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Kate Rossmanith is an ethnographer, writer, and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, who co-leads a research program examining the role of imagination in knowledge-making and world-building. She researches narrative emotion-concepts within legal processes and the diverse methods of writing that capture these phenomena. As a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing in 2026, she is recognized as a leading scholar on remorse. Kate is the author of 'Small Wrongs: Say Sorry, Love, Life Law', which was nominated for national and international literary awards, and co-editor of 'Remorse in Criminal Justice: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives'. Her work has included symposia and workshops for criminal justice researchers and practitioners, aimed at improving outcomes for those involved in the criminal justice system. She studies how researchers and writers use various writing forms—such as scholarly articles, fiction, essays, memoirs, and poetry—to open new spaces for thinking and feeling. Her works have been published in various notable outlets including Public Books and the Guardian Australia. In her role at Macquarie University, she supervises numerous PhD theses and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and a PhD from the University of Sydney.
Macquarie University • Sydney, Australia
Leads research projects and teaches in the School of Communication, Society, and Culture.
Applied to Department of Business (MBA Program).