ProfessorAnna Halafoff

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Dr. Anna Halafoff is a Professor of Sociology, coordinator of the Spirituality and Wellbeing (SWell) Research Network, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She currently leads an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (ARC DP) on Spirituality in Australia: Wellness, Wellbeing and Risks, and was a Chief Investigator on two recent ARC DPs on the Worldviews of Generation Z Australians and on Religious Diversity in Australia. Her other research interests include interreligious relations, religion and education, preventing violent extremism, and Buddhism.

Anna is the author of The Multifaith Movement: Global Risks and Cosmopolitan Solutions, co-author (with Andrew Singleton, Mary Lou Rasmussen, and Gary Bouma) of Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity, and co-editor (with Douglas Ezzy, Rebecca Banham and Greg Barton) of Religious Diversity in Australia: Living Well with Difference.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Professor
    Deakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor, Sociology
    Deakin University, AustraliaJan 2019 - present
  • Senior Lecturer
    Deakin University, Sociology, Australia1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2018
  • Lecturer
    Deakin University, Sociology, Australia22 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2015
  • Research Fellow
    Deakin University, Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Melbourne, Australia12 Mar 2012 - 21 Jul 2013
  • Associate Lecturer
    Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Melbourne, Australia1 Jan 2010 - 11 Mar 2012
  • Research Assistant
    Monash University, UNESCO Chair of Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia-Pacific and Global Terrorism Research Centre, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Melbourne, Australia14 Oct 2005 - 11 Mar 2012

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Monash University
  • Master of Letters
    University of New England
  • Graduate Diploma of Education
    University of New England

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Russian

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Religious studies
  • Sociology

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences

AREAS OF EXPERTISE