Meaghan Vosz

Biography

Since 2015, Meaghan has worked at Southern Cross University conducting participatory, co-designed research to affect systemic and practice change, and teaching in the Masters of Social Work and Bachelor of Community Welfare. Meaghan has over twenty years’ experience in community work with children, young people, families and communities including LGBTQ people, people experiencing homelessness and poverty, people living with mental health issues and disability and the human services sector. Her community work and research aim to collaborate with people with lived experience and community organisations to build capacity for social justice, belonging, inclusion and equity in communities experiencing multiple intersecting forms of disadvantage, marginalisation and exclusion.

Research

Meaghan is Research Fellow with the Co-creating rainbow-inclusive care for gender and sexually diverse people in residential aged care research project (2024-2029), led by Professor Mark Hughes. The project will collaborate with LGBTQ+ people, residential aged care providers and staff to design, implement and evaluate an inclusive model of residential aged care for LGBTQ+ people. Meaghan also works for the Centre for Children and Young People, collaborating on projects that amplify children’s rights and participation in decisions that affect their safety and wellbeing.