Qualifications:

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland, 2021
  • Graduate Certificate of Conflict Resolution and Mediation,  The University of Queensland, 2014
  • Masters of Development Practice (Community Development, International Relations), 2013
  • Graduate Diploma of Education, University of New England, 1998
  • Bachelor of Arts (1st Class Hons, Anthropology), University of Sydney, 1987

Research interests:

I study the effects of forced migration on asylum seekers and refugees, with a focus on Australian policy from 2012 onwards.

Current research interests include:

  • issues regarding access to training, education, and work for refugees on temporary visas;
  • the intersectional effects of government refugee policy;
  • the export of Australian asylum-seeker policy;
  • citizenship conditionality as part of a post-colonial national imaginary

Presently working on a book proposal from my PhD thesis, conferred in 2021. I tutor part-time in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. More information can be found on my ORCiD profile

Current employment: