DrSandra Carrasco

Sandra Carrasco is a Peruvian-Australian academic. She is currently Lecturer in Humanitarianism and Development at Deakin University, Australia. She was previously employed as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Newcastle and received the prestigious postdoctoral McKenzie Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. Sandra holds a PhD and master’s in environmental management from Kyoto University, Japan and a master’s in education from Victoria University, Australia. She has professional and research experience in the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. Her research interests include equality, diversity and inclusion, community resilience and sustainable development, disaster risk reduction and post-disaster recovery, governance and city planning, incremental housing, urban poverty, and migrant and refugee studies.