Dr David Radford is Senior Lecturer (Sociology) and Research Degree Coordinator, UniSA Justice and Society. David's research focuses on mobilities, identities and social change.
David investigates migration, diversity and interculturality in rural/regional and urban Australia. His research emphasises the importance of the micro, everyday lived experiences of migration and interculturality while drawing on macro factors impacting these experiences. David's present research projects include investigating refugee-background settlement in rural Australia, exploring how the Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities (ICC) model and interculturalism is unfolding in different regions of the world (Australia/Canada/Spain)... Read more
About me
Dr David Radford is Senior Lecturer (Sociology) and Research Degree Coordinator, UniSA Justice and Society. David's research focuses on mobilities, identities and social change.
David investigates migration, diversity and interculturality in rural/regional and urban Australia. His research emphasises the importance of the micro, everyday lived experiences of migration and interculturality while drawing on macro factors impacting these experiences. David's present research projects include investigating refugee-background settlement in rural Australia, exploring how the Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities (ICC) model and interculturalism is unfolding in different regions of the world (Australia/Canada/Spain) David has previously researched the role of local government leadership in managing/promoting diversity, and the complex ways that Hazara negotiate their multiple identities as 'Aussie Afghans'.
Previous research have included investigating the role of refugee parents’ educational aspirations on their children’s academic outcomes, how globalisation, innovation and experimentation in the transformation of global airports (Areomobilities) impact on mobile lives [part of Prof Anthony Elliott and Prof John Urry's ARC Discovery Project]. Drawing on the local and networked experiences of EU and Australian airspaces the research sought to generate new theory and research into the specific kinds of innovations (experiences, experiments, technology, infrastructure) and barriers (security, freedom, immigration, human rights) associated with EU and Australian aviation and air travel in the twenty-first century.
Further to David's PhD research in Post-Soviet Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) he has ongoing interests around transformations in religious, ethnic and national identity; Christianity; Islam; religious fundamentalism; religious conversion; secularisation and religion in contemporary society.
Previous positions included Senior Research Fellow, Hawke Research Insitutue, UniSA, and Lecturer (International Relations), Flinders University, with a focus on the Middle East and Central Asia.
About me
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
The International Sociological Association (ISA)
Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)
The Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA)
Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR)
Australian Mobilities Studies Research Network (AusMob)
About me
About me
Doctorate of Philosophy Flinders University
Master of Arts University of South Australia
Bachelor of Arts Tabor College
Investigating everyday lived experiences of migration and interculturality
Recent Publications:
2024 Radford, D. et al., Everyday Refugee Integration: A holistic reconceptualization ‘refugee integration’ through the everyday practices of Hazara Afghan refugees’, Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241291617
2023 Radford, D. et al. ‘A Whole-of-Community approach: Local community and refugee settlement-integration in rural Australia’, Australian Geographer. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2251627
2023 Bissell, D...Radford D et al. ‘Region power for mobilities research’, Thinking Essay in Australian Geographer.
2023 Rung, D.L., Hetz, H. ... Read more
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
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Research
Investigating everyday lived experiences of migration and interculturality
Recent Publications:
2024 Radford, D. et al., Everyday Refugee Integration: A holistic reconceptualization ‘refugee integration’ through the everyday practices of Hazara Afghan refugees’, Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241291617
2023 Radford, D. et al. ‘A Whole-of-Community approach: Local community and refugee settlement-integration in rural Australia’, Australian Geographer. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2251627
