Fran Grant

Email: f.grant@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: Heidi Norman, Anne-Maree Payne

Fran Grant is a Yuin woman and her large, known Aboriginal family come mostly from the NSW South Coast. She is the child of a Stolen Child and has an ongoing desire to learn more about the disconnection and loss that government policies forced on First Nations Australians post colonisation. Fran graduated from Macquarie University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education), and then completed a Masters Degree in Strategic Communications at UTS in 2020. Her research interest is predominantly in History and Culture of Aboriginal people in Australia. Her research focus is centred on ‘Aboriginal people using DNA to re/connect with family’, and is close to her heart as she searches for her Dad’s Birth Father. Fran is currently an Academic at UTS in an identified position and works in the Faculty of Design and Society, School of Communication, Social and Political Sciences team. She teaches in a subject titled ‘Self and Society’, which is an introduction to Sociology and is the Subject Coordinator for a subject titled ‘Comparing Indigenous Histories and Politics’, which is a global comparative of Indigenous peoples across the world, mostly via case studies and the examination of campaigns and events that have worked towards Self Determination for First Nations peoples in many contexts and different parts of the world.