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Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Social theory
  • Digital sociology
  • Communications & media studies
  • Place-based systems change research
  • Systems thinking and complexity

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

About Amy Mowle

Amy is an early career researcher with an interest in describing, exploring, and addressing complex social problems. To advance this research agenda, she has led and contributed to research efforts spanning across a range of fields, including digital sociology, public health, public policy and knowledge translation.

Amy is currently employed as a research officer with Pathways in Place: Co-creating Community Capabilities, a five-year interdisciplinary research program housed within VU's Mitchell Institute. Pathways in Place is an innovative program of research and action that works closely with communities to achieve positive, sustainable and systemic change. Through her work on this program, Amy's scholarly interests have expanded to include systems theory and its application to understanding and addressing complex social problems such as inequity and intergenerational disadvantage.

Qualifications

  • PhD Sociology, Victoria University, Australia, 2022
  • BA (Hons), Victoria University, Australia, 2017
  • BComms, Murdoch University, Australia, 2013

Key publications

Year Citation
2025 Craike, M., Mowle, A., Fitzpatrick, E., & Klepac, B. (250201). The FlexFunding Framework: Getting Funders and Grantees on the Same Page About Flexibility. Melbourne, Victoria: Pathways in Place, Mitchell Institute.

doi: 10.26196/6m99-xh41

2025 Craike, M., Mowle, A., Fitzpatrick, E., & Klepac, B. (250201). Flexible Grant Schemes: What the Evidence Says (and What We Still Need to Know). Melbourne, Victoria: Pathways in Place, Mitchell Institute.

doi: 10.26196/va5z-y402

2024 Craike, M., Bartlett, L., Mowle, A., Riley, T., Krahe, M., & Klepac, B. (240101). A New Tool to Measure the Capacity of Organisations for System Practices. Methods snapshot. Melbourne, Victoria: Pathways in Place, Mitchell Institute.

doi: 10.26196/ag6f-h012

2024 Klepac, B., Mowle, A., Riley, T., & Craike, M. (240101). Development, structure and use of the Resources Attributes for evidence-informed Practice Tool (RAPT). Brief report.. Pathways in Place.

doi: 10.26196/esy4-dp69

2024 Klepac, B., Mowle, A., Riley, T., & Craike, M. (240101). Introducing the RAPT: A tool for assessing and enhancing the quality of practical resources. Melbourne, Victoria: Pathways in Place.

doi: 10.26196/666b-ea07

2024 Klepac, B., Mowle, A., & Craike, M. (240101). How does public policy frame practices necessary for well-functioning systems?. Melbourne, Victoria: Pathways in Place.

doi: 10.26196/zz0a-8c18

Year Citation
2025 Klepac, B., Mowle, A., Fitzpatrick, E., & Craike, M. (251201). Flexible grant schemes: a systematic scoping review. BMC Public Health, 25(1),

doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-21543-8

2025 Craike, M., Bartlett, L., Mowle, A., Riley, T., Krahe, M., & Klepac, B. (250401). Development and testing of the capacity of organisations for system practices scale. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 36(2),

doi: 10.1002/hpja.922

2025 Mowle, A., Klepac, B., Riley, T., & Craike, M. (250101). The C-CAP Process: A Comprehensive Approach to Community Resource Mapping. Health Promotion Practice, 26(1), (46-56).

doi: 10.1177/15248399231193696

2024 Klepac, B., Branch, S., McVey, L., Mowle, A., Riley, T., & Craike, M. (240701). Scoping review of practice-focused resources to support the implementation of place-based approaches. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 35(3), (596-608).

doi: 10.1002/hpja.809

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

Hume Community Resource Mapping – Targeted Analysis
From: Victoria University, Hume City Council
Other investigators: Prof Melinda Craike, Dr Bojana Klepac pogrmilovic, Miss Tea O'driscoll
For period: 2023-2023
Not disclosed

Mapping Community Assets in Hume
From: Hume City Council, VU in the Community
Other investigators: Dr Bojana Klepac pogrmilovic, Prof Melinda Craike
For period: 2022-2022
Not disclosed

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Associate supervisor

Professional memberships

  • Member, International Sociological Association