
Position: ANU Network Member
School and/or Centres: Research School of Humanities and the Arts
Email: bianca.williams@anu.edu.au
Bianca Williams combines community sector and academic experience to address social justice issues. Bianca is an honours and PhD Graduate of Gender Sexuality and Culture, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University. Her PhD explored birthing parent’s experience of pregnancy and how their relationships may be mediated through objects of memory. Her research project included coordinating and documenting a memory workshop held with Kamilaroi women of Moree, NSW and mothers in the ACT region, which was framed in the broader context of a people’s Reconciliation. Her current roles at ANU are acting course coordinator of GEND1002-Reading Popular Culture and as a research assistant exploring gendered and decolonial approaches to memory. She is also currently employed as the senior policy officer at Families Australia and provides advice to the Commonwealth government, state governments, and the community sector on national policy issues related to gender and families.