Farida Fozdar

Farida Fozdar (aka Tilbury) is a sociologist with a research focus on migration, race and ethnicity, refugee settlment, racism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. She has published widely with over a hundred journal articles, chapters, books, and reports. Farida joined UWA in 2011 as an ARC Future Fellow, and is now in a teaching and research role, Deputy Head of Social Sciences (Research) and Chair of the UWA Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Working Group.

Research Grants
Farida has received over $1.5 million in grants to research topics ranging from refugee settlement and belonging, evaluations of settlement programs, migrant mental health and wellbeing, mobilities across the lifecourse, training, education and employment issues for migrants, migration and media use, intercultural confidence among university students, creating inclusive school environments, international legal obligations and settlement support, and mixed race.  Her 4 year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship explored contemporary Australian identity, particularly affective aspects of national versus transnational and postnational/cosmopolitan identities.

Farida teaches a number of units as part of the Master of Social Research Methods, including SOCS5003 Research Design, SOCS5005 Research Ethics, SOCS5501 Evaluation, SOCS5009 Innovative Methods, and SOCS5001 Engaging Cultural Difference. She has taught previously in the areas of social research methods, race and ethnicity, refugees and migration, community development, and introductory sociology.

Farida supervises a range of postgraduate students including some studying media representations of refugees and asylum seekers, representations of Australian identity, historical metaphors of migration, mixed race families, barriers to higher education among Sudanese, and more.  She is interested in higher degree students in the areas of racism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, migration and refugee settlement.

Farida uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand the ways in which racial, ethnic, national and religious identities are constructed, issues around refugee and migrant settlement, and questions of cultural diversity. She has a particular interest in discourse analysis. Farida undertakes social research consultancies including evaluating programs to assist migrants and refugees with re-settlement.