
Alanna Kamp
Dr Alanna Kamp is Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies in the Urban Research Program, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. She is also a research fellow in the Young and Resilient Research Centre (WSU) and member of the Challenging Racism Project (WSU), Diversity and Human Rights Research Centre (WSU), and Centre of Resilient and Inclusive Societies. She has published pioneering (and award winning) work on Chinese Australian women’s experiences of national and cultural identity, participation and contribution, racism and belonging. She has also published in the areas of Indigenous Studies, Asian Australian Studies, and Islamophobia.

Kevin Dunn
Kevin Dunn is the Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor in Human Geography and Urban Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney University. His areas of research include: immigration and settlement; Islam in Australia; the geographies of racism; and local government and multiculturalism. His recent books include Cyber Racism and Community Resilience (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2017), Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World (2003) and Introducing Human Geography: Globalisation, Difference and Inequality (2000).

Matteo Vergani
Matteo is a senior lecturer in Sociology at Deakin University and Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. His area of expertise is in the study of political violence and hate crime, with a main focus on the empirical evaluation of prevention and reduction programmes in Australia and South East Asia.

Nida Denson
Nida Denson is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology, Western Sydney University (WSU). Her research aims to combat racism and discrimination, with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of various marginalised groups (e.g., people of colour, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who are gender and sexuality diverse). Her research expertise is mainly in the areas of education and psychology.

Rachel Sharples
Dr Rachel Sharples (BA Comms (CSU); PhD (RMIT) is the senior researcher in the Challenging Racism Project (CRP) and affiliated with the Diversity and Human Rights Research Centre in the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. Rachel’s research interests are interdisciplinary, spanning anthropology, sociology, ethnic and racial studies, communications, cultural studies and politics. Key areas of research involve displaced persons, refugees and migrants in local and global settings, the construction and projection of ethnicity, culture and identity, and statelessness, citizenship and belonging.