DrKaren Dunwoodie

Karen is the Director at Deakin CREATE (Centre for Refugee Employment, Advocacy, Training and Education). She has worked with the refugee sector in Australia for the past 15 years and her research interests include progressing the field of refugee resettlement, principally focussing on career development and the impact access to tertiary education and training may have on the lives on refugees and people seeing asylum. Prior to her commencement with CREATE, Karen spent twenty years working in the tertiary education and corporate sectors, as well as running her own learning and development consultancy for 10 years.