Our researchers

Dr Heather Anderson

Dr Heather Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in journalism with the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. Her research focuses on community radio and alternative media, with a  specialised interest in prisoner radio and action research methodologies. Read more here

Professor Maxime Aubert

Maxime Aubert is an archaeologist and geochemist that specialises in the development and application of analytical techniques to key questions in human evolution such as the dating of rock art and hominin fossils.  Read more here

Dr Bridget Backhaus

Bridget Backhaus is a lecturer in journalism and communications. Her research explores the intersections of voice, listening, and social change in community media. Read more here

Professor Sarah Baker

Sarah Baker is Professor of Cultural Sociology researching the institutions of popular music heritage and the community heritage sector. She is currently completing research funded by the ARC which explores the contributions of volunteer communities and enthusiast expertise to the preservation of popular music artefacts. Read more here

Associate Professor Debbie Bargallie

Debbie is a descendent of the Kamilaroi and Wonnarua peoples of New South Wales. She is a Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow and a multidisciplinary researcher who covers the areas of sociology, social and political science, law, critical Indigenous studies and education with a focus on race and racism. Read more here

Dr Christine Barrett

Christine Feldman-Barrett is a Lecturer in Sociology. Her work examines the histories of youth and popular music. She is author of We Are the Mods and editor of Lost Histories of Youth Culture. Read more here

Dr Kaya Barry

Kaya Barry researches in mobilities, tourism, material cultures, and cultural geography. Kaya has recently been awarded a DECRA for her project 'Momentarily immobile: the futures of backpacking and seasonal farm workers'. Read more here

Professor Andy Bennett

Andy Bennett is professor of Cultural Sociology and is a leading international figure in sociological studies of popular music and youth culture. He has authored and edited more than 25 books on topics related to Popular Music and Youth Culture themes. Read more here

Professor Susan Best

Susan Best is professor of art history and theory, her research focuses on critical theory and modern and contemporary art. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Read more here

Dr Sophiaan Bin Subhan

Sophiaan Bin Subhan is a Learning and Teaching Consultant (Curriculum) in the Arts, Education and Law Group (AEL) and has taught across the Languages and Linguistics, and TESOL Programs at HLSS. His research interests concern the connectedness between language, culture, gender and identity in minority, minoritised and marginalised groups. Read more here

Dr Sally Breen

Sally Breen is a Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science and fiction editor of Griffith REVIEW. Her expertise is in Literature and Creative Writing. Read more here

Dr Helen Bromhead

Helen Bromhead is a linguist of meanings and messages. She studies how people talk about landscape, extreme weather, and the environment from a cultural perspective. In addition, she researches how to make messaging about disasters more effective for all: clear, accessible, and easier to interpret and translate. Read more here

Professor Bruce Buchan

Bruce Buchan's research expertise is in Western political thought and its history, International relations theory, Theories of violence, war and civilisation, punishment and policing, Early Australian colonial history and its global context. Read more here

Dr Elizabeth Burrows

Elizabeth Burrows is a Senior Lecturer and Convenor at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. Her research interests includes Public Sphere, Social movements, Indigenous print and Social media. Read more here

Dr Laini Burton

Dr Laini Burton is Senior Lecturer at the Queensland College of Art and Design where she is the Convenor of Higher Degree Research Programs. Her research interests centre on body politics, bio-art and design, contemporary art practise and criticism, fashion theory, performance and body/spatial relations. Read more here

Dr Clarissa Carden

Dr Clarissa Carden is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work explores the intersection of morality and social change, with a particular focus on the lives of young people. Her broad body of research includes scholarship on the history and present of education in Queensland, grief in virtual worlds, and historical juvenile justice. Read more here

Dr Karen Crawley

Dr Karen Crawley is a lecturer in the Griffith Law School. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney, with Honours in English Literature and in Law, and received her LLM and PhD from McGill University, where her postgraduate research was supported by the Canada Research Chair in Law and Discourse. Read more here

Associate Professor Stuart Cooke

Stuart Cooke is a Senior Lecturer in creative writing and literary studies, and an Associate Program Director (Gold Coast Campus) for the Bachelor of Arts. Stuart convenes courses in the Creative Writing, Indigenous Studies and Literary Studies majors. Read more here

Dr Mike Davis

Mike Davis is a Senior Lecturer in History at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. He currently teaches Australia and the World. Read more here

