Rate My Professor Rae Cooper

Cooper's key publications include co-authorship of 'Trauma Aware and Anti-Oppressive Arts-Health and Community Arts Practice' (2023, International Journal of Qualitative Methods) and 'First Nations Music as a Determinant of Health in Australia and Vanuatu: Political and Economic Determinants' (2023, Health Promotion Journal of Australia). She has secured major funding as Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Grant (2023) for 'Intergenerational Healing: A Creative First Nations Approach to Wellbeing,' Griffith University Research Accelerator Grant (2024) for 'Re-discovering the Indigenous Design Process in Mainstream Practices,' and Medical Research Future Fund - Preventive and Public Health Research (2024). Career highlights encompass designing undergraduate and postgraduate design and media courses, supervising honours and masters students, serving as QCA College Committee Academic Staff Representative (2017-2018), and co-curating the 'Women's Work' exhibition (2019). Awards include Arts, Education and Law Research Excellence Awards (2023, Remedy Project), Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching, Highly Commended (2015, Work Integrated Learning), and multiple Awards for Academic Excellence (2010, 2009). She engages in professional development workshops, high school masterclasses, and commercial projects supported by Griffith University Enterprise.