The Mourning After Project Team 

Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth

Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth is a digital ethnographer and socially engaged artist in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University. Hjorth is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow exploring mobile media mourning.

Dr Katrin Gerber

Dr Katrin Gerber is an innovative mixed-methods researcher with a PhD in Psychology and a passion for end-of-life and grief research, using creative methods to make taboo topics widely accessible.

Dr Tamara Borovica

Dr Tamara Borovica’s area of expertise focusses on embodiment, identity and the body and psycho-social approaches to mental health, well-being and belonging.

Dr Leanne Downing

With experience as Senior Media Advisor, Crisis Communications Consultant and Researcher, Dr Leanne Downing explores the intersection of digital media and emotions, with her most recent work focusing on grief mobile media and spirituality.

Shahee Ilyas

Shahee Ilyas is a transdisciplinary designer and RMIT PhD candidate, examining how data visualisation on mobile media can address ecological grief and drive social change.

Himani Joshi

Himani Joshi is an RMIT PhD candidate, exploring the interconnectedness of grief in the broader milieu of influencers and social media cultural discourses, particularly on TikTok.

The Mourning After Advisory Board 

• Christopher Hall - AM, CEO of Grief Australia
• Bernadette Degabriele - Practice Lead at the Violet Initiative
• Marianne Bowdler - Clinical Service Manager at Griefline and Representative of the Loss and Grief Practitioners' Association
• Samar Aoun - Researcher, Palliative Care WA & Perron Institute
• Gabriela Georges - Writer, Musician and Creator of The Grief Cocoon
• Lauren Breen - Psychologist, Researcher at Curtin University School of Population Health
• Andrea Grindrod -  Director of the Public Health Palliative Care Unit at LaTrobe University and Developer of the digital Healthy End of Life Program (HELP)