Dr Sally Baker
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... refugee education, higher education equity and language policy and the educational experiences of students from culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and refugee backgrounds.
Dr Deborah Barros Leal Farias
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... populism, global governance and the international political economy of developing countries.
Dr Monika Barthwal-Datta
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... non-traditional security issues, particularly food security; non-state actors and regional security challenges in South Asia, and Indian foreign policy.
Dr Asal Bidarmaghz
Engineering
Talk to me about... ground modelling, geo-energy systems and structures, hydro-thermal characteristics of ground and underground structures synergistically with above ground built environment.
Dr Jonathan Bonnitcha
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... international economic governance, with a particular interest in investment treaties.
Dr Srinjoy Bose
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... political order and violence, international intervention, rebel governance, and the political economy of statebuilding and peacebuilding in 'fragile' and deeply divided states and societies, with a geographic focus on Southwest Asia and the Middle East.
Dr Bruce Bradbury
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... poverty and inequality, the measurement of living standards, income support and labour market policies, consumer equivalence scales, and the geographic dimensions of social policies.
Professor Jan Breckenridge
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... gendered violence, including domestic, family and sexual violence and workplace responses; economic and financial abuse; homelessness and the potential of safe at home programs for women and children affected by domestic and family violence.
Professor Tony Butler
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about...The nexus between the health and justice systems, and how public health approaches to research in the justice system can be of benefit to this area.
Emeritus Professor Andrew Byrnes
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... UN human rights standards and procedures, gender, disability and older persons rights, bills of rights and domestic implementation of human rights.
Dr Yulisha Byrow
Science
Talk to me about... understanding why some refugees adapt better than others despite having faced similar traumatic experiences and includes identifying psychological mechanisms contributing to the mental health and psychosocial adaptation of adult and child refugees during resettlement.
Dr Allison Carter
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... strengthening responses to gender, social justice, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Research profile.
Assoc. Professor Emma Christopher
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... the Transatlantic Slave Trade, slavery's links to convict transportation and Pacific Islander labour, West Africa, historical slavery, and modern slavery.
Professor Melissa Crouch
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... constitutional democracy, authoritarian regimes and the rule of law in Asia.
Dr Andrew Dansie
Engineering
Talk to me about... water and air quality projects in low and middle-income countries, bringing extensive experience working in the United Nations system.
Dr Kev (George) Dertadian
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... drug policy and non-carceral responses to drug use, including the non-medical use of pharmaceuticals and injection drug use, and especially in relation to qualitative and field-based research with people who use drugs.
Dr Poppy de Souza
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... the aesthetics, ethics, poetics, and politics of 'voice' and 'listening' in conditions of inequality and injustice with a focus on sites and practices of resistance and transformation.
Professor Helen Dickinson
School of Business, UNSW Canberra
Talk to me about... disability policy and services and technologies of caring.
Dr Kerryn Drysdale
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... bringing a critical cultural lens to everyday lived experiences as they pertain to public health concerns; specifically, how to respond to health inequities in vulnerable and marginalised communities, and the value of paying close attention to social scenes for LGBTQ+ people.
Emeritus Professor Andrea Durbach
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... transitional justice and reparations, public interest litigation, gender justice, and health and human rights.
Dr Dorna Esrafilzadeh
Engineering
Talk to me about... health and medical devices, as well as carbon dioxide reduction and green energy systems.
Lisa Ewenson
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Talk to me about... educational inequality and UNSW programs which seek to 'widen participation' within higher education.
Karen Fisher
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... the organisation of social services in Australia and China, including disability and mental health community services; inclusive research and evaluation methodology; and social policy process.
Dr Kingsley Fong
Business
Talk to me about... market microstructure, household finance, Investment, sustainable finance.
Assoc. Professor Caroline Ford
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... biomedical research that aims to improve outcomes for women with endometriosis and gynaecological cancers
Dr Natalie Galea
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... gender equality in male dominated sectors, gender violence in sport and the mechanisms that maintain and reinforce male dominance in the Australian construction sector.
Associate Professor Nitika Garg
Business
Talk to me about... the influence of emotions on consumer judgment and decision making, including choice and consumption.
