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 Vinathe Sharma-Brymer
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. See impact spotlight on Natalie's research HERE. |
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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. |
| 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 Levi Durbidge | Senior Lecturer, World Languages, UniSC | Multi / translingual education, international education, Japanese studies |
| 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 Lisa McIlwain | Researcher, UniSC | Poverty, inequality and environmental degradation |
| 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 |
| Associate Professor Victor Oguoma | Associate Professor in Biostatistics, UniSC | Community-led research approaches, quantitative methods, advancing heath equity and outcomes through inclusivity |
| 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 |
| Associate Professor Hinekura Smith | Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, UQ | Indigenous research, decolonising education, Indigenous arts-based methodologies |
| 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. | Associate Professor Harriot Beazley |
| Lindy Kanan | PhD | Violence against women in Australia's Pacific labour mobility scheme: response and prevention. | Associate Professor Harriot Beazley |
| Leah (Faval) Copedo | PhD | Cuyas Voces? Whose Voices? - The emergent stories of Human Rights Defenders lives at the Mexico/United States border. | Associate Professor Harriot Beazley |
| Heli King | PhD | Connecting children with nature – a child-centred rights-based perspective. | Associate Professor 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Terence Grogan | PhD | Well-Being/wellbeing? A genealogy of flourishing. | Professor Catherine Manathunga |
| Tanja Evrosimovska | PhD | Critical success factors, risks and roadmap for internationalisation of SMEs: comparison between developed and emerging countries. | Dr Jane Menzies |
| Rajita Budhathoki | Masters | Building Community Resilience in Disaster-prone area in Nepal. | Professor Maria Raciti |
| Michelle Smytheman | Masters | The role of anticipated regret in transformative services marketing. | Professor Maria Raciti |
| Jessica Lockitch | PhD | Safeguarding vulnerable people in institutional settings across the lifespan. | Dr Susan Rayment-McHugh |
| Dilip Karki | Masters | Constructing Disaster and Social Work Perspective in Nepal. | Dr Vinathe Sharma-Brymer |
| 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 |
| Rachelle Raco | PhD | Knit Two Together: Writing a Contemporary Adult Asexual Romance. | Associate Professor Paul Williams |
| Kylie Ryan | PhD | ‘Martyred Mothers – Stepparenting in the Shadowlands: ‘writing a fictocritical narrative to examine the challenges of fulltime stepmothering’. | Associate Professor Paul Williams |
| Ali Moloney | Masters | Perspectives of health professionals on providing person-centred care in a primary healthcare setting. | Associate Professor Lynne Stuart |
| Jerome Wano | Honours |
From Rights of Nature to Rights of Country |
Associate Professor Alessandro Pelizzon and 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". | |||
| Wenurika Arachchige | 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. | |||
| Rose Barrowcliffe | Reading Between the Lines: Uncovering Butchulla history in the K'gari research archive. | |||
| Johanna Butt | The Garment as an object of expression of cultural identity by Ndebele women in contemporary South Africa. | |||
| Kay Buttfield | Threading Lives: Speculative archival research into colonial women transported to Van Diemen’s Land. | |||
| Annette Dupont | Subjectivities of exclusion in a Kuwaiti novel: A postcolonial, decolonial and Foucauldian analysis. | |||
| Albertus Fiharsono | Culturally-based learning needs of Indigenous students in Indonesian Papua. | |||
| Derek Foster | The influence of community development and education frameworks on eco-musicological event design. | |||
| Courtney Geritz | How gist representations influence cognitive dissonance between pre-commencement expectations and the perceived experience of regional university students. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Jiao Tuxworth | The Experiences of Culturally-diverse Music Teachers in Australian Schools. | |||
| Ross Waldron | Sustainable transport strategies and solutions for K'gari (Fraser Island). | |||
| Ian Weber | Autocorrect: Writing Autobiografiction as Radical Transformative Practice on Gendered Violence and Social Justice. | |||
| 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
Advisory Board
- Professor Maria Raciti, Co-Director ITRC
- Professor Catherine Manathunga, Co-Director ITRC
- Professor Shireen Motala, South African Research Chair in Teaching & Learning, UJ
- Associate Professor Marnee Shay, Deputy Head of School of Education, UQ
- Prof Gary Thomas, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Education, Research & Engagement, RMIT
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
Membership information
Interested in becoming a member?
The ITRC offers two tiers of membership: Core and Associate.
Core Membership is open to eligible UniSC academic and research staff who demonstrate a strong commitment to the Centre's values and research focus. Core members actively contribute to the ITRC's research activities, participate in Centre events, and engage in collaborative projects.
Associate Membership is open to individuals who may not meet the eligibility criteria for Core Membership but have a genuine interest in contributing to the ITRC's research agenda.
For further information on membership, contact: itrc@usc.edu.au