Research

Research Themes

1. Cultural Heritage and the Environment
Professor Lara Lamb and Professor Bryce Barker - Pathways through Tropical Sahul: The Archaeology of the Great Papuan Plateau
Professor Bryce Barker - Archaeology of the Queensland Native Mounted Police
Professor Bryce Barker - Aboriginal Rock Art and Cultural Heritage Management in Cape York Peninsula 
Professor Laurie Johnson - Playing Conditions: How Climate Volatility Shaped Shakespearean Theatre
Dr Jayne Persian - Migration, Memory and Commemoration
Dr Catherin Dewhirst - Digitising Internment Memories

2. Memory, Migration and Mobility
Dr Jayne Persian - Migration, Refugees, Nation-Building and Ethnic Communities
Dr Jessica Carniel and Dr Jayne Persian - Ethnic Humour and Representation
Dr Kate Cantrell - Wandering, New Mobilities, and Australian Travel Writing
Dr Catherine Dewhirst - Imperialism, Marginalised Communities and Defiant Voices

3. Media and Mediascapes
Assoc. Prof. Jessica Gildersleeve - Affective Screen Cultures
Dr Jessica Carniel - Global Popular Culture, Multiculturalism, Transnationalism
Dr Jessica Carniel - Ethics, Pedagogy, Humanities
Dr Caryn Coatney - Investigative Journalism
Assoc. Prof. Kelly McWilliam - Post-millennial Australian Cinema

4. Conflict, Crisis and Communication
Assoc. Prof. Jessica Gildersleeve and Richard Gehrmann - War, Trauma and Memory
Dr Barbara Ryan - Community Information, Preparation, and Disaster
Dr Caryn Coatney - Leaders, Journalists and Conflicts

5. Community and Cohesion
Assoc. Prof. Jessica Gildersleeve - Australian Literature, Culture and Affect
Dr Jayne Persian - Community Storytelling
Dr Barbara Ryan - Community Narratives and Natural Hazard Preparation\
Dr Nike Sulway and Dr Jessica Carniel - Cultural (Re)Imaginings and Perspectives in Writing|
Dr Kate Cantrell - Academic Precarity and the Neo-Liberal University