Study with us
Study with us
Applying for a research degree at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, will allow you to reimagine your career and transform your future.
Why study with us?
ADI fosters the study of complex social problems from a number of academic vantage points in a vibrant research environment that supports excellence, innovation and collaboration. As such, the Institute has a rich program of both theoretical and applied research.
We support our members through mentoring and training schemes, and help to develop career pathways for our early-career researchers and doctoral students. We’re open to new ways of thinking about and studying social phenomena, and our membership is drawn from diverse disciplines and areas of study. We share a commitment to lead high-impact knowledge creation that has a meaningful and measurable effect on lived human experiences.
The core fields of research at ADI are anthropology, criminology, political science, sociology, curatorial studies, history, philosophy and religion. However, we welcome expressions of interest from potential HDR students from within these fields and beyond.
The Institute’s research broadly aligns with our four research streams of People, Place, Heritage; Governance, Development and Peace; Mobilities, Diversity and Multiculturalism; and Culture, Environment and Science. Members of these streams come from schools and faculties across Deakin and the research within each is varied.
Eligibility
To be eligible for a scholarship, students must have completed a research project in a related area, including a thesis that is equivalent to at least 25% of a year’s full-time study at Level 8 or 9 of the Australian Qualifications Framework, with achievement of a grade equivalent to a Deakin grade of H1 (80%) OR a Masters’ Degree (Research) in a related area. Full eligibility criteria for PhD scholarships are available on the Deakin website.
Applying for a scholarship
Expressions of interests must be submitted to the Faculty Research Office, using the Faculty of Arts and Education EOI form.
For any enquiries please contact artsed-hdr@deakin.edu.au
Scholarship opportunities
Turkish Diaspora Groups in Australia
About the Scholarship
The PhD candidate will work with Prof Ihsan Yilmaz and Dr Nicholas Morieson to conduct research on Turkish diaspora groups in Australia with a focus on their use of cyberspace.
The candidate is strongly encouraged to consider the relationship between offline and online environments.
The student will work towards completing a PhD thesis to investigate the main features of the political mobilization through digital technologies among the Turkey-originated diaspora groups in Australia.
Some of the aims of the thesis project are listed below but the student is not limited to these suggestions:
- How these diaspora groups use digital and streaming media.
- Assess the impact of online platforms, streaming media and digital technologies on the Turkey-originated diasporic communities in Australia in terms of inter-group conflict and social cohesion.
Applicants must meet Deakin’s PhD entry requirements, be enrolling full time and hold an Honours degree (First Class) or an equivalent standard Master’s degree with a substantial research component. Please refer to the entry pathways to higher degrees by research for further information.
About the Supervisors
Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
He has conducted research on nation-building; citizenship; authoritarianism; populism; transnationalism; ethnic-religious-political identities and their securitisation (Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia); minority-majority relations (Australia, Turkey, the UK and the USA); socio-legal affairs, identities, belonging and political participation of Muslim minorities in the West (the UK, Australia, and the USA); Islam-state-society relations in majority and minority contexts; global Islamic movements; political Islam in a comparative perspective; Turkish politics; Turkish diasporas (the UK, Australia, the USA); transnationalism; intergroup contact (Australia); and politics of victimhood (Australia, Turkey).
He was professor of political science at Istanbul Fatih University (2008-2016), casual lecturer in law, social sciences and politics at SOAS, University of London (2001-2008) where he taught “Islamic Law and Society”, “Legal Systems of Asia and Africa” and “Turkish Politics” at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Before SOAS, he was a fellow at Center for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford (1999-2001) where he worked on Muslim political participation in the UK and unofficial Muslim laws of young Muslims in the West.
Dr Nicholas Morieson
Dr Nicholas Morieson is an Associate Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.
How to Apply
Please email a CV and cover letter to Professor Ihsan Yilmaz. The CV should highlight your skills, education, publications and relevant work experience. If you are successful you will then be invited to submit a formal application.
