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Danielle H. Heinrichs

Researcher, Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University, Griffith University

Dr. Danielle H. Heinrichs is a Lecturer and researcher at Griffith University. She is the Education Lead in the University's Climate Action Beacon. She teaches Multilingual Crisis and Disaster Communication and her research explores multilingual health, crisis and disaster communication, GenAI and citizen translation. Her PhD thesis explores language practices on social media. She has published papers in peer-reviewed books and journals, and presented at numerous international conferences in the areas of multilingualism, sociolinguistics and education drawing on feminist theories. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Leipzig University and Regensburg University in Germany. Currently, she is a Chief Investigator on a National Health and Medical Research grant exploring the role of community leaders in emergency communication.

Experience

  • –present
    PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
  • 2016–present
    Unit Coordinator, Queensland University of Technology
  • 2014–2016
    Unit Coordinator, Western Sydney University

Education

  • 2020 
    University of Queensland, PhD
  • 2017 
    Master of International Education, Masters
  • 2013 
    Diploma of Education, Diploma
  • 2013 
    Bachelor of Arts (Spanish and Latin American Studies), Bachelor

Publications

  • 2021
    'Staying with the trouble' of response-able Spanish bilingualism: A diffractive inquiry, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
  • 2020
    Decoloniality, Spanish and Latin American studies in Australian universities: ¿es un mundo ch’ixi posible?, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal

Professional Memberships

  • International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA)
  • Association of Language Awareness (ALA)

Honours

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK (SFHEA)