Dr Eliza Crosbie
Research Assistant
Research Focus: Migration; Refugee settlement; Gender
Dr Eliza Crosbie is a migration researcher with a desire to contribute to a more equitable society. Eliza is passionate about working closely with communities to conduct research that understands and addresses the systemic inequalities that are experienced by many.
Dr Crosbie has worked in community development both internationally and within Australia. In Nepal, following the 2015 earthquakes, she worked within and alongside communities and organisations to deliver both immediate and longer-term humanitarian supports. In Australia Eliza supported women from multicultural backgrounds who were experiencing domestic and family violence.
Eliza’s PhD research, completed in Human Geography through the University of Newcastle, was embedded within a community-led project which aimed to understand the hopes and aspirations of former refugees from the Great Lakes Region of Africa who desired to move to regional Australia. Her discrete project explored the relationship between African ways of knowing and being (Ubuntu), non-humans, and Australia’s policy system to address this overarching aim.
Dr Crosbie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ARC Linkage Project Settling well in regional Australia: experiences for former refugees.
She teaches in a range of courses including in Human Geography, Environmental and Life Sciences and Development Studies.