Rate My Professor Aidan Cornelius-Bell

Dr Aidan Cornelius-Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Academic Development at Adelaide University, currently on secondment as academic lead for the Indigenisation of Curriculum and First Nations Common Core projects. He holds academic status with Charles Darwin University and is a multi-award-winning Senior Lecturer with the University of South Australia. An Arrernte descendant working respectfully on Kaurna Country, Cornelius-Bell earned his PhD from Flinders University in 2021 with the thesis 'Student Activism in Higher Education: The Politics of Students’ Role in Hegemonic University Change.' His qualifications also include a Bachelor of Education Studies and Bachelor of Arts from the Faculty of Education. His career focuses on challenging dominant knowledges in higher education through co-designed, transformative practices guided by compassion, justice, equity, and radical social change.

Cornelius-Bell's research specializations include higher education, cultural studies, political philosophy, decolonial approaches that challenge hegemonic social relations, enabling and activist education, sociology, and cultural studies. He is eligible to co-supervise Masters and PhD students, currently overseeing doctoral research on undergraduate nursing students' experiences of clinical supervision and clinical simulation skills assessment. Key publications feature 'Deterritorialising Student Voice and Partnership in Higher Education' (Higher Education, 2023, with P.A. Bell and M. Dollinger), 'The Academic Precariat Post-COVID-19' (Fast Capitalism, 2021, with P.A. Bell), 'Partnership as Student Power: Democracy and Governance in a Neoliberal University' (Radical Teacher, 2020, with P.A. Bell), 'A Capitalist Stranglehold on “Artificial Intelligence”' (Fast Capitalism, 2024), 'Rethinking Capitalist Governance of Higher Education Towards an Anarcho-Syndicalist Model for Academia' (Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies, 2024, with P. Bell), and 'Centring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices... in Fully Online Undergraduate Health Course Curriculum Development' (Canadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies, 2024, with M. Watkins and B. Marsh). He teaches courses such as HLTH 2039 Aboriginal Public Health Practice and Research, contributing to programs including the Bachelor of Health Science (Public Health) and Bachelor of Arts.