Meghan Lee

‘the little things’: strategies for holistic, everyday wellbeing with young people from recent migrant and refugee backgrounds in rural Victoria

Thesis Title

‘the little things’: strategies for holistic, everyday wellbeing with young people from recent migrant and refugee backgrounds in rural Victoria

Description of PhD Project

Young people from recent migrant and refugee backgrounds living in regional and rural Australia sit at the intersection of policy discourses and interdisciplinary research about youth, settlement, rurality, mobility, and aspiration. Working on Wadawurrung and Wotjobaluk Country, my research draws from photovoice and community-based approaches to ask these young people how they experience and co-create holistic wellbeing in everyday life. What can we learn from their understandings of and strategies for holistic wellbeing? How might these strategies be better supported by local services, structures, discourses, and resources?

Supervisors

  • Professor Cathy Vaughan
  • Dr Debra McDougall
  • Dr Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin

Biography

Meg is a PhD student at the Centre for Health Equity and Melbourne Social Equity Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Anthropology from the University of Melbourne. Meg has worked and volunteered across a range of cultural and multicultural organisations in Ballarat and Melbourne. As a mixed race young woman from Ballarat, Victoria, Meg brings her own lived experience of growing up in a regional community to her research in the Ballarat and Wimmera communities.

Funders/Scholarships

  • Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship