‘By community, for community’ First Nations knowledge – research outlines

Diasporic dreaming: Documenting Indigenous and migrant struggles for community, belonging, and wellbeing in Australia, US, and Latin America. (RFO-25097)

Our team engages with the lived experiences of people and their communities, navigating the complexities of dispersal, migration, colonisation, and systemic marginalisation. 

Through collaborative qualitative, multimodal, and creative methodologies, we explore how communities resist, re-signify, and survive oppressive structures, creating generative healing spaces, and fostering receptive wellbeing promoting social environments (in neighbourhood houses, schools, etc). 

Drawing on Aboriginal Studies, Social and Community Psychology, and Public Health, this focus speaks directly to contemporary challenges in settler-colonial nations like Australia, and there is a commitment to epistemic justice that amplifies knowledge often excluded, marginalised, and silenced in addressing issues of exclusion, racism, and inequity. 

We seek critical community-minded researchers to build on this research by documenting and exploring in local/global contexts:

• how Indigenous, and immigrant community-led action and settings promote solidarities for liberation, structural equity, and wellbeing
• how migrant communities mobilise memory, history, and culture to foster intercultural awareness, postive identities, and solidarity.

Supervisors: Professor Christopher Sonn, Professor Michelle Fine, Dr Amy Quayle, Ms Roshani Jayawardana
Institute: Institute for Health & Sport              
Course Code: UPAD
Field of Research (FoR) Code: 5205 Social and personality psychology

To indicate your interest and discuss your suitability, please contact: Professor Christopher Sonn,  [email protected]