Dr Aidan Cornelius-Bell is currently a Lecturer at the University of South Australia on secondment to Adelaide University. They are also Adjunct Lecturer with the Faculty of Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University. Aidan is a respectful guest on Kaurna Country.
As an active researcher in higher education and cultural studies, Aidan publishes on a range of activist and socially transformative topics. Aidan co-created the Aboriginal curriculum and pedagogy & decolonisation process (ACP) for UniSA starting in 2021 and is now working in reciprocal relation with colleagues to create a decolonising and Indigenising process for the new Adelaide University. Their academic background is in cultural studies, sociology, higher education... Read more
About me
Dr Aidan Cornelius-Bell is currently a Lecturer at the University of South Australia on secondment to Adelaide University. They are also Adjunct Lecturer with the Faculty of Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University. Aidan is a respectful guest on Kaurna Country.
As an active researcher in higher education and cultural studies, Aidan publishes on a range of activist and socially transformative topics. Aidan co-created the Aboriginal curriculum and pedagogy & decolonisation process (ACP) for UniSA starting in 2021 and is now working in reciprocal relation with colleagues to create a decolonising and Indigenising process for the new Adelaide University. Their academic background is in cultural studies, sociology, higher education and Marxist political philosophy.
Aidan is also a multi-award-winning lecturer, having coordinated, written, taught, and reviewed courses and programs in a wide range of disciplines and led curricular transformation through a decolonial lens. They have taught/coordinated: cultural safety for the promotion of health and self-determination with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; academic and professional communication; pedagogical approaches with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; sociology research methods and the sociology of education to masters students; digital technology and numeracy to future teachers; in bridging and foundation programmes; and about constructions of race, power and identity.
Aidan completed their PhD at Flinders University, in which they focussed on students’ politics in and reactions against higher education as a site of contested cultural transformation. Aidan’s PhD is titled ‘Student Activism in Higher Education: the possibility and politics of students’ role in hegemonic university change’. This political work focussed on, through empirical ethnographic study, student activism, student identity, Gramsci's conception of hegemony, power, protest and partnership, and Marxian notions of production and reproduction. It drew on historical and contemporary contexts to provide a rich analysis of power and politics. Aidan holds a B.A./B.EdSt., B.Ed (Hons), and Ph.D. (Cultural Studies).
With colleagues Michael Watkins, Christopher Davis, Kirrakee Watson, Courtney Theseira, Donna Quinn and Kath Baldock, he has been significantly involved in co-creating curricular and pedagogic frameworks for Indigenisation. Moreover, they have led co-creation of the Aboriginal Curriculum and Pedagogy (ACP) process, a novel decolonising educational and scholarship of learning and teaching process for UniSA.
Aidan has also worked in a range of research projects that: investigate the role of active student participation, student partnership and students as partners; involve teacher education students in STEM industry placements; support school-based teaching and learning in the context of industry; investigate students’ self-regulation of learning in STEM classrooms; and study the sociology of higher education in contemporary change. These projects have spanned externally funded research from a range of bodies, including the Department of Innovation and Skills and the Australian Research Council (both Discovery and Linkage).
They are interested in associate supervision of PhD students in areas that relate to the above and is a registered supervisor in Clinical and Health Sciences. Aidan also supervises cultural studies, humanities and sociology students through adjunct status at Charles Darwin University.
About me
Member HERDSA
Member Student Voice Australia Practitioner Network
About me
Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University
Current:
Lecturer Integration Management Office, Adelaide University (2024 -)
Lecturer: Academic Development University of South Australia (2021- 2024, on secondment to IMO)
Adjunct Lecturer Faculty of Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University (2023-)
Historic:
Casual Academic (Tutor, Lecturer and Convenor) Flinders University (2018-2021)
Associate Academic Status (Humanities) Flinders University (2019-2021)
Learning Designer (Humanities) Flinders University (2020-2021)
Research Officer (Education) Flinders University (2019-2021)
Research Assistant (Education) Flinders University (2015-2019)
Research Assistant Department for Education and Child Development (2012-2014)
Recently published
Cornelius-Bell, A., & Bell, P. A. (2024). Educational Hegemony: Angloshperic Education Institutions and the Potential of Organic Intellectuals. Canadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies, 4(1), 49–62. https://doi.org/10.53103/cjess.v4i1.213
Cornelius-Bell, A, & Bell, P. A. (2023). Towards Social Transformation: An Exploration of the Divergent Histories of Radicalism and Corporatizing Higher Education in Australia. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies. 4(4), 69-86. https://doi.org/10.61186/johepal.4.4.69
Cornelius-Bell, A., Marsh, B., & Watkins, M. (2023). Rebellious reimagining of a fully online discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health course. Higher... Read more
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Decolonising and weaving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in Higher Education Curriculum, UniSA, 2022 -
Educational & academic support: perceptions of and from the field, UniSA, 2022 -
Academic experiences of delivering fully online courses, UniSA, University of Adelaide, 2022 - 2023
Understanding Students’ Roles in University Governance, UniSA, Deakin University, University of Adelaide, Recipient of Deakin University's REDI Seed Funding Grant, 2022 - 2023
Active Student Participation in Practice, Uppsala University, UniSA 2021 - 2022
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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2023 |
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2021 |
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4
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2024 |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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2023 |
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2023 |
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2023 |
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18
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2022 |
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3
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2022 |
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2021 |
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2
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2021 |
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4
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2021 |
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1
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2020 |
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6
3
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2021 |
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Tools and resources
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Reports and other output
Research
Recently published
Cornelius-Bell, A., & Bell, P. A. (2024). Educational Hegemony: Angloshperic Education Institutions and the Potential of Organic Intellectuals. Canadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies, 4(1), 49–62. https://doi.org/10.53103/cjess.v4i1.213
Cornelius-Bell, A, & Bell, P. A. (2023). Towards Social Transformation: An Exploration of the Divergent Histories of Radicalism and Corporatizing Higher Education in Australia. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies. 4(4), 69-86. https://doi.org/10.61186/johepal.4.4.69
Cornelius-Bell, A., Marsh, B., & Watkins, M. (2023). Rebellious reimagining of a fully online discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health course. Higher Education Research Group Adelaide 2023, p. 41. https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/35826
Kenyon, K., Watkins, M., & Cornelius-Bell, A. (2022). “Do the systems matter anyway?” Mapping Aboriginal Content and Pedagogies across undergraduate programs at the University of South Australia. Indigenous Higher Education Curriculum Conference, p. 18. https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/31594
Currently I hold an adjunct position with CDU, supervising research students. I work in multidisciplinary research and SoTL teams and collaborate nationally and internationally. I am keen to be involved in projects relating to:
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Charles Darwin University | AUSTRALIA |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
James Cook University | AUSTRALIA |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
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I am a multi-award winning interdisciplinary teacher with considerable curriculum design, coordination, and facilitation experience across undergraduate and postgraduate programs in health, education, communications, sociology, cultural studies and higher education. Currently, I am focussed on programmatic professional development for staff at UniSA.
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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110274 - Clinical simulation skills assessment for undergraduate Nurses | Current |
111488 - Preparing undergraduate students for nursing practice: exploring student experiences and perspectives of clinical supervision that influence capability and readiness for practice | Current |
Exploring the impact of self-reflection following objective structured clinical assessment (OSCA): nursing students¿ review of their recorded audio-visual performance for learning and practice | Current |