Caroline Lenette (she/her) is Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences and Deputy Director of the Big Anxiety Research Centre. She is a leading interdisciplinary researcher focussing on participatory methods and social justice informed research especially with refugee-background co-researchers. Her scholarship centres on how co-research through creative and artistic means can influence decision-makers and policymaking towards meaningful change. Caroline explores how ethics in research practice is conceptualised in participatory research. She has a passion for arts-health research. Caroline 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).

Christy Newman (they/them) is Professor at the UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health as well as Acting Deputy Dean and Associate Dean Engagement and Impact for UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture. They are a queer/bi+ and non-binary person, and use the pronouns they/them.

Christy is a qualitative social researcher of health, sexuality, and gender, with a background in sociology, communications and cultural studies. They have worked in partnership with communities, governments, and clinical services for almost 20 years to understand the social dimensions of bloodborne viruses, sexual and reproductive health, and queer, bi+ and trans health and wellbeing, including their intersections with the related fields of mental health, Aboriginal health, harm reduction, disability, cancer prevention, violence prevention, adolescent health, family wellbeing, and gender and sexuality studies.

Tierney Marey is completing her PhD in the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney. She uses creative, feminist, and queer methods and theories to disrupt normative approaches to knowledge creation and sharing.

Tierney’s background as a specialist in equity, diversity, and inclusion informs both her research and professional work.

Tierney currently manages the Student Experience team for the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture at UNSW Sydney. She was selected as one of Australia’s ‘30 Under 30’ LGBTIQA+ leaders with Out for Australia. In 2021, her team was the recipient of the UNSW ADA Dean’s Inclusion Award in 2021. Tierney is a graduate of Duke University through the global Robertson Scholars Leadership Program.