Research Projects
Visiting Scholar Positions
2023
Fulbright Professional Coral Sea Scholar (business/industry). Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, USA. [January – April]
2020
Teaching Visitor. Department of Political Sciences, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. Funding: Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Program. [February]
2001
Postgraduate Visitor. Institut d’Études Politiques, Université d’Aix-en-Provence, France. Funding: French Ministry of Education. [January-February]
Research Projects
2024
Temporary migration reform in Australia.
2023–2024
Lessons from Atlanta to Darwin in Business Acceleration for Migrant Women Entrepreneurs.
2022–2024
Re-imagining Experiences and Success in Higher Education for First Nations Students (extension: International Students). With Dr Tracy Woodroffe, Alicia Boyle, Associate Professor Guzyal Hill) and Northern Institute Advisory Group.
2019–2021
Gambling Problems Amongst Non-English Speaking Residents of the Northern Territory. With Dr. Matthew Stevens, Dr Himanshu Gupta.
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2021–2023
Regional Refugee Settlement: Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future. Key recommendations for policy makers about the settlement of humanitarian migrants in regional Australia. With Piper, M. Stump. T., Dun, O., Dufty-Jones, R., Faulkner, S.B., Klocker, N., Musoni, M., Radford, D., Tan, G.
2019
Evaluation of General Skilled Migration in the Northern Territory. With Alicia Boyle, Associate Professor Pascal Tremblay.
2018
Updating the Migrants Looking for Work – A Handbook for Migrants Looking for Work in the Northern Territory Publication. With Alicia Boyle, Dr Ben Zeng.
2017–2018
Australian Diaspora and Emigration from Australia. With Associate Professor Tom Wilson.
2017–2018
Harnessing Ethnocultural Community Knowledge to Understand Immigrant Women Entrepreneurship in Greater Darwin. With Alicia Boyle, Ron Mitchell (Multicultural Council of the NT).
2016–2017
Up for the Challenge: Co-locating for Effective Service Delivery. Case Study of Darwin NGOs. With Alicia Boyle and Darwin-based NGOs.
2015
Examining the Interactions Between the NT Multicultural Community and Organisations and International Students Studying in the NT. With Alicia Boyle, Associate Professor Pascal Tremblay.
2014–2015
How to Engage the Hidden Labour Force for Northern Development? With Alicia Boyle.
2014
Market Rates of Pay. Funder: NT Department of Business. With Alicia Boyle, Pawinee Yuhun.
2012–2013
Employment and Mobility Trajectories of Immigrant-born Early Childhood Educators and Carers in Darwin, NT. With Alicia Boyle, Denise Horvath and industry stakeholders.
2011–2012
Formative Evaluation of the DiversityWISE Program. With Dr Aggie Wegner, Greg Shalley, Dr Christine Bottrell.
2011
Intergovernmental Collaboration in Immigration, Settlement and Integration Policies in Regional Areas of Australia.
2010–2011
Principles for Practice: Framework for Third Sector and Territory Model for Social Enterprise in the NT. With Glen Speering, Dr Christine Bottrell.
2009–2011
Correlates of Gambling-related Problems Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Population in Australia. With Dr Matthew Stevens, Dr Perry Morrison.
2009–2010
Overseas Student Migration in the Northern Territory: Regional Settlement Against the Odds
2009
Evaluation of the Northern Territory Business and Skilled Migration Strategy 2005–2010. With Associate Professor Dean Carson, Associate Professor Andrew Taylor.
2008–2009
International Migration in the NT.
2008–2009
Développer et renforcer les collaborations internationales dans le domaine de l’immigration en dehors des grands centres: vers un projet comparatif Canada, Espagne, Suisse, Belgique et Australie. With Professor Michèle Vatz-Laaroussi, Professor Chedly Belkhodja, Professor Joe Garcea, Dr Maria Luisa Setién, Professor Claudio Bolzman, Professor Altay Manço, Dr Andrea Gerstnerova, Professor Aline Gohard-Radenkovic.
2007–2008
Mobility of the NT Nurses and Midwifes. With Professor Stephen Garnett, Dr Kerstin Zander, Kristal Coe, Helen Thompson, Professor Steven Guthridge, Dr Shu Qin Li, Rosalyn Malyon.
Research Projects
Research Grants
AU$29,000
2023
PI. Lessons from Atlanta to Darwin in Business Acceleration for Migrant Women Entrepreneurs. Professional Fulbright Scholar, Coral Sea Award. Funder: Fulbright Australia.
AU$226,163
2022–2024
PI 2024. Co-PI 2022-2023. Re-imagining Experiences and Success in Higher Education for First Nations Students. Funder: CDU HEPPP (Department of Education, Skills and Employment’s Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP). Project with T. Woodroffe, A. Boyle, G. Hill (all from CDU)
AU$12,500
2020–2021
Co-PI. NTSM: Population and Employment Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Northern Territory. Funder: CDU through the Rainmaker Start-Up Grant Program.
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AU$80,745
2020–21
PI. Gambling Problems Amongst Non-English Speaking Residents of the Northern Territory. Funder: Community Benefit Fund/NT Department of Justice.