Professor Sidney Dekker

Sidney Dekker is a professor of Humanities and Social Science. He is the founder of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith and is a Chief Scientist at Art of Work. He is an international expert on human factors and safety. Read more here

Associate Professor Peter Denney

Peter Denney is a Senior Lecturer in History. His research expertise is in both the history and literature of Britain in the long eighteenth century. In this context, he has written about poverty, landscape, the senses, empire, radicalism and working-class poetry. Read more here

Professor Gerry Docherty

Gerry Docherty is Professor and Dean (Research) in the Arts, Education & Law academic group. A common strand through his research is a focus on quantitative acoustic analysis of aspects of speech to better understand the nature of phonetic variability and its implications for phonetic theory. Read more here

Dr Adis Duderija

Adis is Lecturer in Islam and Society at Griffith University. His research expertise are in contemporary Islam and western Muslims identity construction. Read more here

Dr Susana Eisenchlas

Susana Eisenchlas is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics/Applied Linguistics. Her expertise is in Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Gender and Language, Intercultural communication and International education. Read more here

Dr David Ellison

David Ellison is a senior lecturer in Literacy studies in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. Read more here

Dr Ben Fenton-Smith

Ben is a Senior Lecturer in linguistics and program director of the Bachelor of Social Science. His primary research interest is discourse studies, including critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, and rhetorical approaches to politics and public discourse. Read more here

Distinguished Professor Mark Finnane

Mark Finnane is ARC Laureate Fellow at Griffith University, Distinguished Professor of History in the School of Humanities, and a member of the Griffith Criminology Institute. Mark’s doctoral research on mental illness is the foundation for his later work on the history of policing, punishment and criminal justice. Read more here

Professor Elisabeth Findlay

Elisabeth is currently the Director, Queensland College of Art and Design (QCAD). Professor Findlay is an art historian specialising in portraiture, Australian colonial art and nineteenth century art. Read more here

Professor John Flood

John Flood is a sociologist and lawyer who is fascinated by the sociology of the professions, especially legal; the organisation and work of law firms and lawyers; globalisation; the impact of technology, and most recently the medicalisation of cannabis. Read more here

Professor Susan Forde

Susan Forde is Director of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research. Her work focuses on community and alternative media and she is interested in connections between protest, social movements and media. Read more here

Associate Professor Kerrie Foxwell-Norton

Kerrie Foxwell-Norton lectures in Journalism, Media and Communication. Her research interests focus upon environmental communication, with a special interest in coastal and marine communities and their environments in Australia and the Asia Pacific. Read more here

Professor Simone Fullagar

Simone Fullagar, FAcSS, is Professor of Sport Management (gender equity in sport). As an interdisciplinary sociologist Simone’s research explores issues related to gender inequality in sport and physical cultures, as well as embodied health and mental health, using post qualitative, feminist new materialist approaches. Read more here

Associate Professor Margaret Gibson

Dr Margaret Gibson is a cultural sociologist at Griffith University who researches physical and digital practices, objects at rituals of commemorative culture, mourning and memorialisation. Read more here

Professor Cliff Goddard

Cliff Goddard is a Professor of Linguists at Griffith University, working at the intersection between language, meaning and culture. Read more here

Dr Susan Grantham

Susan Grantham is an experienced media, marketing and public relations scholar and professional with a demonstrated history of working in the government. She is a strong operations professional with an academic research interest in reputation management, crisis management, media law and social media, particularly TikTok and its uses in a professional setting. Read more here

Dr Ben Green

Dr Ben Green is a Griffith University Postdoctoral Fellow in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research where he is studying crisis and reinvention in Australia's live music sector. Ben is a cultural sociologist with interests in popular music and youth studies. Read more here

Dr Linda Hassall

Linda Hassall is a Senior Lecturer and member of the Contemporary Performance and Applied Theatre Department at Griffith University. Her research and writing interests include themes of inheritance of landscape from a white female perspective. Read more here

Dr Danielle Heinrichs

Danielle H. Heinrichs is a Lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Studies. Her research lies at the intersection of multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language and EAL/D education and health crisis communication. Read more here

Dr Amanda Howell

Amanda Howell teaches screen studies in the School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences. She is also the Higher Degree Research Program Director for the Arts, Education, and Law group. Her academic publications focus on gender, genre, and screen aesthetics. Read more here

