Indigo Willing Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

James Social Science Fellow, The Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney. Creator and project lead of the ‘Skate, Create, Educate and Regenerate (SkateCER)” project. Read more: https://skatecreateeducateandregenerate.com/

The Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies (HISS@SSSHARC) brings together emerging and established researchers in sexuality studies to collectively engage the notion of a queer-led classroom. Guest faculty join an international cohort. HISS is modelled on the generalist classroom rather than the expert seminar. It emphasises the beginner’s mind and collective embodied learning. In HISS 2024, we want to continue to reflect on that process under the theme of Queer Relationality. Read more at: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/centres-institutes-and-groups/sydney-social-sciences-and-humanities-advanced-research-centre/research/hunt-simes-institute-in-sexuality-studies.html

The University of Sydney is Australia's oldest university, is ranked 19th in the 2024 QS World University Rankings and consistently ranked in the top 100 universities in the world. Role - Research consultant at The School of Public Health at The University of Sydney SPRINTER (SPort & Recreation INTervention & Epidemiology Research) group for 1) the Her Sport, Her Way project that is a research partnership between the SPRINTER group, University of Sydney and the NSW Office of Sport and 2) The Disability Inclusion Project (DIP) evaluation for Sport NSW. Supervisor Dr Katherine Owen. Her Sport Her Way 2023 Evaluation Report Team - Qualitative Research Component includes Dr Briget Foley, Nicole Halim, Dr Indigo Willing. DIP Evaluation Team - Qualitative Research Component includes Nicole Haslim, Dr Indigo Willing and Disabilty Support Professionals Lauchlan Stace and Kerry West.

Nsw

Dr Willing's Fellowship project explores gender equity and safe spaces for women and non-traditional skaters and involves 2 months travel to UK, US and Germany May - June 2025 to study overseas approaches to co-creating fun, healthy and inclusive skateboarding programs. https://www.churchilltrust.com.au/fellow/indigo-willing-nsw-2024/

Skateistan, ft in an Oscar Academy Award winning doco, is a non-profit organization which shares the joy of skateboarding combined with access to education in partnership with skaters from various locations around the world. The goal is to provide safe spaces where children can have fun, build their skills and confidence and break down social barriers by making new friends and for skaters to share skills and resources across borders to increase skateboarding and skater-led skate programs for all.

Nathan Campus, Australia

Adjunct Research Fellow at The Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research. Representative research covers three main areas:-1. Subcultures, Sport and Social Inclusion – focusing on sociology of youth, subcultures, action and lifestyle sports, with a special interest in skateboarding. This includes the participation of minority, marginalized and ‘non-traditional’ populations in various scenes. Studies also explore social change-making in the areas of gender equity, sustainability, and social inclusion.2. Migration and Multiculturalism – including research on transnationalism, diversity and cosmopolitanism, transnational adoption and sociological frameworks for the study of Asian and Vietnamese diasporas3. The Vietnam War – including war orphans, Vietnamese adoption, and how films and other forms of mediated memories connected with the conflict have an impact on people’s attitudes and emotional responses towards conflicts in contemporary times.

Nathan Campus, Australia

ARC Discovery Project 'Cosmopolitan Encounters' - Exploring diversity and openness in everyday Australian contexts. Research Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research

Global

Instagram: @respectisrad Website: https://consentisrad.wordpress.com/ I Facebook: @consentisrad I Consent is Rad, now under the umbrella of the broader Respect is Rad initiative, is a community-led, internationally recognized, and award-winning campaign (Skate Like A Girl Social Projects Award 2023, Exposure Skate Social Projects Skate Rising Award 2nd Place 2021) that promotes healthy messages about sexual consent in the skateboarding community. Launched at the Pushing Boarders conference in Malmo, Sweden.

