Rate My Professor Rosie Roberts

Dr Rosie Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Adelaide University, part of the College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities, where she teaches into the Cultural Studies and Creative Arts programs. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in 2010 and Bachelor of Honours in Communication, Information and New Media in 2006 at the University of South Australia, alongside a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching in 2012 from the same institution, and a Bachelor of Media from the University of Adelaide between 2002 and 2004. Roberts' research utilizes a life course and intersectional approach to explore the lived experiences of creative and cultural workers, with a focus on diversity within the popular music industry. Her work covers regional festivals and place-based identity, grassroots music venues and the contemporary music ecosystem, mid-career transformations intersecting ageing and gender for women in contemporary music, cultural organisations facing funding insecurity and diversification, and arts-based approaches for new arrival communities. She is a research member of the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre at Adelaide University and supervises doctoral students in cultural studies, migration studies, and the creative and cultural industries.

Roberts has produced key publications including the authored book Ongoing Mobility Trajectories: Lived Experiences of Global Migration (Springer Nature, 2019), the co-edited volume Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration: Migrants 'In-Between' (Routledge, 2022), and journal articles such as “I'd Have to be Crazy if I Did it Strictly on a Financial Basis”: Australian Regional Music Venues, Burnout, and Precarious Music Ecologies (Popular Music and Society, 2025, with S. Whiting), Everyday Refugee Integration: A Holistic Reconceptualization of Refugee Integration through the Everyday Practices of Hazara Afghan Refugees (Journal of Sociology, 2024, with D. Radford et al.), and The Impact of COVID-19 on Music Venues in Regional South Australia: A Case Study (Perfect Beat, 2021, with S. Whiting). Previously at the University of South Australia, she received the School of Creative Industries Mid-Career Researcher Award in 2019 and the Division of Education, Arts and Social Science Early Career Teacher Academic Excellence Award in 2017.