Dr Patrick Allington

Patrick Allington has higher degrees by research in Politics and Creative Writing. He has academic status as a Senior Lecturer in Creative and Performing Arts in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and is Project Manager: Programs and Research at The Hospital Research Foundation Group -Military and Emergency Services Health Australia (MESHA). His research interests at MESHA include:

• health and wellbeing for current and former military members, current and former emergency services personnel, and their families - in Australia and internationally
• military and emergency services identity and cultural competency training
• lived experience expertise and perspectives in policymaking and storytelling
• emerging global priorities for military and emergency services populations.

Patrick is also a novelist, cultural commentator, and book critic. His books are the novels Figurehead (longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award) and Rise & Shine (shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature) and the communications textbook Making the Grade. His peer-reviewed scholarship, essays, short fiction, interviews, columns, profiles, and critical writings have appeared widely.

Patrick is an experienced professional editor. He was Book Reviews Editor for Transnational Literature and co-founding editor of the literary magazine Etchings. He has guest edited issues of The Circular, TEXT, Griffith Review, and Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, and a special section of Australian Humanities Review. 

Patrick's previous roles include:

• Commissioning Editor, the University of Adelaide Press
• Lecturer in English & Creative Writing, Flinders University
• Publications Director, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
• Publications Director, the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide
• Manager: Graduate Research Development, University of South Australia.

2021: recipient of a Juncture Fellowship (Sydney Review of Books)

2021: recipient of Australia Council grant for the creation of new work (fiction)

2014: AsiaBound (Australian Government Dept of Education)

2012: recipient of Arts SA grant (literature)

2010: recipient of the inaugural Australian Book Review Patrons’ Fellowship

2010: recipient of the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship (Adelaide Festival Literary Awards)

2007: recipient of Australia Council for the Arts grant (literature)