Rate My Professor Snjezana Bilic

Dr. Snjezana Bilic is a Senior Lecturer in AU Pathways and Participation at Adelaide University. She researches and teaches in the areas of sociology, human rights, and refugee education, driven by a deep concern for issues related to education and justice. Her scholarly work centers on enabling education within the field, including widening participation strategies, social inclusion, and educational initiatives that support student aspirations and smooth transitions into higher education. Bilic develops best practice approaches for teaching in super-diverse classrooms, highlights the perspectives of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students and students from refugee backgrounds (SfRBs) in enabling courses, and examines the provision of supports for these students and their educators. She has also focused on educational pathways for women who have experienced homelessness. In her career, Bilic has served as lead academic in the UniSA College Refugee Student Support group, co-convenor of the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student Support Special Interest Group (SIG) for the National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia (NAEEA), and delivered intensive preparatory courses for women recovering from homelessness.

Bilic has earned significant recognition for her contributions, including the 2022 Education Research Fellowship awarded jointly with Dr. Heidi Hetz, the 2018 UniSA Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for co-developing supportive resources on academic integrity in enabling education alongside Mrs. Tamra Ulpen and Dr. Anthea Fudge, and the 2019 Australian Award for University Teaching for her work in academic integrity and enabling education. Her key publications include 'It makes you feel like you're at home, you're safe, you're happy in here': enacting culturally responsive and enabling pedagogies with refugee students in a university pathway program (2025, Australian Educational Researcher, with Hetz and Allain); Unruly female spectators at the Melbourne Cup in Australia: media discourses about women and alcohol consumption (2023, Feminist Media Studies, with McHendrie, Zufferey, and Loeser); 'One day I will make it to university': students from refugee backgrounds in university pathway programs (2023, International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, with Thai); and chapters such as Enhancing agency and providing hope in a global sociology course (2024) and contributions to Toward a theory of critical enabling pedagogy for Australian higher education (2024), both in Enabling Pedagogy and Action Research in Higher Education. She teaches courses including HUMS 1062 Individual and Society in Contemporary Australia (2024, 2025), HUMS 1064 Global Citizenship in the 21st Century (2024, 2025), LANG 1068 Critical Thinking: Media and Academia (2025), and SCUCO 90001 Introduction to Global Issues and Identities SC (2024). Bilic is eligible to co-supervise Masters and PhD students.