My research collaborations with leading international scholars have resulted in over AUD$1.2 million in research funding since 2018. Below is a select list of funded projects:

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship with Copenhagen University, funded under the Horizon2020 Program of the European Union Commission ($345,479), for ‘VISUAL: The Visual Politics of Recognition – Images in Recognition Encounters’. This project analyses the role of images in enhancing or undermining diplomatic relations between nations.

‘Digital Diplomacy in a Turbulent Global World’ project, funded through the prestigious Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation in Sweden (AUD $775,470, 2019-2023), with Karin Aggestam, James Pamment, Annika Bergman Rosamond, Elsa Hedling and Alicia Fjallhed. The core focus of this project is to examine the power of digital media in contemporary diplomatic statecraft and practice.

ISA Diversity and Inclusion in Global Security Studies 2019, with Maria Rost Rublee (Monash University) (AU$35,339), to explore the to interrogate diversity and inclusion within the field, to identify research gaps and needed policy changes. We fielded the first-ever diversity survey in the International Studies Association-International Security Studies Section and used the resulting data to negotiate several changes, including ISSS award policies and the sponsorship of the first-ever ISSS Pay It Forward mentoring program for female ECRs.

Canadian National Defence Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security, with Maria Rost Rublee (Monash University), Stefani von Hlatky (Queen’s University), Steve Saideman (Carleton University) and Fernando Nunez-Mietz (McGill University) (CA$42,000). This project investigates how social constructions of national security influence diversity and inclusion in the security studies field, and the implications this has for Canada’s national defence.

UQ Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Enabler Research Grant 2018 ($5000), which allowed me to take part in the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) 2018 Winter School, one of Europe’s leading Internet Studies research groups.

UQ Early Career Researcher Award 2017 ($8787) for my project examining how governments respond to violent images circulating across social media in the wake of terror attacks. This funding allowed me to undertake a visiting fellowship with Copenhagen University to work with Professor Lene Hansen and the ‘Images and International Security’ research group.