Dr Aidan Cornelius-Bell
B.EdSt / B.A., B.Ed (Hons), Ph.D. (Cultural Studies)
Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia
Bio
In brief Aidan is a Senior Lecturer with Adelaide University. Aidan works in curriculum Indigenisation, and has an academic interest in challenging capitalist realism. Aidan is a respectful guest on Kaurna Country ↗︎.
Less brief Aidan is an award-winning Senior Lecturer with the University of South Australia, currently on secondment to Adelaide University as academic lead for the Indigenisation of Curriculum and First Nations Common Core projects. He also holds academic status with Charles Darwin University. His research spans higher education, cultural studies, and political philosophy, focusing on decolonial approaches that challenge hegemonic social relations. As an Arrernte descendant, Aidan co-created UniSA’s Aboriginal Curriculum and Pedagogy process, bringing lived experience to this work. Aidan also supervises PhD students whose work aims for fundamental social transformation. My values – compassion, justice, genuine equity, and radical social change – guide my advocacy for co-designed thinking that disrupts capitalist realism. My work takes place on the unceded Country of the Kaurna Miyurna, where I remain a respectful guest.