Dr. Tamara Borovica
Details
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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tamara.borovica@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-7356-9236
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr. Tamara Borovica is Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow and creative artist at RMIT University’s Social Equity Research Centre. Her work focuses on the sociology of emotion and health, particularly in the context of trauma and resilience. Using participatory and arts-based methods, she explores how emotions and lived experiences, including the collective ones, shape mental health. Tamara is an emerging leader in critical mental health research, continuously pushing the boundaries of how creative practice and arts can be utilised for social change. Her work addresses the emotional dimensions of mental health and informs training strategies for health organisations, emphasising empathy, connection, and social equity.
She is an incoming co-director of HealthTalk Australia, co-convenor of HASH Arts and Creative Practice for Wellbeing thematic group and member of Social Equity Research Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT.
Key activities
Qualitative Research.
Ethnographic Research
Psycho-Social Research and Design
Creative Practice and Research
Critical Mental Health
Degrees
- Ph.D, Education
- University of Melbourne
- Australia
- 2015 – 2019
Supervisor projects
- Grief and social media: Understanding Migrant Womens Grieving Practices on Facebook and Instagram
- 5 Feb 2024
- Ecological Grief, Mobile Media and the situation of Social Change
- 5 Feb 2024
Teaching interests
Dr. Borovica has taught in undergraduate and postgraduate Sociology and Education programs at University of Novi Sad (Serbia) and The University of Melbourne (Australia).
Research interests
Tamara's work focuses on the sociology of emotion and health, particularly in the context of trauma and resilience. Using participatory and arts-based methods, she explores how emotions and lived experiences, including the collective ones, shape mental health.
Tamara's research interests include: mental health and wellbeing, lived experience, emotion and affect, grief, gender, youth, creative practice and creative forms of resilience.
