ProfessorYin Paradies
Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Race Relations
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
- Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Race RelationsFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
- +61 3 924 43873 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
BIO
As Chair in Race Relations, Professor Paradies conducts research on the
health, social and economic effects of racism as well as anti-racism theory,
policy and practice across diverse settings, including online, in workplaces,
schools, universities, housing, the arts, and health. He also teaches and
undertakes research in Indigenous knowledges and decolonisation. He has
authored 283 publications, including 201 peer-reviewed articles, 28 book
chapters and two monographs. Prof. Paradies has delivered 330 presentations
(89 international; 219 invited presentations), including 49 guest lectures and
32 keynotes. He is an investigator on 20 current, and 58 completed, grants (12
as lead investigator, 12 ARC and 14 NHMRC grants) with a combined worth of $104
million, as well as an invited reviewer for 133 journals. Prof. Paradies has
assessed grants for the Australian National Health and Medical Research
Council, Australian Research Council, New Zealand Health Research Council, the
United States National Science Foundation, New Zealand Marsden Fund Council,
Ontario Research Fund, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation,
Swiss National Science Foundation and the Austrian Science Fund. He has served
on the editorial boards of Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Public Health and Australian Aboriginal Studies. He
currently (co-) supervises 9 PhDs and has supervised 19 PhD students to
completion. As of Oct 2026, Prof. Paradies had 27,866 citations with a Google
h index of 73.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Race RelationsDeakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
DEGREES
- Doctor of PhilosophyUniversity of Melbourne
- Master of Medical StatisticsUniversity of Newcastle
- Master in Public HealthUniv. of California (Berkeley)
- Bachelor of ScienceNorthern Territory University
- Certificate IV Assessment & Workplace TrainingRoyal Melb Inst. of Technology
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
- Public health
- Epidemiology
- Policy and administration
- Clinical sciences
- Health services and systems
AREA/FACULTY
- Faculty of Arts and Education
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences
SPECIALIST RESEARCH GROUP
- Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation