Katherine Thompson
Supervisors: Christy Newman, Ash Watson, Bridget Haire
Katherine Thompson (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Social Research in Health, and a research assistant and sessional academic in the School of Education at UNSW Sydney (Bedegal Country). She is the recipient of the inaugural Rainbow Families PhD Top-Up Scholarship at UNSW. Her doctoral research explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in forming families with children, utilising queer and creative methodologies to understand the lived experiences involved and the implications for more inclusive health and social policy. She holds a B.A. in English from Duke University and an M.A. in Education from Wake Forest University, and has worked at UNSW for the past decade in the fields of Indigenous education, social justice education, critical pedagogy and anti-racism.
- Research area
- Research outputs
- LGBTQ+ families
- Social and family imaginaries
- Queer theory
- Creative research methods
- Amazan, R., Thompson, K., Weuffen, S., & Lowe, K. (2026). ‘A journey of peeling back’: examining the impact of pedagogical narratives to support teaching of First Nations content. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2025.2603588
- Amazan, R., Thompson, K., Ryan, A.M., & Grant, I. (2026). ‘Immersion’ at the cultural interface: How one university-school-community partnership approaches decolonising teacher education. International Journal of Educational Research, 136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2025.102867
- Stacey, M., Amazan, R., Baker, S., Thompson, K., McManus, R., & Mashayekh, S. (2025). Experiences of discomfort in social justice education with pre-service teachers: Understanding and responding to student resistance. Critical Studies in Education, 66(4), 535–553. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2025.2550362
- Lowe, K., Golledge, C., Poulton, P., & Thompson, K. (2025). Curriculum as policy deception: A critical analysis of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge inclusion in the Australian Curriculum. The Australian Educational Researcher, 52, 2561-2582. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00824-6
- Thompson, K., Lowe, K., Vass, G., & Woods, A. (2025). “Sometimes perception will suffice”: Indigenous Knowledges and the Australian Curriculum. Curriculum Inquiry, 1–23.