Currently Vice Chancellor’s Fellow – Design and Creative Practice – RMIT University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health at
The University of Melbourne
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stakeholder engagement
organisational development,
research,
training and project management
Research and writing
From The Blog
On the limits of empathy
Every week during November 2020, the indomitable Mary Freer has put together an amazing online program as part of the Compassion Revolution. It was a privilege to be in conversation with Katerina Bryant (writer and PhD student whose first book, Hysteria: A Memoir of...
An interview with nurse and multi-disciplinary researcher Dr Ruth De Souza
I had a chat with Ben Rodin from The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal . I said a few things. You can read more “All bodies are not treated the same and we’re not affected by the virus in the same way… how we do healthcare actually matters… There’s some...
How inclusive is craftivism?
I was invited by Hayley Singer convenor of the Environmental Arts & Humanities Network at the University of Melbourne to be a respondent to one of their seminars, exploring the COVID 19 Global Quilt Project co-instigated by artists, activists, and...
What does meaningful participation look like in Citizen Science?
On October 7th 2020 I was invited to be a keynote in The Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA) CitSciOzOnline Early-Mid Career Researcher (EMCR) 1/2 day symposium. The aim of the symposium was to unite citizen science-aligned researchers in Australia to...
Virtually Racist: Anti-racist work in the time of Zoom.
“In our continued presence, blackfullas are the uncomfortable truth that this nation must reconcile itself with. We are the most courageous when it comes to conversations about race having copped the full brunt of its violence but also because we have nothing else...
What do the Citizen’s Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) mean for diasporic Indians?
Folks at Southern Crossings, a collective who aim to create space within the "Australian national imaginary and mediascape" for South Asian voices, invited Indian Australian writers to respond to the Citizen’s Amendment Act (CAA) passed on December 12, 2019 and the...