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Dr Fabiane Ramos

Dr Fabiane Ramos
Name Fabiane Ramos
Pronoun She/Her/Hers
Position Lecturer (Pathways)
Section School of Business, Law, Humanities and Pathways
Location Springfield Campus
Phone +61 7 3470 4173
Extension 4173
Email
Qualifications BALAL Griffith , MAppLing Qld , PhD Qld
Languages Portuguese (non accredited translator)
Spanish (non accredited translator)
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/80yyz/dr-fabiane-ramos
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Biography

Fabiane Ramos is a Lecturer in Pathways with extensive experience across higher education and adult education. She has a background in Education, Applied Linguistics, and Gender Studies, and completed her PhD at the University of Queensland on the educational experiences of refugee background students in relation to concepts of academic success in Australia. A key area of her expertise is embedding academic literacies within disciplinary teaching to support students from underrepresented groups, particularly those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, in their transitions into undergraduate and postgraduate study.

Fabiane’s research is interdisciplinary, spanning refugee education, enabling, undergraduate and doctoral education, as well as migrant, academic, and motherhood identities. It is characterised by a coherent focus on three interrelated areas: inclusion, equity, and transitions. She examines how students and academics experience participation and belonging, attending to relational, structural, and pedagogical dimensions of inclusion, and to educational and identity transitions across the higher education lifecycle. Her work approaches equity beyond access, focusing instead on meaningful learning experiences centred on academic preparedness and care. She understands transitions as complex and non-linear, encompassing both educational pathways and broader processes of becoming — such as migrant and citizen, student and academic, and mother and researcher.

Methodologically, her work draws on qualitative, narrative, and reflexive approaches informed by feminist theories, with a particular interest in creative and self reflexive forms of inquiry.

Her recent projects include nationally funded research on in-school enabling programs as alternative pathways into higher education, and a collaborative project on matrescence in academia, including the co-convening of international symposia. Fabiane has published in leading journals including The Australian Educational Researcher, Discourse, Pedagogy Culture and Society, and Feminist Review, and has secured competitive research funding and international collaborations. She is also engaged in pedagogical innovation, including current work on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in assessment design.

Fabiane’s research interests include:

• Pathways, transitions, and higher education pedagogy

• Widening participation and enabling education

• Supporting CALD and underrepresented students

• Feminist theories and methodologies

• Academic identities and experiences (including motherhood and matrescence)

• Motherhood studies

• Alternative research methodologies and creative academic writing

• Ethics of care, affect, and relational pedagogies

• Migrant and forced migrant experiences

• TESOL and language education

Research Career


  • Curriculum And Pedagogy not elsewhere classified ( 390199 )
  • Lote ( 390108 )
  • Feminist Theory ( 440503 )
  • Multicultural Education (excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander ( 390410 )
  • Gender Studies ( 440500 )
  • Education Systems ( 390300 )
  • Postcolonial Studies ( 470213 )
  • Higher Education ( 390303 )
  • Curriculum And Pedagogy ( 390100 )
  • Intersectional Studies ( 440505 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Specialist Studies In Education ( 390400 )
  • Specialist Studies In Education not elsewhere classified ( 390499 )
  • Feminist Methodologies ( 440502 )

• Pathways, transitions, and higher education pedagogy
• Widening participation and enabling education
• Supporting CALD and underrepresented students
• Feminist theories and methodologies
• Academic identities and experiences (including motherhood and matrescence)
• Motherhood studies
• Alternative research methodologies and creative academic writing
• Ethics of care, affect, and relational pedagogies
• Migrant and forced migrant experiences
• TESOL and language education


• AARE – Australian Association of Research in Education
• NAEEA - The National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia
• EPHEA - Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia
• AWGSA – Australian Women and Gender Studies Association

Teaching


TPP0122 - Study Management
SWM5001 - Social Work Elevate 1
AEP1111 - Transitioning to University


12 Years


17 Years

Supervision


  • Curriculum And Pedagogy not elsewhere classified ( 390199 )
  • Lote ( 390108 )
  • Feminist Theory ( 440503 )
  • Multicultural Education (excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander ( 390410 )
  • Gender Studies ( 440500 )
  • Education Systems ( 390300 )
  • Postcolonial Studies ( 470213 )
  • Higher Education ( 390303 )
  • Curriculum And Pedagogy ( 390100 )
  • Intersectional Studies ( 440505 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Specialist Studies In Education ( 390400 )
  • Specialist Studies In Education not elsewhere classified ( 390499 )
  • Feminist Methodologies ( 440502 )