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D-Index
31
Citations
4168
World Ranking
7533
National Ranking
536

Catherine Manathunga publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catherine Manathunga sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 157 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Catherine Manathunga D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catherine Manathunga sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Catherine Manathunga is affiliated with the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Their research primarily covers the field of Social Sciences, with a substantial focus on Education. Within this domain, subfields addressed include Education, Sociology and Political Science, Health, Global and Planetary Change, and Geography, Planning and Development.

The main topics explored in their work are:

  • Higher Education Practises and Engagement
  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Service-Learning and Community Engagement
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism

Recent publications authored or co-authored include:

  • "Community engagement is ... : revisiting Boyer's model of scholarship" (2020), published in Higher Education Research & Development
  • "Indigenous Knowledge Systems in South Africa and Australia: transforming doctoral education" (2023), published in Curriculum Perspectives
  • "Decolonising higher education: creating space for Southern knowledge systems" (2020), published in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South
  • "The timescapes of teaching in Higher Education" (2020), published in Teaching in Higher Education
  • "Teachers' Pedagogical Practices and Students' Learning Experiences in an Ethiopian University Setting" (2020), published in Asian Journal of University Education

The frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
  • Higher Education Research & Development
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South
  • The Australian Educational Researcher
  • Teaching in Higher Education

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include:

  • Jing Qi
  • Maria Raciti
  • Kathryn Gilbey
  • Shelley Davidow
  • Sue Stanton

Best Publications

  • Supervision as Mentoring: The Role of Power and Boundary Crossing.

    Catherine Manathunga

  • The development of research supervision: “Turning the light on a private space”

    Catherine Manathunga

  • Early warning signs in postgraduate research education: a different approach to ensuring timely completions

    Catherine Manathunga

  • Challenging the dual assumption of the ‘always/already’ autonomous student and effective supervisor

    Catherine Manathunga;Justine Goozée

  • Imagining an interdisciplinary doctoral pedagogy

    Catherine Manathunga;Paul Lant;George Mellick

  • Clutch-Starting Stalled Research Students

    Kathy Ahern;Catherine Manathunga

  • Going Global with Assessment: What to do when the dominant culture's literacy drives assessment

    Dolly MacKinnon;Catherine Manathunga

  • Doing Educational Development Ambivalently: Applying post‐colonial metaphors to educational development?

    Catherine Manathunga

  • "Unhomely" Academic Developer Identities: More Post-Colonial Explorations.

    Catherine Manathunga

  • Graduate attribute development and employment outcomes: tracking PhD graduates

    Catherine Manathunga;Rachael Pitt;Christa Critchley

  • Doctoral supervision in a cross-cultural context: issues affecting supervisors and candidates

    Theresa Winchester-Seeto;Judi Homewood;Jane Thogersen;Christa Jacenyik-Trawoger

  • Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Reimagining time, place and knowledge

    Catherine Manathunga

  • Supervisors watching supervisors: The deconstructive possibilities and tensions of team supervision

    Catherine Manathunga

  • Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Ethnographic Journeys of Identity and Power

    Catherine Manathunga

  • Research as an intercultural ‘contact zone’

    Catherine Manathunga

  • ‘Timescapes’ in doctoral education: the politics of temporal equity in higher education

    Catherine Manathunga

  • Developing professional researchers: research students’ graduate attributes

    Catherine Manathunga;Paul Lant;George Mellick

  • Why history? Why now? Multiple accounts of the emergence of academic development

    Barbara Grant;Alison Lee;Sue Clegg;Catherine Manathunga

  • African international doctoral students in New Zealand: Englishes, doctoral writing and intercultural supervision

    Stephanie Doyle;Catherine Manathunga;Gerard Prinsen;Rachel Tallon

  • Intercultural doctoral supervision: The centrality of place, time and other forms of knowledge:

    Catherine Manathunga

  • Making sense of quality teaching and learning in higher education in Ethiopia: Unfolding existing realities for future promises

    Tefera Tadesse;Catherine E Manathunga;Robyn M Gillies

Frequent Co-Authors

Robyn M. Gillies
Robyn M. Gillies University of Queensland
Paul Lant
Paul Lant University of Queensland
David Boud
David Boud Deakin University
Christine A. Beveridge
Christine A. Beveridge University of Queensland
Allyson Holbrook
Allyson Holbrook University of Newcastle Australia
Sue Clegg
Sue Clegg Leeds Beckett University
Raewyn Connell
Raewyn Connell University of Sydney

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