Rizka Suhani, a PhD candidate at Adelaide University in the School of Education

Rizka's doctoral research analyses education philanthropy network in the Asia-Pacific region in 2018-2025 through a social network analysis to understand connections between unique founders and targeted education initiatives. 

Her Master's research brought a different but complementary critical lens to curriculum policy, investigating how traditional and local knowledge systems have been represented, positioned, and valued in Indonesian national curriculum policy over a twenty-year period (2004–2024). Drawing on epistemic justice, decolonial epistemology, and epistemic humility frameworks, the study critically examined how colonial hierarchies of knowledge have persisted, and at times been disrupted, across four curriculum cycles: KBK, KTSP, K-13, and Kurikulum Merdeka. The analysis was grounded in critical document analysis of 55 primary documents spanning national laws, ministerial regulations, curriculum frameworks, and subject syllabuses and textbooks.