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Dr. Reshmi Roy

Scholarly Teaching Fellow, Humanities and Social Sciences and Education

Pathways, Humanities and Social Sciences

Section/Portfolio:

Academic Operations - IEAC

Location:

Berwick Campus, Online

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Biography

Dr Reshmi Roy is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow within the Institute of Education, Arts, and Community at Federation University. Reshmi obtained her PhD (English and Cultural Studies, 2005) from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and is currently pursuing a second PhD (by publication) in the field of Inclusive Education at Deakin University. Her current research looks at experiences of migrant women of colour within academia. Reshmi also holds a Masters in Gender Studies as well another in Comparative Literature, along with a Diploma in Journalism. Reshmi’s career in education encompasses research, teaching and industry engagement across the tertiary education, school, and non-profit sectors. As an interdisciplinary social scientist, Reshmi’s research interests meet at the intersection of race and gender in education, pedagogy and innovative research methodologies.

Reshmi publishes in high impact journals including International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Emotion, Space and Society, Women’s Studies International Forum, Diaspora Studies among others. She is an invited reviewer for reputed journals such as Social Identities, International Migration Review, Qualitative Research Journal, and Journal of Gender Studies and the co-editor of Asian Women, Identity and Migration Experiences of Transnational Women of Indian Origin/Heritage (Routledge UK, 2020/21).

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=Kb9wisAAAAAJ&hl=en

Antecedents of short-term international mobility programs: a systematic review and agenda for future research

“Do our diversities count?” Collaborative reflections on dwelling in academe’s intersectional shadowlands

Gendered Dimensions of Migration and Conviviality: A Virtual Space for Autoethnographic Explorations of Finding Home

“Intersectional perspectives and youthful trauma”: (Re)considering Gauri in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

Lets catch up at Shivaji Park: emotively conversing on connecting and un/belonging through a public space

Hope theory as resistance: narratives of South Asian scholars in Australian academia

LOST CONVERSATIONS: The Negotiations and Violations of Emotion Cultures Embedded in Migrant Journeys

Precarious inclusion: A collaborative account of casualisation and teaching leadership challenges at the post-pandemic university

Transnational women academics of colour enacting ‘pedagogy of discomfort’: positionality against a ‘pedagogy of rupture’

A trio of teacher education voices: developing professional relationships through co-caring and belonging during the pandemic

Transnational daughters in Australia: Caring remotely for ageing parents during COVID 19

‘A Neo-colonial Education’: Querying its Role in Immigrant Identity, Inclusion and Empowerment

Conclusion: “Gendered subjective multivocality” and the emotional dynamics within journeys of hopes and fears

  • Book Chapters

Exploring Students' Feelings of Place

Introduction: Journeys of hope and fear

  • Book Chapters

“Listen and you’ll hear”: Autoethnography and educational desire

  • Book Chapters

‘Walk like a Chameleon’: Gendered diasporic identities and settlement experiences

An Infinity of Traces: Suneeta Peres da Costa in Conversation with Reshmi Lahiri-Roy

  • Journals

(Re)negotiating transnational identities: Notions of ‘home’ and ‘distanced intimacies’

Skilled Migrants and Negotiations: New Identities, Belonging, Home and Settlement

Negotiated voices: Reflections on educational experiences and identity by two transnational migrant women

The Armenian diaspora’s Calcutta connection

The role of VET in the (dis)placing of migrants’ skills in Australia

The Urban Hindu Arranged Marriage in Contemporary Indian Society

  • Book Chapters

Uneasy alliances: Traditional dynamics in women's relationships in urban Hindu society (1910-2010)

"Boundary lines": Education, marriage and hegemony in Chitra Divakaruni's sister of my heart

  • Journals

A comparative study of Indian entrepreneurs in Christchurch, New Zealand, and Melbourne, Australia

World's smallest business community: The Parsis of India

Fractured relationships: Dynamics in mother-daughter relations in urban India (1900-2000)

The story of Lijjat: Women's entrepreneurship and empowerment in India

Women and Marriage in Bollywood and Diasporic Cinema: Impact of Indian Cinema on the Role of Women and Marriage in Urban India