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TASA 2023 - Presenters

The program for TASA 2023 will feature more than 165 presenters who will deliver their latest thought-provoking research and insights through both in person and online engagement.

All presenters participating in TASA2023 are listed below alphabetically, by Surname. (Please click the corresponding letter to reveal more information about the presenters):

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Dr Siyat Abdi

Dr Abdi has over 25 years of experience in the disability and community development sectors.
He first trained overseas as a teacher and taught/lectured at secondary and tertiary levels for many years.
He had completed a PhD in Community Rehab (disability studies) at Flinders University. He was registered as the first blind teacher in SA and previously worked as a lecturer, policy researcher and systemic advocate at Kin Disability Advocacy.
He is an independent disability consultant, an advocate and a Human rights activist.
He has worked extensively with migrant communities in SA and WA, particularly refugees, women and people with disability.
He understands the difficulties and barriers faced by people with disability, migrants and refugee families when trying to navigate their way through difficult pathways, services and processes in their journey accessing services, integrating and settlement in Australia.
He is an active representative on various diversity groups and advisory committees in Western Australia. He has published a book and written articles on CaLD people with disability and continues to do research in this area.
He is keenly interested in leadership, Social Justice, human diversity and Equity issues and supporting people to change their circumstances positively. I am passionate about providing a welcoming and inclusive community for all people.

Asrafi Bintay Akram

As a faculty member, Asrafi has served in the Department of Sociology at Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU), Bangladesh, since 2012. At my undergraduate level, for the first time, I experienced research through my term papers and monograph.
Asrafi completed two master’s degrees in Sociology and Human Settlement with theses and distinction. Moreover, as an independent researcher and principal investigator (PI), Asrafi completed several research projects in various aspects on gender, menstrual health and management, plastic waste (menstrual waste), the built environment, and space.
Asrafi ardently writes popular articles in newspapers on multiple pressing issues like gender and reproductive health of adolescent girls and adults, both nationally and globally and has received the SDGs Essay Competition on Gender Equity in Menstrual Health (Nationally 1st Prize Winner) Award (2022) from UNDP-UNFP Poverty-Environment Action and Prothom Alo Bondhushava, Bangladesh. Moreover, Asrafi worked as a Member Secretary of the Sexual Harassment Prevention Committee at HSTU following the high court order in Bangladesh.
Along with a research and professional background, Asrafi is passionate about working to create awareness about the rights of reproductive health for girls and promote SDG 6 goals in different parts of the world.

Dr Zoe Alderton

Dr Zoe Alderton (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar working in novel solutions for youth mental health struggles. Her PhD was awarded by the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney.
Zoe’s publications on internet policy, censorship, and harmful online content include her monographs The Aesthetics of Self-Harm (2018) and Preventing Harmful Behaviour in Online Communities (2022).
She currently teaches at the University of Sydney's Business School in the Leading in a Post-Crisis World program.

Aireen Grace Andal

Aireen (she/her) is a PhD researcher under a Double-PhD track in Social Sciences (Macquarie University, Australia) and Social Philosophy (Ural Federal University, Russian Federation). She is also a research fellow at the Centre of Global Urbanism (Ural Federal University).
Her research pays particular attention to children's use of urban spaces and the importance of children as co-creators of knowledge in urbanity. Majority of her academic engagements involve children's voices on the urban spaces they occupy, with emphasis on slum-dwelling communities in the global South.
Her recent publications include topics in the fields of children's geographies, childhood studies, and urban and regional studies, while serving as a reviewer of manuscripts related to global childhood studies. Aireen is a scholar for and with children and their spaces.
Her academic life is devoted to making children’s voices heard, their insights acknowledged, and their lives seen—matters that are hitherto often dismissed.

Nicholas Avery

Nicholas is a PhD student in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. His work focusses on the dynamics of competition and the persistence of low paid work in Australia. He enjoys cycling and data visualisation.

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Aisling Bailey

With a background in environmental anthropology, Aisling’s research has investigated the ways in which the western dualistic conceptualisation of nature as separated from culture has shaped societal understandings and behaviour towards the natural environment. Informed by a phenomenological approach, Aisling’s research has focused upon practical initiatives that seek to bring people and place together working with organisations including the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies (CERES) and the community gardening organisation 3000 Acres. Current research interests include the reciprocity of the health and wellbeing of people and place; facilitating sustainable behaviour; nature based solutions; equitable access to healthy environments; climate adaptation, and reviews articles for a number of environmental and social science based journals. Aisling is an affiliate of the Centre for Urban Transitions and is currently supervising PhD projects on connection to place; settler colonialism; environmental and climate discourse; social practice theory's application to food waste; and the ecological crisis of the Murray Darling Basin. With reference to teaching, Aisling is the Coordinator of the Climate and Social Justice Major and convenes the units Environment and Society SOC10005 and Changing our Climate SOC30020, as well as the Climate Action challenge within the Bachelor of Arts' capstsone unit Grand Challenges ART30001.

Dr Ronald Baird

Dr. Ron Baird is a Lecturer in Education Studies and Sociology at Victoria University. Ron has extensive experience teaching undergraduate Criminology and Sociology and graduate level Education Research Methods at the University of Melbourne. His research interests are in the areas of youth cultures, ageing subcultures digital culture, digital criminology, informal learning, social learning, and youth crime and justice.
Ron completed his PhD in 2018 at the Youth Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. Ron’s PhD study investigated how young men learn subcultural practices.
Ron’s research contributes new knowledge about youth cultural practice as a site of learning and production.

Tom Barnes

Tom Barnes is an economic sociologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University (ACU), in Sydney. His research primarily focuses on insecure, precarious and informal work. He is currently researching global warehouse logistics and automotive manufacturing. His recent Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA project (2017-2019) focused on the demise of Australian automotive manufacturing and the impact on workers and communities in closure-affected regions in Victoria. He completed his PhD in political economy at the University of Sydney in 2011 and has expertise on work and economic development in India. He has written two books in this area: Informal Labour in Urban India: Three Cities, Three Journeys (Routledge, 2015) and Making Cars in the New India: Industry, Precarity and Informality (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His articles have appeared in several journals, including Journal of Sociology, Journal of Development Studies and Critical Sociology. His new project focuses on the intersection of surveillance technology, worker agency and rights in warehouse logistics.

Dr Juliet Bennett

Dr Juliet Bennett is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney, working on the joint program on The Social Life of Food and Nourishment.
She recently completed her PhD in Sociology and Criminology, which provides a new inroad to process philosophy and its application to the climate crisis.
Juliet has previously worked as Collaborative Research Manager at Sydney Policy Lab, and Acting Director and Executive Officer of Sydney Peace Foundation. Her publications are available at: https://sydney.academia.edu/JulietBennett

Kade Booth

Kade Booth is a PhD student in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, and researcher in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle.
Their research focus is working towards equity and inclusion to sport, health, and wellbeing.

Dr Neville Buch

Dr Neville Buch is an independent researcher in philosophic and socio-intellectual history, exploring influential social thinkers in Queensland’s past. He is affiliated with the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland as a former post-doctorate fellow and an associated researcher in Queensland history.
He has been a Q ANZAC Fellow at the State Library of Queensland (2015-2016), and a speechwriter and higher education researcher, working with four Vice-Chancellors.
Dr Buch is Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network, President of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum, and manages the Mapping Brisbane History Project. He is well-published and recognised for his contribution in the histories of both Catholic secondary and state primary education in Queensland, as well as histories in the cultural and religious shaping of Protestant and Catholic organisations.
In the last six years Dr Buch has published seven substantive books and research manuscripts, 20 articles and papers, and six scholarly online sites. His recent work includes projects on heterodoxy, and free-thought, rationalist, and skeptics organisations in Queensland. In May 2019 two major articles on the understanding of war and peace at the conclusion of World War I was published in Queensland History Journal (Royal Historical Society Queensland).

Mahli-Ann Butt

Mahli-Ann Butt is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research explores questions of diversity in the cultures and industries of videogames.
She is the Chapter Officer of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and President of DiGRA Australia (DiGRAA). She is the author of the forthcoming monograph Gaming Lifeworlds: Videogames in Culture (MIT Press, 2024), co-author of Navigating Game Studies (Polity, 2024), and leading editor of the anthology The Post-Gamer Turn (MIT Press, 2025).
She is the chief investigator of the project “AI Ally: Co-Designing Anti-Harassment AI with Girls and Young Women,” and co-investigator of the “Games and AI Moderation” (GAIM) project.

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Nerida Carter

I am currently a PhD student at Macquarie University. My research is interdisciplinary and focused on informal community-led practices within the urban environment. I have previously practiced as a graduate Architect before under taking my post-graduate studies.

Dr Shiva Chandra

Dr Shiva Chandra uses creative and innovative methods to investigate subjectivity and how individuals relate to their social worlds. His work explores personal life, young people’s experiences, sexuality, gender, race, and decolonisation. He is particularly interested in how people think about relationships and how they live out these attachments. Shiva also explores how scholarship can sit at the intersection of academia and community development, with the aim of improving people’s lives. He believes academic work carries a social responsibility to give back to others.

Dr. Wei Chen

Wei CHEN is an assistant professor of political science, at the School of Government, Nanjing University. She obtained her PhD degree from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2017. Her current research project focuses on technological change and the political economy of skill institutions in developing countries.
Her research focus is on labor politics, state governance, and comparative political institution, with a regional focus on China. Her publications have appeared in The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China and other journals.

Dr Eileen Clark

Eileen Clark's work incorporates aspects of sociology, genealogy and history. She uses qualitative methods to study mental health care and draws on creative methods to present findings in accessible ways. She has recently been awarded a PhD by Charles Sturt University for her study of the former asylum in Beechworth, Victoria.

Professor Philippa Collin

Philippa Collin is Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University (WSU) where she co-directs the Young and Resilient Research Centre. Professor Collin is an interdisciplinary social scientist who works at the intersections of political sociology, youth studies, digital cultures and health and wellbeing.
Her research contribution is principally in three interrelated areas: young people’s relationship to democracy; the role of the digital for youth citizenship, health and wellbeing; and, methodological innovations in youth-centred research.
Professor Collin has published widely, including the monographs Young people and political participation in digital society (2015) and Young people in digital society (2019 with Amanda Third, Lucas Walsh and Rosalyn Black).
She has a forthcoming commissioned edited collection Research Handbook of the Sociology of Youth (2023, with Judith Bessant and Patrick O’Keefe).

