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Amanda Wise

Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: +61 2 9850 8835

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

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Dr Andrew Burridge

Centre for Workforce Futures, Ethics and Agency Research Centre, Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: 0298507946

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

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Chris Lyttleton

Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: +61 2 9850 7783
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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

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Dr Banu Senay

Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: +61 2 9850 8120
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Bronwyn Carlson

Professor
Department of Indigenous Studies


Phone: +61 2 9850 8891

Professor Bronwyn Carlson is an Aboriginal woman who was born on and lives on D'harawal Country in NSW Australia. Bronwyn was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Indigenous grant in 2013 for research on Aboriginal identity and community online (IN1301000360), and a second ARC in 2016 for research on...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Dr Chris Vasantkumar

Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: +61 2 9850 9458

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

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Claudio Minca

Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: +61 2 9850 9780

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

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Daniel Ghezelbash

Associate Professor
Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Agency Research Centre, Macquarie Law School


Phone: +61 2 9850 7042

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

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Fei Guo

Professor
Centre for Workforce Futures, Department of Management


Phone: +61 2 9850 8445

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

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Dr Hangyoung Lee

Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: +61 2 9850 4114

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

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Joseph Pugliese

Professor
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature


Phone: +61 2 9850 2162

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

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Dr Jyhene Kebsi

Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: 0298509491

Dr. Jyhene Kebsi is the Director of Learning & Teaching. In 2018, she was hired by Macquarie University as a Permanent Full-time Assistant Professor. Since becoming a Tenured Assistant Professor, Dr. Kebsi has held different roles including the MA Program Convenor and L&T Director.   Dr. Kebsi has been teaching...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Meena Chavan

Associate Professor
Department of Management


Phone: 0298509026

 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. Prior to this role she was Program Director Master of International...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Dr Nicholas Harrigan

Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: 0298508862

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

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Dr Richard Carter-White

Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: +61 2 9850 8803

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

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Selvaraj Velayutham

Associate Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences


Phone: +61 2 9850 4426
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