Dr Rosie Roberts

Rosie Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia. Her research takes a life course and intersectional approach to examining the lived experiences of creative and cultural workers, with a specific interest in issues of diversity within the popular music industry. Rosie has undertaken research in areas including regional festivals and place-based identity; grassroots music venues and the contemporary music eco-system (with an emphasis on regional areas); mid-career transformations and intersections of ageing and gender for women in contemporary music; cultural organisations, funding insecurity and the ‘diversification’ of the arts; arts-based approaches for working with new arrival communities; and experiences of work, home and belonging for temporary migrants. Her books include 'Rethinking privilege and social mobility in middle-class migration: Migrants ‘in-between’ (Routledge 2021, co-edited with Associate Professor Shanthi Robertson) and 'Ongoing Mobility Trajectories: Lived Experiences of Global Migration' (Springer 2019) and she has published in journals such as Popular Music and Society, International Journal of Cultural Policy and Social and Cultural Geography. She is a research member of the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre at the University of South Australia and supervises doctoral students within the disciplines of cultural studies, migration studies and the creative and cultural industries.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia

• Bachelor of Honours Communication, Information and New Media University of South Australia

• Bachelor of Media The University of Adelaide

• Graduate Certificate University of South Australia