About me

Rebecca Bennett (PhD; BA Hons) is Pro Vice Chancellor Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Multidisciplinary academic (Social Sciences, Humanities, Public Health and Education), with 1095 career citations and a h-index of 15 on Google Scholar. Alongside executive and teaching leadership, Bennett maintains an active research profile as a Chief Investigator on three Category 1-funded, Aboriginal-led research projects examining racism, intersectionality and allyship in Aboriginal health and education settings, including RAAYS and Pride Yarns. Her research focus is to understand and develop effective anti-racism allyship within Australian settler colonial contexts. Bennett has extensive teaching experience across cultural studies, women’s studies, education studies, postgraduate cross-cultural acculturation, postgraduate research methods, university teaching, Indigenous Research Methods, pre-university enabling programs and the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching. Her expertise in qualitative research design (empirical and conceptual) is grounded in Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, Cultural Studies, De-/Anti-colonialism, and Indigenous Research Methods.

Links

Showcases metrics reflective of my multidisciplinary career with 1095 citations and a current h-index of 15
Project website for ARC and MRFF funded anti-racism research

Awards

Australia Award for University Teaching: Programs that Enhance Learning
Department of Education and Training (Australia, Melbourne) - DET, 2017
2025 Executive Leadership Award: Australian LGBTQ+ Inclusion Awards
Pride in Diversity, 2025
Vice Chancellors Award for Teaching
Murdoch University (Australia, Perth), 2017