Dr Julia Cook

Dr Julia Cook is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include the sociology of youth, time and housing, and the intersections of each of these topics and economic sociology.
Her most recent research addresses the role of family financial assistance in young adults’ pathways into home ownership and young adults’ navigation of debt and financial assistance, with a particular focus on buy now pay later services. She is a current ARC DECRA Fellow (2022-2025), and a chief investigator on the current phase of the ARC-funded Life Patterns longitudinal research program (2021-2026).
She is co-editor in chief of Journal of Applied Youth Studies, and is on the editorial boards of the journals Time & Society, Journal of Youth Studies and Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies.
She was recently selected as a 2022 ABC Top 5 (Humanities) scholar and is a regular media commentator.

Critical Friends Writing Group - Western Sydney University

We are a cross-disciplinary collective of academics, at various stages in our academic lives, from the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University.
We formed this group 18 months ago with the support from our School because we value the collaborative art of writing and share a yearning for a convivial academy. Together we have created and hold on to a space of trust, intellectual intimacy, friendship and care. Members are Kate Huppatz, Peter Bansel, Kathleen Openshaw, Sky Hugman, Suzanne Egan, Susan Sisko and Daniel Perrell

Marnie Cruickshank

Marnie Cruickshank has recently completed her PhD on women’s financial self-help cultures at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Her research interests include the feminist economic geographies and women’s media cultures.
She has previously published in Feminist Media Studies and Australian Geographer.

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Stephanie Daughtry

Steph is a multi-disciplinary artist and current PhD candidate within the Creative People, Products and Places (CP3) Research Centre, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia.
Steph’s research interrogates the viability of a performing arts career in Australia, and explores how we can better support artists to sustain their professional creative practice.

Dr Anna Denejkina

Dr Anna Denejkina is an award winning mixed-methods and interdisciplinary researcher. She has a PhD in the Social Sciences from the University of Technology Sydney and over 10 years of research experience and training. Her research has been published internationally in scientific journals and books, and she has presented research insights at national and international scientific conferences.

Anna has experience in qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research, and has conducted national and international research with young people in sectors including health, arts, higher education, government and more. Previously, Anna was a lecturer and researcher at one of Australia’s leading universities, where she conducted research focused on wellbeing and mental health.

Anna is passionate about research innovation, methods and ethics, and achieving real impact through research-informed decision making. She believes that understanding individual human experience and using a human-centric and people-first approach is critical to research, its insights, outcomes and impact.

Bernardo Dewey

Bernardo Tomás Dewey is a Research Fellow at the Indigenous Health Research Team at Curtin University. He has recently submitted his PhD thesis where he explored the social implications of temporary migration programs in Australia, with a particular focus on the home-making practices and care support networks of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrants.
Bernardo's research interests include migration studies, qualitative methods, neoliberalism, globalization, inequality, and the intersection of identity and belonging.
With a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Bernardo brings a wealth of experience to his research. He has previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Germany, where he conducted ethnographic research on Peruvian and Bolivian migrants in South Buenos Aires.
In addition, Bernardo has served as a Project Manager at the Social Care & Ageing Living Lab at UWA, as well as a Research Administrator at the Telethon Kids Institute.

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Hannah Fairlamb

Hannah Fairlamb is a second year PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, studying gender equality in Australian DIY music scenes and the grassroots activism that has sprung up to support this.

Co-founder and former co-director of feminist community music initiative Girls Rock! Adelaide, Hannah is herself a musician with over 20 years’ experience in the independent music making community of Adelaide, South Australia. Having recently relocated to Melbourne to continue her studies, Hannah’s research interests include the sociology of music, critical gender theory, punk studies and safer spaces.

Associate Professor Helen Forbes-Mewett

Associate Professor Helen Forbes-Mewett is a sociologist with an interdisciplinary background. She has expertise in human security, international education, migrant populations, cultural diversity and community responses to incoming groups in both urban and rural spaces.
Helen has undertaken studies in Australia, UK, US and China. Helen’s work is widely published and she is an author of four books. The broad global challenge of fostering human security and thriving communities underpin her research interests. In recognition of her long-standing transnational research, Helen was recently awarded the North Star Medal of Lifetime Achievement in the A. Noam Chomsky Global Connections Awards.

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Chunyuan Gao

Chunyuan Gao is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics and Social Change at the Australian National University. He completed a Master of Philosophy in Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University. His main research interests include poverty, migration, social welfare, and aged care.

Dr Ally Gibson

Dr Ally Gibson (MRSNZ) is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Ally holds a Fast-Start Fellowship with the Royal Society - Te Apārangi and has over 10 years’ experience conducting a range of qualitative research projects relating to health, illness, and the practice of medicine. Her work is interdisciplinary, bridging health psychology, the sociology of health and illness, and public health. She is particularly interested in: mobile dating and intimacy; sexual and reproductive health; issues of gender, sexuality and identity; people’s experiences of and responses to pressing health challenges (e.g., cancer; COVID-19); and concerns and experiences of inequity, marginalisation, and vulnerability in health.

Dr Ben Green

Ben Green is undertaking a Griffith University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to investigate crisis and reinvention in the Australian live music sector, with attention to difference, interests and power. His research also engages with cultural history and heritage, identity and belonging, and the sociology of work and leisure. Ben has worked with research partners including the Live Music Office, APRA AMCOS and local governments. He is the author of Peak Music Experiences: A New Perspective on Popular Music, Identity and Scenes and co-editor of Popular Music Scenes: Regional and Rural Perspectives.

