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Rachael Wallis

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Research Assistant, Youth Community Futures, University of Southern Queensland

Following a career in arts management in both Canada and Australia, Rachael Wallis undertook a Master's degree thesis titled 'Australian attitudes to sustainability in Cuba, 1960-2000' from the University of Southern Queensland.

Her doctoral thesis, also from USQ, examines how media influence people to relocate to rural areas, and is titled 'The phenomenological and discursive practice of place for lifestyle migrants: a case study of Stanthorpe, Queensland'.

She is currently part of the Youth Community Futures research team, researching young people, their futures and how they are percieved in regional areas.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Assistant researcher, University of Southern Queensland
  • 2017–2022
    Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland

Education

  • 2018 
    University of Southern Queensland, PhD
  • 2014 
    University of Southern Queensland, Masters
  • 2010 
    Griffith University, Bachelor of Arts

Publications

  • 2019
    Rural Society, Banking on Banjo: business bias and belonging in rural social imaginaries
  • 2019
    Area, Self telling place, identity and dress in lifestyle migration memoirs
  • 2017
    Rural Society, Myths and imaginaries: depictions of lifestyle migration in Country Style magazine