Deua Stojanovska

Deua is a Family Carer Academic.  She brings a background as an Anthropologist, and Mental Helath Family Carer Researcher. Deua is primarily engaged in qualitative research and participatory methodologies, including co-design and decolinasing methods which focus on working collaboratively with people with lived experience.

Deua’s recent work has focused on mental health family carer rights and co-leading work on the Family Carer Lived Experience Workforce in Victoria. She has previously held positions at ANU and La Trobe University, teaching qualitative and participatory research methods and working projects related to Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, and public health messaging within culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Deua is passionate about issues of accessibility, relationality, and structural and epistemic marginality.

In her work, Deua explores how organisational practices, government policies, and resourcing shape whole families’ experiences of wellbeing.