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Dr. Ariane Hanemaayer

Ariane Hanemaayer (she/her), PhD, is Associate Professor at Brandon University and Affiliate Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her research investigates the relationships among medical knowledge, healthcare systems, decision-making technology, and medical regulation.
Her research agenda aims to identify and explain the causes of failures within healthcare, and to connect that knowledge to care settings and broad audiences. Her recent books include The Impossible Clinic: A Critical Sociology of Evidence-Based Medicine (2019) and Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents: Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities (2021).
Her current SSHRC-funded project investigates the intractability of clinical pain and the regulation of opioids in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States in order to provide an alternative understanding of the opioid crisis.

Carly Hawkins

Carly is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Carly is researching the impact of the Australian government’s offshore refugee processing policy on the education of children.
Her interest in this area comes from her experience working in the Nauru offshore processing centres for three years. There she held the role of Education and Recreation Team Leader, having oversight for all educational and recreational programs for asylum seeker and refugee children held in Nauru Prison.
Prior to that, Carly was employed as a teacher and school principal in Sydney, London and rural Tanzania. Over her 18-year teaching career, she specialised in teaching students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts (WSU), a Bachelor of Teaching (WSU), a Graduate Diploma in Political and International Studies (UNE) and a Master of International Relations (UNSW). Carly lectures and tutors in the School of Social Science at both UNSW and UTAS.

Benjamin Hanckel

Dr Benjamin Hanckel is a sociologist at the Institute for Culture and Society and Young and Resilient Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. Benjamin’s work examines health and wellbeing, social inequalities in health, and social change.
His work includes projects on youth wellbeing, genders and sexualities research, as well as work examining digital technologies and health.
He is co-editor of Journal of Applied Youth Studies, and associate editor of Health Sociology Review.

James Holmes

James Holmes is a sociology PhD student at Deakin University with a background in creative and professional writing. His recently submitted thesis, 'Fantasy Fiction and the Imagination in Social Life', examines the lives of Australian fantasy readers and the social impact of reading fantasy fiction.
His research focus is on social theory, particularly phenomenology and the role of imagination in social life, and the relationship between literature, reading, and society.
James teaches sociology at Deakin University and writing at Monash University.

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Evonne Irwin

Evonne Irwin is a PhD candidate in Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Newcastle and an Educational Designer in the Faculty of Business & Economics at the University of Melbourne.
Evonne has worked in various teaching and learning roles in higher education for over 15 years; first supporting the language and literacies needs of students from refugee and migrant backgrounds; then working in curriculum design and implementation for an online enabling/foundation studies program. At some point during this time, she started a part-time PhD and then became 'an academic'.
Evonne's PhD is partly an autoethnographic work as she explores what it means to work across, in and outside of traditional academic/professional staff boundaries. Having spent most of her working life at the University of Newcastle, Evonne is looking forward to new adventures in Melbourne and to finally finishing her PhD.

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Alamgir Kabir

Alamgir Kabir is an early-career researcher and graduate student of Prince Songkla University, Hat Yai Campus,Thailand. He completed his Bachelor of Social Science in Sociology from Hajee Moahammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Bangladesh.
His research interest is Minority and Indigenous community, Transgender, Critical Sociology, E-commerce, Ageing and so on.
As he continues to make strides in academia, Alamgir Kabir remains committed to creating a more equitable and compassionate society for all.

Katherine Kenny

Dr Katherine Kenny is an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Sydney. In her research, she brings together cutting-edge social theory and innovative qualitative methods to develop new ways of understanding, and addressing, some of the key health challenges that we face as individuals, societies, and as a global community. From how we understand emerging global health threats, to what we go through when we receive a diagnosis of a life-limiting illness, her research pays careful attention to people’s day-to-day subjective and socially situated experiences of health, illness and care. In addition to her current DECRA Fellowship (DE22), she has worked across a number of ARC-funded projects as Postdoctoral Research Fellow (LP14, DP15, LP16, LP17) and as a CI (DP19). In 2021 she published a co-authored book (with Alex Broom – Routledge) and, to date, has published 34 peer reviewed journal articles (>80% in Q1 journals) and 4 scholarly book chapters. Her work routinely appears leading international journals including Sociology, The Sociological Review, The British Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Science and Medicine, Subjectivity and Qualitative Health Research. She is a regular reviewer for a wide range of general and specialist sociology journals including: The Sociological Review, Body & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values, Social Studies of Science, Qualitative Health Research, Critical Public Health, Health Sociology Review and Health Expectations (among others) and has recently reviewed book manuscripts for both Columbia University Press and New York University Press.

Malene Kessing, Postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Kessing is a trained anthropologist and has a PhD in sociology. Her research interests are the meeting between citizens with complex problems and the professionals of the welfare state.
In her current research, she has a particular focus on interventions based on peer support and her work is located within the sociology of mental health and illness.

Nazma Khatoon
Nazma Khatoon is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Social Science of Swinburne University of Technology. Her research explores the patriarchal socio-economic, cultural, and political determinants paternalistic governance system intertwined in the social policies that negatively impact the outcome of social welfare programs such as rehabilitation programs for sex trafficking survivors.
Professionally she has been working as a community development practitioner for more than 20 years and holding the position of Deputy Director at the Department of Social Services (DSS), Ministry of Social Welfare, Bangladesh.
She oversaw the Training and Rehabilitation centres for sex-trafficked Girls and Women under DSS for a few years.
She was also in charge of a program called ‘Rural Mother Centres’ that involved twelve thousand rural mothers centre in Bangladesh in empowering them through interest-free micro-credit.
Her specialties include government feminism, the impact of colonization and patriarchy on women’s lives in post-colonial Bengal in the global South, and sexual violence. She is a published author with ten poetry books focusing on sexual politics, feminism, and patriarchy.

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Prof Jo Lindsay

Jo Lindsay is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences (SoSS) at Monash University. She is a sociologist in the fields of sustainability, consumption, families and households and has a track record in interdisciplinary research and supervision. Jo is currently researching household innovation and the transition to the low waste city. Prof Lindsay is president of the International Sociological Association RC24 Environment and Society.

Qing Tingting Liu

Qing Tingting Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at SUNY Albany. She is also affiliated with the University of Melbourne for a Study Abroad Research Program (Summer 2023).
Her research interests include migration and mobility, globalization, diaspora, race and youth. Her recent publication is about Chinese international students’ racialization experience in USA https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/soin.12561 .
She also wrote a book review about Chinese female migrants in Africa for International Migration Review https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01979183221131804. For the detail of her profile, please refer to https://www.linkedin.com/in/qing-tingting-liu-251bb6181/ .

Gracie Lolicato

Gracie Lolicato is currently working on a PhD within the school of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University. Gracie’s interest in critical sociology and social justice approaches to education research stem from her own, mostly negative experiences of schooling as a child from non-English speaking background and those of her extended Koori and multiethnic family including those of her 7 children, her partner and his family.

As co-Director and project officer at Arc Up Australia, Gracie works alongside community groups, organisations and individuals to build digital storytelling and other audio-visual based projects which critically investigate the complexities of life in Australia, past and present. Aside from that, Gracie continues to document her world through photography and audio recordings- a practice first established as a child to allow her to safely participate in social situations from where she is most comfortable- the periphery.

Carly Lubicz

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Dr Simone Marino
CI Marino is a postdoctoral fellow at Edith Cowan University; Lecturer in Sociology and Italian Studies at the University of South Australia; Associate Researcher at UWA (School of Allied Health); Researcher B (The University of Adelaide, Dept. of Anthropology) involved in Ageing Studies and palliative care research among migrants; Researcher at NARI (National Ageing Research Institute); and Honorary Research Fellow at ACIS (Australasian Centre for Italian Studies).
His expertise is both interdisciplinary and intercultural.
Located at the intersection of two main areas: migration studies and ethnomusicology, Simone brings this knowledge to a third area: ageing, dementia and wellbeing for people from migrant backgrounds, analysed ethnographically on grounded observation, and geriatric depression scales analyses with medical screening tools.

Lara May
This paper will be presented by youth co-researchers. Ella, Lara, Nicole and Jarrah are all young people with lived experience of disasters, employed in regional councils to facilitate youth participation in the context of disaster recovery and resilience.
They have each established Youth Advisory & Action Groups in their local communities and are building their research skills to enable youth voices from their own communities to be heard.

Dr Natalia Maystorovich

Natalia Maystorovich Chulio holds a Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of NSW. She is currently undertaking a PhD with the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Her thesis reflects her broader research interests in humanitarian and human rights law; transitional justice; the archaeological recovery of mass graves. She has experience teaching in socio-legal studies, sociology and Indigenous studies. Since 2012 she has worked with the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (ARMH – Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory) in an attempt to draw attention to the difficulties experienced by survivors seeking to recuperate victims of Enforced Disappearance. She is currently working on an ARC-funded study, ‘Understanding Society: The Role of Sociology and Its Social Impact' with Associate Professor Fran Collyer. The study examines the history of Australian sociology and the use of sociological knowledge in public discourse, media, policy development and legislation.

Hannah McCann
Hannah McCann is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research is in critical femininity studies, and much of her work focuses on feminist debates on femininity and queer identity, salon workers and the beauty industry, and queer digital culture. Her monograph Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation was published with Routledge in 2018. Her co-authored textbook Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures was published in 2020 and is available via Bloomsbury. She is currently working on an ARC DECRA project on the emotional role that hair and beauty salon workers play in the lives of their clients.

Dr Don McKenzie
Don McKenzie is a Research Affiliate at Monash University. His employment experience is varied and includes work as a tradesman, teacher, union official, HR Manager, University lecturer and Chief Executive Officer of a large organisation before practising law.
Initially, Don's background led him into employment law and that formed the basis of his interest in organisational conflict and dispute resolution. Consequently, he conducted his own consultancy and worked extensively in public and private sector organisations dealing with organisational change, conflict and dispute resolution.
In addition to his law degree and a Bachelor of Education, he supported his practical work with a Master of Management Degree and a PhD, which enabled him to expand his knowledge and understanding of human behaviour.
In recent years Don's legal experience has included family law, family violence, intervention orders and criminal law and, Hon is currently a Consultant to a legal firm, providing support and assistance in these areas of law.

Kyle Medlock

Kyle Medlock is a PhD candidate in sociology with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research. His research is exploring nostalgia in popular culture, with a focus on how it is experienced and expressed by players of the popular trading card game Magic: the Gathering.
His research interests include the role of objects in memory, gaming temporalities, and intersections of commercialisation and nostalgic reflection.

Dr Ramón Menéndez Domingo

Ramon is a sociologist with a social psychological orientation. His research examines social constructions of the 'real self' among university students from various cultural backgrounds and in different historical periods.
Ramon has worked as a casual academic in teaching and research assistant roles, in the Departments of Management and Social Inquiry (Sociology) at La Trobe University for the past 11 years.
He is interested in sociological understandings of authenticity, in particular from social constructionist and interpretivist points of view. Ramon is seeking contributors for a potential edited volume whose topic is presented at this conference.

