Dr Karen Nobes

Karen Nobes is a qualitative researcher specialising in identification of systemic barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Karen is a media and communications specialist with 25 years’ experience as a documentary Director and Producer in the film and television industries of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. After completing a Masters in International Development, Karen worked as a communications strategist and project manager with government and non-government organisations in the Pacific Islands and remote communities of the West Kimberley.

White Noise (2020), a feature length documentary produced as part of her creative practice PhD, interrogates the absence of First Nation presence in commercial television drama. White Noise was broadcast on National Indigenous Television (NITV) and SBS on demand (2020 – 2023).