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Amanda Wise

Professor
Housing and Urban Research Centre, School of Communication, Society and Culture


Phone: +61 2 9850 8835

Research InterestsAmanda'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 citiesAttachments to and formations of placeCultural diversity and the urban commonsEveryday multiculturalism and 'lived diversity'Migration and migrant...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Dr Andrew Burridge

Centre for Workforce Futures, Ethics and Agency Research Centre, Housing and Urban Research Centre, School of Communication, Society and Culture


Phone: 0298507946

Dr. Andrew Burridge is a political geographer, based in the Discipline of Geography and Planning, in the School of Communication, Society and Culture. 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...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Chris Lyttleton

Professor
School of Communication, Society and Culture


Phone: +61 2 9850 7783
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Dr Banu Senay

School of Communication, Society and Culture


Phone: +61 2 9850 8120
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Bronwyn Carlson

Professor
Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre, School of Communication, Society and Culture


Phone: +61 2 9850 8891

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

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Dr Chris Vasantkumar

School of Communication, Society and Culture


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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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, Housing and Urban Research Centre


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

School of Communication, Society and Culture


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
Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre, School of Communication, Society and Culture


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 and...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Dr Jyhene Kebsi

School of Communication, Society and Culture


Phone: 0298509491

Dr. Jyhene Kebsi is a tenured Assistant Professor. She has held different roles including the MA Program Convenor, Early Career Representative, Research Strategy Committee Representative and Director of Learning & Teaching. Before Joining Macquarie University, Dr. Kebsi taught at the University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, SME College and the...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Meena Chavan

Associate Professor
Department of Management, Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre, Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Research Centre


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 and the Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre, Macquarie University.She has a strong industry background...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Dr Nicholas Harrigan

School of Communication, Society and Culture


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 at Singapore...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Dr Richard Carter-White

Housing and Urban Research Centre, School of Communication, Society and Culture


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
Housing and Urban Research Centre, School of Communication, Society and Culture


Phone: +61 2 9850 4426
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