Faculty

She is currently working at the University of Sydney Department of Psychiatry as a statistics consultant.  Her main research interests are in developmental cognitive psychology, specifically understanding how metamemory develops across early school years.

She has undertaken research at the University of Western Sydney, and has a number of publications in the field.  She is also the author of fiction.

He was the 2011 'Folk Fellow' at the National Library of Australia where he researched the music of Dougie Young and other Indigenous song writers from western New South Wales and formed a band, with Young's grandson, to perform these songs.  Toby is currently working on an ARC-funded project on the history of tourism in Australia and, after many years playing in rock band Youth Group, he has recently released a solo album called 'Love's Shadow.'

After graduating with Arts (English literature) and Law degrees from UNSW, Sacha was hired as a writer by The Sydney Morning Herald, where his specialties included film, music and TV, and also parenthood, education and philosophy.  He has published two books: Australian Bushrangers - The Romance of Robbery and From Here to Paternity - A User's Manual for Early Fatherhood.  He lives in Sydney with his wife and two kids, and, whenever possible, immerses himself in the Pacific Ocean.

Such international outlets include the South China Morning Post, UK Overseas, Whole Life Times in the US and South Africa's Business Day.  Her writing specialties include environment, science, health and technology and she is also a part-time academic who has taught journalism over the last decade at several Australian universities: University of Technology, Sydney; University of NSW and Southern Cross University, Lismore.

She has taught at several Australian universities including University of New South Wales and University of Western Sydney.  She has also worked as an environmental pollution analyst.  Seema currently teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney and at NYU Sydney.  She has a number of publications to her credit.  Presently she is working on "Design and synthesis of light-harvesting ruthenium-based dyes" and "Synthesis and characterization of a new photo switchable anthracene compound, (S-(2-anthrylmethyl)ethanethioate)" at University of Technology, Sydney.  Seema is an avid traveler and is multilingual.  She speaks a variety of languages including German.

More broadly, she is interested in the production of Aboriginalities, and in the integral role of media in these intercultural processes.  Sabra received a B.A. in Sociology at Georgetown University, and an M.A. in Australian Studies (via a Fulbright fellowship); she also has held internships at the Smithsonian (National Museum of Natural History and Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage) and the Field Museum of Natural History.  She thinks of both Washington, DC and Melbourne, Australia as home.

Her research interests include Aboriginality as an unstable identity category, representations of Aboriginality, and Aboriginal-white progressive relations.  As well as publishing scholarly work related to the above, Eve is a cultural critic and writer of literary non-fiction, whose work has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, NewMatilda.com and Griffith REVIEW.

She was the recipient of the Australian Society of Authors Mentorship award when studying for her B.A. Communications (University of Technology Sydney) and her Bachelor of Arts Honours (Class 1) in Gender & Cultural Studies (University of Sydney), and at 21 was shortlisted for the 2006 Australian Vogel award.  After graduating, Anna traveled in the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom, before returning to Australia where she worked as an advertising copywriter at The Sydney Morning Herald.  She obtained a University of New South Wales (UNSW) Post-Graduate scholarship to undertake the research for a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) which she is currently completing.  Anna tutors and gives occasional lectures in Creative Writing at UNSW.  In 2010 she was the convenor of the UNSW humanities postgraduate symposium 'Metamorphoses: Transformations, Transgressions', and has presented at conferences and writers' festivals around Australia.  Her current project, a historical novel set in 1940s Sydney titled The Quiet Noise, was the recipient of a Marrickville Council Arts Development Grant.  Her Ph.D. thesis explores a recuperation of Roland Barthes' erotics of reading after Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick. 

Her research focuses on spider and insect models, particularly orb-web spiders.  She uses an integrative approach, incorporating functional and mechanistic studies of behavior, phylogenetic history, quantitative genetics and developmental morphology.  Her research has been published in a range of journals including Behavioral Ecology and Animal Behavior.