Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

Staff Directory

Sandy Gifford is the Director of the La Trobe Refugee Research Centre in the School of Social Sciences. Sandy has had a long standing commitment in refugee settlement and wellbeing. In 2001, she helped to establish the Research Unit at the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture. She has a commitment to using innovative research methods and to projects which provides a space for voices of people who have been forcibly displaced and who have grappled with the many challenges of resettling and making a life in a new country.

Publications

List of recent publications

Teaching

• ANT2/3DDD: Displacement, Development and Disadvantage Study Tour
• ANT2/3DFR: Displacement, Flight and Refuge
• Honours elective, Globalization to Localization: Rethinking the dilemmas of displacement, flight and resettlement
  

Graduate Supervision

She has supervised more than 20 postgraduate students who have carried out their research in medical anthropology, public health and refugee studies.

List of PhD students

Research Projects

List of research projects