LGBTIQA+ Research Impact Network

The LGBTIQA+ Research Impact Network connects researchers who identify as LGBTIQA+ and/or whose research is connected to LGBTIQA+ communities. The Network seeks to communicate research findings to the broader public to affect social change for LGBTIQA+ communities in Australia and beyond.

The LGBTIQA+ Research Network brings together scholars who identify as and/or who research with LGBTIQA+ communities, peoples, and places. The Network is intentionally interdisciplinary, working across education, creative practice, social sciences, health, and related disciplines.

The Network’s focus is:

  • To examine, understand, and improve LGBTIQA+ lives and experiences through interdisciplinary research;
  • To enrich and diversify queer research methodologies and perspectives;
  • To encourage collaboration between researchers and partner organisations to improve cross-disciplinary engagement and knowledge-sharing;
  • To communicate research findings from Network members to broad publics to enhance the lived experiences of LGBTIQA+ people.

Themes

The following themes reflect areas of expertise across the network.

LGBTIQA+ health and wellbeing

Focuses on addressing pressing LGBTIQA+ health concerns, including gender affirming care, mental health, aged care, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQA+ health.

Queer social futures

Embraces transdisciplinary collaborations to increase understanding of the lived experience and challenges faced by LGBTIQ+ peoples, including queering theories, methodologies and methods, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander queer futures, and schooling, gender and sexuality.

Queer advocacies

Engages research-informed advocacy to reform discriminatory legal and/or financial frameworks for LGBTIQA+ people, including online safety, equality and anti-discrimination, immigration, and policing.

Queering creative practice

Centres the role of creative practices in reflecting the lives and experiences of queer people past and present, and generating speculative futures.


Network lead


Membership and contacting LGBTIQA+ Research Impact Network

Network membership is comprised of researchers from a range of universities, as well as independent scholars and industry partners, who identify as LGBTIQA+ and/or whose research is connected to LGBTIQA+ communities. To get involved, please reach out to our Network lead Associate Professor Drew Pettifer.

Enabling Impact Platform (EIP) sponsorship

people crossing the road with a network pattern overlayed

LGBTIQA+ Research Impact Network is supported by the following Enabling Impact Platforms:

Design and Creative Practice Applying an inventive, exploratory approach to real-world problems through interdisciplinary research, within and beyond design and creative practice.
Social Change Focuses on transformative research in the areas of digital society, quality of life, global mobility and research practice for social change.

Explore RMIT Enabling Impact Platforms

EIPs enable economic, environmental, societal, health and cultural impact with government, business and the community through research and innovation.

aboriginal flag
torres strait flag

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.