Dr Archie Thomas is currently working as a Research Fellow part-time with the James Martin Institute.

Dr Archie Thomas is an award-winning researcher and educator whose work has focused on how institutions such as schools and the media can change to better service the needs of historically marginalised groups. As a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, Archie is investigating the emergence of a school-to-prison pipeline in Australian schools, as well as projects on Indigenous self-determination in education, LGBTIQ+ inclusion in education, and diversity and inclusion of Indigenous and LGBTIQ+ people and perspectives in media.

Archie has collaborated with community organisations and government departments including Aboriginal Affairs NSW, the Australian Human Rights Commission and the National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition (NIYEC) on projects focused on policy change and social impact. Archie is a transgender man and uses he/him or they/them pronouns.

At JMI, he is conducting policy research on new approaches to addressing the school-to-prison nexus in NSW.