Brisbane, Australia

Instagram: @weskateqld I Webpage: https://weskateqld.wordpress.com. We Skate QLD is Australia's largest volunteer-run network for girls, women, non-binary and gender diverse skateboarders and is based in Meanjin Brisbane and state of QLD. The group is co-founded and run by a group of dedicated skateboarders. We are one of the largest, most active and visible skate networks in Australia. Our main mission is to promote and encourage the participation and advancement of diversity in skateboarding. Our activities include coaching workshops, competitions, film screenings, skate demonstrations, educational talks and more. Recent grants to run community projects include the 'Adoptees Rolling' program for youth adopted from Asia, African and elsewhere abroad to Australia from Relationships Australia (2022) and for an anti-racism art, photography and skating project 'We All Skate QLD' from the Goodpush Alliance (2022).*The group was previously known as Girls Skate Brisbane 2016 - April 2020. We changed our name to recognise the greater diversity within our participants, staff and broader skate community.

FB Group (active, private group with over 1000 members): https://www.facebook.com/groups/4501598968/ FB Page (active, public notices) : https://www.facebook.com/AdoptedVietnameseInternational/ Archived website: http://www.adoptedvietnamese.org. Adopted Vietnamese International (AVI) is an award-winning initiative and one of the largest and longest-running Vietnamese adoptee-focused networks in the world. AVI was launched in April 2000 on the 25th anniversary of end the Viet Nam War and dedicated to Vietnamese adoptees from past generations to today. My work with AVI was acknowledged with a Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM)* in October 2006 for service to the community. In the lead-up to 2025 for the 50th anniversary of the end of the war our key focus is on offering resources, crowd-sourced adoptee-led information, and international opportunities for Vietnamese adoptees to connect with each other via social media platforms (a private FB Community Group with over 1000+ members).*Note I returned my OAM as a stance of support for LGBTIAQ+ communities and First Nations Peoples in 2021.

Website: https://asianaustralianfilmforum.wordpress.com. The Asian Australian Review (formerly named Asian Australian Films, Forum and Network AAFFN) is one of the longest running platforms that shares information about the Asian Australian screen scene, writers, academics, activists, community groups and various other change makers and occasional special events. Past collaborators and sponsors include SBS Film, Mad Men films, Village Cinema, The University of Queensland, RMIT and other community supporters.

Research Phase 1: August to December 2023. Research Phase 2: June-August 2024. Project Principal Co-investigator - Asian Australian Research with Dr Kasun Abayasiri and Dr Eun-ji Amy Kim for the 'Scoping research on anti-Asian racism and role of the national human rights institution' project for the Australian Human Rights Commission National Anti-Racism Framework Project delivered through the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University.

Project leader, consultancy was part of a grant from the Australian Institute of Sport's Women Leadership in Sport. The Rolling Free: Leading in Equity, Diveristy and Inclusion Project was delivered through the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University. Team: Dr Indigo Willing, Dr Adele Pavlidis and Prof. Simone Fullagar.

Lecturer and Convener, Qualitative Research Methods for Masters Degree in Creative Industries.

St Lucia Campus, Australia

Courses: Qualitative Research Methods for 2nd Year students and post-graduate students plus a Writing Course for Honours students

Course Co-Facilitator & Lecturer, Capstone Course - Current Issues & Debates in Sociology (2013)Lecturer, Introduction to Sociology (Summer School 2012 - 13)Course Coordinator & Lecturer, Capstone Course - Current Issues & Debates in Sociology (2012)

AASRN is a formal network for academics, arts and community groups and individuals with an interest in Asian Australian studies and related topics. Joined in 2011 as Co-Convener by the invitation of the AASRN Executive and established long term member/creator Dr Tseen Khoo.

Bi-annual screenings of local and international films by and/or featuring the stories of transcultural adoptees at various events Australia-wide in collaboration with various State committees made up of transcultural adoptees (2009 Co-Presented by AVI and ICASN) and in Brisbane, screenings and video making workshops (2011 Co-presented by AVI & others). Next events will be in 2013.

Asian Australian Occasion Event Organiser and Convenor, held at the University of Queensland in association with the Asian Australian Studies Research Network and the School of Social Science and Library.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Sociology

Master By Thesis, Social Inquiry

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Media Arts And Social Inquiry

Higher School Certificate, Drama And Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General