Professor Catherine Gomes
Details
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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catherine.gomes@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Catherine Gomes is a Professor in RMIT's School of Media and Communication. Catherine is an ethnographer who is internationally known for her work in three interrelated areas:
a) communication, culture and identity
b) international student wellbeing
c) transient migrant(ions)
Catherine is a specialist on the Asia-Pacific with Australia and Singapore being significant fieldwork sites. Her current work on Singapore covers food heritage and platform economies. Catherine has also written about gender and audience reception in Chinese cinemas, and multiculturalism in Singapore cinema.
Catherine is a recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher (DECRA) in 2013-2016. She is the 2021 recipient of the A Noam Chomsky Global Connections Shining Star Research Achievement Award for her book Parallel Societies of International Students in Australia: Connections, Connections and Disconnections (Routledge, 2022).
Catherine has held Visiting Research Fellowships at the Singapore Management University, Nanyang Technological University and Universiti Brunei Darussalam. She has received funding from the Australian Research Council, Australian Digital Health Agency, Study Melbourne, National Foundation for Australia-China Relations (NFACR), Universities Australia, Nanyang Technological University ( CoHASS Incentive Grant Scheme), Singapore's Ministry of Education AcRF Tier 1 grant), just to name a few.
Industry Experience:
Professional interests-
Co-Convener, Mobilities, Migrations and Diverse Communities research group
National Scientific Convener and Member, ISANA: International Education Association
Member, National Academy of International Education, Institute of International Education (New York)
Member, International Education Association of Australia
International Affiliate, International and Comparative Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Founding Editor, Migration, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies (Amsterdam University Press)
-Journal contributions
(Founding Editor) Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration
(Advisory and Editorial boards) Journal of Sociology, Journal of International Students, International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education
-Past
Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal, University of Manchester
Aedificamus: The Queen's Journal, Queen's College, University of Melbourne
Advisory boards
Meld Magazine
International Education Task Force, Morgan State University
Study Abroad and International Students SIG, Comparative & International Education Society
-Accomplishments / achievements / awards
Dean's Award for Engagement and Impact (2022)
A. Noam Chomsky Global Connections Shining Star Research Achievement Award (2021)
Visiting Professor, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (2020)
Visiting CLASS Scholar (Nanyang Technological University, 2018)
Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow, 2013-2016
Visiting Research Fellow (Singapore Management University)
RMIT Teaching Award for teaching a diverse student body, 2012
College of Design and Social Context Teaching Excellence Award for Teaching Large Classes, 2011
Research fields
- 470211 Migrant cultural studies
- 47 Language, communication and culture
Academic positions
- Professor
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2023 – Present
Supervisor projects
- International students facing financial stress: Expectations, Realities and Coping Strategies
- 1 Feb 2024
- Grief and social media: Understanding Migrant Womens Grieving Practices on Facebook and Instagram
- 27 Mar 2023
- Branding Singapore from the bottom up: Unifying a community through participatory design
- 23 Nov 2021
- Towards Developing an Effective Virtual Reality Instructional Tool for Secondary Students Learning English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia
- 24 Nov 2020
- Encouraging Play Experience Expansion with Machine-Learning-Based Recommendation Systems: User-Experience Design considerations in the use of Recommendation System
- 11 Nov 2020
- A Best Practice Framework: The Processes of Repositioning Destination Brands for Cities Impacted by a Natural Disaster
- 30 Apr 2020
- The Rise of Indonesia’s Religious Influencers: Between Strategic Content, Visual Authority, and Active Audience.
- 10 Sep 2019
- Surfing the Korean Wave: K-pop Fan Practices in Vietnam
- 26 Aug 2019
- Women’s Political Underrepresentation in Ghana: A Study of the 2020 Ghanaian Elections
- 3 Dec 2018
- Post-Study Work Rights: An Analysis of Government Policy in Major Destination Countries
- 21 Mar 2018
- Publishing Practice(s) of Academics from Group of Eight Universities in Australia
- 10 Sep 2015
Teaching interests
Catherine also teaches into the Asian Media and Culture stream. Her courses have the following themes: Migration, Mobility, International students, Multiculturalism, Society and culture in Asia particularly Singapore, Identity, Race and racism, Memory, Media and social media
Research interests
Migration and Mobilities, Migrant Cultural Studies, Communication and Media Studies, International Education
Catherine's research has appeared in numerous journals (e.g., Population, Space and Place, Higher Education Research & Development, Current Sociology, Journal of Youth Studies, Migration Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of International Students, Review of Policy Research, Asian Ethnicity).
Her recent books include:
International Student Visibility: Living and Participating in Community (Routledge, 2024)
Parallel Societies of International Students: Connections, Disconnections and a Global Pandemic (Routledge, 2022)
Digital Experiences of International Students: Challenging Assumptions and Rethinking Engagement (with Shanton Chang, Routledge, 2021)
Religion, Hypermobility and Digital Media in Global Asia: Faith, Flows and Fellowship (with Lily Kong and Orlando Woods, Amsterdam University Press, 2021)
Siloed Diversity: Transnational Migration, Digital Media and Social Networks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific: Transformative Experiences in the Age of Digital Media (with Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)
Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity: Media and Migration in Australia and Singapore (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
International student connectedness and identity: transnational perspectives (with Ly Thi Tran, Springer, 2017)
The Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility: The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media (Anthem Press, 2016)
Quality Assurance in Asia-Pacific Universities Implementing Massification in Higher Education (with Deane E. Neubauer, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Multiculturalism through the Lens: A Guide to Ethnic and Migrant Anxieties in Singapore (Ethos Books, 2015).
