Participant Info

First Name
Kylie
Last Name
Andrews
Country
Australia
State
Affiliation
Macquarie University
Website URL
https://mq.academia.edu/KylieAndrews
Keywords
Australian broadcasting, media history, biography, feminist history, women broadcasters, production studies, public broadcasting, Australian Broadcasting Commission, ABC, women in radio, women in television, production history
Availability
Media Contact
Additional Contact Information
PhD
PhD

Personal Info

Photo
About Me

Dr Kylie Andrews is an award-winning historian whose research centres on histories of media and gender, production studies and biography.

Her recent book, Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975’ has been described as an ‘important, overdue “remembering” of women’s role in the creation of the ABC’, a history that is ‘not just a vivid panorama of highly talented programme-makers but an endlessly illuminating new take on post-war Australian broadcasting.’

Kylie is currently Research Associate on the Macquarie University ARC Linkage project ‘The ABC, its Archives and its Audiences’, in partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Archives of Australia. In addition to receiving the Clare Burton Scholarship for her research into gender in Australian broadcasting, she has been awarded the UNSW Frank Crowley History Prize and a National Council of Women Australia Day Award.

Kylie works in both academic and professional fields, with a range of historical associations and centres of learning. She is an associate of The Centre for Media History and serves on the committee of the Professional Historians Association of Australia (Vic & Tas). Prior to becoming an historian, Kylie worked in media production for more than a dozen years and was responsible for the management of scores of audio and audio-visual projects including animated feature film, radio commercials and an extensive variety of corporate communications.

Recent Publications

Andrews, K. 2024, ‘Out with the old and in with the new’ (Chapter), Walking a Tight Rope: A Bicentennial History of the New South Wales Treasury, NSW Treasury, Sydney.

Andrews, K. 2023, Kathleen (Kay) Kinane, 1912-1998, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kinane-kathleen-kay-32659

Andrews, K. 2022 & 2024, Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975, Anthem Press, London & New York.

Andrews, K. 2022, “Sheilas and the Beeb”, Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, Vol.4. BBC & The World, Vol 17. No. 4.

Andrews, K. 2019, “Broadcasting inclusion and advocacy: A history of female activism and cross-cultural partnership at the post-war ABC”, Media International Australia, Vol. 174, no. 1, pp. 97-108.

Andrews, K. 2016, “Don’t tell them I can type: negotiating women’s work in production in the post war ABC”, Media International Australia, Vol. 161, no. 1, pp. 28-37.

Andrews, K. 2011, “National History or Post-Industrial Commodity? Negotiating Australian History Through Television Documentary”, History Australia Journal, Vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 196-214.

Media Coverage
ABC Radio, Late Night Live interview with Phillip Adams: The trailblazing broadcaster and educator Kay Kinane, ABC I-Listen
Country Focus
Australia + Transnational broadcasting
Expertise by Geography
Australia
Expertise by Chronology
20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Labor, Local & Regional, Public History, Technology, Urban History, Women