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Anita Harris

Deakin Distinguished Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • Deakin Distinguished Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 924 45476 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Anita Harris is a Professor in the Sociology Program, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a youth sociologist specialising in
citizenship, mobilities and new forms of participation in a globalised world. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Her current ARC projects include a longitudinal study of transnational mobility and youth transitions (https://www.ymapproject.org/); and a project
on global digital citizenship amongst diasporic youth (https://youthdigitalcitizenship.com/), and she is a former ARC Future Fellow.
She is also undertaking a VicHealth-funded project on digital participation amongst migrant background youth. She is the Deakin leader of the 'Youth, Diversity and Wellbeing in a Digital Age' research and program stream of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, and the co-leader of the Alfred Deakin Institute stream 'Mobilities, Diversity and Multiculturalism'.

Research Groups
Deakin leader of the 'Youth, Diversity and Wellbeing in a Digital Age' research and program stream in the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive
Societies

Co-convenor of the 'Mobilities, Diversity and Multiculturalism' research stream in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

member, Sociology and Social Change Collective, Deakin; International Sociological Association ('Sociology of Youth', 'Sociology of Migration', & 'Racism, Nationalism & Ethnic Relations' committees); Australian Sociological Association ('Youth', 'Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism' & 'Indigenous Sociology' thematic groups); Cultural Studies Association; Asia Pacific Sociological Association

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor
    Deakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
    University of Melbourne

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Sociology
  • Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
  • Sociology of the life course
  • Social change

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation