AFSAAP members' regional specialisations

Sudan

Melanie BAAK
University of South Australia
Web: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/students/homepage.asp?Name=Melanie.Baak&MailID=KUTEK001
Interests: My PhD research is examining the identities of Dinka women living in Australia using oral history and auto-ethnographic techniques. This covers a range of fields including: globalisation, refugee studies, identity and the history of South Sudan. My Honours research project examined the educational experiences of Sudanese refugee students at schools in Africa and Australia.

Dr Nawal EL-GACK
Email: elgackn@yahoo.co.nz
International Studies, University of Canberra
Interests : Participatory development; NGOs, governance, rural development and sustainable livelihood, microfinance. Africa, Sudan and Middle East.

Assoc. Prof. Michele GROSSMAN
Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, Victoria University
Email: michele.grossman@vu.edu.au
Web site: www.vu.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9919 5011
Interests; Sudanese young people and the police in Australia; Nuba Mountains diaspora; Sudanese settlement experiences in Australia.

Dr. Anne HARRIS
Victoria University
Email: Anne.Harris@monash.edu 
Interests: My doctoral research uses documentary film as arts-based education research to examine the experiences of Sudanese young women (18-25) in Australia. Their 10-minute documentaries identify challenges, successes and advice about school and its role for former refugees integrating into Australian culture, with a focus on young women in particular. I am interested in liaising with others involved in research into educational experiences of young Sudanese in Australia.

Dr. Wendy LEVY
PhD from Australian National University
Email: wlevy5 at yahoo.com.au
Interests: Contemporary politics in South Sudan and Sudan, especially delivery of services.

Ibolya (Ibi) LOSONCZ
PhD Candidate, RegNet, School of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy, Australian National University
Email: Ibolya.Losoncz@anu.edu.au
Website: http://regnet.anu.edu.au/people/ms-ibolya-ibi-losoncz
Interests: South Sudan, re-settlement, identity, responsive regulation

Samuel M. MUCHOKI
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society. La Trobe University
Email: smmuchoki@students.latrobe.edu.au
Website: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/research-profiles/view-profile?uname=SMuchoki
Interests:  Migrants with refugee backgrounds from the Horn of Africa (Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea); Masculinity; Sexuality and Sexual health.

Melissa PHILLIPS
University of Melbourne
Email phim@unimelb.edu.au; m.phillips@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Web site: http://ssps.unimelb.edu.au/research/projects/vmr
Interests: Southern Sudan; Settlement experiences of refugees & migrants from African backgrounds in Australia; Labelling and representations of "African-Australians".

Peter RUN
School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia
Email: petermrun@yahoo.com.au
Interests: African models of conflict resolution; Sudanese political economy; South Sudan's constitution, politics, economy & society; Africa(ans) in the media; Africans in Australia.

Dr. Peter WESTOBY
University of Queensland
Email: p.westoby@uq.edu.au
Website: http://www.uq.edu.au/swahs/
Interests: My main areas of research and teaching are community development, dialogue and development, post-conflict studies and refugee studies. Recent and current research areas include: Southern Sudanese refugees resettling within Australia; community development theory and practice within South Africa; and dialogue, dilemmas and tensions within community development practice amongst refugee groups within Australia. 

 

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