ICEPA Staff

ICEPA objectives are achieved by bringing together and supporting cross disciplinary and cross sectoral teams from across the university. ICEPA core and research staff include:

Director
Associate Professor Danny Ben-Moshe (racism and anti-semitism, comparative diasporas, Israel-Diaspora relations, Australian Jewry and Israel, migration and refugees)

Research Professor
Professor Hurriyet Babacan (social and cultural development)

Research Staff
Dr Steve Bakalis (diaspora)

Associate Professor Santina Bertone (cultural diversity and its interaction with social and economic relations at work, within the community and the broader economy)

Associate Professor Helen Borland (language and communication issues in contexts of linguistic and cultural diversity)

Dr Robyn Broadbent (young people and communities, refugees, social policy development and community building)

Dr Marcelle Cacciattolo (refugee settlement, digital technology in educational settings, inclusive pedagogies in tertiary settings and youth programs)

Dr Marty Grace (qualitative and quantitative research methods)

Dr Michele Grossman (orality and literacy in cross-cultural contexts; intercultural perspectives on migration, refugees, race and transnationalism; settler culture and settlement discourse)

Dr Jenny Sharples (community wellbeing)

Dr Chris Sonn (community and individual responses to intercultural contact following immigration and colonisation)

Dr Segu Zahir (quantitative data and survey design)

Research Fellow (Research Development)
Ms Joanne Pyke

Post Doctoral Research Fellows
Dr Beata Leuner (migration, multiculturalism, employment discrimination)
Dr Finex Ndhlovu (language, power and politics; language and citizenship; language, ethnicity and identity politics; language policy and planning; minority languages and their maintenance)
Dr Ben OMara (information communication technology, health and community wellbeing, culturally and linguistically diverse communities)

Administration Assistant
Ms Sue Butterworth

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