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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Human Geography | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Social and Cultural Geography | Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies | Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified | Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies | Human Geography not elsewhere classified | Anthropology | Anthropology of Development | Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning) |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Social Structure and Health | Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare | Conserving Pacific Peoples Heritage | Health Related to Specific Ethnic Groups
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Publications
Australian health professionals' statement on climate change and health
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Predictors of Secondary School Completion Among Refugee Youth 8 to 9 Years After Resettlement in Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-08-2016
“We invited the disease to come to us”: neoliberal public health discourse and local understanding of non-communicable disease causation in Fiji
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-05-2017
The health impacts of climate-related migration
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-01-2018
The persistence of predictors of wellbeing among refugee youth eight years after resettlement in Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2015.08.017
Abstract: This short report assesses the predictors of subjective health and happiness among a cohort of refugee youth over their first eight years in Australia. Five waves of data collection were conducted between 2004 (n = 120) and 2012-13 (n = 51) using mixed methods. Previous schooling, self-esteem, moving house in the previous year, a supportive social environment, stronger ethnic identity and perceived discrimination were significant predictors of wellbeing after adjusting for demographic and pre-migration factors. When compared with a previous analysis of this cohort over their first three years of settlement, experiences of social exclusion still have a significant impact on wellbeing eight years after arriving in Australia. This study contributes to mounting evidence in support of policies that discourage discrimination and promote social inclusion and cultural ersity and which underpin the wellbeing of resettled refugee youth.
The political economy of restricting marketing to address the double burden of malnutrition: two case studies from Fiji
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 17-06-2020
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980020000440
Abstract: To draw lessons from Fiji regarding the challenges and opportunities for policy initiatives to restrict (i) food marketing to children and (ii) marketing of breast milk substitutes, to inform policy for the double burden of malnutrition. Qualitative political economy analysis of two policy case studies. Fiji. Eleven key informants from relevant sectors, representing public health, economic and consumer interests. This study used two policy initiatives as case studies to examine factors influencing decision-making: Marketing Controls (Foods for Infants and Young Children) Regulations 2010 , amended in 2016 to remove guidelines and restrictions on marketing in the form of labelling, and the draft Advertising and Promotion of Unhealthy Foods and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children Regulation developed in 2014 but awaiting review by the Solicitor General’s Office. Factors identified included: a policy paradigm in which regulation of business activity contradicts economic policy goals limited perception by key policy actors of links between nutrition and marketing of breast milk substitutes, foods and beverages and a power imbalance between industry and public health stakeholders in policymaking. Regulation of marketing for health purposes sits within the health sector’s interest but not its legislative remit, while within the economic sector’s remit but not interest. Opportunities to strengthen restrictions on marketing to improve nutrition and health include reframing the policy issue, strategic advocacy and community engagement. Restricting marketing should be recognised by public health actors as a public health and an industry policy issue, to support strategic engagement with economic policy actors.
'We didn't want to leave our island': stories of involuntary resettlement from Gaadhoo Island, Maldives
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-06-2020
Rising seas, immobilities, and translocality in small island states: case studies from Fiji and Tuvalu
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-03-2021
‘I came to this country for a better life’: factors mediating employment trajectories among young people who migrated to Australia as refugees during adolescence
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-03-2014
Negotiating family, navigating resettlement: family connectedness amongst resettled youth with refugee backgrounds living in Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-08-2010
Generational retreat: locally driven adaption to coastal hazard risk in two Indigenous communities in Fiji
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-05-2021
International student mobility: Pacific Islander experiences of higher education in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-04-2022
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12342
Abstract: Tertiary education scholarships for in idual students from developing countries, including those in the Pacific Islands, are a key pillar of Australia's development policy. Understanding students' experiences of these scholarships are important in identifying both positives and challenges, which can help foster improved future opportunities. This is especially the case for Pacific Islander students engaging in the Australia Awards Scholarship programme for which there is limited understanding of experiences. As such, this paper identifies that although educational mobility programmes can offer a wealth of opportunities for students, the COVID‐19 pandemic has highlighted the challenges of such programmes which can inhibit students from reaching their full potential. Educational mobility programmes that effectively address the needs of students and empower them to achieve their goals are required to better facilitate transformative development pathways for Australia's Pacific Island neighbours.
Studying Refugee Settlement through Longitudinal Research: Methodological and Ethical Insights from the Good Starts Study
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 29-06-2014
DOI: 10.1093/JRS/FEU017
Preparing for a post-net-zero world
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-08-2022
Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2019
Through their eyes: seeing experiences of settlement in photographs taken by refugee background youth in Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Levels of social trust among men from refugee backgrounds after the 2011 Queensland floods
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-09-2014
DOI: 10.1108/IJDRBE-01-2014-0011
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between flood exposure and levels of social trust among a cohort of adult men from refugee backgrounds who were affected by the 2011 floods in Queensland, Australia. – A quantitative questionnaire was administered to 141 men from refugee backgrounds almost two years after the 2011 Queensland floods. The survey was administered in-person by trained peer interviewers, and included a number of standardized instruments assessing respondents’ socio-demographic characteristics, levels of social trust toward and from neighbors, the police, the wider Australian community and the media and exposure to and impact of the floods. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to assess the relationship between flood exposure and social trust adjusting for pre-disaster levels of trust and other potentially confounding variables. – Participants with higher levels of flood exposure were significantly more likely to report greater levels of trust both toward and from their neighbors, the wider Australian community and the media, and they were also more likely to believe that most people can be trusted. – Although the study reports on data collected two years after the floods, the analysis has adjusted for pre-disaster measures of social trust and other socio-demographic variables. – This paper has highlighted the important place of social trust and social capital for refugee communities in a post-disaster setting. Disaster responses that support social capital among marginalized populations are critical to increasing community resilience and supporting recovery.
