Doctor Cali Prince

Cali is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), sessional academic, and a practice-led researcher specialising in cultural studies. Cali has received both academic and industry based awards, most recently as recipient of a Vice Chancellor's Excellence Award in 2024.

In the School of Arts, Cali is a Subject Coordinator for HUMN3103 Group Project (Spring session). In 2025 Cali was Lecturer and Tutor for INFO2009 Multiliteracies and Tutor for HUMN1066 Introduction to Culture & Society.

Cali is a doctoral graduate of the Institute for Culture, with a Doctorate of Cultural Research. Her Doctoral Portfolio was entitled 'Unmasking the 4th Space: Collaborative Creativity in Praxis at the Intersection of Artists, People with their Communities, and Institutions' (2022). Cali’s research explores a space for narratives that are often not heard to be rewoven and performed at the centre. In this time, she developed a new methodological development 'Sensory and Poetic Relationship Mapping - SPRM' (Prince 2022). She works with the following methodologies: Arts Based Research, Narrative Inquiry, Autoethnography, Sensory Ethnography and Ethnographically based poetry as a form of creative resistance to dominant narratives and power in relation to history, place, people and events. Ultimately towards centering alternate narratives, thereby enacting transformations. 

Cali's work is published in peer reviewed academic journals and is cited internationally. She has peer reviewed articles for international journals including: Qualitative Inquiry, The Ethnographic Edge (NZ) as well as Community, Social and Political Agendas in the Arts (Common Ground - USA).

Additionally, Cali is a sessional Academic Teacher in Cultural Studies at (WSU) The College, and at WSU The International College and Curriculum Reviewer and Writer. In 2024 she was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Excellence Award in the category of the The College Award for Excellence (team) for the pilot of Destination College Team – Diploma in Culture, Society and Justice.

As a practitioner, Cali brings more than 25 years of industry experience spanning the arts, theatre, arts health & wellbeing and CACD (Community Arts & Cultural Development) to her role. She has undertaken public sector roles in government (Cultural Development at Penrith City Council, Research Associate at Creative Australia (formerly the Australia Council for the Arts), and as a facilitator in the arts and cultural sector (Milk Crate Theatre, Blacktown Arts Centre and more). In her role at Penrith City Council’s Neighbourhood Renewal Program, her projects were awarded a number of Local Government Shires Association - Cultural Awards. She has been an expert peer assessor on multiple arts and cultural funding panels for federal, state and local government (including Creative Australia - formerly the Australia Council, and Arts Tasmania).

For further information see:

https://caliprince.academia.edu

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5675-6884