Keynote Speaker

Caroline is Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences and Deputy Director of the Big Anxiety Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is a leading interdisciplinary researcher focusing on participatory methods and social justice informed research especially with refugee-background co-researchers. Her scholarship centres on how ethical co-research through creative means can influence decision-makers towards meaningful change. Caroline is interested in sociocultural approaches to suicide based on refugee perspectives, an area of research in critical suicide studies. She is the author of Arts-based methods in refugee research: Creating sanctuary (2019, Springer) and Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization (Oxford University Press, 2022), and co-editor of Disrupting the Academy with Lived Experience-Led Knowledge (Bristol University Press, 2024). Her edited book, ‘Anti-Colonial Research Praxis: Methods for Knowledge Justice’ will be published in 2025 with Manchester University Press. Caroline is the creator of the Anti-Colonial Research Library.