Md Azmain Muhtasim Mir

Md Azmain Muhtasim Mir is pursuing PhD in Society and Culture at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Azmain's research project explores and proposes using cultural and environmental tourism resources and community assets to enrich the learning outcomes of young people and children in the West Coast of Tasmania.
He received Master of Anthropology (Advanced) degree from The Australian National University, ACT, Australia. Earlier, he completed his Bachelor and Master degrees in Anthropology from the University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Azmain has extensive experience in teaching and research, working for Comilla University (on Study leave) and previously for international research organisations in Bangladesh.

Dr Jonathan Mond

Dr Mond is currently a psychologist in private practice specialising in counselling for individuals living in rural and remote areas, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Rural Health at the University of Tasmania and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Translational Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University. Dr Mond has previously held Associate Professorships in Applied Psychology, Sociology, Medicine and Health Sciences and from 2013-2016 was Director of the Master of Professional Psychology Program at Macquarie University.
Dr Mond has Honours and Master’s Degrees in Psychology and a PhD in Psychological Medicine, all from the University of Sydney, and a Master of Public Health (Family and Community Health) from Harvard University. Post-doctoral training was completed at the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute in Fargo ND USA. Visiting Fellowships have included the Centre for Mental Health and National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the Children’s Hospital Boston, and the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
Prior to completing his PhD, Dr Mond was a tennis coach and sports psychologist.
He has been a Registered Psychologist, and a full member of the Australian Psychological Society, since 1998.

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Danielle Nembhard

Dani is a transdisciplinary environmental scholar-activist who hails from Kingston, Jamaica. She has an interdisciplinary professional and academic background, attaining a Masters in Marine Biology and Ecology from James Cook University after transitioning from a 9-year corporate career in the Caribbean and Central America.
Dani made her foray into environmental consulting and project management where she collaborated on and led projects in the Caribbean, Australia and the Philippines. These projects sat in at the interface of sustainable development, climate adaptation and social change designed to help people and communities build their resilience to disaster and climate change.
Her current project as a doctoral researcher at The Cairns Institute proposes to use intersectional theory as a critical and political tool for a multiscale, historically grounded exploration of how power mediates mechanisms designed to support Indigenous-led governance systems within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Her work use Traditional Use of Marine Resources Agreements (TUMRAs) as empirical case studies, highlighting issues of justice, epistemic authority, and decolonisation.
Dani is also an environmental, climate and social justice activist working with the Jamaica Climate Change Youth Council, as well as the Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance.

Dr Hien Thi Nguyen

Hien Thi Nguyen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Anthropology and Sociology at Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University (ECU).
She undertook her PhD research on exploring the ageing and aged care experiences of Vietnamese migrant grandparents in Australia at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2019 - 2023. She also obtained a Master of Development Studies (Gender and Development) at the University of Melbourne (UoM) in 2015.
Hien has over 16 years of working as a social researcher and development practitioner in Vietnam and Australia. Her scholarship includes migration, ageing, diversity, and gender and development.
Her current research questions focus on examining life-course transitions and older-age wellbeing of older migrants in Australia (with a particular focus on older Vietnamese migrants) in relation to mobility, ICTs and new media, gender, social inclusion, and social solutions for social care across the life course

Dr Keith Noble

Keith has a demonstrated commitment to the appropriate development of Northern Australia. A Rural Planner with his family company Insideout Architects, Keith chairs one of Australia's 54 regional natural resource management organisations, Terrain NRM, and for 23 years farmed tropical fruit in Queensland's Wet Tropics.
Keith has lived and worked throughout regional Australia, culminating in declaration of Australia’s largest terrestrial protected area – the 97,000 km2 Ngaanyatjarra Lands Indigenous Protected Area in Western Australia. Keith has a PhD and MSc from James Cook University, a Bachelor of Agricultural Science from the University of Queensland, and a Graduate Diploma in Plant Protection from Gatton Agricultural College.
Keith is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Registered Planner with the Planning Institute of Australia.
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Dr Roberta Pala

Dr Roberta Pala is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. Her research draws on Science and Technology Studies (STS), Feminist STS, social theory, biopolitics and sociology of health.
Her work looks at the entangled nature of social and scientific events and considers biological interventions and technological artefacts as material sites of political investigation.
She gained her PhD in Social Policy from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Roberta's doctoral thesis analysed the politics of vaccines as formed through their materiality and biological workings and considered this materiality to be relational and situatedly enacted.

Dr Beck Pearse
Beck Pearse is a sociologist with a background researching the political economy of climate and energy policy, inequalities and rural issues.
Beck’s current research projects investigate labour and land relations in the industrial transition to a 'net zero' economy. She's interested in how people work and negotiate change.

Dr Michelle Peterie
Dr Michelle Peterie is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and University of Sydney Robinson Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney. Michelle’s research investigates the impacts of social policies and practices on individual and collective wellbeing.
Taking a person-centred approach - and in close collaboration with research participants and third-sector stakeholders - her work seeks to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, families and communities.
Michelle is particularly interested in lived experiences of un(der)employment, poverty and social security receipt, and in the reverberating impacts of immigration detention.
Michelle is currently leading a number of research projects focused on children's experiences of parental incarceration, the reverberating impacts of immigration detention, and the politics of care and solidarity.

