Dr Claire Harris
ARC Grant-Funded Research Fellow
School of Society and Culture
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Claire Harris is a social anthropologist and research fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide. She is an experienced documentary filmmaker, and artist who collaborates with diverse community groups through the delivery of long-term visual art programs . These cultural and community development programs are shaped by visual ethnographic methods and draw on key elements of co-design with a focus on process and participation. Outcomes are shared with broad audiences through public installations, exhibitions and publications. Her research interests include the intersection between anthropology, arts, health, and community. Her work is also focused on gender, bodies, and experiences of deafness, technology, and cochlear implants.
ARC LP210301337 Situating care: How families support each other to create change and to build strong communities with CI Prof Megan Warin; Dr Tanya Zivkovic; Prof JaneMaree Maher (Monash); Mrs Danielle Abbott. Industry partners: The Australian Centre for Social Innovation Inc., Uniting Communities Inc.
This project aims to drive an urgently needed shift from top-down interventions that focus on obesity as an individual problem of diets and exercise, to collective solutions of care generated by families for families, empowering social change at a local, community level. In collaboration with Australia’s leading designers of social innovation, this anthropology project expects to generate new knowledge about care, families and food practices in disadvantaged communities, and to construct new digital, policy, and program frameworks for broader adaptation. The advances are likely to have a strong bearing on how more equitable health policy and practices evolve in Australia and internationally.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 - ongoing | Post doctoral Research Fellow on ARC Linkage project | University of Adelaide |
| 2013 - ongoing | Artist, community arts worker, curator of programs and exhibitions | The Art Bus |
| Date | Type | Title | Institution Name | Country | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Award | Australian Postgraduate Award | Adelaide University | Australia | $78,000 |
| 2014 | Scholarship | Quota South Pacific Area Scholarship | - | Australia | - |
| 1985 | Recognition | David Murray Prize for the Arts | University of Adelaide | Australia | - |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 - 2021 | University of Adelaide | Australia | PhD |
| 1981 - 1985 | University of Adelaide | Australia | Bachelor of Arts Honours (First) |
| Date | Title | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 - 2021 | PhD | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Harris, C. E., Hemer, S. R., & Chur-Hansen, A. (2023). Cochlear Implants: Young Adults’ Embodied Experiences of Deafness and Hearing through Implanted Technology. Body and Society, 29(1), 3-27. Scopus1 |
| 2021 | Harris, C., Hemer, S. R., & Chur-Hansen, A. (2021). Informed choice and unbiased support: Parents’ experiences of decision-making in paediatric deafness. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 1, 100022-1-100022-8. Scopus12 WoS10 |
| 2020 | Harris, C., Hemer, S. R., & Chur-Hansen, A. (2020). Emotion as Motivator: Parents, Professionals and Diagnosing Childhood Deafness. Medical Anthropology, 40(3), 1-14. Scopus7 WoS8 Europe PMC2 |
| 2020 | Harris, C., Hemer, S., & Chur-Hansen, A. (2020). "It's an emotional rollercoaster" the spatial and temporal structuring of affect in diagnosing childhood hearing loss. Emotion, Space and Society, 37, 1-7. Scopus4 WoS3 |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Authors: Harris CE. Title: Muriel Matters! That Daring Australian Girl - documentary film. Extent: 30 minute documentary film. |
| 2007 | Authors: Harris CE, Bates M. Title: What the future Sounded Like - documentary film. Extent: 30 minutes duration. |
Awarded a 2024 Graduate Women SA Postdoctoral Grant
| Date | Role | Board name | Institution name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 - 2017 | Board Member | Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust | Arts SA | Australia |
| 2014 - 2017 | Member | Media Resource Centre | Media Resource Centre and Mercury Cinema | Australia |
| Date | Role | Membership | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 - ongoing | Member | Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender | Australia |
| Date | Topic | Presented at | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 - 2025 | Situating Care and Creative Practice in Research in the Exploring | Medical Anthropology Europe Conference 2025 Redefinitions of Health and Illness | University of Vienna | Austria |
| 2025 - 2025 | Creative and Digital Methods Workshop | University of Adelaide | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2024 - 2024 | Everyday gestures of radical care in a peer to peer community program | Australian Women's and Gender Studies Conference | Southern Cross University | Australia |
| 2023 - 2023 | Co-design - meaningful collaboration with parents of children and young people who are deaf or hard of hearing. | 2023 Australasian Newborn Hearing Screening Conference, 20 Years of Newborn Hearing Screening: Looking Back and Building the Future | UofA | Australia |
