ECU TRACS DRN members are based in multiple Schools and are drawn together by their shared interest in multidisciplinary research relating to migration, mobilities, diversity, multiculturalism, and plurality.
TRACS is supported by co-conveners comprising staff and HDR students from the School of Arts and Humanities.
Professor Loretta Baldassar is Vice Chancellor's Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities and leads the research program in Migration Diversity and Care. She also leads the TRACS Diversity Research Network at ECU to support an active program of national and international collaborations. Her career has been devoted to better understanding the impact of migration on families and communities.
Associate Professor Justine Dandy is Academic Coordinator, HDR Programs for the School of Arts and Humanities and Associate Director of the Centre for People, Place and Planet. Her research is on acculturation, intercultural relations in plural societies and the nexus between place attachment, environmental change and mobility.
Dr Jamal Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Arts and Humanities. His research focuses on human rights issues, such as refugee and asylum movements, torture, and the international human rights framework. He is the author of the book, A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo.
Dr Catriona Turnbull (Stevens) is a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow and ARC DECRA Fellow in the ECU Research Program in Migration, Diversity and Care. Cat is a sociologist and anthropologist with expertise in migration, ageing, care workforce, transnational caregiving, and the abuse of older people (elder abuse).
Yavar Fadavi is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the School of Arts and Humanities. His research focuses on immigration, acculturation, and social identity, particularly how cultural, national, ethnic, and religious identities are negotiated in intercultural relations and how they contribute to positive migrant adaptation outcomes.
ECU TRACS DRN members work on related research across multiple Schools at ECU.
Please see below for a full list of our members (listed alphabetically by first name):
