People
Susan Kneebone
Professor Susan Kneebone is an experienced international legal researcher on refugee and forced migration issues and governance with a strong record of influential and high impact publications and interventions in public discourse. Susan is a Professorial Fellow, a Senior Associate of the Asian Law Centre and Research Affiliate of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. She has an extensive record as a lead Investigator on ARC grants and as supervisor\mentor. She has recently completed an edited book manuscript on Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia: Between Sovereignty and Humanitarianism (Berghahn Books 2024) under an ARC grant, ‘Indonesia's refugee policies: responsibility, security and regionalism’.
Kate Ogg
Professor Kate Ogg is a legal and socio-legal researcher with expertise in human mobility and the law, refugee law, the law of internal displacement, human rights law, litigation and feminist theory and method. Kate is the author of Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management (Cambridge University Press, 2022) which is the first global and comparative examination of the role courts play in refugee journeys. Along with Professor Susan Harris Rimmer, Kate is the editor of Feminist Engagement with International Law (Edward Elgar, 2019). She regularly provides media commentary on developments in refugee and human rights law and has been invited to present her research at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' Headquarters in Geneva and the Australian Federal Parliament. Kate is also conducting an ARC funded study on strategic human rights litigation under a DECRA grant.
Anthea Vogl
Dr Anthea Vogl is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, UTS. Her research takes a critical, interdisciplinary approach to the regulation of migrants and non-citizens, focusing on the social and legal categories of the refugee and irregular migrant. Anthea is the author of Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and director of the UTS Brennan Justice and Leadership Program. She is a national co-convenor of Academics for Refugees, a network advocating for refugee rights and justice and an Associate Co-Director of Border Criminologies at Oxford University, Faculty of Law and has been a visiting fellow at the Berlin Institute for Integration & Migration, Humbolt University (2018) and the Centre for Criminology, Oxford University (2019). Anthea is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW. Prior to joining UTS, she practiced in family law, and in refugee and migrant advocacy in Australian community legal centres and in Canada.
Nathan Gardner Molina
Dr Nathan Gardner Molina is a post-doctoral Research Fellow on the ARC community sponsorship project at the Melbourne Law School and a historian of Australian immigration and multiculturalism. His historical work draws upon non-English language materials to inform his studies of Australia’s diverse ethnic communities. His forthcoming book, In the Face of Diversity: A History of Chinese Australian Community Organisations, 1970-2020, will be published by Sydney University Press. It will be the first historical study of Chinese-Australian communities on a national scale since the end of the ‘White Australia Policy’, with a particular focus on the political actions of community organisations and their expressions of ‘community unity’. Nathan is working under the current ARC project to produce a comprehensive examination of the history of community sponsorship and refugee resettlement initiatives in Australia.