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 |
Services marketing; social marketing; higher education. |
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| Professor of Education Research | Co-Director, Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre |
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 |
International finance; international economics; international business. |
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| Senior Lecturer, English | HDR Coordinator |
Australian fiction; critical animal studies; human dimension of wildlife management. |
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| Lecturer, Design | Discipline Lead, Design |
Spatial audio; ecoacoustics; acoustic ecology; sound design; conservation technology; underwater acoustics. |
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| Associate Professor, Human Geography |
Child rights, protection, and participation in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a focus on child labour; migration; youth subcultures; community change; and rights-based development. |
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| Senior Lecturer, Education | Program Coordinator, Master of Education |
Arts-based and participatory research on knowledge construction; storytelling; social cohesion; and gender in academic and community contexts. |
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| Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations |
Critical International Relations Theory, focusing on climate change; dialectics; recognition; tyranny; cosmopolitanism; and Utopian imagination. |
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| Associate Professor in Education (English language and literacy) |
English language education, focusing on TESOL, language acquisition; assessment; grammar; discourse; and pronunciation instruction. |
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| Lecturer, Occupational Therapy |
Occupational performance; cross-cultural knowledges; and social determinants of health, with a focus on childhood development; family mealtimes; disability; and end-of-life care. |
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| Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy | Alternative Education Coordinator |
Education; creativity; and social justice, focusing on resilience; creative writing; Steiner education; restorative practice; and decolonising pedagogy. |
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| Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood | Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Early Childhood Education |
Early years language development; place-based learning in rural settings; and support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners in preservice teacher experiences. |
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| Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy |
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) |
Educational assessment, feedback literacy in doctoral education; second language acquisition; TESOL; intercultural competency; and 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 |
Embedding Indigenous perspectives; rural and remote teaching; collaborative leadership; trauma-informed and culturally responsive pedagogies; and enhancing agency for educational opportunities. |
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| Engineering Lead | Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering | Adventure STEM Advocate |
Cone Penetration Testing (CPT) in frozen geomaterials; geohazards; polar science; cold regions engineering; RAV development; and climate change adaptation. |
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| Lecturer in Education |
Health education; physical education; STEM education; technology education. |
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| Senior Lecturer in International Business | Business Postgraduate Coordinator |
Internationalisation of firms; transitional issues of international students; gender in international business; and international human resource management. |
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| Lecturer, Curriculum and Pedagogy |
Digital literacy; search engines; information retrieval; technology in education; digital pedagogies; discourse analysis; critical theory; and alternative education. |
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| Senior Lecturer, Criminology and Justice |
Understanding and preventing sexual violence; treatment of offenders; place-based prevention models; and child-safe practices in Indigenous communities. |
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| Lecturer, Social Work |
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 | Nursing and midwifery - Indigenous health and race-based inequalities. | |
| Lecturer, Tourism, Leisure and Event Management (South Bank) |
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 |
Outdoor environmental education; facilitation and facilitator education; experiential education; fieldwork pedagogies. |
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| Associate Professor in Creative Writing | Discipline Lead, Creative Industries |
Creative writing methodologies; performative pedagogies; postcolonial literary fiction; short stories; crime fiction; memoir; and autobiography; including children’s literature. |
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| Dr Raj Yadav | Lecturer, Social Work | Decolonising social work; non-government organisations in development; developmental social work; post-colonialism and post-development. |
| Member name | Position | Organisation | Research area |
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| Ms Dimity Adams | Senior Research Fellow, UniSC | Sexual violence and prevention |
| Professor 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 | Adjunct 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. |
| 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 |
| Ms Ali Moloney | Lecturer, Nursing UniSC | Cultural Safety in healthcare, Western Pacific region, curriculum design and development |
| 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 |
| Professor Fatima Yaqoot | Professor in Research Sleep, UniSC | Reducing the societal burden of poor sleep and its associated health outcomes |
| Name | Program | Thesis title | Primary Supervisor |
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| Alannah Mewes | PhD | Horses & Heroines: human and equine agency in ecofeminist fiction. | Dr Clare Archer-Lean |
| 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. | Dr Leah Barclay |
| Louisa-Anne Buwalda | PhD | Women's Experiences of Natural Disaster - Women's Voices on Their Issues and Solutions. | A/Prof Harriot Beazley |
| Lindy Kanan | PhD | Violence against women in Australia's Pacific labour mobility scheme: response and prevention. | A/Prof Harriot Beazley |
| Leah (Faval) Copedo | PhD | Cuyas Voces? Whose Voices? - The emergent stories of Human Rights Defenders lives at the Mexico/United States border. | A/Prof Harriot Beazley |
| Johanna Butt | PhD | The Garment as an object of expression of cultural identity by Ndebele women in contemporary South Africa. | A/Prof Harriot Beazley |
| Heli King | PhD | Connecting children with nature – a child-centred rights-based perspective. | A/Prof Harriot Beazley |
| 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 Shannon Brincat |
| 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 Shelley Davidow |
| 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 Rachael Dwyer |
| 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 Peter Grainger |
| Amelia Olsen | PhD | Defying disadvantage. What’s working for wellbeing? Discovering the ‘awesomeness’ in successful small schools from rural, regional and remote Queensland. | Dr Sharon Louth |
| 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. | Prof Catherine Manathunga |
| Tanja Evrosimovska | PhD | Critical success factors, risks and roadmap for internationalisation of SMEs: comparison between developed and emerging countries. | Dr Jane Menzies |
| 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. | Prof Maria Raciti |
| Jessica Lockitch | PhD | Safeguarding vulnerable people in institutional settings across the lifespan. | Dr Susan Rayment-McHugh |
| 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 Vinathe Sharma-Brymer |
| 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 Aaron Tham |
| 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. | Dr Raj Yadav |
| Ian Weber | PhD | Autocorrect: Writing Autobiografiction as Radical Transformative Practice on Gendered Violence and Social Justice. | A/Prof Paul Williams |
| Rachelle Raco | PhD | Knit Two Together: Writing a Contemporary Adult Asexual Romance. | A/Prof Paul Williams |
| Kylie Ryan | PhD | ‘Martyred Mothers – Stepparenting in the Shadowlands: ‘writing a fictocritical narrative to examine the challenges of fulltime stepmothering’. | A/Prof Paul Williams |
| Ali Moloney | Masters | Perspectives of health professionals on providing person-centred care in a primary healthcare setting. | A/Prof Lynne Stuart |
| Jerome Wano | Honours |
From Rights of Nature to Rights of Country |
A/Prof Alessandro Pelizzon & Dr Stefanie Fishel |
| 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