National researcher leader Dr Mandy Thomas will speak to fledgling CQU researchers during a Research Roundtable and Luncheon, from 12.30pm-1.30pm at the Capricornia College on Rockhampton Campus.

Dr Thomas will discuss development of a research profile for early career researchers in the current Australian research climate.

The visitor is a leading Australian anthropologist, the Australian Research Council's (ARC) Executive Director for the Humanities and Creative Arts, and Executive Director of the Discovery Projects Funding Program.

Her extensive multi-disciplinary experience has involved research, consultancies and publications in Indigenous Australian, multicultural Australian, and Asian studies. More specifically, Dr Thomas has conducted research into: Indigenous languages; Asian migration to Australia; Asian and Middle Eastern youth in urban Australia; youth cultures, and social and political change in Vietnam; cultural traffic in the Asian region; and Asian-Australian art. Dr Thomas is the Vice President of the Anthropology Society of Australia and recently revised and rewrote the Code of Ethics for the Anthropological Association of Australia.

As a female researcher in the humanities and social sciences, Dr Thomas is well versed in the challenges facing researchers in the humanities trying to secure external research funding, and in particular the challenges faced by early career researchers. ENDS.