Dr Ali Reid is a Learning Adviser in the Student Engagement Unit, based on the City East campus of UniSA. Ali provides support to UniStart Online students at UniSA. She also works with a team of Learning Advisers to provide academic learning support for students across the university through online Study Help resources, academic skills workshops, in-course workshops, individual appointments, and student peer support training.
Ali has a BA in International Development (Anthropology Minor), a First Class Hons in Anthropology, and a PhD in Anthropology with the University of Adelaide. Ali's research has explored the motivations and experiences of refugee and asylum seeker support workers who are often providing critical... Read more
About me
Dr Ali Reid is a Learning Adviser in the Student Engagement Unit, based on the City East campus of UniSA. Ali provides support to UniStart Online students at UniSA. She also works with a team of Learning Advisers to provide academic learning support for students across the university through online Study Help resources, academic skills workshops, in-course workshops, individual appointments, and student peer support training.
Ali has a BA in International Development (Anthropology Minor), a First Class Hons in Anthropology, and a PhD in Anthropology with the University of Adelaide. Ali's research has explored the motivations and experiences of refugee and asylum seeker support workers who are often providing critical support to people who have fled circumstances of war, conflict, violence, torture and trauma.
Ali has many years of experience working as a Learning Adviser for The University of Adelaide. She has also worked as a sessional tutor in the social sciences and as a tutor in the Wirltu Yarlu Academic Mentoring program at the University of Adelaide, where she won the ITAS tutor of the year award.
Ali has a strong commitment to social justice and is passionate about supporting students to succeed in their academic journey by building their skills and confidence. Ali strongly believes that University education should be accessible for all who desire to learn and that all students can succeed with the right support.
About me
Association for Academic Language and Learning
Kaldor Centre's Emerging Scholars Network (ESN)
About me
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Development Studies The University of Adelaide
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
2023 Reid, A. (2023). Understanding water use and needs of older people in regional South Australia.
Contributor to 2020 Clayton, S. (2020). The New Internationalists Activist Volunteers in the European Refugee Crisis.
Research
Forthcoming: Reid, A. (2025) Beyond Despair: Anger, Advocacy, and Acts of Resistance in Australia's Asylum Regime. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.
Reid, A. (2025) The governmentality of funding: Cultures of audit and compliance in Australian refugee and asylum seeker support organisations. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 00, 1–15. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.70001
Leishman, C., Abebe, F., Baker, E., Kim, S., & Reid, A. (2025). The willingness to pay and the willingness to stay in privately rented housing. Housing Studies, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2025.2552397
Reid, A., & Skuse, A. (2024). The Flickering Flame of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support: Burned Down, but Not Out. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 25(3), 233-250.
Reid, A., & Skuse, A. J. (2018). Acts of last resort: asylum, whistleblowing and the anthropology of secrecy. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 19(2), 103-119.
Nov 2025: Presentation to Professor Ahmed Kamal Junina and students of the Al- Aqsa University, Gaza.Topic: "Learning and writing through trauma: Knowledge, resilience, and power in times of war."
July 2023: Lunchtime Discovery event: Bandaids in a Battlefield: The Anthropology of Refugee and AsylumSeeker Support in Australia, held by Friends of the Library, The University of Adelaide, Barr Smith Library.
2022 Hugh Martin Weir Prize Winner
Dec 2017: Guest speaker on "Seeking Refuge in Fortress Europe" - Hills Circle of Friends Annual General Meeting.
May 2016: Introductory speaker at Adelaide launch of filmmaker Eva Orner's "Chasing Asylum" - Mercury Cinema.
Sept 2016: Featured in Adelaide Hills Magazine Spring Issue: "The Activists"
Nov 2016: Guest speaker on the 'Calais Jungle' refugee camp - Circle of Friends Australia Annual General Meeting.
June 2016: Public talk on the 'Calais Jungle' refugee camp - Stirling Coventry Library.
2015 Winner of the ITAS Tutor of the Year Award for her work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
External engagement & recognition