Dr Skye Doherty
Senior Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
Senior Lecturer
Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation)
Affiliate Research Fellow of School
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
07 3365 8260
+61 7 334 68260
Researcher biography
Skye Doherty uses creative and design-led research methods to explore alternative futures and address wicked problems. She has worked on projects in journalism, law, education, and energy, among others. Her work has led to both conceptual and practical outcomes, including an award-winning storytelling tool, legislative change and new curriculum. She came to academic research after an international career and as a journalist. She leads the Global Change Scholars Program in the UQ Graduate School, is a member of UQ's Human-Centred Computing research group in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, and leads the Design for Social Change theme within the Centre for Communication and Social Change.
Publications
Book
Doherty, Skye (2018). Journalism design: interactive technologies and the future of storytelling. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315168401
Book Chapter
Doherty, Skye and Viller, Stephen (2020). Prototyping interaction: designing technology for communication. Reimagining communication: experience. (pp. 80-96) edited by Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351015356-5
Journal Articles
Doherty, Skye, Johnston, Jane and Matthews, Ben (2022). Materialising new forms of journalism: a process model. Digital Journalism, 11 (3), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2087097
Matthews, Ben, Doherty, Skye, Johnston, Jane and Foth, Marcus (2022). The publics of design: challenges for design research and practice. Design Studies, 80 101106, 101106. doi: 10.1016/j.destud.2022.101106
Matthews, Ben, Doherty, Skye, Worthy, Peter and Reid, Janine (2022). Design thinking, wicked problems and institutioning change: a case study. CoDesign, 19 (3), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/15710882.2022.2034885
Doherty, Skye and Worthy, Peter (2020). Sketching: a method for imagining journalistic tech. Digital Journalism, 10 (2), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2020.1764373
Doherty, Skye (2015). NewsCubed: journalism through design. Journalism Practice, 10 (5), 569-588. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2015.1049645
Angus, Daniel and Doherty, Skye (2015). Journalism meets interaction design: an interdisciplinary undergraduate teaching initiative. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 70 (1), 44-57. doi: 10.1177/1077695814563981
Doherty, Skye (2014). Hypertext and journalism: paths for future research. Digital Journalism, 2 (2), 124-139. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2013.821323
Doherty, Skye (2012). Will the geeks inherit the newsroom?: Reflections on why journalists should learn computer science. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 8 (2), 111-121. doi: 10.18848/1832-3669/cgp/v08i02/56259
Skye Doherty (2011). Playing with the facts. The Walkley Magazine (68), 40-40.
Conference Papers
Doherty, Skye, Snow, Stephen, Jennings, Kathleen, Rose, Ben, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Vim: a tangible energy story. 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2020, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 3-6 November 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_24
Doherty, Skye and Worthy, Peter (2017). Exploring journalistic values through design: a student perspective. 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, Brisbane, Australia, 28 November-1 December 2017. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3152771.3156140
Thesis
Doherty, Skye (2017). Journalism Design: The NewsCube, Interactive Technologies and Practice. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technol and Elec Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.402
Generic Document
Doherty, Skye (2015). NewsCube: final report. The Walkley Foundation.
Department Technical Report
Doherty, Skye (2013). Hypertext and news stories. ITEE Technical Report, 2013-03. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland.
Research Reports
Thomson, Amy, Mai, Hang, Ferdous, Jinnat, Wang, Shuting, Gallegos-Rejas, Victor and Doherty, Skye (2023). Adoption of Sustainable Practices by YMCA South East Queensland. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queesnland.
Balch, Ross and Doherty, Skye (2022). Healthy land and water: report card best practice. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Creative Works
Skye Doherty, Awais Hameed Khan, Ben Matthews and Elske van de Fliert (2023). Fire Futures Concept Portfolio. Brisbane: The University of Queensland.
Doherty, Skye, Khan, Awais Hameed, Matthews, Ben and van de Fliert, Elske (2022). Fire Futures participatory design tools. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Doherty, Skye , Rose, Ben , Jennings, Kathleen, Snow, Stephen , Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Vim. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.
Skye Doherty, Kathleen Jennings, Ben Matthews and Stephen Viller (2019). Physical News Card Deck. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.
Doherty, Skye, Worthy, Peter and Lloyd, David (2017). JxD process. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Doherty, Skye, Epifani, Andrea, Lloyd, David, Harrison, John and Viller, Stephen (2015). NewsCube. Samford, QLD, Australia: NewsCubed.