Directors
Professor Maria Raciti
Professor, Marketing | Co-Director, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre | School of Business and Creative Industries
Professor Catherine Manathunga
Professor of Education Research | Co-Director of Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre | School of Education and Tertiary Access
Research theme leaders
Dr Raj Yadav
Senior Lecturer, Social Work | School of Law and Society
Dr Aaron Tham
Senior Lecturer in Tourism, Leisure and Event Management | School of Business and Creative Industries
Dr Rachael Dwyer
Senior Lecturer, Curriculum and Pedagogy | School of Education and Tertiary Access
| Member name | Position | Organisation | Research area |
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| Professor, Marketing | Co-Director, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre | School of Business and Creative Industries |
Services marketing; social marketing; higher education. |
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| Professor of Education Research | Co-Director of Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Doctoral education; transnational university histories; academic identities; history of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand international student programs; supervising African doctoral students. |
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| Professor, Finance | Business and Commerce Honours Coordinator | School of Business and Creative Industries |
International finance; International economics; International business. |
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| Senior Lecturer, English | HDR Coordinator | School of Business and Creative Industries |
Australian fiction; Critical animal studies; Human dimension of wildlife management. |
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| Lecturer, Design | Discipline Lead, Design | School of Business and Creative Industries |
Spatial audio; ecoacoustics; acoustic ecology; sound design; conservation technology; AR/MR/VR; underwater acoustics. |
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| Associate Professor, Human Geography | School of Law and Society |
Child protection and development; street and working children, particularly in Indonesia; children and young people’s participation in decision making; children’s citizenship; child labour in South East Asia; children and migration in Asia; youth subcultures; the physical and emotional punishment of children in South East Asia and the Pacific; rights-based participatory research with children and young people; gendered childhoods; communities' experiences of change and threat; community participation; grass-roots NGOs; rights-based approaches (RBA) to development. |
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| Senior Lecturer, Education | Program Coordinator, Master of Education | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Arts-based research methods including narrative and story; knowledge construction and representation (ways of knowing and making meaning); social cohesion, wellbeing, community connectedness and capacity building; building reflective and creative lives and professions through aesthetic inquiry; gender studies and stories from the academy and the community; participatory research with children. |
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| Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations |School of Law and Society |
International Relations Theory; Critical Theory; Climate Change; Dialectics; Recognition; Tyranny and Tyrannicide; Cosmopolitanism; Imagination and Utopianism. |
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| Associate Professor in Education (English language and literacy) | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Language and literacy in English language education; teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL); language acquisition; language proficiency testing and assessment; grammar and discourse style in written texts; pronunciation instruction. |
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| Lecturer, Occupational Therapy | School of Health |
Picky eating; Occupational performance coaching; Cross-cultural knowledges; Knowledge and confidence of new graduate occupational therapists; Social determinants of health and support children with low socioeconomic backgrounds; Early childhood play and playgroups; Faetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD); Parenting, feeding practices and family mealtimes; End of life care; Psychosocial disability. |
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| Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy | Alternative Education Coordinator | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Stress and resilience in the classroom; literacy through creative writing; Waldorf/Steiner Education; restorative practice; writing for children and young adults; memoir/creative non-fiction; creative writing pedagogies and methodologies; social justice in the classroom; decolonising education. |
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| Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood | Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Early Childhood Education | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Early years language development; place based learning in early years and rural and remote settings; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Learners; preservice teacher supervised professional experience. |
