Our Researchers
Our Co-Leaders
Cate Thomas
Charles Sturt University
Visiting Fellow – Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin
Convenor Athena SWAN – Charles Sturt University
Co-Convenor – Social Equality, Intersectionality and Inclusion Research Group
Interest areas: Intersectionality, gender equity and inclusion
Patricia Mackey
Charles Sturt University
Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Human Services
Co-Convenor – Social Equality, Intersectionality and Inclusion Research Group
Interest areas: Sensitive social research and interdisciplinary research in domestic and family violence, child protection, mental health.
Creativity in social work practice.
Sarah Redshaw
Charles Sturt University
Research Fellow • Faculty of Arts and Education
Co-Convenor – Social Equality, Intersectionality and Inclusion Research Group
Interest areas: Gender, LGBTIQA+,Intersectionality
Jacquie Tinkler
Charles Sturt University
Senior Lecturer
Co-Convenor – Social Equality, Intersectionality and Inclusion Research Group
Interest areas: Online students’ mental health and online subject
design/accessibility
Ryan Al-Natour
Charles Sturt UniversityInterest areas: Race and Identity
Tamzen Amer
TITLEUniversity
Interest areas: Intersectionality, gender, Athena SWAN
Dr Peta Jeffries
Charles Sturt UniversityLecturer and researcher, School of Indigenous Australian Studies (SIAS) & Course coordinator: Graduate Certificate of Indigenous cultural competency (SIAS)
Interest areas: critical Indigenous studies, Indigenous knowledges and climate change adaptation, critical pedagogies and civic education, environmental / eco-social work and disaster practice, arts practice as research, history and environmental studies.
Katrina Gersbach
Charles Sturt UniversityLecturer in Social Work and Human Services
Interest areas: Child welfare, early education, equity, learning and teaching in higher education.
Contact: kgersbach@csu.edu.au
Cyrena Hunt-Madden
Charles Sturt University & Masters Public Health student at UNSWLecturer in Speech Pathology
Interest areas: communication, health equity, social justice, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, gender, LGBTQIA+
Contact: chunt-madden@csu.edu.au
Larissa Bamberry
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Gender relations in regional households,
labour markets and organisations
Email: Lbamberry@csu.edu.au
Donna Bridges
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Gender, workplace, organisation
Tabin Brooks
Interdisciplinary AcademicCharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Interests across history, sociology, microbiology and anatomy, with foundational degrees in Linguistics/Psychology (UNSW) and Biotechnology (CSU). Particularly interested in Human Development, Equity, Sociolinguistics and Social Constructive Theory.
Contact: tabbrooks@csu.edu.au
Dr Robin C Ladwig
Canberra Business School, Faculty of Business, Government and LawAssociate Lecturer in Human Resource Management
Interest areas: Diversity Management, Organisation and Management Studies, Social Identity, Queer Studies, Sociology, Critical Theory
Contact: Robin.Ladwig@canberra.edu.au
Dr Nadèzda Broshuis
International Coordinator and Senior Lecturer Social Work | Coordinator minor Islam and SocietyHogeschool Utrecht (university off applied sciences Utrecht).
Interest areas: world-religion (specially Islam), radicalisation, intersectionality-diversity, gender issues, intercultural and interreligious dialogue
Email: Nadezda.broshuis@hu.nl
Jacquie Cheetham
StudentInterest areas: community and partipatory development, gender, culture, diversity, inclusion, equality, prevention of violence, community engagement strategies and practices – including creative approaches, capacity development, strengths based practice, developing models to facilitate user friendly evaluation and evidence based practice strategies for social and community services, governance and ethical practice.
Contact email: jacquiecheetham@live.com
Jock Cheetham
TitleCharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Identity or identities relates to my interest in tribalism, and group, social and moral psychology. I’m most interested in applying the psychology theories to the real world, so perhaps closer to political psychology.
Vagner Dos Santos
Senior Lecturer in Occupational TherapyCharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Health, Disability, Violence, Occupational Therapy, Vulnerabilities.
Email: vdossantos@csu.edu.au
Kristel Driessens
Head of Centre of Expertise ‘Strength based social work’ and Coordinator of Bind-Kracht at Karel de Grote University College Antwerp.Prof. in the Master Social Work
University of Antwerp
Interest areas: Poverty and social work, Experts by experience, qualitative research on strength based social work with people in poverty, evaluation and impact research, social inclusion, cooperative knowledge production
Email: Kristel.driessens@kdg.be
Hanke Drop
Researcher in three research groups: Innovative Social Services; Decent Work; and Normative Professionalization. Teaching in a Master programme for Community Development.Utrecht University of Applied Sciences
Interest areas: ethical actorship of social professionals (esp. related to work situations where discrimination and exclusion are experienced)
Contact: email: hanke.drop@hu.nl; telephone +31 6 14767706; LinkedIn https://nl.linkedin.com/in/hanke-drop-a749785
Rohena Duncombe
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Inequality in health and on inclusion
Dr Susan Flynn
Assistant Professor in Social Work, School of Social Work & Social PolicyTrinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin.
Interest areas: Disability (including a focus on mental health) and child protection, intersectionality theory and disability, intersectionality and social work.
Kasey Garrison
Senior LecturerCharles Sturt University
Interest areas: school libraries, youth services, Social justice and diversity issues in youth literature, ·Inquiry based learning approaches in schools.