Associate Professor Maria Giannacopoulos
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... the intersections of law and colonialism, and expanding carcerality and its impacts upon marginalised communities: refugees, migrants, Indigenous and criminalised peoples.
Dr Natasha Ginnivan
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... ageism, implicit attitudes to ageing, ageing in marginalised populations, and ways of improving age expectations through psychosocial and evidence-based interventions.
Dr Lydia Gitau
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... investigating post-conflict interventions that have potential to support healing and peacebuilding for survivors of conflict, mass violence and refugee trauma.
Assoc. Professor Donna Green
Science
Talk to me about... climate change impacts on human health, air pollution, domestic energy policy and environmental justice.
Assoc. Professor Ben Golder
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... critical legal theory and contemporary political theory; postfoundational approaches to human; specifically, asking questions about what human rights can and cannot achieve politically, about who qualifies as a subject of human rights, and about the viability of non-human-rights-based frameworks for emancipation and global justice.
Dr Penny Griffin
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... economic governance, financial crisis and the 'post-crisis' period from a gender perspective.
Assoc. Professor Fiona Anne Haigh
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... health impact assessment, health inequalities, health and human rights and interdisciplinary research and education.
Dr Bridget Haire
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... the ethical issues in infectious disease control with an emphasis on underserved or marginalised populations; gender; and sexual and reproductive health.
Professor Pamela Hanrahan
Business
Talk to me about... 'suptech' (or the use by government of AI and other forms of technology to regulate individuals and corporations), as well as how this technology has human rights implications for its targets.
Dr Anikó Hatoss
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... the social, cultural and linguistic adjustment of immigrant communities, intergenerational language maintenance and shift, language and identity, sociolinguistics of multilingualism, linguistic landscapes, oral narratives, bilingual parenting and community-based language planning.
Dr Benjamin Hegarty
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... transgender citizenship, health, and rights in Indonesia, and context that has seen increased contestation over the rights of LGBTIQ+ people in the past five years.
Dr Maree Higgins
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... participatory methods and human rights informed research with refugee-background co-researchers, people of African descent, older people, people with disability, and people in forensic justice.
Research profile here.
Dr Joel Hoffman
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... moral injury in people from refugee backgrounds, and the impact of displacement on refugee mental health and wellbeing.
Dr Jane Ye In Hwang
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... human rights issues arising at the intersection of justice and health, as well as the implications of ageing in marginalised populations.
Dr Elnaz Irannezhad
Engineering
Talk to me about... logistics, supply chain and freight transportation, agent-based modelling, Mobility and Logistics as a Service, automated vehicles, and blockchain technology.
Dr Divya Jayakumar Nair
Engineering
Talk to me about... Protecting human rights, integrating human rights considerations into the multilateral humanitarian system’s planning and establishing human-rights based approach to humanitarian action with a view to securing the participation of the affected population has been the primary focus.
Professor Fleur Johns
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... international law, legal theory and law and technology with a current focus on how digital technology may impact humanitarianism, disaster relief, and global governance.
Dr Paula Jops
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... building a social public health system for a just and equitable response to public health challenges.
Dr Daniel Joyce
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... media and human rights, addressing topics including: internet freedom, digital privacy, intermediary liability, social media regulation, and the role of digital media infrastructure as a tool for human rights.
Dr Andy Kaladelfos
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... sexual and gender-based violence, queer criminology, immigration regulation, and homophobic and transphobic violence.
Associate Professor Mohsen Kalantari
Engineering
Talk to me about... engineering geospatial systems in support of land tenure systems to secure formal and informal land and property rights.
Dr George Christopher Karystianis
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... domestic violence, its at-risk populations and the related mental health status of perpetrators, and victims and cross-disciplinary approaches that make the most out of big data.
Assoc. Professor Ann Kayis-Kumar
Business
Talk to me about... conceptualising tax as a mechanism to achieve social justice across the taxpaying spectrum; ranging from improving the integrity of taxing multinationals to improving the wellbeing of financially vulnerable individuals and small businesses.
Assoc. Professor Mira Kim
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... translation studies, Systemic Functional Linguistics and personalised language learning.
