Professor Hancox is the Associate Dean Research for the Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Faculty. Her research is focussed on transformative creative practice and social impact, particularly the role of stories in amplifying marginalised voices. In the past five years she has led research projects with culturally and linguistically diverse communities using arts led methods to create inclusive classrooms and large scale digital storytelling projects in regional and remote Australia. Professor Hancox was a Chief Investigator on the 2019 ARC Linkage project The Role of the Creative Arts in Regional Australia: a social impact model and the Lead Chief Investigator on a three year social impact evaluation in Cape York. She has published two books focussed on arts and social impact. Professor Hancox was a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at Bath Spa University in 2013. In 2017 she was awarded a Smithsonian Research Fellowship to collaborate with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. Professor Hancox is a 2021 Fulbright Senior Scholar.