Dr Megan Rose

Dr Megan Rose

Post-Doc Fellow
Arts, Design & Architecture
Centre for Social Research in Health

Dr Megan Catherine Rose is a cultural sociologist and artist based in Sydney, Australia. She is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Vitalities Lab, UNSW Sydney, and a doctoral researcher at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. 

Megan researches visual cultures and links between creativity, wellbeing and inclusion. She is interested in how creativity is used in new technologies and collective cultures for care, safety and belonging. She specialises in action-led participatory research, which centres the experiences of marginalised groups as experts in their own lives. She collaborates with queer and disabled communities based in English and Japanese language online spaces, and also works in field-sites in both Sydney and Tokyo.

Megan's latest research explores the significance of self-determined cultures, communities and supports for autistic adults, as well as the cultural impact of care robot design. Megan is also publishing her ongoing work into visual expression and safe space building of neuro-queer femme subcultures local to Harajuku and Akihabara, Tokyo. She is best known for her specialisation in "cute studies", Japanese popular culture, and its intersections with care, queer identities and neurodiversity. Her work has culminated in invitations to collaborate on arts and community initiatives, including Somerset House UK's 2023 Cute exhibition.

Megan has worked for a range of research centres including Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety, and the Disability Innovation Institute. Her previous work investigated equity, diversity and inclusion in education settings, and she serves on advisory boards as a disability advocate.

 

Location
School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Baker S; Due C; Karan P; Rose M, 2024, 'Teaching for diversity: university educators’ accounts of care work and emotional labour with CALD students', Teaching in Higher Education, 29, pp. 567 - 583, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2021.2015751
    Journal articles | 2023
    Baker S; Rose M; Due C; Karan P, 2023, 'Avoiding stuck places: Univ oiding stuck places: University educat ersity educators’ views on suppor ors’ views on supporting migr ting migrant and refugee students with transitioning through and out of higher education', Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.53761/1.20.6.19
    Journal articles | 2023
    Catherine Rose M, 2023, 'Playful, Sociable, Cute, Quarantined–Interactions with Kawaii Characters in Animal Crossing: New Horizons During COVID-19', Japanese Studies, 43, pp. 297 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2023.2211944
    Journal articles | 2023
    Gerrand V; Rose MC, 2023, 'Wellbeing', M/C Journal, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3010
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lupton D; Wozniak-O'Connor V; Rose MC; Watson A, 2023, 'More-than-Human Wellbeing: Materialising the Relations, Affects, and Agencies of Health, Kinship, and Care', M/C Journal, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2976
    Journal articles | 2023
    Rose MC, 2023, 'The Future Is Furby', M/C Journal, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2955
    Journal articles | 2022
    Cumming TM; Rose MC, 2022, 'Exploring universal design for learning as an accessibility tool in higher education: a review of the current literature', Australian Educational Researcher, 49, pp. 1025 - 1043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-021-00471-7
    Journal articles | 2022
    Rose MC; Kurebayashi H; Saionji R, 2022, 'Kawaii Affective Assemblages', M/C Journal, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2926
    Journal articles | 2021
    Baker S; Due C; Rose M, 2021, 'Transitions from education to employment for culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and refugees in settlement contexts: what do we know?', Studies in Continuing Education, 43, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0158037X.2019.1683533