2023 Bissell, D...Radford D et al. ‘Region power for mobilities research’, Thinking Essay in Australian Geographer.
2023 Rung, D.L., Hetz, H. & Radford, D ’”I came to Australia with very big hope, big wishes, big goals”: Applying “mobility-work” and “resettlement-work” to explore the emotional labour of refugee-background men’, in Garth Stahl and Yang Zhao (eds), Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities, Routledge Research in Gender and Society series. DOI: 10.4324/9781003353232-21
Recent Research Grant:
2020 - 'Exploring the impact of refugee settlement in rural/regional Australia: A case study in Leeton (NSW)', URIPA, UniSA
2020-2022 - International Intercultural Cities Comparative study, European Commission, Erasmus+ Programme, Jean Monnet Project, Swinburne University and international colleagues - Ballantyne, G, Eversole, R, Zapata-Barrero, R, White, B, Radford, D and Hiruy, K, '
Recent Publications:
2023 Piper, M., et al (Radford, D), (2023): Regional Refugee Settlement in Australia: Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future. Key recommendations for policy makers about the settlement of humanitarian migrants in regional Australia
2022 Radford et al., Learning from Leeton: A case study of refugee settlement in rural Australia - Full Report, University of South Australia, Adelaide
2022 de Lima, P., Leach, B., Radford, D., Arora-Jonsson, S., (2022). ‘Editorial: The Well-being of International Migrants in Rural Areas: Bridging the Migration-Development’ Nexus,’ in Special Issue, The Well-being of International Migrants in Rural Areas: Bridging the Migration-Development Nexus, Frontiers in Sociology, vol. 7, article no. 870810, pp. 1-5
2021 Radford, D., Hetz, H. ‘Aussies? Afghans? Hazara Refugees and Migrants Negotiating Multiple Identities and Belonging in Australia’, Social Identities, 27 (3), pp. 377-393, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2020.1828851
2021 Klocker, N....Radford D et al (published online 23 Feb). ‘Spaces of wellbeing and regional settlement: international migrants and the rural idyll’, Population, Space and Place.
(2022, 29 June) Learning from Leeton: A case study of refugee settlement in rural Australia report was released by Prof Peter Shergold AC (Chancellor Western Sydney University, NSW Coordinator General for Refugee Settlement) as part of the launch of Growing Regions of Welcome (NSW GROW) pilot program Riverina region in Leeton, NSW, 29 June 2022, hosted by The Hon Mark Coure MP NSW Minister for Multiculturalism and Regional Development Australia.
(2021, 3 Dec) Podcast interview with Dr Michel Chambon, National University of Singapore, on my book Religious Identity and Social Change: Explaining Christian Conversion in a Muslim World (2015).
(2021, 29 March) Public launch of research report Refugees Rejuvenating and Connecting Communities by His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AC, Governor of South Australia, with representatives of federal, state and local government authorities, Peak Bodies in migration settlement, Hazara Afghan community leaders and community members, UniSA leadership
(2021, 31 March) Media interviews with radio and digital news platforms (ABC, SBS) and wide-reaching Twitter response (the most “liked” and retweeted tweet from UniSA’s Twitter account over the previous 12 months)
(2019-2020) Great South Coast Economic Migration Project (GSCEMP) Research Steering Committee (RSC). Partners include iGen Foundation, Leadership Great South Coast, and Great Lakes Agency for Peace and Development.
(2018-Present) Inaugural DiverCities Network of Australasia committee member (associated with Intercultural Cities Network, Council of Europe) partnering community practiticioners, academics and Local Government Councils
(2018) Interviewed for comment for apolitical, global network for government/civil servants, on uneven distribution of migrants in rural Australia/Canada.
(2017) Organised and convened Regional Mobilities Workshop, Mt. Gambier, South Australia with academic researchers and regional community leaders, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Inland, La Trobe University
(2016-2017) Research Consultant -"Designing Aged Care for Muslims in South Australia: An exploratory study"– A CALD Partnership Model. The partnership is between ACH Group, the Islamic Society of South Australia, and the Islamic Arabic Centre.
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| ACH Group | AUSTRALIA |
| Charles Darwin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Charles Sturt University | AUSTRALIA |
| Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men's Health | AUSTRALIA |
| George Washington University | UNITED STATES |
| Great Lakes Agency for Peace and Development International | AUSTRALIA |
| iGen Foundation | AUSTRALIA |
| La Trobe University | AUSTRALIA |
| Lancaster University | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Leadership Great South Coast, Inc. | AUSTRALIA |
| London School of Economics and Political Science | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Piper and Associates | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | SWEDEN |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Guelph | CANADA |
| University of Hong Kong | HONG KONG |
| University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| University of the Highlands and Islands-Inverness College | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University of Winchester | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University of Wollongong | AUSTRALIA |
| Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
ARC Assessor - 1. 441013 – Sociology of Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism SEO - 230110 - Migrant and Refugee Settlement Services 2. 470212 - Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies 3. 441003 - Rural SociologyAustralian Research Council |
2024 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilities Research Network (AusMob) |
2024 |
ARC AssessorAustralian Research Council (ARC) |
2023 |
ARC Assessor - 1. 441013 – Sociology of Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism SEO - 230110 - Migrant and Refugee Settlement Services 2. 470212 - Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies 3. 441003 - Rural SociologyAustralian Research Council |
2023 |
Associate Editor, Special Issue, Regional Refugee SettlementAustralian Geographer journal |
2023 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2023 |
Co-convenor, Rural Sociology Thematic GroupThe Australian Sociological Association (TASA) |
2023 |
Organising committee memberRegional Refugee Settlement: Learning from the past, Preparing for the future’ forum and roundtable |
2023 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilites Research Network (AusMob) |
2023 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilities Research Network (AusMob) |
2023 |
ARC AssessorAustralian Research Council (ARC) |
2022 |
ARC Assessor - 1. 441013 – Sociology of Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism SEO - 230110 - Migrant and Refugee Settlement Services 2. 470212 - Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies 3. 441003 - Rural SociologyAustralian Research Council |
2022 |
Associate Editor, Special Issue, Regional Refugee SettlementAustralian Geographer journal |
2022 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2022 |
Co-convenor, Rural Sociology Thematic GroupThe Australian Sociological Association (TASA) |
2022 |
Invited conference speaker: Understanding encounters with difference in rural Australian spaces: Refugee experiences of care and conflict’4th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany |
2022 |
Invited Visiting ScholarChemnitz Technological University, Germany |
2022 |
Organising committee memberRegional Refugee Settlement: Learning from the past, Preparing for the future’ forum and roundtable |
2022 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilites Research Network (AusMob) |
2022 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilities Research Network (AusMob) |
2022 |
Associate Editor, Special Issue, Regional Refugee SettlementAustralian Geographer journal |
2021 |
Associate Editor, Special Issue, The Well-being of International Migrants in Rural AreasFrontiers in Sociology Journal |
2021 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2021 |
Co-convenor, Rural Sociology Thematic GroupThe Australian Sociological Association (TASA) |
2021 |
Organising committee memberRegional Refugee Settlement: Learning from the past, Preparing for the future’ forum and roundtable |
2021 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilites Research Network (AusMob) |
2021 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilities Research Network (AusMob) |
2021 |
Associate Editor, Special Issue, The Well-being of International Migrants in Rural AreasFrontiers in Sociology Journal |
2020 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2020 |
Invited Peer Reviewer, Age of Migration, Edited by Stephen Castles, Hein de Haas and Mark J. Miller, 6th EditionMacMillan Publishers (2020) |
2020 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilites Research Network (AusMob) |
2020 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilities Research Network (AusMob) |
2020 |
West, Inner and Central Asia Representative, Council memberAsian Studies Association of Australia |
2020 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2019 |
Invited inaugural Committee memberDiverCities Network of Australasia (associated with Intercultural Cities Network, Council of Europe) |
2019 |
Invited Panelist: [Interculturalism] Policy/Science dialogue: policy makers and scholars in conversationSwinburne University, Melbourne |
2019 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilites Research Network (AusMob) |
