA, DHA and PDA: a comparative analysis of one ♀ Bishop’s Public Self-Presentation. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across the Disciplines (CADAAD), Budapest, Hungary, 1-3 September 2014.
Power, Kate (2014). Moving in, moving out & staying put: discursive constructions of nuanced religious community memberships in rural Canada. Sociolinguistics Symposium 20, Jyväskylä, Finland, 15-18 June 2014.
Power, Kate (2014). Bishop Melissa: gender, religion and public self-presentation. International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) , Vancouver, Canada, 5-7 June 2014.
Power, Kate (2014). Controversy, convergence and collaboration: projecting socially sanctioned stances. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) , Portland, OR, United States, 22-25 March 2014.
Power, Kate (2011). Talking religion – Talking sex. Association of American Geographers’ (AAG) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, United States, 12-16 April 2011.
Power, Kate (2010). Talking religion in rural Canada. The Changing Face of Christianity conference, co-hosted by the British Sociological Association (Sociology of Religion Study Group) and the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Geography and School of Divinity (Religious Studies/the Centre for the Study of World Christianity), Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-8 April 2010.
Power, Kate (2008). Stance-taking on multiculturalism in rural Canada. Encounters and Intersections conference, co-hosted by the AHRC/ESRC “Religion and Society” program, the AHRC “Diasporas, Migration and Identities” program, and the ESRC “Identities and Social Action” program, Oxford, United Kingdom, 9-11 July 2008.
Power, Kate (2007). Faith, doubt and disbelief in rural Canada: a critical discourse analysis of religious and multicultural interdiscursivity. Theory, Faith, Culture:An International Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff, Wales, 4-6 July 2007.
Power, Kate (2001). Talking religious identity. Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion conference, co-hosted by AHRC/ESRC’s “Religion and Society” and NORFACE “Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe?” research programs, London, United Kingdom, 29-30 March 2010.
Newspaper Articles
Power, Katherine (Kate) (2024, 01 09). ‘Caring as much as you do was killing you’. We need to talk about burnout in the arts The Conversation
Power, Kate (2023, 03 13). Managing cognitive load for EAL – and all – students Times Higher Education
Power, Kate (2022, 02 21). Please excuse me, is there a place for politeness in Australian politics? The Conversation
Power, Kate (2021, 12 06). The crisis of a career in culture: why sustaining a livelihood in the arts is so hard The Conversation
Power, Kate (2020, 11 13). Supporting trans people: 3 simple things teachers and researchers can do The Conversation