Wellbeing and Culture Research Group
The Wellbeing and Culture group is a transdisciplinary research team undertaking specialist studies in education projects focusing on student wellbeing, teacher wellbeing, and culture. The group focuses on evidence-based approaches that can be used to have a positive impact on education and to narrow the gap in contemporary and emerging topics in education.

Key areas: Wellbeing, International and Indigenous Education, Policy, Sociology and Philosophy
Team Leader: Assoc. Prof Mathew White
Research team
- Dr Stephen Kelly
- Dr Nina Maadad
- Dr Lynda Macleod
- Prof Faye McCallum
- Dr Steven Stolz
- Dr Linda Westphalen
Higher degree research students
- Tania Zebian
- Mohamed Fadhil Bin Mohamed Ismail
- Liwen Tan
- Shaun Oakey
- Carl Salt
- Katrina Cummins
- Adam Slater
- Yuli Astiana
- Wendy Cowan
- Mutinta Sifelani Musindo
- Safiah Nasser M Hakami
- Parivash Mohammad Nezhad
- Jennifer Stokes
- Susan Sprason
- Wenfei Li