Professor Natalie Klein
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... the law of the sea and international dispute settlement, and how existing principles of the law of the sea could better accommodate human rights obligations.
Dr Sujith Kumar
Kirby Institute
Talk to me about... health access among marginalised and key populations, and LGBTQ+ rights in the Asia-Pacific region.
Professor Jackie Leach Scully
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Talk to me about... ethical issues that affect people with disability and other marginalised groups.
Professor Johannes le Coutre
Engineering
Talk to me about... food security, improving food productivity and making available the calories needed to nourish our global population by 2050.
Ebony Lewis
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... improving the end-of-life experience for older people with advanced chronic illness.
Professor Lucas Lixinski
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... the adjudication of human rights by international courts and quasi-courts; and the safeguarding of cultural rights.
Dr Angelica Ly
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... understanding the social determinants of health inequity that create barriers to affordable eye care amongst adults at risk of vision loss in Australia.
Emeritus Professor Martin Lyons
Art, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about… the history of illiteracy, historical barriers to reading and writing, the social inclusion of partially-literate people, ‘writing upwards’, i.e. how the weak petition and write to the powerful, their political leaders, church leaders, employers.
Dr Brooke Marshall
Law & Justice
Talk to me about...private international law (conflict of laws), comparative law, international commercial arbitration and contract law.
Dr Ingrid Matthews
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... sovereignty and self-determination; everyday human rights violations by police; decarceration and abolition; anti-racist and anti-colonial epistemologies; ontology of legal pluralism on colonised lands.
Dr James MacGibbon
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... HIV prevention and sexual health with gay and bisexual men, other men who have sex with men and queer people.
Associate Professor Ruth McCausland
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Talk to me about... systemic and community-led responses to criminalisation and incarceration.
Assoc. Professor Christopher Michaelsen
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... general human rights law, European human rights law, international law and security.
Gillian Moon
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... international economic law, particularly WTO law, and its intersections with human rights, development, and climate change.
Matthew Nelson
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... the investigation and prosecution of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in international and domestic criminal proceedings.
Dr Jamee Newland
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... global public health, gender and sexuality diversity of men who have sex with men and transgender women in Papua New Guinea, and sexual and reproductive health justice of young people, transgender women, and sex workers in Indonesia.
Assoc. Professor Christy Newman
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... social aspects of health, gender and sexuality; diverse approaches to creating and caring for relationships, families and communities; LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing; social impacts of stigmatised blood borne viruses.
Associate Professor Rob Nicholls
Business
Talk to me about... regulation and governance, and particularly how governance failures can lead to adverse human rights outcomes, as evidenced in the Disability and Robodebt Royal Commissions.
Dr Katya Numbers
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... Ageism, age inclusivity, and why it is important to promote positive age stereotypes through intergenerational collaborations over a lifetime.
Professor Anne O'Brien
Art, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... housing, homelessness and history.
John Page
Engineering
Talk to me about... how new technologies challenge human rights and how to keep artificial intelligence aligned with human freedoms, wishes and quality of life.
Sam Pedram
Engineering (Canberra)
Talk to me about... urban and regional planning, infrastructure development, and program and project management.
Professor Nalini Pather
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... medical imaging and radiomics for diagnostic systems, blended/hybrid program and curriculum design, immersive technologies such AR/VR and 3D printing, and inclusive education.
Dr Noam Peleg
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... children’s lives and international children’s rights law, and its intersections with childhood studies, and international human rights law from a critical perspective.
Dr Ram Prasad Mohanty
UNSW Canberra
Talk to me about... Machine learning, high-performance distributed computing, embedded systems, modelling & simulation, bioinformatics, data analysis and cyber security.
Dr Jake Rance
Art, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... the politics of injecting drug use and the potential of qualitative research to challenge the stigmatised and discredited subjectivities, identities and knowledges commonly associated with people who inject drugs and/or who are living with Hepatitis C.
Associate Professor Sridhar Ravi
Engineering/UNSW Canberra
Talk to me about... how humans interact with their environment and in this respect how disability may impact sensory perceptions.
