Academic Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts
Grad Dip Education
Grad Dip Applied Psychology (Community)
PhD

Research Interests

Christopher has been researching community and individual responses to intercultural contact following immigration and colonisation. This has included investigating the dynamics of social inclusion and exclusion and the implications individual and communities' identity and wellbeing. Specific areas of research interest are:

• Psychological sense of community
• Community resilience and resistance
• Indigenous issues including ways in which non-indigenous people can disrupt dynamics of oppression
• Immigrant adaptation including issues of racism and identity construction and the notion of whiteness

Recent Project Experience

• Developing and conceptual model of community cultural development. (Edith Cowan-Community Arts Network Industry Collaboration Scheme).
• Site researcher: Cultural Diversity and Economic Development in Regional Australian Communities. (Research for Department of Training and Regional Services and the Country Women's Association). 
• Senior researcher Settlement Experiences of Newly Arrived Humanitarian Entrants (Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs).
• Alliances for Community Health and Wellbeing: A Case Study of Processes and Dynamics of an Alliance (ARC and City of Port Phillip).

Organisational and Community Involvement

Christopher is a partner of the Community Arts Network of WA and has recently started to collaborate with VU colleagues and the Gathering place.  He and students have worked with the Torch Project investigating community development initiatives.

Recent Publications

• Full list of recent publications