Dr Jillian Huntley

Dr Jillian Huntley is an archaeological scientist based in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and Associate of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution. She investigates the role of climate change in cultural evolution. Read more here

Dr Andrea Jalandoni

Andrea is an archaeologist focused on rock art recording, enhancement, and analysis. Her research interests include combining remote sensing with photogrammetry for developing cost-effective solutions for rock art studies. She works with local communities in the Philippines, Micronesia, and Australia. Read more here

Dr Ella Jeffrey

Ella Jeffery is an award-winning poet, editor and academic. Her research explores literary representations of housing crises, the rental market, home renovation culture, and changing practices of dwelling in contemporary Australia. She is the recipient of a 2022 Australia Council Individuals Grant, a 2021 Queensland Writers Fellowship and the Mick Dark Fellowship for Environmental Writing, and is the winner of a 2019 Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. Read more here

Dr Guido Carim Junior

Guido Carim Junior is a senior lecturer in Aviation in the School of Engineering and Built Environment. Guido is an early career safety researcher at Griffith University. Read more here

Dr Eun-Ji Amy Kim

Eun-Ji Amy Kim is a Lecturer in Science Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Queensland. During her academic career, Amy has undertaken contracted research projects awarded by granting bodies in Canada, including the First Nations Education Council, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada. Read more here

Professor Nigel Krauth

Nigel Krauth is a Professor and Head of the Creative Writing program. His research interests lie in Australian Literature, Creative Writing, Children's Literature and South Pacific Literatures. Read more here

Dr Chari Larsson

Chari lectures on modern and contemporary art at Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University. Her research focuses on theories of images and representation. Read more here

Professor Chris Lee

Chris’s research investigates the social purchase of settler-colonial mythologies. His new book with Lara Lamb (USQ) is Moving Pictures (Palgrave McMillan 2022) and it explores the social, cultural, ethical, and political issues involved in the exchange of historical photographs and film with peoples in the Gulf region of Papua New Guinea. Read more here

Dr Monique Lewis

Monique is a Lecturer with an academic background in sociology and media studies, and a professional background in public relations and media communication practice. Her research spans across media, health & medicine, and risk sociologies. Read more here

Mr Duncan McConnell

Duncan is a consultant and part-time paramedic who utilises over 23 years of experience within pre-hospital care, management, GLNG mining and ICT industries to achieve innovation, transformational change and ongoing professional development that achieves a clear, practical and client focused approach. Currently he is working at Griffith University as a Senior Lecturer and is the Foundational Director of Paramedicine in the School of Medicine and Dentistry. Read more here

Associate Professor Robert Mason

Robert is a Senior Lecturer in Migration and Security Studies. He is also Convenor of Higher Degrees by Research in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. His research focuses on how societies experience and discuss historical and contemporary violence through the study of memory and heritage. Read more here

Dr Tim Maloney

Tim is a research fellow working on the archaeology of Borneo, under the project: The unknown ‘Ice Age’ artists of Borneo – (FT170100025). Tim's archaeological research interests and skills are primarily stone tool analyses and how ancient tool variability can be used to model and test lifeways of people throughout human evolution and into the recent past. Read more here

Dr Troy Meston

Troy Meston is a Gamilleroi lecturer in the final stages of his PhD. His work investigates how a techno/cultural interface might become a vital tool for supporting Indigenous learners in future Australian classrooms. Read more here

Professor Julian Meyrick

Julian Meyrick is a theatre historian and cultural policy analyst, as well as an award-winning theatre director. Professor Meyrick has published widely on the Australian theatre, culture, and cultural policy. Read more here

Dr Natalie Osbourne

Natalie is a Lecturer in the School of Environment at Griffith University, teaching and researching in the areas of urban and environmental planning and critical human geography. Read more here

Dr Adele Pavlidis

Adele Pavlidis is an interdisciplinary sociologist and leading Australian sports feminist. She has recently completed an ARC DECRA project on women and contact sport in Australia. She is now a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences and has published two books and numerous articles on gender and sport. Read more here

Professor Mark Pearson

Mark Pearson is Professor of Journalism and Social Media. His fields of expertise are media and social media law and regulation, journalism ethics, media freedom and mindful journalism. Read more here

Dr Kirstie Petrou

Kirstie Petrou is a human geographer with experience working across the academic and international development sectors. Kirstie’s research interests include urbanisation, migration, gender and development in the Pacific. Her current research focuses on the gendered and social impacts of participation in Australia’s Pacific labour mobility schemes. Read more here