2019 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilities Research Network (AusMob) |
2019 |
Steering Committee Member: Great South Coast Economic Migration Project (GSCEMP) evaluationiGen Foundation, Leadership Great South Coast, Great Lakes Agency for Peace and Development, University of Wollongong, University of Melbourne |
2019 |
West, Inner and Central Asia Representative, Council memberAsian Studies Association of Australia |
2019 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2018 |
Invited inaugural Committee memberDiverCities Network of Australasia (associated with Intercultural Cities Network, Council of Europe) |
2018 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilites Research Network (AusMob) |
2018 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilities Research Network (AusMob) |
2018 |
West, Inner and Central Asia Representative, Council memberAsian Studies Association of Australia |
2018 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2017 |
Inaugural Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilites Research Network (AusMob) |
2017 |
Invited LectureSoka University, Japan |
2017 |
Invited Roundtable Book Review of my 2015 book Religious Identity and Social ChangeCentral Asian Affairs Journal |
2017 |
Invited roundtable participant: Migrant nation: Lessons for Regional SettlementRegional Australia Institute, Canberra |
2017 |
Invited Visiting Professor (Dept. of Sociology)Rikkyo University, Japan |
2017 |
My article ‘Contesting and negotiating religion and ethnic identity in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan’ in Central Asian Survey was selected in Taylor and Francis’ 2016-2017 article collection showcasing research on the Soviet Union, to mark 25 years since its collapseTaylor and Francis |
2017 |
Research Consultancy- Designing Aged Care for Muslims in South Australia: An exploratory studyACH Group, the Islamic Society of South Australia and the Islamic Arabic Centre |
2017 |
Steering Committee MemberAustralian Mobilities Research Network (AusMob) |
2017 |
West, Inner and Central Asia Representative, Council memberAsian Studies Association of Australia |
2017 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2016 |
Co-convenor of Sociology of Religion Thematic GroupThe Australian Sociological Association (TASA) |
2016 |
Invited International Webinar Presentation:Invited international webinar presentation, ‘Responding to diversity in rural/regional Australia communities: Everyday multiculturalism and resilience in bridging difference,’Rural Policy Learning Commons network [Canada] through University of the Highlands and Islands - Inverness College, Inverness, UK, and Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada |
2016 |
Research Consultancy- Designing Aged Care for Muslims in South Australia: An exploratory studyACH Group, the Islamic Society of South Australia and the Islamic Arabic Centre |
2016 |
West, Inner and Central Asia Representative, Council memberAsian Studies Association of Australia |
2016 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2015 |
Co-convenor of Sociology of Religion Thematic GroupThe Australian Sociological Association (TASA) |
2015 |
Invited Public Lecture, The Contours of conviviality and conflict: Negotiating Refugee Settlement in an Australian Country Town’Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
2015 |
Research Consultancy- Designing Aged Care for Muslims in South Australia: An exploratory studyACH Group, the Islamic Society of South Australia and the Islamic Arabic Centre |
2015 |
West, Inner and Central Asia Representative, Council memberAsian Studies Association of Australia |
2015 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2014 |
Co-convenor of Sociology of Religion Thematic GroupThe Australian Sociological Association (TASA) |
2014 |
West, Inner and Central Asia Representative, Council memberAsian Studies Association of Australia |
2014 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2013 |
Central and West Asia Review EditorAsian Studies Review Journal |
2013 |
Co-convenor of Sociology of Religion Thematic GroupThe Australian Sociological Association (TASA) |
2013 |
West, Inner and Central Asia Representative, Council memberAsian Studies Association of Australia |
2013 |
PUBLIC/COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (2017-2019):
(2019-2020) Great South Coast Economic Migration Project (GSCEMP) Research Steering Committee (RSC). Partners include iGen Foundation, Leadership Great South Coast, and Great Lakes Agency for Peace and Development. The RSC provides oversight of a project evaluation led by Dr Natascha Klocker (U. of Wollongong) and Dr Olivia Dun (U. of Melbourne) and funded by Regional Development Victoria and University of Wollongong
(2018-Present) Inaugural DiverCities Network of Australasia committee member (associated with Intercultural Cities Network, Council of Europe) partnering community practiticioners, academics and Local Government Councils
(2016-2017) Research Consultant -"Designing Aged Care for Muslims in South Australia: An exploratory study"– A CALD Partnership Model. The partnership is between ACH Group and two Muslim community organisations: the Islamic Society of South Australia and the Islamic Arabic Centre. It is a two-year partnership project June 2015-2017 funded by the Department of Social Services, through the Aged Care Service Improvement and Healthy Ageing Grants.
