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Katherine Thompson

Katherine Thompson

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
Centre for Social Research in Health

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Katherine Thompson (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Social Research in Health, and a research assistant and sessional academic in the School of Education at ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Sydney (Bedegal Country). She is the recipient of the inaugural Rainbow Families PhD Top-Up Scholarship at ºÚÁÏÍø´óʼÇ. Her doctoral research explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in forming families with children, utilising queer and creative methodologies to understand the lived experiences involved and the implications for more inclusive health and social policy. She holds a B.A. in English from Duke University and an M.A. in Education from Wake Forest University, and has worked at ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç for the past decade in the fields of Indigenous education, social justice education, critical pedagogy and anti-racism.

  • LGBTQ+ families
  • Social and family imaginaries
  • Queer theory
  • Creative research methods
  • Thompson, K., Lowe, K., Vass, G., & Woods, A. (2025). . Curriculum Inquiry, 1–23.