Experiences of resettled refugees during the 2011 Queensland floods
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-10-2014
Climate Change, Voluntary Immobility, and Place-Belongingness: Insights from Togoru, Fiji
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 20-03-2022
DOI: 10.3390/CLI10030046
Abstract: Many low-lying communities around the world are increasingly experiencing coastal hazard risks. As such, climate-related relocation has received significant global attention as an adaptation response. However, emerging cases of populations resisting relocation in preference for remaining in place are emerging. This paper provides an account of residents of Togoru, a low-lying coastal settlement on Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Despite facing significant coastal impacts in the form of coastal erosion, tidal inundation, and saltwater intrusion, Togoru residents are opposing plans for relocation instead opting for in-situ adaptation. We conceptualize place-belongingness to a land and people—through personal, historic and ancestral, relational, cultural, economic, and legal connections—as critical to adaptation and mobility decision-making. We argue that for adaptation strategies to be successful and sustainable, they must acknowledge the values, perspectives, and preferences of local people and account for the tangible and intangible connections to a place.
Health equity and migrants in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2017
Predictive modelling of Ross River virus using climate data in the Darling Downs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268823000365
Abstract: Ross River virus (RRV) is the most common mosquito-borne infection in Australia. RRV disease is characterised by joint pain and lethargy, placing a substantial burden on in idual patients, the healthcare system and economy. This burden is compounded by a lack of effective treatment or vaccine for the disease. The complex RRV disease ecology cycle includes a number of reservoirs and vectors that inhabit a range of environments and climates across Australia. Climate is known to influence humans, animals and the environment and has previously been shown to be useful to RRV prediction models. We developed a negative binomial regression model to predict monthly RRV case numbers and outbreaks in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. Human RRV notifications and climate data for the period July 2001 – June 2014 were used for model training. Model predictions were tested using data for July 2014 – June 2019. The final model was moderately effective at predicting RRV case numbers (Pearson's r = 0.427) and RRV outbreaks (accuracy = 65%, sensitivity = 59%, specificity = 73%). Our findings show that readily available climate data can provide timely prediction of RRV outbreaks.
Transformative mobilities in the Pacific: Promoting adaptation and development in a changing climate
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-08-2018
DOI: 10.1002/APP5.254
Mobility and security: the perceived benefits of citizenship for resettled young people from refugee backgrounds
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-10-2015
An Ill Wind? Climate Change, Migration, and Health
Publisher: Environmental Health Perspectives
Date: 05-2012
DOI: 10.1289/EHP.1104375
Factors Influencing Contraception Awareness and Use: The Experiences of Young African Australian mothers
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 14-04-2015
DOI: 10.1093/JRS/FEU040
Early motherhood: a qualitative study exploring the experiences of African Australian teenage mothers in greater Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-09-2015
Nutrition policy-making in Fiji: working in and around neoliberalisation in the Global South
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-11-2019
The effects of climate change on the geography and timing of human mobility
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-04-2018
Voluntary immobility and existential security in a changing climate in the Pacific
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2019
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12231
Spaces of well‐being and regional settlement: International migrants and the rural idyll
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-02-2021
DOI: 10.1002/PSP.2443
Abstract: Regionalisation is a hallmark of Australia's approach to international migration, reflecting governments' growing concern with where new arrivals live. Residence in regional Australia is encouraged (mandated, for some visas) in response to urban population pressures alongside rural population and economic decline. Parallel to regionally focused visa schemes exists a pattern of voluntary urban‐to‐rural migration among some international migrants. Such secondary mobility counters the policy logic that international migrants only live outside cities when required to do so. This paper explores 18 African migrants' motivations for ‘urban flight’: Australian cities have failed to sustain their well‐being and they consider rural life a remedy. Their preference for rural locations is not purely instrumental, it is shaped by deep‐seated affective connections. Given the challenges of regional population retention, settlement policies should be recalibrated to support the aspirations of international migrants who feel an affinity for rural places, rather than compelling the rural settlement of others who do not.
Relocation planning must address voluntary immobility
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-07-2020
The immobility-relocation continuum: Diverse responses to coastal change in a small island state
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
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Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP120101579
Start Date: 2012
End Date: 12-2015
Amount: $231,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 04-2019
End Date: 04-2022
Amount: $379,768.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 06-2019
End Date: 12-2024
Amount: $445,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 12-2021
End Date: 11-2026
Amount: $1,115,069.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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