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| Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Teachers' values and beliefs; arts/music education in schools; narrative research; reflective practice. |
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| Senior Lecturer in Education (Educational Assessment, Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Japanese Language) | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Educational assessment, particularly rubrics; feedback literacy in doctoral education; second language acquisition; TESOL; intercultural competency; Japanese language teaching pedagogy. |
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| Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre | Education for Indigenous peoples; Indigenous economic success; cultural diversity; education policy; and global frameworks. | |
| Senior Lecturer, Education | Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Primary Education | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Embedding Indigenous perspectives; Rural, regional and remote teaching and learning; Collaborative leadership; Trauma informed pedagogical practices; Culturally responsive pedagogies; Enhancing agency for educational opportunities and aspirations. |
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| Engineering Lead | Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering | Adventure STEM Advocate |
Cone Penetration Testing (CPT) particularly in frozen geomaterials; geohazards; snow mechanics, snow roads and runways; polar oceanography, meteorology and glaciology; alpine glaciology and hydrology; cold regions engineering; polar traverse logistics; light-weight scientific expeditions; development of Remote or Autonomous Vehicles (RAVs) for remote area site investigation; climate change adaptation. |
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| Lecturer in Education | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Health education; physical education; STEM education; Technology education. |
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| Senior Lecturer in International Business | Business Postgraduate Coordinator | School of Business and Creative Industries |
Internationalisation of firms; transitional issues of international students in and out of University; gender issues in international business, organisations and entrepreneurship; international human resource management/expatriation. |
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| Lecturer, Curriculum and Pedagogy | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Digital literacy; search engines (Google); information retrieval and information behaviours; internet literacy; technology in education; digital pedagogies; discourse analysis, conversation analysis and linguistics; critical theory; alternate education (including home-education / home-schooling/ unschooling). |
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| Senior Lecturer, Criminology and Justice | School of Law and Society |
Understanding and preventing sexual violence and abuse; assessment and treatment of sexual and violent offenders; endemic sexual violence; responding to sexual violence and abuse in Australian Indigenous Communities; place-based prevention models; best practice clinical models for remote Indigenous community contexts; program evaluation using a realist framework; situational prevention of child sexual abuse; child safe organisations. |
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| Lecturer, Social Work | School of Law and Society |
Social Work, Climate Action, and Eco-social Justice; Mental health and wellbeing; Healthy ageing; Gender; Cross-cultural studies. |
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| Senior Lecturer, Nursing | School of Health | Nursing and midwifery - Indigenous health and race-based inequalities. | |
| Lecturer, Tourism, Leisure and Event Management (South Bank) | School of Business and Creative Industries |
Social media in tourism; destination branding and marketing; disruptive innovation; medical tourism; culture and heritage. |
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| Senior Lecturer, Outdoor and Environmental Studies | School of Education and Tertiary Access |
Outdoor environmental education; facilitation and facilitator education; experiential education; fieldwork pedagogies. |
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| Associate Professor in Creative Writing | Discipline Lead, Creative Industries | School of Business and Creative Industries |
Creative Writing research methodologies; Creative Writing performative pedagogies; NTRO Postcolonial literary fiction; NTRO Short Stories; NTRO Crime fiction; NTRO Memoir; Creative Writing postcolonial children’s literature; Creative Writing autobiography. |
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| Dr Raj Yadav | Lecturer, Social Work | School of Law and Society | Decolonising social work; Non-government organisations in development; Developmental social work; Post debates - Post-colonialism and post-development. |
| Member name | Position | Organisation | Research area |
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| Ms Dimity Adams | Senior Research Fellow, School of Law and Society, UniSC | Sexual violence and prevention |
| Prof Jennifer Carter | Adjunct Professor, Geography, UniSC | Place, space and the environment and non-human animals |
| Dr Aruna Devi | Lecturer, Tertiary Access Studies, UniSC | Inclusive education, disabilities, teacher education, pathway programs |