Dr Kiran Pienaar
Dr Kiran Pienaar is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Deakin University. Her research centres on two main areas: 1) gender, sexuality and the body, particularly in relation to drug consumption and sexual cultures; and 2) the social dimensions of health and illness with a focus on the sociology of pandemics.
Kiran’s work has appeared in a wide range of journals in these fields including Sexualities, International Journal of Drug Policy, Social Science and Medicine, and Sociology of Health and Illness.
She is the author of Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa(Palgrave) and co-editor of a new volume titled Narcofeminisms: Revisioning Drug Use (SAGE).

Daniel Pitman
Daniel Pitman is a PhD Student in Design & Social Contexts at RMIT university, and an early career academic at Western Sydney University. His research focuses on gender-based violence and prevention policy.

Dr Sujith Kumar Prankumar
Sujith Kumar Prankumar is a health sociologist and Senior Research Associate (Global Health Equity and Justice) at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, UNSW Sydney.
In collaboration with local and international partners, he works on the ACTUP-PNG project, which has implemented point-of-care HIV viral load and drug resistance testing, and early infant diagnosis, in Papua New Guinea. Broadly, his research and teaching interests concern entanglements of social difference (particularly racial, sexual, national and religious), inequality, citizenship, education, qualitative research methods, social experiences of health and illness, and science and technology studies (STS).
Sujith completed his PhD through the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney, and has an interdisciplinary academic background in human rights, religion, communications and evaluation. He is an Associate at the Australian Human Rights Institute and an Associate Fellow with Advance HE.

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Renee Romeo

Renee Romeo is currently a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia. Her researcher interests are in domestic and family violence and critical policy analysis, particularly with culturally marginalised women from a refugee or migrant background.
She is currently looking at the ways in which policy areas understand CaLD women's experiences of domestic violence and alternative ways we can address violence against women. Prior to her early career research, Renee has experience in the humanitarian settlement services and the education system with youth and families experiencing abuse and violence.

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Simran Sandhu

Simran Sandhu is a doctoral candidate at La Trobe University, Australia. She is conducting an interdisciplinary research that explores the intersections of migration and public health. The question she is currently exploring includes understanding how older Indian adults in Victoria, Australia perceive and experience emergency health care services. She is particularly interested in examining the intersection of various axes of differentiation that may shape the use of, meaning of and attitude towards the existing emergency health services amongst older adults from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Kelly Saunders
Kelly Saunders is a lawyer and PhD Candidate with the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra in Australia. Her research into hoped-for 'care futures' challenges productivity and work discourses to imagine care as an everyday practice for everyone. Kelly's interdisciplinary research explores how we might reimagine everyday care in Australia using ethnographic and futures methods to support convivial and transgressive places and ways of caring.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Kelly worked for many years in law and public policy across government and the private sector in Australia and France. She currently consults in the fields of gender, mobility, urban design and placemaking, working with clients including the World Bank, Arup, Transport Infrastructure Ireland and SNCF (France).

Miranda Shemesh
Miranda Shemesh is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Haifa.
Her dissertation, under the guidance of Dr. Dana Zarhin, is a sociological study of sleep in families with young children in Israel. Her research interests focus on the Sociology of sleep, family, and the interface of childhood and parenting.

Maddison Sideris
Maddison Sideris is a PhD Candidate researching youth digital intimacies at the Youth Research Collective, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
She completed her Bachelor of Arts (Honours)/Laws at Deakin University, with her Honours thesis exploring how young women construct their identities on Instagram. Maddison is interested in the intersection between the sociology of youth and digital technologies.

Laura Simpson Reeves
Laura Simpson Reeves is a PhD candidate, senior research assistant and sessional
academic at The University of Queensland. She is an experienced qualitative social
researcher focused on understanding lived experiences of social inequality and
inequity. Laura work with vulnerable and marginalised groups at the nexus of culture
and disadvantage, especially around ethnicity, gender and sexuality, poverty, and
experiences of exclusion and discrimination. Her particular focus and interest in
diaspora and issues around belonging, identity, and social cohesion/isolation.

Associate Professor Gavin Smith

I am a generalist sociologist and snake ecologist interested in conceptualising more-than-human relations in various ecosocial fields. That is to say, I am interested in the social relations that shape and emerge from interactions that occur between human and non-human social agents, things and environments. Most of my research has explored the social impacts of surveillance, specifically looking at the intersubjective meanings ascribed to everyday practices of watching and being watched, be that through CCTV camera surveillance systems or via social media cultures. I am now actively researching these kinds of relations as they pertain to the use of facial recognition technologies in various contexts as part of an ARC Discovery Project, When your face is your ID: Public responses to automated facial recognition (2020-2024)
Other current research I'm doing explores the ambiguous figure of the snake in Australian society. This is a double edged project examining social and cultural perceptions of snakes, both historically and in the contemporary period, but also how social agents engage with these animals in everyday life. Building on the sociality of snakes, the second component of the research involves conducting snake ecology research, and tracking a sample of Eastern brown snakes (Pseudonaja textilis) in Canberra to better determine habitat use and movement profiles post-release.

Dr Ben Spies-Butcher

Ben Spies-Butcher teaches Economy and Society in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences.
He is co-director of the Australian Basic Income Lab, a collaboration between the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, the School of Social and Political Science at Sydney University and the Crawford School at ANU.
Ben is an Area Editor for the Economic and Labour Relations Review, on the editorial collective for the Journal of Australian Political Economy, and was the 2017 Glenda Powell National Travelling Fellow for the Australian Association of Gerontology.
Ben's forthcoming book is 'Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation' with Anthem Press.

