2nd Feminist New Materialisms Special Interest Group (FNM SIG) Meeting

As regular readers of this blog know, I am undertaking my bicycle PhD with Griffith University, School of Professional Studies. I am using Feminist New Materialisms (FNM) to explore how bicycles enable or constrain rural African girls’ access to education. I need to better understand FNM (which is essentially Quantum Physics applied to Social Science/Education). …

We established a Feminist New Materialisms Special Interest Group at Griffith Uni

The theoretical framing I am using for my bicycle-education PhD is feminist New Materialisms (fNM). Actually, it is more than just a philosophical perspective and as a doctoral researcher, I have to understand this ethico-onto-epistemological approach super well in order to apply it to my PhD. I am lucky that my supervisor Dr Sherilyn Lennon …

New Materialism SIG: My bicycles-for-education PhD fieldwork presentation

Note: the first 2020 NM SIG gathering was held before COVID-19 social distancing and workplace lockdown came into effect – hence us meeting in person. As many of you know, I am the co-convenor of a New Materialism Special Interest Group (SIG) at Griffith’s Institute for Educational Research (GIER). Each month a group of HDR …

The New Materialist’s Garden – PhD Study Retreat

Lately, I’ve been craving extra time and space to explore New Materialist more generatively, At uni, the time is limited and often, more senior academics take-over theory session. .. and the HDRers still left with answers. So instead of relying on supervisors, I decided to invite five trusted New Materialist and Posthumanist PhD friends for …

A feminist initiative towards reading with reciprocity

Earlier this year, I was invited by The Ediths to participate in a new project they are undertaking called: A feminist initiative towards reading with reciprocity.  The Ediths are a feminist interdisciplinary research collective based out of Edith Cohen University (WA, AUS). I’ve been an active member of The Edith’s for over a year now as we have crossover …

GAET

This page is a showcase of my teaching and learning approaches in support of my 2021 Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching (GAET) – Sessional Academic Staff application. *Update for the reader: I was successful in this application! I have been awarded GAET 2021 Sessional Teacher of the Year Award! I attend the official ceremony …

An experiment in don’t write of it: Posthuman research without punctuation

If you are visiting this blog for the first time – Hello! And a very warm welcome back to the regular reader. A warning before diving in here: this post is a break from my usual content that celebrates the myriad ways bicycles create positive social and environmental change. My current bicycles-for-education research puts to …

ICQI 2021 Accepted! Velo-onto-epistemology: Becoming(s)-with Bicycles, Gender, Education and Research

ICQI 2021: Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry ICQI…..you know….only the largest ……. and most respected qualitative research conference IN THE WORLD! … and with all the biggest names! My PhD supervisor said I should consider submitting an abstract for this conference. Doing so is a VERY BIG DEAL – this congress is the pinnacle in my …

Geography and Collective Memories through Art Workshop

Recently, I attended a very unique opportunity: a 4-part virtual Geography, Art and Memory Workshop co-convened by Griffith’s Centre for Social and Cultural Research Dr Laura Rodriguez Castro, Dr Diti Bhattacharya, Dr Kaya Barry and Prof. Barabra Pini. As a New Materialisms community bike researcher working in Sierra Leone, my work is embedded with post(de)coloniality, …