I am an early career researcher and resident adjunct research fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University. My research focuses on the intersections of decoloniality, feminisms and rurality especially from Latin American epistemologies.

In 2019 I was awarded the Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship for a project entitled ‘Advancing Peace and Conflict Studies from The Ground: Women’s Oral Testimonies and Historical Memory in Colombia’. Recent publications include a journal article entitled‘ ‘We are not poor things’: territorio cuerpo-tierra and Colombian women’s organised struggles’ in Feminist Theory and a co-authored book chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies (2020).

I am also interested interested in visual, participatory and arts/research methodologies (see https://francesstreetpress.com/ake-zine/).

I am also a sessional convenor, tutor and lecturer for the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University and at the Griffith College. I teach in the areas of sociology, cultural studies, qualitative research and human security.

Website: https://www.laurarodriguezcastro.com/

Twitter: @laurarc91