Biography and expertise

Biography and research

Olivera Kamenarac is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus. Her research traverses the sociology of education, educational policy studies, and feminist poststructuralist and posthumanist theories of subjectivity. Drawing on academic experience across Serbia, New Zealand, Ireland, Malta, Norway, and Australia, she explores how educational structures, discourses, and praxes (re)configure be(com)ing in/through education. Committed to social and planetary justice, her scholarship interrogates education as a contested terrain where power, politics, and the natural world entangle with transformative and relational possibilities for human and more-than-human intra-be(com)ings.

Her work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals

Source: Scopus

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Honours

Outstanding Teaching Award
Southern Cross University, 2024

Organisational affiliations

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University

Past affiliations

Senior Lecturer and Co-director of Early Years Research Centre, University of Waikato (New Zealand, Hamilton)

Asistant Lecturer in Pedagogy, University of Novi Sad (Serbia, Novi Sad)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy
University of Waikato (New Zealand, Hamilton)
International European Master in Early Childhood Policies and Practice (IMEC)
Cojoin Degree between Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway), Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland), University of Malta (Malta)
Master in Pedagogy (Science of Education)
University of Novi Sad (Serbia, Novi Sad)
Bachelor (Hons) in Pedagogy (Science of Education)
University of Novi Sad (Serbia, Novi Sad)