Professor Daniel Robinson
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... the regulation of nature and knowledge, 'biopiracy', access and benefit-sharing relating to biological resources, appropriation and regulation of Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous/customary laws and biocultural protocols, ethical biotrade, political ecology, environmental policy and management.
Professor Mina Roces
Art, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... activism on behalf of migrants, gender issues, and vulnerable children/childhoods.
Dr Sushmita Ruj
Engineering
Talk to me about... Cryptography, data privacy and blockchains, particularly how privacy preserving techniques can enable anonymous messaging and voting so that people can fight for their causes and still be safe.
Associate Professor Meead Saberi Kalaee
Engineering
Talk to me about... traffic flow theory and characteristics, large-scale transportation network modelling, complex networks, pedestrian crowd dynamics and simulation, and urban data analytics and visualisation.
Assoc. Professor Michael Alan Salter
Arts, Design & Architecture/Engineering
Talk to me about... child sexual exploitation and gendered violence, and applying critical and feminist theory to the study of complex trauma, with a focus on intersections with technology.
Professor Karin Sanders
Business
Talk to me about... the impact of employees’ perceptions, understanding and attributions of human resource process approach on their attitudes and behaviours, such as their informal learning activities.
Dr Janani Shanthosh
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... monitoring state responses to rights violations in women and girls, and co-producing model public health laws alongside governments and communities to create healthier societies.
Professor Krishna Kumar Shrestha
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... Global Indigenous Studies; Critical Development Studies; Environmental Governance; Disaster Resilience, and Climate Change Adaptation, in particular the intersection of the five with his work on environmental justice.Research profile.
Dr Yunfei Shi
Business
Talk to me about... how business analytics and artificial intelligence technologies create value for environmental and social impacts.
Dr Lana Tatour
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... settler colonialism, indigeneity, race, citizenship, human rights, and the Middle East with a focus on Palestine and Israel.
Scientia Professor Carla Treloar
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... the sociology of health, social determinants of health, social and personality psychology, health promotion and infectious diseases, with a particular interest in the fields of hepatitis C and injecting drug use.
Professor Julian Trollor
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... the health and wellbeing of people with cognitive disability.
Professor kylie valentine
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... methods and concepts from the sociology of knowledge, and how they can be used to understand social disadvantage and exclusion.
Dr Amy Vassallo
The George Institute for Global Health
Talk to me about... gender equity in health and medical research; and developing evidence-based approaches, including policy reform, to address these gaps
Dr Caroline Wake
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... migration, memory, performance and visual culture.
Scientia Professor Toby Walsh
Engineering
Talk to me about... advocating for limits to ensure AI is used to protect and improve our human rights.
Dr Xiaoyang Wang
Engineering
Talk to me about... fairness computing and responsible machine learning in relation to human rights.
Dr Janelle Weise
Medicine & Health
Talk to me about... enhancing the capacity of the health and mental health workforce to deliver accessible, effective and efficient healthcare to people with an intellectual disability.
Assoc. Professor Jessica Whyte
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... political philosophy, contemporary forms of sovereignty, human rights, humanitarianism and militarism.
Professor Sarah Williams
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... international law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law and international disaster law.
Glen Wolter
Law & Justice
Talk to me about… international human rights law, strategic human rights litigation, new approaches to remedying human rights violations, domestic implementation of human rights obligations, interdisciplinary approaches to human rights research and advocacy, and LGBTQIA+ rights.
Assoc. Professor Fengshi Wu
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about... environmental politics, state-society relations, and global governance with the empirical focus on China and Asia.
Dr Joyce Wu
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about...gender and international development, with a specific focus on women and girls’ empowerment.
Dr Sophie Yates
Business
Talk to me about... a gender and inequality lens on public administration and public policy.
Dr Monika Zalnieriute
Law & Justice
Talk to me about... the interplay between law, technology, and politics, and focuses on automated decision-making, Internet policy, data privacy and discrimination law, and human rights in the digital age.
Professor Anthony Zwi
Arts, Design & Architecture
Talk to me about...development and health responses to disasters and conflict and to how systems are established in the aftermath of crises.
