Dr Pariece Nelligan

Pariece Nelligan is a proud Gamilaraay woman and postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Research in Educational Impact (REDI). She is currently working on a research project that examines the long-term effects of participation in youth arts programs. Her research interests include youth arts education and creative careers, precarious labour and employment, arts-based vocational education and training, and life history narrative research. She is interested in critical race and social class theory, and gender studies.

She is the co-author of "The Creativity Hoax: precarious work and the gig economy" (Anthem, 2018). She received her PhD at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University where she is also currently an adjunct research fellow.