Claire Backhouse

Marketing and Communications Manager

Claire is a communications specialist with over 10 years’ experience in Australia’s higher education sector and in the not-for-profit sector in Vietnam and Cambodia. Prior to joining the SRI, Claire spent more than two years in Cambodia, where she was Communications Manager for ‘This Life,’ a community development organisation focused on social justice issues such as gender-based violence, children’s rights, and juvenile justice and diversion. Prior to this Claire was the Engagement and Development Communications Coordinator at the University of Queensland Graduate School, focused on the Higher Degrees by Research program and the Three Minute Thesis competition.