Dr Adriana Haro

Dr Adriana Haro

Project Officer

Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed

Career Summary

Biography

Adriana's research draws from queer, feminist and critical race theory to explore the experiences of young Latinx men with embodying and negotiating masculinities in Australia and its relation to ethnicity and identity. She is interested in using creative/visual methods and qualitative methods in research with young people. In 2021 she was awarded a Global Voices Scholarship and selected as an Australian youth delegate for the United Nations Commission on the Status for Women 66: Climate Change, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction. The scholarship consists of attending an international delegation, a policy fellowship and Canberra pre-departure briefings. Here she developed diplomacy and policy making skills, along with media training and engagement. The focus of her policy paper was about meaningfully embedding the voices of student/staff victims-survivors in policy and decision-making processes at the University of Newcastle. In 2023, she was invited to be part of a research team at the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education, that explores the effects of gender-based violence in participation and access to higher education. She is currently a research assistant with the Newcastle Youth Studies Centre and project officer with the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education. 

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology and Anthropology, University of Newcastle
  • Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco State University
  • Master of Science, Cardiff University

Keywords

  • Masculinities
  • Queer Theory
  • Sociology of Gender
  • Youth Studies

Languages

  • Spanish (Mother)

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
441010 Sociology of gender 40
390203 Sociology of education 30
440501 Feminist and queer theory 30

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title Organisation / Department
Casual Academic University of Newcastle
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Australia

Academic appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
14/2/2024 - 2/3/2024 Visiting Fellow in Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC) The University of Sydney
Australia

Professional appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
2/9/2019 -  Casual Research Assistant Research Centre for Newcastle Youth Studies
Australia
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Chapter (2 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2024 Haro A, 'Racialized embodiments: Young queer latinx men in Australia', 287-300 (2024)

This chapter explores how young queer racialized men work on, within, and against dominant racialized narratives that implicates their body, gender, and sexuality in a white-domin... [more]

This chapter explores how young queer racialized men work on, within, and against dominant racialized narratives that implicates their body, gender, and sexuality in a white-dominant cultural context in Australia. This helps to illuminate young people's ongoing negotiations with masculinities, embodiment, and the effect on identity. While children and young people are often reduced to categories of not knowing or categorized in linear "stages" they will grow out of (Cannella, Deconstructing early childhood education: social justice and revolution. Peter Lang, New York, 1997; Lesko, Youth Soc 28:13-61, 1996); this work uses a participatory and feminist methodology to learn with and from young men and their complex experiences in negotiating racialized narratives, demands, and the hyper sexualization and masculinization of their bodies. The felt and embodied dimensions of gender, sexuality, and racialization were explored through interviews and an arts-based creative method, "sandboxing," that enables symbolic visualization of what it feels like to be a queer young Latinx man in Australia.

DOI 10.1007/978-981-99-8606-4_75
2023 Haro A, 'Racialized Embodiments: Young Queer Latinx Men in Australia', 1-14 (2023)
DOI 10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_75-1

Journal article (6 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2025 Burke PJ, Coffey J, Parker J, Hardacre S, Cocuzzoli F, Shaw J, Haro A, ''It's a lot of shame': understanding the impact of gender-based violence on higher education access and participation', TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 30, 116-131 (2025) [C1]

This paper draws on new empirical research examining the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on students' experiences of higher education. While GBV across the life-course ... [more]

This paper draws on new empirical research examining the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on students' experiences of higher education. While GBV across the life-course is an extremely prevalent and pressing social problem, it has been invisible within higher education. Indeed, experiences of GBV, which may profoundly shape access to and participation in higher education, are largely perceived as irrelevant to student equity, unless experienced on campus. Institutional silence around the impact of GBV on student equity is related to the gender injustice of misrecognition, whereby the social problem of GBV is located at the personal level. This manifests in the social emotion of shame, experienced at the personal level as disconnection, isolation and not belonging. This paper draws from our analysis of 47 in-depth interviews with student victim/survivors exploring their experiences of higher education to illuminate how deficit discourses and stigmatisation intersect to reproduce gender injustice in higher education.

DOI 10.1080/13562517.2023.2243449
Citations Scopus - 6Web of Science - 3
Co-authors Jean Parker, Pennyjane Burke, Stephanie Hardacre, Julia Coffey
2025 Threadgold S, Shannon B, Haro A, Cook J, Davies K, Coffey J, Farrugia D, Matthews B, Healy J, Burrows R, 'Buy Now, Pay Later technologies and the gamification of debt in the financial lives of young people', Journal of Cultural Economy, 18, 52-67 (2025) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/17530350.2024.2346210
Citations Scopus - 4Web of Science - 2
Co-authors Kate Davies, Julia Cook, Julia Coffey, Ben Matthews, Steven Threadgold, David M Farrugia
2024 Coffey J, Senior K, Haro A, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Cook J, Davies K, Shannon B, 'Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing', Journal of Youth Studies, 27(5): 685-705., 685-705 (2024) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2022.2162376
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 9
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Kate Davies, Kate Senior, Julia Cook, David M Farrugia, Julia Coffey
2024 Haro A, ''Feminine Threshold': Theorizing Masculine Embodiment with Latinx Men', YOUTH, 4, 983-1003 (2024) [C1]
DOI 10.3390/youth4030062
2023 Cook J, Davies K, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Coffey J, Senior K, Haro A, Shannon B, 'Buy now pay later services as a way to pay: credit consumption and the depoliticization of debt', CONSUMPTION MARKETS & CULTURE, 26, 245-257 (2023) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/10253866.2023.2219606
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 8
Co-authors Kate Senior, David M Farrugia, Kate Davies, Julia Cook, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2022 Farrugia D, Cook J, Senior K, Threadgold S, Coffey J, Davies K, Haro A, Shannon B, 'Youth and the consumption of credit', Current Sociology, Online Early (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/00113921221114925
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1
Co-authors Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold, David M Farrugia, Julia Cook, Kate Senior, Kate Davies
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Report (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2021 Farrugia D, Cook J, Senior K, Coffey J, Threadgold S, Davies K, Shannon B, Haro A, 'Young people, debt and consumer credit pilot study report' (2021)
Co-authors Kate Davies, Steven Threadgold, David M Farrugia, Julia Coffey, Julia Cook, Kate Senior
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Dr Adriana Haro

Positions

Project Officer
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed
Engagement and Equity Division

Casual Academic
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures

Contact Details

Email adriana.haro@newcastle.edu.au
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Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

598951--gender-equality598945--inequality598942--peace-justice