Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career
Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • identity and belonging
  • Interculturality and multiculturalism
  • Feminist theory
  • Qualitative and post-qualitative research
  • Community wellbeing

Available to supervise research students

Not available for media queries

About Lutfiye Ali

Lutfiye is a Cypriot Turkish Muslim Australian scholar in the field of Community Psychology who has expertise in qualitative and decolonial feminist research methodologies. Her research involves understanding intercultural relations, radicalised and gendered dynamics of oppression and resistance, identity, community making and belonging among marginalised groups.

Lutfiye Ali is a teaching academic in the field of social work and as a research fellow at Moondani Balluk – Indigenous Academic Unit at Victoria University, Australia.

Lutfiye is one of the founding members of Community Identity, Research and Displacement Nework (CIDRN) and a committee member of North Cyprus Turkish Community Centre in Victoria. Lutfiye is currently working on community based projects focused on centring the voices and creating community spaces for minoritised communities in Melbourne's West.

Qualifications

  • BPsych (Hons) Victoria University, Australia, 2007
  • PhD Victoria University, Australia, 2015

Key publications

Lutfiye has over 14 publications, with a selection listed here.


A more comprehensive list of Lutfiye's publications is available in the VU Research Repository.

Year Citation
2019 Ali, L. (190101). Australian Muslim Women s Borderlands Identities: A Feminist, Decolonial Approach (pp. 95-110). Springer International Publishing.

doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20001-5_7
2018 Oke, N., Sonn, C., & Baker, A. (180719). Places of Privilege BRILL.

doi: 10.1163/9789004381407

Year Citation
2023 Ali, L., Chan, K. KL., Bolatagici, T., Cheikh-Husain, S., & Aslam, K. (230101). Women of Color in Academia: Theorizing in the Flesh Toward Decolonial Feminist Futures. Peace and Conflict, 29(1), (10-20).

doi: 10.1037/pac0000642
2020 Demetriou, A., Jago, A., Gill, P. R., Mesagno, C., & Ali, L. (200503). Forced retirement transition: A narrative case study of an elite Australian Rules football player. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 18(3), (321-335).

doi: 10.1080/1612197X.2018.1519839
2019 Costa, I., Gill, P. R., Morda, R., & Ali, L. (191201). More than a diet : A qualitative investigation of young vegan Women's relationship to food. Appetite, 143

doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.104418
2017 Ali, L., & Sonn, C. C. (171102). Strategies of resistance to anti-Islamic representations among Australian Muslim women: an intersectional approach. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 21(11), (1167-1181).

doi: 10.1080/13603116.2017.1350323
2017 McDiarmid, E., Gill, P. R., McLachlan, A., & Ali, L. (171001). "That whole macho male persona thing": The role of insults in young australian male friendships. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 18(4), (352-360).

doi: 10.1037/men0000065
2017 Quayle, A., Ali, L., Baker, A., Sonn, C., Keast, S., & Morda, R. (170101). Finding community, placing psychology: Reflections on the 6th International Conference on Community Psychology. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 3(2), (72-88).

doi: 10.1285/i24212113v3i2p72
2014 Karnilowicz, W., Ali, L., & Phillimore, J. (140801). Community research within a social constructionist epistemology: implications for Scientific Rigor . Community Development, 45(4), (353-367).

doi: 10.1080/15575330.2014.936479
2010 Ali, L., & Sonn, C. C. (100831). Constructing Identity as a Second-Generation Cypriot Turkish in Australia: The Multi-hyphenated Other. Culture and Psychology, 16(3), (416-436).

doi: 10.1177/1354067X10361398

Research funding for the past 5 years

Funding details for this researcher are currently unavailable.

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

Not available for media queries

Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Associate supervisor

Other supervision of research students

Masters by research 1 student, Principle supervisor, Victoria University

Key industry, community & government roles

Dates Role Department/Organisation
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Social Policy and Development Coordinator
GenWest (formally Women's Health West)
Dates Role & Department/Organisation
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Social Policy and Development Coordinator
GenWest (formally Women's Health West)