Overview
Philippa Duell-Piening is a Research Fellow at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, working on the Australian Research Council-funded Understanding Statelessness in Australia project. Philippa conducts socio-legal qualitative research, including interviews with people with lived experience of statelessness and other stakeholders.
Philippa undertook her PhD research at Melbourne Law School. This research focused on the realisation of rights for people with disability in refugee contexts. It employed an innovative participatory methodology premised on the argument that rights holders could and should be involved in interpreting international human rights treaties.
Appointments relevant to this role include Coordinator of the Victorian Refugee Health Network auspiced by the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture and various other roles in mental health services. Philippa has worked in the forced migration contexts of Timor-Leste in 2002 and on the Thai-Myanmar border in 2012.
Aside from a PhD, Philippa has a Graduate Diploma in International Law, a Master of Community and International Development and a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy. Philippa has published about refugee and disability rights in a wide range of journals.