Full CV
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PhD in Cultural Anthropology (University of Melbourne), 2016-2020
MSc. Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology (University of Oxford), Distinction (1:1), 2014 – 2015
Bachelor of Arts (University of Melbourne), First Class Honours, 2009 – 2013
Diploma of Modern Languages (Japanese) (University of Melbourne), First Class Honours, 2012-2013
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Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne, June 2022 -
QualDeath Research Fellow/ Project Officer, Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent’s Hospital, 2021 - 2022
Research Associate, DeathTech Research Team, University of Melbourne, 2018- 2022
Visiting Researcher, Toyo University Japan, 2017-2018
Visiting Researcher, Kanazawa University Japan, 2017-2018
Graduate Research Assistant, “Sonic Japan“ (DP: 130102035), Monash University, May 2016 – Jan 2018
Graduate Research Assistant, “Digital Commemoration“, The University of Melbourne, October 2015 – Jan 2018
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“Designs for the Dead in Hong Kong” Hong Kong Research Grants Council, General Research Fund (Grant ref #14601022), 2023-2025. Total amount HK$1,019,323. Co-Investigator (CI) with PI Andrew Kipnis (CUHK) and CI Ruth Toulson (MICA).
Contemplative Studies Centre, Seed Funding ‘Dying ‘Buddhish’ in Australia: Investigating the role of Buddhist contemplative practices in end-of-life and death care’, June 2022 (AUD$18,000)
Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of Melbourne, June 2022-June 2025
Australian Anthropological Society, Engaged Anthropology Fund (R2 2021) for “Endline: Deathcare during Melbourne’s Covid Crisis”, 2021 (AUD $1250)
Japanese Studies Association of Australia for “Cultures of Scent in Japan” Workshop, with Gwyn McClelland, 2020 (AUD $3500)
Japan Foundation Mini Grant, Project Lead for “Research at a distance: Japanese Studies in an Age of Covid-19”, 2020 (AUD $6632)
Arts Collaboration Seed Funding Grant, Lead Investigator on “Remote, Restricted and Redesigned: Memorialisation practices and the COVID-19 pandemic” project, 2020 (AUD $16,648)
Northeast Asia Council Japan Studies Grants, with partner Anne Allison, Duke University, 2020 (US $3000)
Dyason Fellowship, with partner Anne Allison, Duke University, 2019 (AUD $3500)
Arts-MDHS Collaborative Research Initiative Seed Funding, 2019 (AUD $10,000)
Japan Studies Association of Australia, Grants Scheme Award, 2019 (AUD $5000)
Japan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2017-2018. (AUD $50,000)
Australian Postgraduate Award (now “Research & Training Program”), 2016-2019
Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholarship, 2014 ($40,000)
1854 Student Scholarship, Museum Victoria, April 2013
Melbourne Global Grant and Universitas 21 Award, 2011
Dean’s Honours List, The University of Melbourne, 2010
National Scholarship (now “Chancellor’s Scholars”), The University of Melbourne, 2009
Australian Student’s Prize, Australian Federal Government, 2008
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Subject co-designer and co-ordinator, Death and Dying: Lifting the Lid, (1st year MD elective) University of Melbourne, 2022 & 2023
Subject Co-ordinator and Seminar Leader, ANTH40001 Anthropology Philosophy & Scope (honours level anthropology course), 2021
Guest Lecturer:
“Death Futures”, STU 1112 Landscape Architecture Core II, Harvard University (9 February 2022)
“Death as a rite of passage”, Anthropology 101, University of Melbourne (May 2019)
Religion & Anthropology, Kanazawa University (November 2017)
CRIM40002 Qualitative Research Methods, The University of Melbourne: “Interviews” and “Ethnography”
Tutor Co-ordinator, ANTH10001 Anthropology: Studying Human Diversity, The University of Melbourne, Semester 2, 2018
University Tutor, The University of Melbourne, 2015- 2018. (MULTI10018: Power; ANTH20012: Engaging the World in Theory & Practice; POLS40013: Social Science Research Seminar; ANTH3001: Theory and the Anthropological Imagination)
College Tutor, St Hilda’s College, 2016 – 2018 (DEVT10001: The Developing World; MULT10014: Identity; MULT10015: Language)
College Tutor, Janet Clarke Hall, 2016- 2018 (ANTH20012 Engaging the World in Theory & Practice)
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Open House Melbourne ‘Six Feet Under: Design + Death’
Mortality and Memory: a walking tour, Being Human Festival, October 2023
Curator, Endline: Deathcare during Melbourne’s Covid Crisis, 2022, 75 Reid Street Gallery
Assistant Curator, The Dead Don’t Bury Themselves, Ian Potter Gallery, September 2016 – March 2017
Lead Curator, Aftershocks for Noel Shaw Gallery, October 2013 – February 2015
Curatorial Research and Engagement Assistant, The Pitt Rivers Museum, April-May 2015
Research Assistant, Museum Victoria, June 2011 – December 2013
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H-Net Buddhism Editor, 2023-
Editorial Board, Death and Culture Book Series (Routledge), 2023 -
Book co-editor, Aromas of Asia (Penn State University Press, 2023)
Special Issue co-editor, Journal of Global Buddhism, 2021
Copy Editor, Journal of Global Buddhism, 2017-
Book Reviews Editor, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 2014-2015
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Graduate Certificate in University Teaching, The University of Melbourne (Enrolled/ongoing)
Masterclass on the art and science of effective lecture delivery (April 2024)
Graduate Supervision Training, The University of Melbourne (2022)
Good Clinical Practice Certification (2021)
Melbourne Teaching Certificate, The University of Melbourne (2021)
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Advisory Committee, Buddhism in Australia Grant
Advisory Committee, Spirituality in Australia ARC Project
Book Proposal Reviewer, Cornell University Press
Chair, 3BLNR Ethics Committee, The University of Melbourne, 2022
Redesigning Deathcare Conference, Committee Chair, 2022
School Research Committee, ECR Rep, School of Social and Political Sciences, 2022
Member of the Reference Group for the Contemplative Studies Centre
Assessor for Multiple Mini Interviews (used for admission to Doctor of Medicine), University of Melbourne, 2020 -
Australian Death Studies Society, President, 2020 -
Community Advisory Committee Member, Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, 2020- 2022
Association for the Study of Death and Society , Australia Country Representative
Peer Reviewer for: Mortality, Death Studies, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, ETHNOS, International Journal of Cultural Studies, The Journal of Global Buddhism, Hau, etc.
Oxford University Society of Victoria: Committee Member, 2018-2021; President, 2021 -
Academic Teaching and Learning Committee, The University of Melbourne, 2018-2019
Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies, Committee Member, 2018-2019
Ethnoforum secretary, 2016 - 2018
Australian Anthropological Society Member, 2017-
Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Member, 2018-