Researchers
Prof Megan Watkins, WSU
Megan Watkins is Professor in the School of Education and Institute Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. Her research interests lie in the cultural analysis of education and the formation of human subjectivities. She has extensively examined the impact of cultural diversity on education and the ways in which different cultural practices can engender divergent habits and dispositions to learning in partnerships with the NSW Department of Education and the NSW Teachers Federation. She is currently undertaking research into the impact of Asian migration on Australian society in two ARC Discovery Projects: Schooling, Parenting and Ethnicity: Asian Migration and Australian Education and Civic Sinoburbia? New Chinese migrants and everyday citizenship in Sydney. Previous publications of relevance to this research include Watkins, M, Ho, C & Butler, R (eds) (2019) Asian migration and education cultures in the Anglosphere. London: Routledge and Watkins, M. and Noble, G. (2013) Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Prof Greg Noble, WSU
Greg Noble is Professor in Cultural Research at the Institute for Culture and Society. He has conducted research in multiculturalism for over 3 decades, with particular interests in the intersection of youth, ethnicity and gender; everyday multiculturalism; Bourdieusian theory; cultural pedagogies; and multicultural education. His current research includes the ARC Discovery Projects ‘Australian Cultural Fields’ and ‘Assembling and Governing Habits’, as well as the ‘Schooling, Parenting and Ethnicity’ Project. He has authored or edited 11 books, including Fields, Capitals, Habitus (2020), Convivialities (2018), Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct (2015), Disposed to Learn (2013), On Being Lebanese in Australia (2010) and Bin Laden in the Suburbs (2004).
Assoc Prof Christina Ho, UTS
Christina Ho is an Associate Professor of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. She researches cultural diversity and inequality in education, and inter-cultural relations in urban areas. She has a particular focus on Chinese diasporas, and in addition to this project, is also involved in the ARC-funded project ‘Civic Sinoburbia? New Chinese migrants and everyday citizenship in Sydney’. Her latest book is Aspiration and Anxiety: Asian Migrants and Australian Schooling (MUP 2020).
Dr Alexandra Wong, WSU
Alexandra Wong is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society of Western Sydney University. Her research is focussing on three areas of interests, (1) creative cities and cultural policies (2) migration and multiculturalism (3) urban studies and sustainable development. Currently, she is working on three ARC Discovery Projects: ‘The China Australia Heritage Corridor’ (2017-2021), ‘Civic Sinoburbia? New Chinese migrants and everyday citizenship in Sydney’ (2020-2024) and ‘Schooling, Parenting and Ethnicity: Asian Migration and Australian Education’ (2020-2023). Her latest book, jointly authored with researchers from the ICS, was ‘Chinatown Unbound: Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China’ (Rowman and Littlefield International 2019).
PhD Candidates
Ivy Vuong, UTS
Ivy Vuong is a PhD student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Technology Sydney. Under the guidance of Associate Professor Christina Ho, Dr Kristine Aquino and Professor Megan Watkins, her research will investigate how the educational aspirations and trajectories of second-generation Vietnamese-Australian young adults are shaped by the ways they are parented.
Schools, Families and Learning 