2026 Catherine Manathunga: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	31	7534	6999	538	518	157	4168

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

312
Citations
The development of research supervision: “Turning the light on a private space”

Catherine Manathunga

278
Citations
Early warning signs in postgraduate research education: a different approach to ensuring timely completions

Catherine Manathunga

264
Citations
Challenging the dual assumption of the ‘always/already’ autonomous student and effective supervisor

Catherine Manathunga;Justine Goozée

235
Citations
Imagining an interdisciplinary doctoral pedagogy

Catherine Manathunga;Paul Lant;George Mellick

211
Citations
Clutch-Starting Stalled Research Students

Kathy Ahern;Catherine Manathunga

165
Citations
Going Global with Assessment: What to do when the dominant culture's literacy drives assessment

Dolly MacKinnon;Catherine Manathunga

149
Citations
Doing Educational Development Ambivalently: Applying post‐colonial metaphors to educational development?

Catherine Manathunga

148
Citations
"Unhomely" Academic Developer Identities: More Post-Colonial Explorations.

Catherine Manathunga

137
Citations
Graduate attribute development and employment outcomes: tracking PhD graduates

Catherine Manathunga;Rachael Pitt;Christa Critchley

125
Citations
Doctoral supervision in a cross-cultural context: issues affecting supervisors and candidates

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

114
Citations
Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Reimagining time, place and knowledge

Catherine Manathunga

109
Citations
Supervisors watching supervisors: The deconstructive possibilities and tensions of team supervision

Catherine Manathunga

84
Citations
Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Ethnographic Journeys of Identity and Power

Catherine Manathunga

77
Citations
Research as an intercultural ‘contact zone’

Catherine Manathunga

75
Citations
‘Timescapes’ in doctoral education: the politics of temporal equity in higher education

Catherine Manathunga

63
Citations
Developing professional researchers: research students’ graduate attributes

Catherine Manathunga;Paul Lant;George Mellick

61
Citations
Why history? Why now? Multiple accounts of the emergence of academic development

Barbara Grant;Alison Lee;Sue Clegg;Catherine Manathunga

57
Citations
African international doctoral students in New Zealand: Englishes, doctoral writing and intercultural supervision

Stephanie Doyle;Catherine Manathunga;Gerard Prinsen;Rachel Tallon

54
Citations
Intercultural doctoral supervision: The centrality of place, time and other forms of knowledge:

Catherine Manathunga

43
Citations
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

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robyn M. Gillies University of Queensland

Paul Lant University of Queensland

David Boud Deakin University

Christine A. Beveridge University of Queensland

Allyson Holbrook University of Newcastle Australia

Sue Clegg Leeds Beckett University

Raewyn Connell University of Sydney

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