School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Queer Youth Articulating Wellbeing Through Reading and Writing Groups
Published 2023In media, policy and research in Australia, queer youth have often been positioned as victims. This subject position has emerged in response to their very real disproportionate vulnerability, but tends to limit how these ...Open AccessArticle -
Climate Migrants and the Origins of Swahili Society in Eastern Africa
Published 2026-02-18Climate extremes are often framed as triggers of societal crisis and collapse, yet human mobility frequently emerges as a resilient response. We show that climatic disruption destabilized inland farming systems in sixth-century ...Open AccessPreprint -
Cultural representation in Evolve 1: A Critical Multimodal Study.
Published 2025-10-15This research investigates the cultural representation in Evolve 1, an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbook designed for learners in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. While a plethora of studies have ...Open AccessThesis -
The Wound and The Word: Tracing Trauma in Rutilius Namatianus' De Reditu Suo and Sidonius Apollinaris' Epistulae
Published 2025-10-08This thesis adopts literary trauma theory as an interpretive framework for analysing textual responses to the decline and fall of Rome. It focuses on two late antique authors, Rutilius Namatianus and Sidonius Apollinaris, ...Open AccessThesis -
The Essence of Friendship: A Generous Interpretation of Aristotle
Published 2025-06-02This paper revisits Aristotle’s account of friendship in The Nicomachean Ethics. I argue that Aristotle’s broad, detailed framework offers us a cogent characterisation of friendship that contemporary philosophical accounts ...Open AccessThesis