AU$6,720
2019–2021
PI. Gambling Problems Amongst Immigrant-born Communities in the NT: Scoping Study. Funder: CDU through the Leverage Fund Grant Program.
AU$60,000
2019
Co-PI. Evaluation of General Skilled Migration in the Northern Territory. Funder: NT Department of Trade, Business and Innovation.
AU$19,528
2018
PI. Updating the Migrants Looking for Work – A Handbook for Migrants Looking for Work in the Northern Territory. Funder: NT Department of Territory Families.
AU$5,000
2017–2018
PI. Australian Diaspora and Emigration from Australia. Funder: CDU through the Rainmaker Start-Up Grant Program.
AU$787.50
2017–2018
PI. Harnessing Ethnocultural Community Knowledge to Understand Immigrant Women Entrepreneurship in Greater Darwin. Funder: CDU Faculty of Law, Business, Education and Arts.
AU$2,405
2016–2017
PI. Up for the Challenge: Co-locating for Effective Service Delivery. Case Study of Darwin NGOs. Funder: CDU Faculty of Law, Business, Education and Arts.
AU$32,820
2015
PI. Examining the Interactions Between the NT Multicultural Community and Organisations and International Students Studying in the NT. Funder: NT Department of Education.
AU$39,211
2015
Co-PI. Examining the Employment Opportunities and Experiences of International Students in the NT. Funder: NT Department of Education.
AU$1,650
2014–2015
PI. How to Engage the Hidden Labour Force for Northern Development? Funder: CDU Faculty of Law, Business, Education and Arts.
AU$49,000
2014
Co-PI. Market Rates of Pay. Funder: NT Department of Business.
AU$7,500
2012–2013
PI. Employment and Mobility Trajectories of Immigrant-born Early Childhood Educators and Carers in Darwin, NT. Funder: CDU Faculty of Law, Business, Education and Arts.
AU$40,000
2011–2012
Co-PI. Formative Evaluation of the DiversityWISE Program. Funder: WISE Employment, Darwin.
AU$10,000
2010–2011
Principles for Practice: Framework for Third Sector and Territory Model for Social Enterprise in the NT. Funder: NT Department of Chief Minister.
AU$1,200
2009
PI. Overseas Student Migration in the Northern Territory: Regional Settlement Against the Odds? Funder: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia. Unable to accept it at that time but subsequently revisited the topic and published findings in Canadian Diversity/ Diversité Canadienne, 2011.
AU$20,000
2009
Co-PI. Evaluation of the Northern Territory Business and Skilled Migration Strategy 2005–2010. Funder: NT Department of Business and Employment.
AU$8,425
2008–2009
PI. International Migration in the NT. Funder: CDU Research Grants Panel.
CDN
$25,000
2008–2009
Co-PI. Développer et renforcer les collaborations internationales dans le domaine de l’immigration en dehors des grands centres: vers un projet comparatif Canada, Espagne, Suisse, Belgique et Australie. Funder: Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
AU$108,000
2007–2008
Co-PI. Mobility of the NT Nurses and Midwives. Funder: NT Department of Health and Community Services.
Research-Enabling Travel and Postgraduate Grants, Other Grants
AU$ 2,000
2024–2025
Start-up grant to establish the NT Hub of the Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation. Funder: French Embassy in Australia.
AU$696
2012
Travel grant to present “Employment and Mobility Trajectories on Immigrant-Born Early Childhood Education and Care Workers in Darwin, 16th biennial conference of the Australian Population Association, Melbourne. Funder: Collaborative Research Network – Northern Research Futures (CRN–NRF).
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AU$920
2012
Travel subsidy to present “Employment and Mobility Trajectories on Immigrant-Born Early Childhood Education and Care Workers in Darwin, 16th biennial conference of the Australian Population Association, Melbourne. Funder: Faculty of Law, Business, Education and Arts, CDU.
AU$1,612
2012
Travel grant to represent CDU Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) at the Australasian Ethics Network Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Funder: CDU Pro-Vice Chancellor Research.
AU$1,900
2012
Travel grant to participate in a writing workshop in Alice Springs led by Professor Kathryn Robinson (Australian National University), Professor Sharon Bell (then Deputy VC, Charles Darwin University) and Professor Ruth Wallace (then Director Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University). Funder: Collaborative Research Network–Northern Research Futures (CRN–NRF).
AU$2,658
2009
Travel grant to participate in the authors’ workshop for the book Immigration hors des grands centres. Enjeux et pratiques dans cinq Etats fédéraux, chair a session, and deliver a public seminar organised by the Réseau and Centre Métropolis Québec, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. Funder: our project funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada.
AU$1,500
2009
International Conference Travel Grant to help meet the costs of attending the authors’ workshop, and deliver a public seminar as above, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. Funder: CDU.
AU$500
2004
Individual research travel grant. Funder: Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Travel Grant, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
AU$100,000
(estimated value) 2002–2005
International Postgraduate Research Scholarship funded by the Commonwealth Government and the Australian National University PhD Scholarship (Stipend), Canberra, Australia.
2001
Post-graduate Research Grant & Living Allowance. Hosted by the Institut d’Études Politiques, Université d’Aix-en-Provence, France Funder: French Government. (January to February).