College of Arts, Society & Education
Karen Cavu
- Doctor of Philosophy (Education)
- karen.cavu@jcu.edu.au
Pascal Agbadi
- Lecturer, Social Work
- pascal.agbadi@jcu.edu.au
Leonard Freeman
- Senior Lecturer, English Education (Primary Education)
- leonard.freeman@jcu.edu.au
Kate Manlik
- Lecturer
- kate.manlik@jcu.edu.au
Subhashni Taylor
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer
- subhashni.taylor@jcu.edu.au
Peta Salter
- Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy
- peta.salter@jcu.edu.au
Ines Zuchowski
- Associate Dean, Research
- ines.zuchowski@jcu.edu.au
Jemma Hamley
- Lecturer, Social Work
- jemma.hamley@jcu.edu.au
Rosita Henry
- Adjunct Professor
- rosita.henry@jcu.edu.au
Michael Ackland
- Adjunct Professor
- michael.ackland@jcu.edu.au
The Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of International Backpackers Visiting Cairns, Australia
This qualitative project aims to explore international backpackers’: (1) knowledge of and experiences with HIV and STI prevention and contraception; (2) knowledge of and experiences with accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare; and (3) knowledge of and experiences with testing for HIV, STIs, and pregnancies while travelling in the Cairns and Tablelands regions. In all, this project will examine how existing sexual and reproductive health services can best engage with international backpackers travelling in the Cairns and Tablelands regions, while providing novel insights into the needs of this population.
Small Pelagic fisheries in the Pacific – the future of nutritional security?
Simon Foale
10 Jun 2025 - 31 Dec 2028
The project aims to improve understanding of the role of terrestrial nutrient delivery in driving productivity of a hitherto neglected fishery sector: small pelagics (sardines, scads and small mackerels) in the Western Pacific. The high productivity, resilience to fishing pressure, and superior nutritional value of these fish warrant greater attention as population and market pressures increase. We will generate data correlating nutrient dynamics and fishery production, together with ethnographic data on local fishery knowledge, to better understand the relationship between small pelagic fisheries and the catchments that deliver the nutrients they depend on.
Small Pelagic fisheries in the Pacific – the future of nutritional security?
Simon Foale
10 Jun 2025 - 31 Dec 2028
The project aims to improve understanding of the role of terrestrial nutrient delivery in driving productivity of a hitherto neglected fishery sector: small pelagics (sardines, scads and small mackerels) in the Western Pacific. The high productivity, resilience to fishing pressure, and superior nutritional value of these fish warrant greater attention as population and market pressures increase. We will generate data correlating nutrient dynamics and fishery production, together with ethnographic data on local fishery knowledge, to better understand the relationship between small pelagic fisheries and the catchments that deliver the nutrients they depend on.
Between Battles: Commemorating the Cultural Lives of Soldiers
Claire Brennan
01 Jan 2015 - 01 Jan 2015
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Read all about it: Digital participation in Australian newspaper fiction (Old ID 27186)
Roger Osborne
01 Oct 2020 - 30 Sep 2023
The Project aims to transform understandings of Australian literary history by using innovative digital methods to discover, curate and investigate tens of thousands of unrecorded novels, novellas and short stories in 20thcentury Australian newspapers. It intends to advance national research capacity by facilitating collaboration, providing research training and making a substantial contribution to open-access, sustainable digital infrastructure for Australian literary studies. Expected outcomes include a new history of Australian literature and new model for participatory literary history. The Project's benefits should include expanding the National Library of Australia's records and promoting public engagement with Australian literature.
Gender, Work, and Migration: Building Work Capital among Korean Women in Australia
Sujin Kim
01 Feb 2026 - 31 Jan 2027
In migrant societies, work functions as more than a means of subsistence. It serves as a critical foundation for building diverse forms of capital that facilitate long-term social integration and empowerment. Yosso (2005), in their study on migrant communities, identified six forms of community cultural capital - aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistant. In particular, employment plays a central role in developing these capitals. For example, it sustains hope for upward mobility (aspirational capital), promotes language acquisition through workplace interactions (linguistic capital), strengthens family and community networks (familial and social capital), and provide financial stability. Furthermore, it enables individuals to navigate unfamiliar institutional environments effectively (navigational capital) and to challenge negative stereotypes while fostering a positive self-image (resistant capital; Kitayama & Imai, 2022). Among these, aspirational capital through employment is an important element in helping migrants maintain a vision and goals for their future in a new society.
Australia is systemically dependent on immigration for both economic and demographic growth (Gamlen & Sherrell, 2022). It is recognised as a classical immigration country and a migration state, formed through continuous migration from the earliest Indigenous peoples who arrived up to 65,000 years ago to more recent settlers over the past two centuries. According to the 2021 Census, there were 102,092 Korea-born residents in Australia (45.0% male, 55.0% female), with 48% holding at least a bachelor’s degree. This proportion is significantly higher than the national average of 26.3%, suggesting that a considerable share of Korea-born migrants are highly educated and skilled. Therefore, they represent a population with the foundational capacity to develop work into capital, making the application of the Work Capital concept (Kim & Allan, 2024) particularly relevant. Work capital is a culturally sensitive conceptual and measurement tool that captures how occupational experiences are transformed into career development, economic stability, and socio-cultural integration.
This research project places particular emphasis on the experiences of working female migrants. South Korea’s gender wage gap stands at 29.3%, notably higher than the OECD average of approximately 11.5% and significantly above Australia’s, which is around 11.3% (OECD, 2023). Sul Tcha and Lobo (2003) found that among Korean immigrants in Australia, women were more likely than men to perceive certain structural and environmental constraints as more significant. Building on this, the research focuses on how women who have experienced gender inequality in Korea navigate and overcome institutional and social barriers in Australia, and how they utilise work to strengthen their economic position. Previous research by Choi (2022) examined the formation of Korean entrepreneurial enclaves in Melbourne and Sydney but noted that the contexts, consequences, and implications of life, occupational choices, and business directions among migrants were insufficiently explored, calling for further research.
This study will conduct a survey of 400 Korea-born residents in Australia using the Work Capital Scale developed by Kim and Allan (2024) to investigate how work capital is accumulated and utilised. The study will further examine how theoretically informed contextual factors (such as childhood and current social class and downward classism) and vocational factors (including work volition, career adaptability, and decent work) function as antecedents and outcomes of work capital (Kim et al., 2024). In addition, in-depth semi-structured interviews will be conducted to explore the specific career experiences and barrier-overcoming strategies of Korean female migrants.
This research will constitute the first empirical investigation of work capital among Korean immigrants in Australia, thereby extending the theoretical scope of migration integration studies and offering policy-relevant insights to support the economic self-reliance and career development of female migrants. Furthermore, it will contribute to comparative migration research between Australia and Korea. In doing so, the project will advance the field of Korean studies by deepening understanding of the experiences of Koreans abroad, while also strengthening knowledge exchange and collaborative ties between Korea and Australia.
International collaborative study on the reconstruction of the history of Japanese immigrants in Australia and their influence on contemporary Japanese society
Tianna Killoran
01 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028
First, this study aims to elucidate the concrete experiences of Japanese migrants in Northern Queensland (QLD) from the Meiji period through the Pacific War, reconstructing their history from the perspective of those who lived and worked in the “peripheral” regions, away from national and colonial centers, under the White Australia Policy.
Second, it examines how the reconstruction and rediscovery of the once-interrupted history of Japanese migration influences the identity formation and socio-cultural activities of contemporary Nikkei communities in Australia. Third, through research activities conducted in both Japan and Australia, the study will excavate, organize, and digitize valuable historical materials on prewar and postwar Japanese migration, thereby ensuring their preservation and transmission to future generations in both countries.
Lesbian Histories of HIV and AIDS in Australia
Kate Manlik
01 Jul 2026 - 31 Dec 2027
This project seeks to platform LGBTQ media publications, HIV and AIDS campaign materials, photographs, artwork, and ephemera, created between 1983 and 1996, that speak to lesbian and queer women’s role(s) within the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Australia. There are diverse holdings in Australian libraries, museums and archives that highlight lesbian and queer women’s experiences, activism and involvement in the HIV and AIDS pandemic. However, these documents and records are dispersed across multiple institutions and are not easily navigable or locatable to the public. Our proposed website would work as a platform to highlight these materials and thus provide a portal for lesbian and queer women as well as the broader public to access less well-known stories and materials about lesbian and queer women’s role(s) in the AIDS pandemic. Last, the applicants hope that this website detailing lesbian and queer women’s specific cultural histories of the AIDS pandemic might also provide inspiration and direction for future HIV prevention campaigns directed toward lesbian and queer women.
Transnational lives of Taiwanese working holiday makers in rural Australia (Old ID 26557)
Zoe Wang
01 Jul 2019 - 28 Feb 2023
This research is to understand the transnational lives of Taiwanese working holiday makers (WHM) in rural Australia, including their cultural, social and economic experiences, and their perception of and interaction with rural Australian society. While Taiwanese are the second largest WHM group in Australia, little is known about them, and nothing about their experience of employment in regional Australia. There is an urgent need to understand this substantial group of temporary migrants, whose presence essentially represents Taiwan to the rural Australian community, and whose labour contribution is potentially critical to the future of Australian rural development.
Challenging the orthodoxy : an alternative strategy for the tertiary teaching of piano.
- 2005
- Researchers:Ryan Daniel
Self-assessment in performance
- 2001
- Cambridge University Press
- Researchers:Ryan Daniel
Avoiding 'Aborigines': Paul Hasluck and the Northern Territory Welfare Ordinance, 1953
- 2005
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Researchers:Russell McGregor
'Breed out the colour' or the importance of being white
- 2002
- University of Melbourne
- Researchers:Russell McGregor
Governance, not genocide: Aboriginal assimilation in the Postwar Era
- 2004
- Berghahn Books
- Researchers:Russell McGregor
Assimilation as acculturation: A.P. Elkin on the dynamics of cultural change
- 2005
- API Network
- Researchers:Russell McGregor
Start Date:
01 Jan 2014
Start Date:
01 Jan 2021
Reseracher:
Victoria Kuttainen
(Centre Head, The Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing)
Start Date:
01 Jan 2019
Title:
Mandarin Chinese
Reseracher:
Victoria Kuttainen
(Centre Head, The Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing)
Start Date:
01 Jan 2021
Start Date:
01 Jan 2023
Start Date:
01 Jan 2015
Start Date:
01 Jan 1992
End Date:
01 Jan 1994