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Meet our interdisciplinary team of researchers who are leading innovation in social and cultural care to support diverse ageing futures.

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Professor Loretta Baldassar is Vice Chancellor Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at ECU. She is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology and Director of the ECU SAGE Futures Lab. Her work is widely acknowledged as foundational to the field of Transnational Family Studies. Her career has been devoted to better understanding the impact of migration on families and communities, with a focus on the role of social support networks, intergenerational relations, and the social uses of new technologies.

Dr Lukasz Krzyzowski

Dr Lukasz Krzyzowski (he/him), Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in the ECU SAGE Futures Lab and founder of the Rainbow Migrants Observatory. Dr Krzyzowski specialises in applied sociology and intersectionality, focusing on migration, care, sexual and gender diversity, and social justice. He advances policy and co-designed community interventions.

Dr Catriona Stevens

Dr Catriona Stevens is a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the ECU SAGE Futures Lab. She is an early career sociologist and anthropologist with expertise in migration, ageing, care workforce, transnational caregiving, and the abuse of older people (elder abuse).

Dr Manonita Ghosh

Dr Manonita Ghosh is a Research Fellow in the ECU SAGE Futures Lab. With a background in anthropology and public health, her research explores cross-cultural influences on health behaviour, aging and social care, health service evaluation, and music and migrant health.

Dr Simone Marino

Dr Simone Marino is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ECU SAGE Futures Lab. He combines his academic role with consultancy at WA InCasa Aged Care. His interdisciplinary expertise focuses on ethnic identity, dementia and music engagement, and migrant well-being, employing ethnographic and health sciences methods.

Dr Cheng Yen Loo

Dr Cheng Yen Loo is a Research Fellow in the ECU SAGE Futures Lab. She is a sociologist and cultural anthropologist with expertise in ageing, family and relationships studies, social care policy and social justice theory.

Dr Hien Thi Nguyen

Dr Hien Thi Nguyen is a Research Fellow in the ECU SAGE Futures Lab with expertise in ageing and wellbeing, diversity, migration, gender, and development. She is also the project manager for the international Decentering Migration Knowledge (DemiKnow) project.

Dr Gillian Abel

Dr Gillian Abel is a Research Officer in the SAGE Futures Lab and provides administrative support to Prof Loretta Baldassar and the wider SAGE team.

Nelgyn Tennyson

Nelgyn Tennyson, a PhD Candidate and Research Officer, specializes in economics and demography. His research interests include transnational care, neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, health policy, life course demography, social epidemiology, and gerontology. He contributes to designing data collection tools, quality checks, and analysis.

Yu (Yvonne) Huang

Yu (Yvonne) Huang is a PhD candidate in the SAGE Futures Lab. Her research delves into Chinese migrant families in Australia and Canada. She also serves as research administrator for the ECU TRACS Migration Research Network.

Adjuncts and Visiting Scholars

Associate Professor Anita Goh

Associate Professor Anita Goh is a clinical neuropsychologist and a principal research fellow at the National Ageing Research Institute, with expertise in mental health, cognition, ageing, and dementia. Dr Goh is on the Advisory Council of the Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment, Board Director of the Australian Association of Gerontology, and Councillor on the Royal Society of Victoria. Anita is a CI on the ECU-led MRFF project Befriending with GENIE.

Professor Colleen Doyle

Professor Colleen Doyle is an adjunct professor at Edith Cowan University. She is an Honorary Fellow at the National Ageing Research Institute and Honorary Professor in Psychological Science at Swinburne University. Colleen has received a career total of 37 grants to support her research in the aged care field and published over 120 academic and technical reports on her findings. Colleen is a CI on the ECU-led MRFF project Befriending with GENIE.

Cristina Thompson

Cristina Thompson is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with Edith Cowan University and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Wollongong. As a former Senior Research Fellow with the Australian Health Services Research Institute, she undertook evaluations of complex health programs in diverse fields including aged care, dementia, mental health and health workforce redesign. Her current interest is primary care interventions to improve health outcomes for older Australians. Cristina is an AI on the ECU-led MRFF project Befriending with GENIE.

Dr Jane Mulcock

Dr Jane Mulcock is an anthropologist with interests encompassing community arts engagement, arts participation & health outcomes, arts-based research methods, identity & belonging, Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property rights, cultural borrowing & appropriation, and environmental beliefs values & practices. Mulcock lives in regional WA on Wudjari Boodja (Kepa Kurl /Esperance). She has worked since 2012 as Executive Officer for Esperance Community Arts and since 2019 with Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation's community engagement team.

Dr Keiu Telve

Dr Keiu Telve obtained her Cultural Studies PhD from the University of Tartu (2019), collaborating with Eastern Finland University. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at ECU, she delves into digital social inclusion, focusing on Estonians in Australia and their virtual ties to their homeland. With a decade of research spanning cross-border commuting, Estonian work culture, and technology's impact on society, she co-founded Estonia's Applied Anthropology Centre, applying human-centered solutions to societal challenges.

Varsha Joshi

Varsha Joshi is a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD) in Kerala, India. In 2023 she spent three months in Australia and attended the International Sociological Association World Congress as a Visiting Scholar under the Decentering Migration Knowledge (DemiKnow) international collaboration.

ECU Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab

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