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Find a supervisor
Browse a selection of our expert potential PhD supervisors
Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh
Specialises in:
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Middle East politics
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Central Asia politics
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Political Islam and extremism
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Islam in the West
Dr Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
Specialises in:
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Identity politics in postcolonial societies
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Ethnic and racial politics in Africa
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Census politics
Prof David Bright
Specialises in:
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Organised crime
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Drug trafficking
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Terrorism
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Illicit networks
Dr Tamara Browne
Specialises in:
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Bioethics
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Gender
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Mental illness
A/Prof Danielle Chubb
Specialises in:
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Australian foreign policy
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North Korea
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Civil society
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Human rights activism
Dr Jason Gibson
Specialises in:
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Ethnographic collections
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Museum anthropology
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History of Australian Anthropology
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Central Australian Aboriginal History and Culture
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Indigenous collection management and curatorship
Dr Luke Heemsbergen
Specialises in:
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Emerging technologies and their socialisation
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The politics of digital visibility
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Augmented and extended reality media
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3D printing applications
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Transparency & Governance
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Science and Technology Studies
Prof Benjamin Isakhan
Specialises in:
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Heritage destruction and reconstruction across the Middle East
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Democracy and civil society in the Middle East
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Iraqi and/or Syrian politics
Dr Santosh Jatrana
Specialises in:
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Migrant health
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Humanitarian migrants settlement
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Ageing and health of migrants
Dr Ali Mozaffari
Specialises in:
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Heritage studies and museums
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Heritage diplomacy
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Studies of the built environment
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Politics of the past in Middle Eastern Countries
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Iranian Studies
A/Prof Yamini Narayanan
Specialises in:
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Animal politics
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Urban studies
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South Asia
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India
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Ecofeminism
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Post-development
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Animal geographies
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Environmental studies
A/Prof Timothy Neale
Specialises in:
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Settler-indigenous politics
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The anthropology of natural hazards and environmental governance
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Environmentalism
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Natural hazards and their risks
Dr Amy Nethery
Specialises in:
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Asylum and refugee policy
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Australian social policy
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Democracy in Australia
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Parliaments and parliamentary careers
Dr Kiran Pienaar
Specialises in:
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Gender‚sexuality and the body
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Sociology of Drugs
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LGBTQ identities and cultures
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The biopolitics of health
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Feminist theory‚new materialisms and posthumanisms
Dr Virginie Rey
Specialises in:
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Museums and heritage
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Middle East
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Islamic art
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Community and diaspora museums
Dr Imogen Richards
Specialises in:
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Far-right extremism
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Neo-jihadism
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Development and environmental politics
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Media and public criminology
Prof Gaye Sculthorpe
Specialises in:
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Museums and Indigenous Peoples
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Aboriginal material culture
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Collections-based research
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History of collecting
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Aboriginal collections in international museums
A/Prof Steven Slaughter
Specialises in:
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International Relations
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Global Governance
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G20
Prof Miguel Vatter
Specialises in:
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Biopolitics and biological citizenship
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Rights of Nature and environmental constitutionalism
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Religion‚politics and the rule of law
Dr Matteo Vergani
Specialises in:
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Hate crime
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Online hate
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Violent extremism
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Experimental research
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Mixed-methods research
A/Prof Anthony Ware
Specialises in:
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Conflict/development in Myanmar and Rohingya
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Development/humanitarian response in conflict-affected contexts
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Everyday peace
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Violent & hateful extremism
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Community led development and peace-building
Prof Andrea Witcomb
Specialises in:
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Interpretation of difficult histories
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The uses of multimedia for interpretation purposes in exhibitions and heritage places
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The history of collecting
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Collections-based research
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Exhibitions as sites for cross-cultural encounters
Dr Jian Xu
Specialises in:
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Chinese internet and digital media
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Internet governance‚policy and politics
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Cultural governance and propaganda in China
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Celebrity studies
Prof Ihsan Yilmaz
Specialises in:
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Religion and politics in the Middle East and Indo-Pacific
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Authoritarianism
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Transnationalism
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Populism
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Securitisation
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Minorities and Diasporas
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Digital Technologies and Politics
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