Rosie Roberts

Research Interests

Cultural and creative industries Cultural Studies Employment equity and diversity Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies Music

Dr Rosie Roberts

Senior Lecturer

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Rosie Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and teaches into the Cultural Studies and Creative Arts programs. Her recent research takes a life course and intersectional approach to examining the lived experiences of creative and cultural workers, with a specific interest in issues of diversity within the popular music industry. Rosie has undertaken research in areas including regional festivals and place-based identity; grassroots music venues and the contemporary music eco-system; mid-career transformations and intersections of ageing and gender for women in contemporary music; cultural organisations, funding insecurity and the ‘diversification’ of the arts; and arts-based approaches for working with new arrival communities. 
 
Her books include 'Rethinking privilege and social mobility in middle-class migration: Migrants ‘in-between’ (Routledge 2021, co-edited with Associate Professor Shanthi Robertson) and 'Ongoing Mobility Trajectories: Lived Experiences of Global Migration' (Springer 2019) and she has published in journals such as Popular Music and Society, International Journal of Cultural Policy and Social and Cultural Geography. She is a research member of the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre at Adelaide University and supervises doctoral students within the disciplines of cultural studies, migration studies and the creative and cultural industries.

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2019 Award School of Creative Industries, Mid-Career Researcher Award University of South Australia Australia -
2017 Award Division of Education, Arts and Social Science Academic Excellence Award, Early Career Teacher University of South Australia Australia -

Date Institution name Country Title
2011 - 2012 University of South Australia Australia Graduate Certificate, University Teaching
2010 University of South Australia Australia Doctor of Philosophy
2006 University of South Australia Australia Bachelor of Honours Communication, Information and New Media
2002 - 2004 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Media

Year Citation
2025 Roberts, R., & Whiting, S. (2025). 'I'd Have to be crazy if I did it strictly on a financial basis': Australian regional music venues, burnout, and precarious music ecologies. Popular Music and Society, 48(2), 194-211.
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2024 Radford, D., Krivokapic-Skoko, B., Hetz, H., Roberts, R., Soong, H., & Tan, G. (2024). Everyday refugee integration: A holistic reconceptualization of refugee integration through the everyday practices of Hazara Afghan refugees. Journal of Sociology, 61(2), 235-254.
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2021 Edmonds, A., & Roberts, R. (2021). The cultural policy value of building social connection for new arrivals and why arts work evaluations should reflect that value. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(4), 485-498.
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2021 Lewis, S., Heath, G., Lim, L., & Roberts, R. (2021). 'I'm not a number, I'm someone to them': supporting commencing university students' through technology-mediated personalised communication. Student Success, 12(1), 24-34.
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2021 Roberts, R., & Whiting, S. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on music venues in regional South Australia: a case study. Perfect Beat, 21(1), 25-32.
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2021 Roberts, R. (2021). 'His visa is made of rubber': tactics, risk and temporary moorings under conditions of multi-stage migration to Australia. Social and cultural geography, 23(3), 319-338.
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2011 Roberts, R. (2011). Unfolding stories of skilled migrants. Social alternatives, 30(2), 35-39.
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2011 George, J., Pacella, J., & Roberts, R. (2011). Editor's introduction: shifting cultures. Social alternatives, 30(2), 3-4.

Year Citation
2023 Roberts, R. (2023). Somehow I'm an expat and he's a migrant': intersectional identities, multiple migrations and family decision-making amongst middling migrant couples. In J. Ahrens, & R. King (Eds.), Source details - Title: Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism (pp. 139-157). Singapore: Springer.
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2022 Roberts, R., & Robertson, S. (2022). 'Moving privilege': middling transnational couples and the relational dimensions of privilege. In S. Robertson, & R. Roberts (Eds.), Source details - Title: Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration: Migrants ‘In-Between’ (pp. 169-190). US: Routledge.
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2022 Robertson, S., Roberts, R., Robertson, S., & Roberts, R. (Eds.) (2022). Migrants 'in-between': rethinking privilege and social mobility in middle-class migration. In Source details - Title: Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration: Migrants ‘In-Between’ (pp. 1-26). US: Routledge.
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2022 Robertson, S., Roberts, R., Robertson, S., & Roberts, R. (Eds.) (2022). Migrants 'in-between': rethinking privilege and social mobility in middle-class migration. In Source details - Title: Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration: Migrants ‘In-Between’ (pp. 1-26). US: Routledge.
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2018 Roberts, R. (2018). 'Travelling memories': the homemaking practices of skilled mobile settlers. In S. Marschall (Ed.), Source details - Title: Memory, migration and travel (pp. 24-44). US: Routledge.
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2015 George, J., Roberts, R., & Pacella, J. (2015). "Whose festival?" : examining questions of participation, access and ownership in rural festivals. In A. Jepson, & A. Clarke (Eds.), Source details - Title: Exploring community festivals and events (pp. 79-91). UK: Routledge.
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2014 Roberts, R., George, J., & Pacella, J. (2014). There's not a hot-dog van in sight : constructing ruralities through South Australian regional festivals. In K. Dashper (Ed.), Source details - Title: Rural tourism : an international perspective (pp. 79-95). UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2014 Pacella, J., George, J., & Roberts, R. (2014). 'Taste'-ing festivals: understanding constructions of rural identity through community festivals. In A. Jepson, & A. Clarke (Eds.), Source details - Title: Exploring community festivals and events (pp. 187-196). New York: Routledge.
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Courses I teach

  • HUMS 1054 Introduction to Cultural Studies (2025)
  • HUMS 2037 Everyday Cultures Now and Then (2025)
  • HUMS 1054 Introduction to Cultural Studies (2024)
  • HUMS 2037 Everyday Cultures Now and Then (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 Co-Supervisor Spaces of continuity: teras Betawi and the atmospheres of everyday culture Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Elita Nuraeny
2022 Co-Supervisor Turn up your radio: a cultural history of popular music in Adelaide (1960 – 2010) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Victor Marshall
2018 Co-Supervisor Experiences, perceptions and practice of multiculturalism: four classroom-based studies Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Karen Sharma

Date Engagement Type Partner Name
2021 - 2023 Research Contract Music Development Office and City of Adelaide

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