PhD scholarship to study the experiences of LGBTIQ religious high-school-aged youth

A PhD scholarship focused on studying the experiences of LGBTIQ religious high-school-aged youth as part of an ARC Discovery project. The research explores knowledges and practices about sexuality and religion in the everyday worlds of young religious people. The PhD student will focus on data from state school research sites and take responsibility for analysis and dissemination of data relating to LGBTIQ religious youth. Expected outcomes include strategic health policy and curriculum development advice responding to debates around religious exemptions to anti-discrimination law, creating better education and health care for religious and LGBTIQ youth. Benefits include increased wellbeing for religious LGBTIQ youth, conservatively religious, and newly arrived youth communities in Australia. A fee waiver for international students is included to ensure recruitment of the best candidate. The student will be based at RMIT and co-supervised by CIs Johnson and Hickey-Moody.