Community Development and Sociology experts
Murdoch University’s community development experts often work with specific groups including the aged, people with disabilities, young people, children and families, migrants, indigenous people, the unemployed and homeless.
Murdoch’s sociology experts are often engaged in work involving people and how they live together in social groups, from the study of close interpersonal interactions, to transformations in global economic, political and social systems.
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Associate Professor Anne Pedersen
Asylum seekers, prejudice against different cultures Associate Professor Anne Pedersen researches prejudice and anti-prejudice against different cultural groups; in particular, asylum seekers, Indigenous Australians and Muslim Australians. As a strong asylum seeker advocate for the past decade, Professor Pedersen has a keen interest in the integration of such advocacy with her academic work. She works as a community psychologist in the Social and Political Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology and Exercise Science. |
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Dr Yvonne Haigh
Public policy and public sector reform, affordable housing, corruption, youth Yvonne Haigh’s work focuses on the intersection between policy, politics and the public sector. Yvonne has examined policy on homelessness and affordable housing, citizenship and education policy; crime and youth policy, and currently she is examining corruption, ethics and codes of conduct within the public sector. Yvonne has published scholarly works on public policy and she has presented in a range of public sector forums.Dr Haigh is a lecturer in public policy and management in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Sir Walter Murdoch School of Public Policy and International Affairs. |
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Associate Professor Carol WarrenEnvironmental sustainability in Indonesia and Malaysia An expert on community development and environmental sustainability in Indonesia and Malaysia, Associate Professor Carol Warren leads an inter-university Australian Research Council project on communities, environments and local governance in Indonesia.Associate Professor Warren teaches anthropology and sociology on Murdoch's Asian studies and development studies programs, and is a Fellow of Murdoch's Asia Research Centre. |
To reach these experts for media enquiries, contact:
| Rob Payne Media & Communications Coordinator Phone: 08 9360 2491 r.payne@murdoch.edu.au |
Candice Barnes Media & Communications Coordinator Phone: 08 9360 2474 c.barnes@murdoch.edu.au |
Pepi Smyth Media & Communications Coordinator Phone: 08 9360 1289 p.smyth@murdoch.edu.au |
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