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Amanda Wise
Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Research Interests Amanda's research interests include: social inequalities in global cities; migration, diversity & the urban commons; elites, think tanks and political influence. Urban sociology - especially community life, social inequality, poverty, and work in global cities Attachments to and formations of place Cultural diversity and the urban commons...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Andrew Burridge
Centre for Workforce Futures, Ethics and Agency Research Centre, Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Dr. Andrew Burridge is a political geographer, based in the Discipline of Geography and Planning, in the School of Social Sciences. He is the current Masters of Research (MRes) Director. Andrew is co-founder of the Political Geography Study Group within the Institute of Australian Geographers, and an editorial board member...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Stream members
Chris Lyttleton
Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Dr Adele Garnier
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
I am a Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations. I was a Faculty Member at the Department from July 2017 to June 2020 and since July 2020 am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Universite Laval, Canada. My research investigates the...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Banu Senay
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Bronwyn Carlson
Professor
Department of Indigenous Studies
Distinguished Professor Bronwyn Carlson is the Head of the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies. She has been awarded three consecutive Australian Research Council (ARC) grants focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander engagements with digital technologies including social media. She is considered the preeminent researcher in the field of Indigenous...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Chris Vasantkumar
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
I have taught at Macquarie since 2015. I hold a BA in Religious Studies and Creative Writing from Princeton University (1996) and an MA (1998) and PhD (2006) in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to taking up a position at Macquarie, I was Associate Professor of...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Claudio Minca
Professor
I am a human geographer with strong interest in cultural and political theory. My main research projects have focused on the geographies of tourism and travel and on the spatial theories of modernity, including conceptualizations of landscape, place and power. I have also written extensively on the relationship between space...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Daniel Ghezelbash
Associate Professor
Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Agency Research Centre, Macquarie Law School
Associate Professor Daniel Ghezelbash is passionate about using technology to enable lawyers to do their jobs faster and better and to counter systemic discrimination and bias in the legal system. His research transcends traditional disciplinary barriers, drawing on everything from law, computing, political science, behavioural psychology and data science. He...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Fei Guo
Professor
Centre for Workforce Futures, Department of Management
Fei Guo is a Professor in the Department of Management. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in 1996 and was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the Australian National University (ANU). She has more than 20 years’ experience in teaching and conducting...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Hangyoung Lee
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Hang Young Lee’s research areas span social inequality, social stratification and mobility, economic sociology, and social networks. His research has centered on illuminating social processes that facilitate or constrain social mobility of individuals, more precisely the mechanism of cumulative advantage/disadvantage whereby the advantaged remain privileged, and the disadvantaged remain underprivileged....View full profile in our Researcher's database
Joseph Pugliese
Professor
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Professor Joseph Pugliese, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. KEY RESEARCH AREAS: Social justice-understood in the most expansive sense so that it includes the more-than-human world, is the superordinate term that encompasses my research. Under this meta-rubric, my key fields of research are: colonialism...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Jyhene Kebsi
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Dr. Kebsi joined Macquarie University in 2018 when she was hired as a Permanent Full-time Assistant Professor. Since becoming a Tenured Assistant Professor, she has held different roles including the MA Program Convenor and Director of Learning & Teaching. Dr. Kebsi is an expert in Arab refugee literature and...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Kumiko Kawashima
In her research to date, Kumiko has investigated the nexus between individual lives, labour and consumption in post-industrial contexts, as well as social transformation through the lens of transnational migration. Trained in qualitative methods, she particularly values ethnography as a way to observe everyday practices and approach questions that have...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Lucy Taksa
Professor
Lucy Taksa (PhD, University of NSW) is Professor of Management and Director of the Centre for Workforce Futures in Macquarie University’s Business School. She joined Macquarie University in August 2009 as Head of the Department of Business, renamed the Department of Marketing and Management in 2011, a position she held...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Maartje Roelofsen
I am a cultural geographer and an associate lecturer at the Department of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University. My background is in tourism studies and leisure studies and I have completed my doctoral degree in Human Geography at the University of Graz (Austria). I have a particular interest in...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Matt Withers
Matt Withers is a research fellow within the Department of Sociology, having completed his PhD within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. His research is concerned with the developmental implications of temporary labour migration and remittances, both in Sri Lanka and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. His...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Meena Chavan
Associate Professor
Department of Management
Meena Chavan is an Associate Professor of International Business and Entrepreneurship and Program Director Master of Research(Management) at the Macquarie Business School, Sydney, Australia. She is a member of the Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship Research Centre at Macquarie University. She has a strong industry background and prior to this role...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Nicholas Harrigan
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Dr Nicholas Harrigan is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His major areas of research include social networks, particularly networks of conflict; low wage migrant workers in Australia and Asia; and participatory approaches to social research. Before joining Macquarie University, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Richard Carter-White
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
My research interests lie at the intersection of cultural and political geography, coalescing into three main themes: i) geographies of disaster, trauma and exception; ii) geographies of representation, testimony and performance; and iii) spatial philosophies of community, biopolitics and affect. These three themes are united by my abiding interest in...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Selvaraj Velayutham
Associate Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences