Caroline Austin is a Writer, Artist and Community Engagement Specialist. She uses mediums ranging from writing, installations and public sculpture and has worked with the School of Visual Arts’ Visual and Critical Studies, New York; International Red Cross Red Crescent; the United Nations; Doh Eain, Myanmar and BARI Festival, Brisbane, to exhibitions and various publications such as SINTEZO Magazine.  She is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy at Allen & Unwin and has been the Writer in Residence at the Queensland Writers Centre. 

Her work has taken place in many of the largest crises globally for organisations such as the International Red Cross and United Nations. These roles allowed her to explore how creative practice, creativity and design can be used in community settings to encourage cognitive shifts in audiences that support systems change.  Working with collaborators at the Queens University, Kingston, Queensland University of Technology and University of New England, she is focused on generation of new ideas, with the aim of addressing the challenges posed by complex, disruptive events.  In 2011 she was awarded the Outstanding Young Alumnus for Queensland University of Technology.