Julie King

Julie King is a senior lecturer and Honours coordinator in the School of Public Health and Social Work at Queensland University of Technology. Dr King is a medical anthropologist with a strong interest in human rights, gender and disability in low and middle income countries. She takes a human rights and inclusive development approach to working in numerous countries in the Asia-Pacific and Africa. She has researched in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia and conducted gender, disability and social inclusion training in Nepal, Fiji, Tonga, Vietnam, Cambodia and Tanzania. She supervises high degree research students both domestic and international with a focus on cross-cultural research and international fieldwork. She has supervised students from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Nigeria Solomon Islands and Vietnam. She also supervises social work and public health students on placement overseas. Currently, she teaches human rights and climate justice within the school.

Publications

Teaching Global Competence, Creating Global Citizens: Critical Citizenship Education in Higher Education
Teaching Global Competence, Creating Global Citizens: Critical Citizenship Education in Higher Education
Deanna Grant-Smith, Tanya Weiler, Julie King, Shaun Sydney Nykvist, Marisha B. McAuliffe. © 2023. 36 pages.
Developing students' global competence has become increasingly important in the face of social, economic, and environmental threats, natural disasters, and climate change....