Kate Stodart

Kate Stodart is an emerging academic completing a Master of Arts (Sociology) by research at La Trobe University. Employing qualitative methods, her research revolves around placing the lived experiences of individuals with mental health conditions at the core of inquiry. Kate’s current research focuses on the relational components and interpersonal dynamics of self-care concepts and practices.
Kate has presented her research at the Social Production of Mental Health in 2022 and 2023, and is co-convener of the new seminar series 'Constructing Madness'.

Dr. Maksuda Sultana

Dr. Maksuda Sultana has been awarded, Doctor of Social Sciences degree on 25 May 2022 from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney. Dr. Maksuda has 3 years working experience in world’s one of the largest NGOs- BRAC Bangladesh from 2011 to 2014.
She completed Master of Arts in International Cooperation Development from GSID, Nagoya University, Japan and Master of Social Science in International Relations from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
In addition, Dr. Maksuda is working as a Director- Research and Advocacy in Film 4 Peace Foundation from 2020 to present. She is also a Mentor at Opportunities Australia which is a registered Charity based in Sydney, Australia. Her research interests and writings spread over various community and social issues like gender, child right, public health and general education.
She is a regular contributor in Bangladesh newspapers and has published academic book and academic journal articles.

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Associate Professor Steven Threadgold

Steven Threadgold is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Newcastle, Australia. His research focuses on youth and class, with particular interests in unequal and alternative work and career trajectories; underground and independent creative scenes; cultural formations of taste, and financial practices.
Steve is the Director of the Newcastle Youth Studies Centre, an Associate Editor of Journal of Youth Studies, and on the Editorial Boards of The Sociological Review, DIY, Alternative Culture & Society, and Journal of Applied Youth Studies.
His latest book is Bourdieu and Affect: Towards a Theory of Affective Affinities (2020, Bristol University Press). Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles (2018, Routledge) won the 2020 Raewyn Connell Prize for best first book in Australian sociology. His latest edited collection with Jessica Gerrard is Class in Australia.

Mathew Toll

Mathew Toll is a researcher at the University of Melbourne.

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Dr Hyacinth Udah

Hyacinth Udah (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer of Social Work at the James Cook University. He has research interests in social justice, multiculturalism, migration, race and racism, politics of disadvantage, identity and belonging, critical race and whiteness theories, coloniality, decoloniality, mental health and social change, with a particular focus on African migrants’ belonging, and relations.
His interdisciplinary work — on Othering, belonging, immigrant and international students’ experiences, and social work education — is widely published in social work, sociology, and social science international journals.

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Devi Victorine

Devi is a Master of Arts graduated from Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Social Development and Welfare Program. She highly passionate in research about social- development & welfare, youth studies, woman empowerment and sustainable development.

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Dr Greta Werner

Greta Werner is a Research Associate at the University of Sydney. Her research examines the social and economic processes that inform urban development including transport and residential infrastructure. Her PhD research project compares the discursive and political fields in which social housing is constructed in Sydney, Australia and Vienna, Austria, based on analysis of interviews with senior public servants, politicians, industry experts, planning academics and social housing advocates. She is also interested in the impacts of population change on regional urbanisation and has participated in a research project on place-based push and pull factors of migration and government/private sector responses to infrastructure needs related to population change.

Dr Rebecca Williamson

Rebecca Williamson is a Research Associate at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Her research interests and published work include maternal health and embodiment, spatialities of care, and migration and urban diversity.
She has been involved in several projects examining the impact of the Australian bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal health and community wellbeing.
She is currently working on a project that examines the translation of epigenetics into pregnancy care in Australia with colleagues at UNSW, ANU and Monash University. She is currently co-convenor of the TASA urban sociology thematic group.

Leah Williams Veazy

Leah Williams Veazey is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies in the School of Social and Political Sciences. She is the author of the book Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age (2021, Routledge) and has published widely in the areas of migration, parenthood, digital cultures, and experiences of health and healthcare. Her research uses qualitative methods, most commonly in-depth interviews, to explore contemporary social experiences, with a focus on the intersections of health, mobility and relational sociology.

Professor Karen Willis

Professor Karen Willis is a health sociologist and qualitative researcher. She is Professor of Public Health at Victoria University.

Dr Alexandra Wong

Alexandra Wong is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. She is currently working on two ARC Discovery Projects titled 'Civic Sinoburbia? New Chinese migrants and everyday citizenship in Sydney' (ARCDP 200102072) and 'Schooling, Parenting and Ethnicity: Asian Migration and Australian Education' (ARCDP 200102727) with a team of researchers from Western Sydney University and the University of Technology Sydney.
Alexandra received her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research focuses on three areas of interest, (1) creative cities and cultural policies (2) migration and multiculturalism (3) urban studies and sustainable development. Alexandra’s publications appeared in journals such as Urban Studies, Geographical Research, Australian Geographer and International Journal of Housing Policy and different edited books.
Her book, co-authored with Professors Kay Anderson, Ien Ang, Donald McNeill and Dr Andrea Del Bono, titled ‘Chinatown Unbound: Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China’ was published by Rowman and Littlefield International.

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Joseph Yeo

Joseph Yeo is a part-time Stage 1 PhD candidate, and a full-time staff with the Academic Language & Learning team at UTS. He has a background in linguistics and e-Learning, and has worked extensively with L2 users of English for many years. He works closely with the UTS Business School to embed communication practices throughout the curriculum.

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Youjia Zhou

Youjia Zhou is currently an undergraduate student at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Her research interests are sociology of culture and sociology of knowledge.

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