| Dr Kathryn Esparza | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, UniSC | Parenting across cultures and in the context of migration |
| Ms Robyn Fox | Associate Lecturer, Outdoor Education, UniSC | Sustainability in outdoor education |
| Mr David Hollinsworth | Adjunct Professor, Geography, UniSC | Anti-racism and Indigenous affairs |
| Dr Craig Johnston | Lecturer, Curriculum and Pedagogy, UniSC | Curriculum and national identity |
| Professor Nigar Khawaja | Adjunt Professor, Clinical Psychology, QUT / UniSC | Cultural competency and culturally safe and sensitive approaches in psychological practices |
| Dr Tricia King |
Senior Lecturer, Photography, UniSC |
Furthering knowledge understanding of creativity's role in healthy aging and social connection. |
| Mrs Roselyn Kumar (Nunn) | Research Fellow, UniSC | Traditional and local knowledge of diverse groups of Pacific peoples |
| Dr Amanda Miller | Adjunct, Outdoor Education, UniSC | Tourism and sustainable practices in culturally diverse communities |
| Professor Patrick D. Nunn | Professor of Geography, UniSC | Climate change and sustainability, Pacific Islands and Indigenous knowledge |
| Dr Tony Richardson | Adjunct Lecturer, CIDSEL, UniSC | Transcultural teacher professional standards and quality |
| Ms Ann Robertson | Lecturer, Communication, UniSC | Transcultural education, second language, learning and teaching |
| Dr Tracey Sempowicz | Lecturer, Education, UniSC | Inclusive education, child development and learning |
| Professor Sue Stanton | Adjunct Professor, History / Colonial, UniSC | Aboriginal rights and best practice in Aboriginal/First Nations research |
| Richard Tindle | Lecturer, Psychology, UniSC | Cognitive psychology and psychosocial needs |
| Fatima Yaqoot | Professor in Research Sleep, UniSC | Reducing the societal burden of poor sleep and its associated health outcomes |
| Primary Supervisor | Name | Program | Thesis title |
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| Dr Clare Archer-Lean | Alannah Mewes | PhD | Horses & Heroines: human and equine agency in ecofeminist fiction. |
| Dr Leah Barclay | Kali Maunder | PhD | K’gari and The Biosphere: Ecologically-Empathetic Creative Practice in Shifting Perspectives on Climate Change. |
| Dr Leah Barclay | Graham Beaumont | Masters | Digitising the Natural Environment: An exploration of immersive technology for enhancing the wellbeing of people in social isolation. |
| Dr Leah Barclay | Marcia M.N. Grimm | Masters | Exploring Children’s Environmental Engagement: Creative Practice and Participatory Action in Southeast Queensland. |
| Dr Leah Barclay | Su Yeon Jung | PhD | Memorialisation through self-reflective soundscape music creation based on contextualised field recordings at sites of trauma. |
| Dr Leah Barclay | Leah Gustafson | PhD | Visualising Soundscapes: enhancing audience engagement with ecoacoustics to increase conservation. |
| APrf Harriot Beazley | Louisa-Anne Buwalda | PhD | Women's Experiences of Natural Disaster - Women's Voices on Their Issues and Solutions. |
| APrf Harriot Beazley | Lindy Kanan | PhD | Violence against women in Australia's Pacific labour mobility scheme: response and prevention. |
| APrf Harriot Beazley | Leah (Faval) Copedo | PhD | Cuyas Voces? Whose Voices? - The emergent stories of Human Rights Defenders lives at the Mexico/United States border. |
| APrf Harriot Beazley | Johanna Butt | PhD | The Garment as an object of expression of cultural identity by Ndebele women in contemporary South Africa. |
| APrf Harriot Beazley | Heli King | PhD | Connecting children with nature – a child-centred rights-based perspective. |
| Dr Shannon Brincat | Juan Caceres | PhD | Latin American Regionalism. Progress or regression?: A critical analysis of the role of Colombia and Ecuador within the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). |
| Dr Shannon Brincat | Traci Sudana | PhD | Becoming a medicine man: an ethnography of growing up in post-reformasi Indonesia. |
| Dr Shelley Davidow | Carl Voller | Masters | Blue Cowboy: The Memoir of a Pre-Fitzgerald Cop. An autoethnographic investigation of humanity's struggle with vocational trauma amid cultural settings. |
| Dr Rachael Dwyer | Brendan Canavan | PhD | How can strategic communication of the importance of music education initiate change to improve student outcomes in Australian schools? |
| Dr Rachael Dwyer | Manjita Basnet | Masters | Enhancing Local Curriculum Development in Nepalese Municipalities: A Path to Quality Education in Nepal. |
| Dr Rachael Dwyer | Jiao Tuxworth | PhD | The Experiences of Culturally-diverse Music Teachers in Australian Schools. |
| Dr Peter Grainger | James Toohey | Masters | To what extent do Australian preservice teachers self-assess their intercultural capability and preparedness to teach the General Capability of Intercultural Understanding? |
| Dr Peter Grainger | Wenurika Arachchige | Masters | Researching the use of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) in enabling self-directed learning of English to improve spoken skills of Sri Lankan university students. |
| Dr Peter Grainger | Luke Beck | Masters | The Queensland Japanese Senior Syllabus and the mediation of teacher agency. |
| Dr Sharon Louth | Amelia Olsen | PhD | Defying disadvantage. What’s working for wellbeing? Discovering the ‘awesomeness’ in successful small schools from rural, regional and remote Queensland. |
| Prof Catherine Manathunga | Annette Dupont | PhD | Subjectivities of exclusion in a Kuwaiti novel: A postcolonial, decolonial and Foucauldian analysis. |
