ProfessorAnna Halafoff

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.