My long-term research interest is immigration and cultural diversity. I am motivated by a desire to understand how Australians from migrant backgrounds encounter diverse spaces and their experiences of racism. I started my research career with a focus on media representations of asylum seekers, but have over the last five years turned my attention to the experiences of migrants and former refugees in rural and regional Australia.
In recent years, my research has also extended to consider the ways in which Australians from migrant backgrounds feature, and participate in, national debates on population, environmental sustainability and climate change. This has included a strong focus on migrants and former refugees’ involvement in agriculture. I was a CI on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project that investigated the environmental knowledges and skills of migrants and refugees in Australia.
My PhD research (UNSW, 2008) was focused on a quite different topic: child domestic work in Tanzania. While I am no longer explicitly engaged in research projects pertaining to children’s employment/labour, I have an enduring research interest in children’s and young people’s geographies. This is evident in a recent project exploring young Tanzanians’ use of plastic bag footballs, and in my supervision of student research projects on: families with children living in apartments; ethnic diversity in children’s picture books; Generation Y and environmental sustainability; and children’s engagements with ‘nature’.
Year | Title |
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2011 - 2012 | Funding Scheme: Healthy Communities & Settings Research Program |
Awarded by: Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects | |
Awarded by: Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects |
I am interested in supervising research students working on the following topics:
Degree | Research Title | Advisee | |
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Doctor of Philosophy | Renewable energy workers in regional Australia: A qualitative study of the Illawarra | Larkin, Natasha | |
Doctor of Philosophy | Peri-urban horticulture and biosecurity awareness and action in Northern Australia | Butler, Laura |
My long-term research interest is immigration and cultural diversity. I am motivated by a desire to understand how Australians from migrant backgrounds encounter diverse spaces and their experiences of racism. I started my research career with a focus on media representations of asylum seekers, but have over the last five years turned my attention to the experiences of migrants and former refugees in rural and regional Australia.
In recent years, my research has also extended to consider the ways in which Australians from migrant backgrounds feature, and participate in, national debates on population, environmental sustainability and climate change. This has included a strong focus on migrants and former refugees’ involvement in agriculture. I was a CI on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project that investigated the environmental knowledges and skills of migrants and refugees in Australia.
My PhD research (UNSW, 2008) was focused on a quite different topic: child domestic work in Tanzania. While I am no longer explicitly engaged in research projects pertaining to children’s employment/labour, I have an enduring research interest in children’s and young people’s geographies. This is evident in a recent project exploring young Tanzanians’ use of plastic bag footballs, and in my supervision of student research projects on: families with children living in apartments; ethnic diversity in children’s picture books; Generation Y and environmental sustainability; and children’s engagements with ‘nature’.
Year | Title |
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2011 - 2012 | Funding Scheme: Healthy Communities & Settings Research Program |
Awarded by: Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects | |
Awarded by: Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects |
I am interested in supervising research students working on the following topics:
Degree | Research Title | Advisee | |
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Doctor of Philosophy | Renewable energy workers in regional Australia: A qualitative study of the Illawarra | Larkin, Natasha | |
Doctor of Philosophy | Peri-urban horticulture and biosecurity awareness and action in Northern Australia | Butler, Laura |