
Katherine Thompson
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Katherine Thompson (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Social Research in Health, and a research assistant and sessional academic in the School of Education at UNSW Sydney (Bedegal Country). She is the recipient of the inaugural Rainbow Families PhD Top-Up Scholarship at UNSW. Her doctoral research explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in forming families with children, utilising queer and creative methodologies to understand the lived experiences involved and the implications for more inclusive health and social policy. She holds a B.A. in English from Duke University and an M.A. in Education from Wake Forest University, and has worked at UNSW for the past decade in the fields of Indigenous education, social justice education, critical pedagogy and anti-racism.
- Research area
- Research outputs
- LGBTQ+ families
- Social and family imaginaries
- Queer theory
- Creative research methods
- Thompson, K., Lowe, K., Vass, G., & Woods, A. (2025). . Curriculum Inquiry, 1–23.