| Prof Catherine Manathunga | Terence Grogan | PhD | Well-Being/wellbeing? A genealogy of flourishing. |
| Dr Jane Menzies | Tanja Evrosimovska | PhD | Critical success factors, risks and roadmap for internationalisation of SMEs: comparison between developed and emerging countries. |
| Prof Maria Raciti | Michelle Smytheman | Masters | The role of anticipated regret in transformative services marketing. |
| Prof Maria Raciti | Courtney Geritz | Masters | How gist representations influence cognitive dissonance between pre-commencement expectations and the perceived experience of regional university students. |
| Dr Susan Rayment-McHugh | Jessica Lockitch | PhD | Safeguarding vulnerable people in institutional settings across the lifespan. |
| Dr Vinathe Sharma-Bryer | Navita Sood | Masters | To examine the integration of financial literacy into support systems and their effectiveness in improving resilience among migrant women who are survivors of domestic violence (DV). |
| Dr Aaron Tham | Binaya Duwadi | Masters | Effects of Nature-Based Tourism on Community Well-Being: A case study of Chepang Village, Nepal. |
| Dr Aaron Tham | Susmita Baidhya | Masters | Impact of TikTok on Tourism Nepal. |
| Dr Aaron Tham | Joel Bautista | Masters | The Role of Influencers in Promoting Sustainable Tourism: Analyzing the Impact of Green Influencer Marketing on Consumer Behavior and Destination Image. |
| Dr Raj Yadav | Pratiksha Ghimire | PhD | Social Work with Nepali Women: A Decolonising Perspective. |
| Dr Raj Yadav | Dilip Karki | Masters | Constructing Disaster and Social Work Perspective in Nepal. |
| Dr Raj Yadav | Rajita Budhathoki | Masters | Building Community Resilience in Disaster-prone area in Nepal. |
| APrf Paul Williams | Ian Weber | PhD | Autocorrect: Writing Autobiografiction as Radical Transformative Practice on Gendered Violence and Social Justice. |
| APrf Paul Williams | Rachelle Raco | PhD | Knit Two Together: Writing a Contemporary Adult Asexual Romance. |
| APrf Paul Williams | Kylie Ryan | PhD | ‘Martyred Mothers – Stepparenting in the Shadowlands: ‘writing a fictocritical narrative to examine the challenges of fulltime stepmothering’. |
| HDR graduate | Thesis title |
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| Stacey Anwin | Writing as subject, method and goal: Rediscovering and enacting the benefits of a personal writing practice through "The Writing Project". |
| Rose Barrowcliffe | Reading Between the Lines: Uncovering Butchulla history in the K'gari Research Archive. |
| Kay Buttfield | Threading Lives – Speculative Archival Research into Colonial Women Transported to Van Diemen’s Land. |
| Albertus Fiharsono | Culturally-Based Learning Needs of Indigenous Students in Indonesian Papua. |
| Justine Grogan | Does prior knowledge matter? Exploring how prior study and informal learning affects the study of compulsory tertiary Indigenous Studies. |
| Catherine Johnston | 'It's nice to be a little bit Indian': Identity Performativities of Indian Young Women in Diasporic Private, Public, and Online Spaces. |
| Martin Lichtenstern | Increased subjective knowledge through ownership and the familiarity bias. A study on the German automobile market. |
| Amanda Miller | The effect of tourism on the lived experiences of marginalised children and young people in Siem Reap, Cambodia. |
| Peter Moore | Doctrina Nullius: re-imagining the other side of the frontier through a novel speculation on the castaway Normanby Woman. |
| Hope O'Chin | The contributions of Aboriginal art and education to the Identity of Australian Civil Society. |
| Ratna Paudyal | Microfinance and socio-economic development: An integrated approach in Nepal. |
| Anthony Smith | Assessing the practice competence of undergraduate students in paramedicine in Australia and New Zealand: A grounded Theory Study. |
| Ross Waldron | Sustainable transport strategies and solutions for K'gari (Fraser Island). |
| Haley Whitfield | Maori gang members and gang connected adults’ perspectives of life in the Community of the Fist. |
| Halim Nataprawira | Recognising the sociolinguistic reality of spoken Indonesian: A corpus and usage analysis of a middle diglossic variant. |
| Sarah Windred | Two sides of the story: the experiences and perspectives of child domestic workers and their employers in Bandung, Indonesia. |
- Dr Inez Mahony, Centre Manager
- Ms Gail Wilkins, ITRC Coordinator
Community Reference Group
Indigenous community
- Aunty Dr Hope O’Chin, Aboriginal Elder
- Aunty Dr Judi Wickes, Aboriginal Elder
- Aunty Dr Joyce Bonner, Butchulla Aboriginal Elder
- Aunty Dr Harriet Vea Vea, Aboriginal community member
- Lyndon Davis, Aboriginal artist, educator and cultural performer
- Jandamarra Cadd, Aboriginal artist
- Peter Mulcahy, Aboriginal artist
- Waiata Telfer, Aboriginal playwright and poet
- Ngioka Bunda-Heath, Aboriginal Dancer
- Ngugui, Wakka Wakka, Birupi woman
- Anjelena Parfitt, Aboriginal artist, East Arrernte woman
- Brent Miller, Aboriginal artist
- Lyndon Davis, Gubbi Gubbi Elder and Aboriginal artist, USC Senior Fellow, USC
- Kerry Neill, Gubbi Gubbi community member and Director of Goombuckar Creations
Broader community networks
- Central Queensland Indigenous Development, Educational aspirations programs
- DET State Schools Indigenous Education, Embedding Indigenous perspectives into the curriculum
- "You Belong" initiative Yazidi refugees from Iraq & Syria
- Future Sense Foundation NFP organising Challenges Abroad