Professor Barbara Pini

Barbara Pini is a professor in the School of Humanities at Griffith University. Her research has largely been in the field of rural studies with work on gender and rurality, sexuality and rurality, and disability and rurality. Read more here

Associate Professor Drew Rae

Drew Rae is Associate Editor of the journal “Safety Science”, and Manager of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University. Drew’s research brings a critical cross-disciplinary approach the examination of myths, rituals and bad habits that surround safety practice. Read more here

Professor Halim Rane

Halim Rane is an Professor of Islamic-West relations whose research focuses on contemporary Islamic thought and Muslim communities. Read more here

Dr Samantha Rarrick

Samantha Rarrick is a linguist and lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Science. Her research aims to document and preserve endangered spoken and signed languages. Currently, she is working with two endangered languages of the Kere community (Papua New Guinea): Kere and Sinasina Sign Language. Read more here

Professor Julie Robert

Julie Robert is a scholar of French and French-Canadian literature and culture and the medical humanities. Her work investigates the social and cultural uses of private bodies for public ends, notably in philanthropic, public health and nation-building contexts. More recently she has been researching many facets of alcohol, drinking and abstinence cultures. Read more here

Dr Claire Rodway

Claire Rodway has taught in tertiary education for over 20 years, having previously worked in the publishing industry in the UK. She has postgraduate qualifications in Applied Linguistics, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and TESOL. Claires research areas are in writing transfer, metadiscourse analysis, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis and cultural linguistics. Read more here

Dr Shannon Sandford

Dr Shannon Sandford is a Lecturer in Literary Studies with expertise in life writing, comics/graphic narratives as well as digital and visual cultures. Read more here

Dr Yorick Smaal

Yorick Smaal is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. His research interests are sex and gender, crime and punishment, war and society. Read more here

Professor Tanya Smith

Tanya Smith is a Professor researching in the evolution and development of the human dentition. She works to refine knowledge of the poorly understood processes of dental development and growth and clarify how dental tissues may resolve taxonomic, phylogenetic, and developmental questions about great apes and humans. She is the recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship, 2021-2024. Read more here

Dr Samid Suliman

Samid Suliman is a lecturer in Migration and Security in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. His expertise is in Globalisation and Culture, Political Science, Climate Change and Postcolonial Studies. Read more here

Distinguished Professor Paul Taçon

Paul Taçon is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (2016-2021), Chair in Rock Art Research and Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology. He also directs Griffith University’s Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit and leads the Heritage & Wellbeing research theme in the GCSCR. Read more here

Professor Sue Trevaskes

Sue Trevaskes is Deputy Head of School (Research) in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science and Deputy Director of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research. She researches in the area of Chinese criminal justice, governance and law. Read more here

Dr Kasun Ubayasiri

Kasun Ubayasiri is a lecturer in journalism and a former Sri Lankan journalist. His research focuses on the role of news media in armed conflict; media coverage of human rights issues; media censorship and its impact on democratic accountability. Read more here

Dr Ian Walkinshaw

Ian Walkinshaw has taught in the fields of English language teaching and applied linguistics since 1994 in a variety of roles in New Zealand, Japan, Vietnam, the UK, and now Australia. Ian's research interests are pragmatics, TESOL, English as a lingua franca, and English as a medium of instruction at Asia-Pacific universities. Read more here

Professor Lynley Wallis

Lynley Wallis is an Australian archaeologist with more than twenty-five years experience. She is a past co-editor of the journal Australian Archaeology and is on the Editorial Board of Queensland Archaeological Research. Lynley has longstanding interests in the archaeology of northern Australia, palaeoenvironments, and Aboriginal cultural heritage management, and a commitment to undertaking collaborative research partnerships with communities. Read more here

Associate Professor Marcus Waters

Marcus Waters is a lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science. He teaches Youth and Society, Writing for Performance and Screenwriting. Read more here

Dr Amy Way

Amy Way is a Lecturer in Modern History with expertise in Australian history, Aboriginal history, and intellectual history. She specialises in the history of human antiquity and deep time in Australia, especially its conceptualisation within geology, archaeology, anthropology and public discourse. Read more here

Associate Professor Paul Williams

Dr Paul Williams is a Senior Lecturer in politics and journalism at Griffith University's School of Humanities, with a special research interest in Australian federal and state elections and voter behaviour. Read more here