Higher education tends to assume that if you want to ‘be here’ you must want to belong to the status quo – I am here for something different. I think the system needs a serious and deliberate (re)think. Most never agreed to its function or form in the first place. We should work together to find, or create space, for collective and collaborative liberation.
I am a Senior Lecturer with the University of South Australia, on full-time secondment to Adelaide University. Currently, I co-lead Aboriginal Knowledges in Curriculum Implementation and the First Nations Knowledges Common Core. I am also: an Adjunct Lecturer with the Faculty of Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University; a respectful guest on Kaurna Country; and... Read more
About me
Higher education tends to assume that if you want to ‘be here’ you must want to belong to the status quo – I am here for something different. I think the system needs a serious and deliberate (re)think. Most never agreed to its function or form in the first place. We should work together to find, or create space, for collective and collaborative liberation.
I am a Senior Lecturer with the University of South Australia, on full-time secondment to Adelaide University. Currently, I co-lead Aboriginal Knowledges in Curriculum Implementation and the First Nations Knowledges Common Core. I am also: an Adjunct Lecturer with the Faculty of Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University; a respectful guest on Kaurna Country; and interested in compassion, justice, equity, and activist transformation.
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Aidan is a multi-award-winning multi-disciplinary senior lecturer and course coordinator experienced in teaching cultural safety, the intersections of class, race and gender, Marxist sociology, student partnership, research methods, critical and academic literacy, information technology, and in foundation and bridging courses. As an active researcher in higher education, cultural studies, and political philosophy Aidan publishes on a range of activist, transformative and decolonial topics as well as conducting empirical research in clinical and allied health, curriculum design and radical sociology. Aidan’s academic background is in cultural studies, sociology, higher education and Marxist political philosophy. Starting in 2021, Aidan co-created the Aboriginal curriculum and pedagogy & decolonisation process (ACP) for UniSA and is now working in reciprocal relation with colleagues towards crafting decolonising and Indigenising frameworks for Adelaide University. Aidan prioritises co-designed thinking for radical futures that break from capitalist realism.
Aidan is interested in 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
Member Indigenous Curriculum in Higher Education Community of Practice
About me
Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University
Current:
Senior Lecturer Adelaide University (Integration Management Office, DVC:I Portfolio) (2024 - )
Senior Lecturer: Academic Development (Aboriginal Curriculum) University of South Australia (2025 - )
Adjunct Lecturer Faculty of Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University (2023 - )
Historic:
Lecturer: Academic Development University of South Australia (2021 - 2024)
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 (2011 - 2014)
Recently published
Watkins, M., Marsh, B., & Cornelius-Bell, A. (2024). Centring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices and Ways of Knowing, Being and Becoming in Fully Online Undergraduate Health Course Curriculum Development. Canadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies, 4(6), 74–88. https://doi.org/10.53103/cjess.v4i6.282
Cornelius-Bell, A. (2024). A capitalist stranglehold on ‘artificial intelligence’: A gallop through piracy, privacy invasion, lock-in and a fever dream of democratisation. Fast Capitalism, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.2024.007
Cornelius-Bell, A., & Bell, P. A. (2024). Educational Hegemony: Angloshperic Education Institutions and the Potential of Organic... 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
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Tools and resources
Conference presentations and papers
Reports and other output
Research
Recently published
Watkins, M., Marsh, B., & Cornelius-Bell, A. (2024). Centring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices and Ways of Knowing, Being and Becoming in Fully Online Undergraduate Health Course Curriculum Development. Canadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies, 4(6), 74–88. https://doi.org/10.53103/cjess.v4i6.282
Cornelius-Bell, A. (2024). A capitalist stranglehold on ‘artificial intelligence’: A gallop through piracy, privacy invasion, lock-in and a fever dream of democratisation. Fast Capitalism, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.2024.007
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
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 |
Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Editorial Board MemberCanadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies |
2025 |
Editorial Board MemberCanadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies |
2024 |
Editorial Board MemberCanadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies |
2023 |
Appointments:
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 |