Melbourne Social Equity Institute Graduate Researchers

Each year Melbourne Social Equity Institute provides Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarships and other PhD scholarships to students whose interest in social equity issues aligns closely to our research agenda.

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Current Graduate Researchers

The changing power and roles of Rohingya men over the course of forced migration journeys and resettlement in Australia and Malaysia

Navigating borders and bodies: Afghan women’s narratives of reproductive coercion

Antenatal screening for family violence with migrant south Asian women in Australia

Exploring Indigenous-settler political relations through ‘Indigenous Justice Agreements’

Investigating a theoretical framework for Communication Access that supports the social inclusion of people with communication disability

Accessibility in digital technologies: enhancing social equity

Exploring the wellbeing of humanitarian migrants in regional Australia

Consumer and clinicians experiences of Advance Statements under the Victorian Mental Health Act (2014)

Domestic resilience: psycho-spatial narratives of solo mother-headed homes

Is ending statelessness enough? A critical analysis of current approaches to addressing statelessness

More than 2 minute noodles: exploring the everyday experiences of food insecurity among university students in Melbourne

Centring Trans Knowledges for Equity in Engineering Education

Improving women's access to reproductive healthcare in Australia: an intersectional feminist and labour law perspective

Activating inclusive employment through work integrated social enterprise and their employer partners

Trustworthy and Efficient Large Language Models for Stigma-Aware Healthcare

The causes and consequences of barriers for women with complex drug and alcohol use accessing care: the nexus between harm reduction and reproductive justice

Disability, law, and all that romance: a cross-disciplinary approach to equality rights for people with disabilities

Gender dynamics in community volunteering practices

Mothering, mentoring, and the intimate entanglements that (re)produce trans femininity

Crossing the threshold: a study of the lived experiences of people in mental health crisis who have accessed mental health crisis care

Changing the screen story: a screenwriting framework for addressing gender-based violence

Defining accessibility metrics for equitable and inclusive micromobility: an approach based on needs and capabilities

Syrian refugees adoptions, adaptions and rejections of legal responses to experiences of family violence and SGBV

Women’s experiences of temporary labour migration between Australia and Pacific Island countries and Timor Leste

Investigation of sustainable female engineers’ career development – mitigating impacts of gender biological reproductive inequities

Creating housing solutions for displaced populations

Digital journeys of Asian international students: examining their use of digital platforms to support wellbeing

The relationship between communication autonomy, behaviours of concern and restrictive interventions in children who have little to no functional speech

From procurement reform to professional inclusion: rewriting public sector incentives for disability equity in engineering

Completed Graduate Reseachers

Home and away: migrant journeys across digital information environments

Informing NDIS market stewardship through consumers’ information preferences: an exploratory study

Queering constructivist international relations: questioning identity-based human rights norms in sexual orientation-based refugee law

Knowledge, data, visibility and power: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Article 31 in refugee contexts

How do women with disability in the Philippines understand and experience participatory research practice?

The lived experience of women seeking asylum in Australia: rethinking empowerment and disempowerment

Parenting after Black Saturday: lived experiences since the 2009 Victorian bushfires

Seen and heard: embedding the voices of children and young people who have experienced family violence in programs for fathers

Understanding mental distress in young people from a migrant background in Australia through photo-interviewing

‘Do[ing] life together’: Exploring how young people from migrant backgrounds co-create possibilities for wellbeing in rural Australia

Young people’s perspectives on intimate relationships: more than sex, schooling, and risk

Housing as an infrastructure of safety: mapping the potential of safety-informed care practices and relations in women’s housing

Syria's changing statelessness landscape: 2011 as critical juncture

“I knew it was wrong but I couldn’t stop it”: young people talk about the prevention of sexually abusive behaviour

From social connectedness to equitable access: an action research project illuminating the opportunities and the barriers to accessing music for young people with disability transitioning from school to adult life

“It’s a space for us to express our rights, to change ourselves and our community”: A feminist ethnographic study of Syrian refugee women’s experiences in and because of participating in a women and girl safe space in Beqaa valley, Lebanon

The gender-sensitive care project: exploring sexual violence in psychiatric inpatient units

Engaging new fathers: learning from Baby Makes 3

Consultation, research and policy development: lessons from the deafblind community about co-creating a more inclusive world

Reproductive health and contraceptive needs of migrants from Burma: practitioner and patient perspectives in the Australian context

Access, participation, and inclusion: the gender-disability-violence-service planning nexus and the role of integrated planning policy in addressing the right to adequate services