Reshmi joined Federation University’s Institute of Education, Arts, and Community as a Scholarly Teaching Fellow in 2023.

Earlier she has taught and researched at Deakin and Monash Universities and been a casual researcher at Victoria and Southern Cross Universities. Reshmi obtained her first PhD in English and Cultural Studies (2005) under a University of Canterbury (New Zealand) doctoral scholarship.

An interdisciplinary social scientist, currently pursuing her second PhD (Education - Deakin University) her research aims to advance global understanding of how auto/ethnographical experiences of education shape the creation of academic identities among marginalised groups within Higher Education in diverse contexts.

Another research focus is gender equity stressing on migrant women’s empowerment and their intersectional vulnerabilities. Reshmi is on the editorial board of Qualitative Research Journal with publications in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Emotion, Space and Society, Women’s Studies International Forum, Journal of Postcolonial Writing among others.

An invited reviewer for reputed journals such as Social Identities, Frontiers in Sociology, International Migration Review, and Journal of Gender Studies. Reshmi is also the co-editor of Asian Women, Identity and Migration Experiences of Transnational Women of Indian Origin/Heritage (Routledge 2021).

Portfolios

Mitchell Institute

Areas of expertise

  • Gender and migration
  • Race and ethnicity in higher education
  • Critical and evocative authoethnography
  • Inclusive Education
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Postcolonial and intersectional feminisms

Contact details

(03) 8780 5752
[email protected]

Publications

Journal articles

  • Webb, S. C, Lahiri-Roy, R., Knight, E., & Koshy, P. (In Press-2024). The Intersection of Geography, Topography and Mindset: A Nuanced Understanding of Regional, Rural and Remote Students’ Tertiary Participation in Australia. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education.
  • Gatwiri, K., McPherson, L. & Lahiri-Roy, R. (In Press-2024). "Embedding cultural safety in Social Work Education: Reflections from Masters of Social Work Students at a Regional Australian University."
  • Lahiri-Roy, R., Roy, A.M., Karnik, R., & Likhite, S. (2024). "“Let’s catch up at Shivaji Park”: Emotively conversing on connecting and un/belongin, g through a public space", Qualitative Research Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-04-2024-0084
  • Belford, N., Sum, N., & Roy, R. (2024). Gendered Dimensions of Migration and Conviviality: A Virtual Space for Autoethnographic Explorations of ‘Finding Home.’ Journal of Intercultural Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2024.2325962
  • Sum, N., Lahiri-Roy, R. and Belford, N. (2023), "Hope theory as resistance: narratives of South Asian scholars in Australian academia", Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-03-2023-0085

Books

Belford, N., & Lahiri-Roy, R. (Eds.). (2020). Asian Women, Identity and Migration: Experiences of transnational women of Indian origin/heritage (1st ed.). Routledge: UK.

Book chapters

  • Lahiri-Roy, R. (In press-2024). “Seeking Academic Voice”: An Autoethnographic Study of Casualisation in Teacher Education. Burke, J., Cacciattolo, M., & Toe, D. (Eds.), Inclusion and Social Justice in Teacher Education, Springer Nature: Switzerland, AG.
  • Lahiri-Roy, R. (2024). “Lost Conversations’: The Negotiations and Violations of Emotion Cultures Embedded in Migrant Journeys.” Sahoo, A.K. (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations, Ist edition, Routledge: London.
  • De Peres Costa, S. & Lahiri-Roy, R. (2021) "An Infinity of Traces: Reshmi Lahiri-Roy Interviews Suneeta Peres da Costa" in Lokuge, C. & Ringrose C (Eds.) Creative Lives: Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers. Ibidem Press/Columbia University Press: Germany.
  • Lahiri-Roy, R. (2020), "Listen and You'll hear": Autoethnography and Educational Desire” in Belford, N., & Lahiri-Roy, R. (Eds.) Asian Women, Identity and Migration: Experiences of transnational women of Indian origin/heritage (1st ed.). Routledge: UK.
  • Lahiri-Roy, R. (2016) ‘The Urban Hindu Arranged Marriage in Contemporary Indian Society’ in Sweetman, W. & Malik, A. (Eds.) Hinduism in India: Modern and Contemporary Movements, Sage Publications, India.

Conference presentations

  • "Desiring the Moon and the Stars as well”: Exploring the Educational Desire of Three Women Academics of Colour through Feminist Intersectionality and Endarkened Narrative Inquiry”. Paper presented at the 20th Gender and Education Conference 2024, Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, June 17-21, 2024. Bursary Recipient.
  • “Quotidian EduActivisms: Decolonising Teacher Education as Migrant Academics of Colour”. Paper presented at AARE 2023 annual conference, University of Melbourne, Nov 26-30, 2023.
  • Discomfiting Reflexivities in Qualitative Research: Autoethnographic Understandings of Researcher Positionality as a Female Migrant Academic of Colour in Australian Academe.” Paper presented at the ECER 2023 conference (EERA). Aug 21-25, 2023, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
  • “Hazardous Terrains”: Negotiating a Second Doctoral Journey as a Mature Age Woman of Colour. Paper presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference. Nov 27-Dec 1, 2022, UNISA, Adelaide.
  • “A model to valourise diversity.” Paper co- presented (with Dr Elizabeth Knight, CIRES, VU) at Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference. Nov 27-Dec 1, 2022, UNISA, Adelaide.

Professional memberships

  • Founding and current member, New Zealand South Asia Centre, University of Canterbury
  • Member, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
  • Member, Social Justice, Diversity, and Inclusion in Education (SJIDE), Federation University
  • REDI (Research for Educational Development), Deakin University
  • Member, AWGSA (Australian Women and Gender Studies Association)
  • Member, Migration and Mobility Research network (School of Global and Urban Studies, RMIT University)

Industry experience

  • 2020-2023: Principal Consultant and Director, Institute for Studies in Race, Migration and Education.
  • 2003-2011: Principal Consultant and Director of NZCE Ltd and Kiwibears International Schools, New Zealand.
  • 1995-1999: Owner, World Educational Consultants (unit of Theos Infotech Pvt Ltd), Mumbai (Founding member Association of Australian Education Representatives in India).

Appearances in the media

  • Lahiri-Roy, R. (2024). Reflections on Attending the GEA Conference 2024. Gender and Education Association Blog.
  • Lahiri-Roy, R. (2023). 'Privileged Marginalisation': A Reflection by a Female Academic of Colour. AWGSA Blog.
  • Invited as an expert speaker on Intersectionality by CALD Network within the Productivity Commission (a federal agency) as part of Harmony week, April 7, 2022.
  • N, Belford & & Lahiri-Roy, R. (2022). Asian Women, Identity and Migration.
  • Invited as keynote speaker by Vardhaman Mahavir Open University, Kota (Rajasthan), India for The Two Day Online Conference on ‘Diaspora in the Era of Globalization: An Interdisciplinary Approach’, July 23-24, 2020.
  • Invited as guest lecturer and public speaker by Universitas Teknologi, Yogyakarta, Indonesia for the Faculty of Arts, School of Culture and Linguistics - Nov 2016.