Current research interests:

• Social determinants of refugee and asylum seeker health and wellbeing
• Discrimination, stigma, social inclusion and health and wellbeing
• Social capital and health
• Neighbourhood, housing and social inclusion
• Employment and health
• Equity in primary health care

Current projects:

• Public spaces, inclusion and health and wellbeing for refugee youth
• Stillbirth prevention and support for women from migrant and refugee backgrounds
• Digital storytelling as a research and engagement method with refugees and asylum seekers
• Primary health care access for refugees and asylum seekers
• Refugee and asylum seeker oral health
• Migrant workers experiences of state sponsored programmes
• Regional resettlement experiences of refugees
• The health and wellbeing impacts of temporary protection visas for refugees and asylum seekers
• Mental health and mid-to-long term settlement challenges for young people from refugee backgrounds
• Decolonising practice in primary health care
• Policy responses to unemployment in South Australia

Previous research areas/projects:

• HIV related stigma for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
• Experiences of making complaints about discrimination
• Housing, social and inclusion and wellbeing for refugees and asylum seekers
• Relocation of public housing tenants
• Indigenous perspectives on the relationships between location, social capital, racism and health
• Social capital and public policy interventions to improve health and reduce inequities
• Longitudinal study of the health, housing and labour market impacts of an automotive plant closure
• Locational disadvantage, social capital and health
• The health impacts on changing patterns of work - the mediating role of resiliency and social capital
• Housing tenure, location and social capital
• Housing tenure and employment
• Social aspects of HIV/STI prevention in the sex industry