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Professor Sandra Gifford

Adjunct Professor
PhD Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco, United States; Masters of Public Health, Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, United States; MA, University of California,Davis, United States; BA, University of California, Davis, United States

Biography

Sandy Gifford is an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Urban Transitions. Her research focuses on forced migration, refugee settlement and the uses of digital technologies among forced and undocumented migrants in urban transnational contexts. Her background is in medical anthropology and her research has addressed ethnicity, gender, migration, settlement and health in Australia, India and Malaysia.  She has expertise in ethnographic longitudinal studies using a mix of methods from standardized surveys and in-depth interviewing to digital media, film and participatory art based methods.

Research interests

Forced Migration; Anthropology

PhD candidate and honours supervision

Higher degrees by research

Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.

PhD topics and outlines

Humanitarianism, forced migration, refugee settlement: I supervise topics on refugee settlement, refugee background young people, identity and belonging and the use of ICTs in forced migration and displacement.  Ethnographic and qualitative methodological approaches are the approaches that I supervise. 

Publications

Also published as: Gifford, Sandra; Gifford, S.; Gifford, S. M.; Gifford, Sandra J.; Gifford, Sandra M.; Gifford, Sandra Margaret; Gifford, Sandy; Gifford, Sandy M.
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Recent research grants awarded

  • 2015: Academic staff capacity building: training in qualitative and quantitative methods *; Melbourne-Sarawak Research Collaboration Scheme
  • 2014: Cultural Enterprise Through Mobile Media in Sarawak *; Melbourne-Sarawak Research Collaboration Scheme
  • 2012: Displaced twice? Investigating the impact of the Queensland floods on the wellbeing and settlement of a cohort of men from refugee backgrounds living in Brisbane and Toowoomba *; NHMRC Project Grants
  • 2010: Small mercies, big futures: Enhancing law, policy and practice in the selection, protection and settlement of refugee children and youth *; ARC Linkage Projects Scheme
  • 2009: Home Lands: Displaced youth and the development of positive transnational identities in a supportive local context *; ARC Linkage Projects Scheme

* Chief Investigator