People
The Hugo Centre comprises a team of dedicated researchers, visiting associates and support staff.
The Hugo Centre comprises staff and researchers in the Faculty of Arts and from disciplines across the University of Adelaide, as well links with universities and research centres around Australia and abroad through our affiliated researchers.
Please use the links to find out more about our team members and their research interests.
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Professor Adam Graycar
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Mrs Janet Wall
Centre Administrator
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Dr. Karen Agutter
Visiting Research Fellow
Research: Historical Perspectives on Migration; Migrant Accommodation Centres; Migrant Worker Camps; Assimilation; Migrant Identity; Receiving Society/Migrant relations
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Prof Rachel Ankeny
Professor, Departments of History and Philosophy, School of Humanities
Research: Historical Perspectives on Migration; Temporary Migrant Accommodation; Multiculturalism and Food Habits
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Professor Emma Baker
Professor, School of Social Sciences; Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Planning (CHURP)
Research: Housing & Planning; Cities; Health Inequalities; Spatial & Longitudinal Analysis
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Dr. Kim Barbour
Lecturer, Media, School of Humanities
Research: Online persona, digital identity, migrant personas, identity performance, cultural studies, social media
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A/Prof Douglas Bardsley
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences
Research: Climate Change Risk & Adaptation; Agricultural Development & Risk; Environmental Management & Governance
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Dr. John Budarick
Lecturer, Dept. of Media
Research: Diaspora; Development; Diverse Economies in Tourism; Gender
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A/Prof Joanna Howe
Senior Lecturer, Law
Hugo Centre for Population and Housing
Research: Labour Migration; Precarious Work; Labour Law
Senior Lecturer, Law
Research: Labour Migration; Precarious Work; Labour Law
Senior Lecturer, Law
Hugo Centre for Population and Housing
Research: Labour Migration; Precarious Work; Labour Law
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Dr. Aaron Humphrey
Lecturer, Department of Media, School of Humanities
Research: visual discourse around asylum seekers in Australia; comics as educational tools
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Mr Jarrod Lange
Senior Research Consultant (GIS)
Hugo Centre for Population and Housing
Research: Social Applications of GIS; Service Accessibility/ Remoteness; Spatial & Population Analysis
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Dr. Nina Maadad
Senior Lecturer, School of Education
Research: Identity and marginalization of new arrivals, refugees particularly from NESB across the curricula, culture, education and languages
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Dr. Fidelma McCorry
Research Manager, Adelaide Medical School
Research: Irish Migration; Diaspora; Transnationalism; Settlement; Return Migration
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Dr. Pam Papadelos
Lecturer, Dept. Gender Studies & Social Analysis
Research: Race & Ethnicity (Multiculturalism & Identity); Feminist Theory; Migration Studies; Masculinity Studies
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Professor Richard Pomfret
Professor of Economics
Research: International Trade and Economic Development; Regional Integration
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Dr Romy Wasserman
Research Associate
Hugo Centre for Population and Housing
Research: Human Geography; Migration (International); Population Trends & Policies
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Professor Alexander Reilly
Director of Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School
Research: Migration; Citizenship; Constitutional Law; Indigenous Legal Issues
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Dr. Dianne Rudd
Senior Lecturer, Dept. Geography, Environment & Population
Research: Human Geography; Demography; Migration Studies; Population Analysis; Gender and Policy
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A/Prof Yan Tan
Assoc. Professor, Dept. Geography, Environment & Population
Research: Climate Change, Migration & Adaptation; Climate/Ecological Vulnerability Assessment; Diaspora–Migration–Development Nexus; Urbanisation & Social Inequality
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Professor Anne Taylor
Professor, Head of Population Research & Outcomes Studies (PROS), Adelaide Medical School
Research: Epidemiology; Health; Population; Ageing
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Dr. Danielle Taylor
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Adelaide Medical School
Research: Health Geography; Spatial Epidemiology; GIS; Accessibility Analysis; Ageing; Demography; Strategic Service Planning & Resource Allocation
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Dr. Tizianna Torresi
Lecturer, Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Research: Normative political theory and governance of migration, in particular temporary migration, theory of transnational justice and democratic theory.
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Professor Christine Beasley
Emerita Professor in Politics, School of Social Sciences
Research: Migration; Care; Ageing; Sexuality; Gender
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Dr Jenny Cave
Senior Lecturer, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Research: Diaspora; Development; Diverse Economies in Tourism; Gender
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A/Professor Gour Dasvarma
Associate Professor, Population Studies, Flinders University
Research: Mortality; Fertility & Family Planning; HIV/AIDS; Ageing; Migration; Population Policies; Women's Health; Human Resource Development
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Professor Lakshman Dissanayake
Senior Professor, University of Colombo
Research: International Migration; Population Ageing; Population Dynamics
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Dr Deborah van Gaans
Research Fellow Spatial Epidemiology, University of South Australia
Research: Spatial Modelling; Health Informatics; Accessibility; Data Mashups; Geography
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Dr Kate Golebiowska
Senior Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University
Research: Immigration policy and trends, migrant settlement and integration, skilled and business migration, international students, migrant entrepreneurship
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Dr. Kelly McDougall
Academic Researcher, University of South Australia
Research: Human Geography; Migration; Population Dynamics
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Dr. Kirstie Petrou
Casual Academic, Flinders University
Research: Pacific Islands; Migration; Urbanisation; Remittances; Longitudinal Research; Second Generation Migrants; Temporary Worker Programs
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Professor Matthew Sanderson
Randall C. Hill Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work and Professor of Sociology, Kansas State University.
Research: Migration; Environment; Development; Globalisation
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A/Professor Yuriko Sato
Associate Professor of Dept. of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Research: International Student Policy; Skilled Migration Policy; Social Integration Policy
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Dr George Tan
Research Associate, Charles Darwin University
Research: Demography; Human Geography; Migration; Population Trends & Policies