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
- Professor Maria Raciti - Professor, Marketing | Co-Director, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre | School of Business and Creative Industries
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Professor Catherine Manathunga - Professor of Education Research | Co-Director of Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Professor Sajid Anwar - Professor, Finance | Business and Commerce Honours Coordinator | School of Business and Creative Industries
- Dr Clare Archer-Lean - Senior Lecturer, English | HDR Coordinator | School of Business and Creative Industries
- Dr Leah Barclay - Lecturer, Design | Discipline Lead, Design | School of Business and Creative Industries
- Associate Professor Harriot Beazley - Associate Professor, Human Geography | School of Law and Society
- Dr Ali Black - Senior Lecturer, Education | Program Coordinator, Master of Education | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Dr Shannon Brincat - Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations |School of Law and Society
- Associate Professor Michael Carey - Associate Professor in Education (English language and literacy) | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Dr Laine Chilman - Lecturer, Occupational Therapy | School of Health
- Dr Shelley Davidow - Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy | Alternative Education Coordinator | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Dr Anne Drabble - Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood | Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Early Childhood Education | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Dr Rachael Dwyer - Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Dr Peter Grainger - Senior Lecturer in Education (Educational Assessment, Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Japanese Language) | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Dr Da Eul Jeong - Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre
- Dr Sharon Louth - Senior Lecturer, Education | Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Primary Education | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Dr Adrian McCallum - Engineering Lead | Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering | Adventure STEM Advocate
- Dr Natalie McMaster - Lecturer in Education | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Dr Jane Menzies - Senior Lecturer in International Business | Business Postgraduate Coordinator | School of Business and Creative Industries
- Dr Renee Morrison - Lecturer, Curriculum and Pedagogy | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Dr Susan Rayment-McHugh - Senior Lecturer, Criminology and Justice | School of Law and Society
- Dr Vinathe Sharma-Brymer, Lecturer, Social Work | School of Law and Society
- Dr Lynne Stuart - Senior Lecturer, Nursing | School of Health
- Dr Aaron Tham - Lecturer, Tourism, Leisure and Event Management (South Bank) | School of Business and Creative Industries
- Dr Glyn Thomas - Senior Lecturer, Outdoor and Environmental Studies | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Associate Professor Paul Williams - Associate Professor in Creative Writing | Discipline Lead, Creative Industries | School of Business and Creative Industries
- Dr Alison Willis - Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching | Senior Lecturer, Curriculum and Pedagogy | School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Dr Raj Yadav - Lecturer, Social Work | School of Law and Society
| Member name | Position | Organisation | Research area |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Name | Program | Thestis title |
|---|---|---|
| Juan Caceres | Doctor of Philosophy | 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). |
| Traci Sudana | Doctor of Philosophy | Becoming a medicine man: an ethnography of growing up in post-reformasi Indonesia. |
| Mohsin Ali Tajummul | Doctor of Philosophy | Impact of industry revolution 4.0 through Information and communication technology (ICT) on Sustainable Business Performance: A moderated mediation Model for SMEs. |
| Derek Foster | Doctor of Philosophy | The influence of community development and education frameworks on eco-musicological event design. |
| Kali Maunder | Master of Creative Arts | K’gari and The Biosphere: Ecologically-Empathetic Creative Practice in Shifting Perspectives on Climate Change. |
| Louisa-Anne Buwalda | Doctor of Philosophy | Women's Experiences of Natural Disaster - Women's Voices on Their Issues and Solutions. |
| Lindy Kanan | Doctor of Philosophy | Violence against women in Australia's Pacific labour mobility scheme: response and prevention. |
| Leah (Faval) Copedo | Doctor of Philosophy | Cuyas Voces? Whose Voices? - The emergent stories of Human Rights Defenders lives at the Mexico/United States border. |
| Johanna Butt | Doctor of Philosophy | The Garment as an object of expression of cultural identity by Ndebele women in contemporary South Africa. |
| Heli King | Doctor of Philosophy | Connecting children with nature – a child-centred rights-based perspective. |
| Brendan Canavan | Doctor of Philosophy | How can strategic communication of the importance of music education initiate change to improve student outcomes in Australian schools? |
| Jiao Tuxworth | Doctor of Philosophy | The Experiences of Culturally-diverse Music Teachers in Australian Schools. |
| James Toohey | Master of Education by Research | To what extent do Australian preservice teachers self-assess their intercultural capability and preparedness to teach the General Capability of Intercultural Understanding? |
| Amelia Olsen | Doctor of Philosophy | Defying disadvantage. What’s working for wellbeing? Discovering the ‘awesomeness’ in successful small schools from rural, regional and remote Queensland. |
| Annette Dupont | Doctor of Philosophy | Subjectivities of exclusion in a Kuwaiti novel: A postcolonial, decolonial and Foucauldian analysis. |
| Jessica Lockitch | Doctor of Philosophy | Safeguarding vulnerable people in institutional settings across the lifespan. |
| Pratiksha Ghimire | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Work with Nepali Women: A Decolonising Perspective. |
| Dilip Karki | Master of Social Work | Constructing Disaster and Social Work Perspective in Nepal. |
| Rajita Budhathoki | Master of Social Work | Building Community Resilience in Disaster-prone area in Nepal. |
| Binaya Duwadi | Master of Business | Effects of Nature-Based Tourism on Community Well-Being: A case study of Chepang Village, Nepal. |
| Susmita Baidhya | Master of Business | Impact of TikTok on Tourism Nepal. |
| HDR graduate | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| 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