Navin Sam Regi is a multimedia journalist, and academic pursuing embedded stories through process-driven journalism. He is interested in harnessing participatory media, especially audio narratives and documentary photography, to instigate meaningful discourses and inspire social change.
Sam currently works as an academic at UQ and as an independent producer. Sam is part of the ARC Project – Amplifying voices of the aged care commission as an MPhil student at QUT, researching the role of participatory media and process-driven journalism in storytelling with resilient communities. An independent producer, Sam is working on an ABC-UQ collaboration, to produce a series of panel discussions for the Think Twice television program and his own long-term journalism project on grief and death. Recently Sam joined the National Mental Health Commission’s work to develop a stigma and discrimination reduction strategy as the stream lead for education.
Sam has won a few accolades, most notable a grant by the Alan Whicker’s Foundation in London to document the audio stories for his project. He was also part of a team that won the 2016 Queensland multicultural reporting award of the year.