School of Arts and Humanities

Dr Simone Marino

Dr Simone Marino is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Education.

Background

Dr Simone Marino is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with VC Professorial Research Fellow, Professor Narelle Lemon on projects such as the Citizen Wellbeing Scientist Project, which explores everyday self-care through multi-modal community engagement.

He is researching and has co-designed Comusichiamo, a music and narrative engagement intervention that highlights the role of home music, first language, and storytelling in supporting migrant populations living with dementia and their family caregivers. For this research, he serves as Music & Cultural Engagement Consultant for WA InCasa Aged Care.

Simone’s interdisciplinary research focuses on ethnic identity construction and transmission, dementia’s impact, and the wellbeing of diverse migrant communities. He is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at ECU’s SAGE Futures Lab.

Professional associations

• Present ECU Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab Research Fellow
• Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG)
• Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) Fellow member
• 2022 – present Centre for Research in Aged Care (CRAC) Edith Cowan University
• 2021 – present National Ageing Research Institute (NARI)
• 2020 – 2021 Research Associate at The University of Western Australia (UWA) at Social Care and Ageing Living Lab (SAGE)
• 2020 – present Creative People, Products and Places (CP3), University of South Australia
• 2019 – present Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN)
• Centre for Economic and Cultural Sociology (CECS)
• 2018 – present Oral History Australia SA/NT
• 2015 – present Postgraduate Forum of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
• 2012 – present Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS)
• The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
• TASA Migration, ity and Multiculturalism Thematic Group
• 2012 – present Research Centre for Languages and Cultures (University of South Australia)

Awards and recognitions

• 2024 The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) “Sociology in Action Bursary” for ‘Having conducted important applied sociological research in industry’ (4th September).
• 2020 Inpress Magazine, Citizen Journalism and News Magazine (an Italian magazine of culture and society) Autori in Viaggio (travelling authors) prize for the book Intergenerational Ethnic Identity among Italian-Australians. Absence, Ambivalence and Revival as “best ethnographic investigation 2020”. (18th October, Rome).
• Honorary Research Fellow Award from the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), 2020-2023.
• 2019 The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Precarious Work Conference Scholarship, Western Sydney University, by AProf Dan Woodman, TASA President, for my presentation ‘Beyond authenticity. An ethnographic reflection on Italians in Australia and Italians in Italy’.
• 2017 Inpress Magazine, Citizen Journalism and News Magazine (an Italian magazine of culture and society) for my book Calabresi ad Adelaide, l’esperienza migratoria vissuta dai suonatori tradizionali. (24th September, Rome).
• 2015 Finalist in the Three Minutes Thesis Competition, University of South Australia. https://vimeo.com/236371065
• 2012 Award of La Voce di Tutti (the people’s voice) by the director of special issues of the Rome City Council Journal for the ‘exceptional quality’ of my book Calabresi ad Adelaide, l’esperienza migratoria vissuta dai suonatori tradizionali.

Research areas and interests

• His research interests encompass the construction and transmission of ethnic identity, the impact of music, storytelling and first language to support the wellbeing of migrants living with dementia.