Anitra Goriss-Hunter
TITLEUniversity
Interest areas: Gender equity and higher education
Rieke Hengelaar
PhD Candidate VumcLecturer Bachelor Occupational Therapy and European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Interest areas: I am working on my PhD on the topic of informal care and diversity. Intersectionality is the theroretical and empirical framework behind my research.
Contact: a.h.hengelaar@hva.nl
Suzanne C. Hopf
LecturerCharles Sturt University
Interest areas: The impact of intersecting social identities on: experience of communication difference/disability, access to speech pathology services (especially in un- and under-served international contexts), preferences for service delivery models for speech pathology practice, teamwork practices…and anything to do with health and education in Fiji.
Contact Details: shopf@csu.edu.au (email) +679 9707247 (Fiji phone)
Lisa M. Johnson
Associate Professor of Social Work and Interim DeanSalem State University
Interest areas: Child welfare; diversity, equity, and social justice; intersectionality; disability; race and ethnicity; and social work education and workforce development.
Contact: ljohnson2@salemstate.edu
Jeroen Knevel
Senior lecturer Social Work & Master Community Development, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences |Senior Lecturer Master Social Work, Masaryk University, Brno |
Research program manager Inclusion & Social Work, Centre of Expertise in Social Innovation |
PhD Researcher, Centre of Expertise in Social Innovation
Interest areas: Human rights theory, social inclusion, intellectual disability (theory and practice), human rights approaches in Social Work (Education), virtual café & intellectual disability, dignity & conceptualizing a language on equal worth of persons & social work practice, homo ludens & ludodidactics (play, playfulness, games, sports)
Branka Krivokapic-Skoko
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Multiculturalism and ethnic diversity in rural and regional Australia.
Will Letts
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Intersections of queer theory and disjunctions queer theory and science education
Cliff Lewis
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Intersectionality and LGBQTIA+ studies
Dr Chelsea Litchfield
Senior Lecturer and Associate HoS – Allied Health, Exercise and Sport ScienceCharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Gender, feminism, media and sport; gender-based abuse in social media spaces in sport; inclusion and equity in sport; gender and leadership in sport; application of intersectional theory to gender and sport.
Email: clitchfield@csu.edu.au; ph. 02 63384481
Patricia Logan
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: STEMM and gender issues
Colleen P. MacMillan
Senior Research Scientist; Inaugural Inclusion and Diversity Initiative LeadCSIRO Agriculture and Food
Interest areas: Intersectionality in STEM, inclusion of diversity, inclusive leadership; also a plant molecular biologist, in sustainable plant fibres and materials
Email: colleen.macmillan@csiro.au
Merryn McKinnon
Senior Lecturer, Centre for the Public Awareness of ScienceAustralian National University
Interest areas: science communication, gender, media, inclusion, intersectionality
Email: u3330976@anu.edu.au
Sophie Meredith
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences, Charles Sturt University; &Lecturer School of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Canberra
Interest areas: the history, politics and sociology of health; gender and sport/physical activity; women’s and LGBTQI+ Health, well-being and self-care; women’s sleeping problems.
Contact details: (02) 6338 4939; Email: smeredith@csu.edu.au; Alternative email: meredithsophie@hotmail.com
Libor Musil
TITLEUniversity
Interest areas: Disability and social inclusion
Sidsel Natland
Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy Service Organization andInnovation in Social Work and Child Protection
Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Interest areas: User participation, cultural studies, teacher professional development
Contact details: +47 67 23 81 19 Email: sidsel-therese.natland@oslomet.no
Megan Osmond
Diversity SpecialistOn a new adventure
Interest areas: Intersectionality, gender, Athena SWAN
Contact: meganjosmond@gmail.com
Holly Randell-Moon
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Feminist media studies, critical race,
and whiteness studies
Monique Shephard
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Youth literature and mental health
Elspeth Slayter
Professor of Social WorkSalem State University
Interest areas: Application of intersectionality theory to disability, child welfare & addictions services research Access to full text publications: https://works.bepress.com/elspeth-slayter/
Fredrik Velander
Lecturer in Social Work & Human ServicesCharles Sturt University
Interest areas: mental health, climate change, equity, healthy workplaces and communities
Contact: fvelander@csu.edu.au
Erina Mikus-Fletcher
Associate LecturerUniversity of Canberra
Interest areas: Missing Persons, Indigenous ontologies, social justice and intersectionality
Contact: erina.fletcher@canberra.edu.au
Carli Jean Kulmar
Lecturer in LawUniversity of Canberra
Interest areas: Neurodiversity, inclusion, disability, allyship
Contact: carli.kulmar@canberra.edu.au
Miloš Votoupal
TITLEUniversity
Interest areas: disability and social inclusion
Sabine Wardle
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Embracing cultural identity of burgeoning ethnic
groups in regional public libraries: A pilot project. Greening
Libraries, Preserving and promoting cultural practices in
palliative care through digital storytelling
Kate White
TITLEUniversity
Interest areas: Gender equity and higher education
Yvette Wittenberg
MScAmsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Interest areas: Sociology, caregiving, diversity, intersectionality, social inclusion, social work
Contact details: y.wittenberg@hva.nl / +316 211 56 085 / Twitter: @YWittenberg / you can also find me on LinkedIn
Denise Wood
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Equity, Inclusion and Curriculum
Elizabeth Wulff
TITLECharles Sturt University
Interest areas: Gender and identity politics, body/landscape
relations, alternative literature and philosophy
