jared.thomas@samuseum.sa.gov.au
Jared is the South Australian Museum and UniSA Research Fellow - Aboriginal Material Culture and Arts. He is also an international award winning childrens and young adult fiction writer with his titles including the 'Game Day' series coauthored with NBA and Olympian basketballer Patty Mills, ‘Calypso Summer' and 'Songs that Sound like Blood.'
About me
Jared is the South Australian Museum and UniSA Research Fellow - Aboriginal Material Culture and Arts. He is also an international award winning childrens and young adult fiction writer with his titles including the 'Game Day' series coauthored with NBA and Olympian basketballer Patty Mills, ‘Calypso Summer' and 'Songs that Sound like Blood.'
About me
Doctor of Philosophy The UniversIty of Adelaide
Master of Arts (Creative Writing) The University of Adelaide
Graduate Diploma (Creative Writing) The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Arts The University of Adelaide
In 2019 Jared was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate colonised people's interpretative strategies in permanent gallery displays in museums and galleries in Aotearoa, Canada, Norway and the United States. Jared will resume research within these countries in 2022. As Research Fellow, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Material Culture and Art, Jared's research is primarily concerned with interventions that shift spaces from being ethnographic, to colonised people being at the centre of interpretation of self.
Under this theme, are a raft of focus areas including Aboriginal people and knowledge systems, technologies, sea and land management, medicine and food, and Jared is s participant in several ARC linkage and... Read more
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
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| 2014 |
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| 2010 |
Thomas, JD 2010, 'Art of Glass: Yhonnie Scarce', vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 62-65.
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Research
In 2019 Jared was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate colonised people's interpretative strategies in permanent gallery displays in museums and galleries in Aotearoa, Canada, Norway and the United States. Jared will resume research within these countries in 2022. As Research Fellow, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Material Culture and Art, Jared's research is primarily concerned with interventions that shift spaces from being ethnographic, to colonised people being at the centre of interpretation of self.
Under this theme, are a raft of focus areas including Aboriginal people and knowledge systems, technologies, sea and land management, medicine and food, and Jared is s participant in several ARC linkage and discovery projects related to these areas.
As an author, Jared's works of theatre and fiction explore issues relating to Aboriginal marginalisation and resistance, the environment, gender and sexuality. He is also concerned with research relating to the development of texts that underpin Aboriginal literacy development.
External engagement & recognition
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
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South Australian NAIDOC Person of the Year 20232023 Premier’s NAIDOC Awards |
2023 |
Invited Speaker, AIATSIT SummitAustralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |
2022 |
Literature GrantAustralia Council |
2021 |
Churchill FellowWinston Churchill Memorial Trust |
2019 |
White Raven AwardInternational Youth Library, Munich |
2015 |
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
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| Fostering pro-environmental attitudes: Environmental Education (EE) through botanical illustration of native South Australian flora | Current |
| Reading the rocks: integrating palaeontology, Adnyamathanha Aboriginal knowledge and geological interpretations in the Flinders Ranges | Current |
| Understanding buyer behaviour in the primary market for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art | Completed |