Dr Adriana Haro

Adriana's research draws from queer, feminist and critical race theory to explore the experiences of young queer 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.