Dr Archie Thomas

Dr Archie Thomas is a Chancellors’ Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney. They are an interdisciplinary researcher focused on understanding how discourses, policy frameworks and institutions like schools shape our lives. Archie has collaborated on multiple grant-funded research projects to produce innovative new research on media, education and policy. Their current project explores the emergence of a school-to-prison pipeline in Australian schools, with a focus on understanding how systemic racism and discipline practices are connected.

Their other work has included developing new understandings of the experiences of Indigenous journalists in mainstream media organisations, the role of Indigenous independent schools in facilitating self-determination, the place of the media in communicating Indigenous political aspirations, and narratives about gender diversity in Australian political discourses. They have worked across Indigenous-led research centres and across the disciplines of education, Indigenous studies, history and media studies.