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  • Current and recently completed Australian Research Council funded research projects

    • A/Prof Suzanne Fraser, Prof Janice Wright, Dr JaneMaree Maher, Prof Alan Petersen
      Improving Australia’s response to childhood obesity: Prevention education and its impact on mothers and families
    • Dr Terry Macdonald
      Building global political legitimacy: how can we make global institutions more stable, effective, and justified?
    • Dr Mark Davis, Dr Niamh Stephenson, Prof Paul Flowers
      Using a biosocial approach to advance pandemic influenza control
    • Prof Sharon Pickering, Dr Leanne Weber, Dr Michael Grewcock, Dr Marie Segrave
      Exporting Risk: The Australian Deportation Project
    • A/Prof Anita Harris
      The Civic Life of Young Australian Muslims: Active Citizenship, Community Belonging and Social Inclusion

                 Young People in the Multicultural City

    • Dr Dharmalingam Arunachalam, Dr Genevieve Heard
      Dynamics of childbearing in Australia in the first decade of the 21st Century
    • Prof Sharon Pickering, A/Prof Gail Mason, Prof Jude McCulloch, Dr JaneMaree Maher, Prof Lorraine Mazerolle, Dr Rebecca Wickes, Mr Jeffrey Pope, Mr Ashley Dickinson, Ms Leanne Sargent, Dr David Ballek
      Targeted crime: policing and social inclusion
    • Prof Jude McCulloch, Prof Mark Peel
      Justice For All : A History of the Victorian Community Legal Centre Movement
    • Dr Julian Millie
      Preaching Islam in Indonesia: Politics, Performers and Publics in Indonesia
    • Dr Jemma Purdey
      A study of the scholarship on Indonesia in Australia and its implications for foreign policy
    • Prof Marian Quartly, Prof Denise Cuthbert, Prof Shurlee Swain
      The search for family: A history of adoption in Australia
    • Dr Matt Tomlinson
      God, blood, country: An ethnographic study of Fijian Christian institutions
    • Dr Dean Wilson
      Closed Circuit Television Surveillance, Security Networks and Australian Public Space
    • Prof Greg Barton, Dr Peter Lentini, Dr Simon Moss, Dr Gaetano Ilardi
      Radicalisation, Counter-Radicalisation, and De-Radicalisation: Developing a New Understanding of Terrorism in the Australian Context
    • Dr Dean Wilson, Ashley Dickinson, Alan Kennedy
      The police role in victim and witness support: researching a best practice model for Victoria

    Research Collaborations

    Research Seminars

    Supervisors’ areas of research interest and expertise

    PSI Supervisors’ Areas of Research Interest and Expertise

    Postgraduate studies by research

    Postgraduate Studies by Research

    Journals edited by PSI academics

    People and Place - People and Place is published quarterly by the Centre for Population and Urban Research and presents key information on migration patterns, the labour market, urban growth, the environment and related topics.