(2016) Invited webinar, Responding to diversity in rural/regional Australia communities: Everyday multiculturalism and resilience in bridging difference,’ Rural Policy Learning Commons network through University of the Highlands and Islands - Inverness College, Inverness, UK, and Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada, 6 October 2016.
(2016-2017) Research Consultant -"Designing Aged Care for Muslims in South Australia: An exploratory study. ACH Group, the Islamic Society of South Australia, and the Islamic Arabic Centre funded by the Department of Social Services, South Australia Government.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AUSTRALIA/INTERNATIONAL: (2019-2021)
Radford, D. ‘The opportunities and challenges of international migration mobilities in rural Australian communities’, Global Mobility Humanities Conference [online], Academic of Mobility Humanities, Konkuk University, South Korea, 29-30 October, 2021.
Radford, D, Krivokapic-Skoko, B., Soong, H, Roberts, R, Tan, G., ‘Presenting a holistic framework (Social/cultural/economic) for investigating refugee-background migrant contributions and participation in local communities’, TASA, November 2021.
Radford, Krivokapic-skoko, B, Hetz, H. : More than a sign - What does it mean to be a ‘refugee-friendly’ country town?, Regional Refugee Settlement Forum, 12 Oct 20213.
Hetz, H., Radford, D., Krivokapic-skoko, B : Moving in, moving out, moving on: Hazara refugees ‘finding their feet’ in Leeton, NSW, Regional Refugee Settlement Forum, 12 Oct 2021
Radford, D. ‘Refugee and Migration Policy: How to partner with and influence policymakers’, TASA MEM's Conversations About...Refugee and Migration Policy, 26 May 2021. Panel presenter with Goshu Tefera and Annabel Brown (Program Director at the Centre for Policy Development)
Radford, D. ‘Ethics in Refugee and Migration Research’, in NextGenMEM Conversations about Ethics in Refugee and Migration Research, MEM/TASA, Webinar, 20 April 2020.
Radford, D, Krivokapic-Skoko, B, Soong, H, Roberts, R, ‘What do we know about how refugees impact host communities? A case study of socio-economic inclusion of Hazara Afghans in Adelaide’, Refugee Alternatives Pre-conference Academic Forum, UniSA, Adelaide, 18 February, 2019
Radford, D, Krivokapic-Skoko, B, Soong, H, Roberts, R, ‘Ethical research considerations when researching participants from humanitarian backgrounds in non-crisis contexts’, TASA, Western Sydney University, Sydney, 25-28 November 201910.
Kripokapic-Skoko, B, Radford D, ‘The (Apparent) Refugee Entrepreneurship Paradox: Hazara Afghans in Sub-urban and Regional Australia’, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst 5 September 2019
Radford, D, ‘Everyday otherness’’– Intercultural refugee encounters and everyday multiculturalism in a South Australian rural town’, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst 4 September 2019.
Radford, D, ‘Interculturality and relational (im)mobility in the Australian ‘Global Countryside’, RCLC Seminar, UniSA, 26 August 201913.
Radford, D, Mirhadi, S, ‘Home, Identity and the Migrant Experience’, Festival of Architecture and Design, Adelaide, 20 July 2019
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Identity issues for Kazakh Christians converted from a Muslim background in Kazakhstan. | Current |
| Restrictive immigration policies, urban livelihoods and irregular migrants in urban South Africa | Current |
| Exploring narratives of place-belonging among settled Syrian refugees on the island of Newfoundland, Canada: "To have settlement feels like home and for you to have your place now" | Completed |
| Hidden in plain sight. Negotiating postcolonial public rememberance: the Australian South Sea Islanders and their strategies of cultural and political survival since 1980 | Completed |
| Red star, black sun: melancholia in literature and film in state socialist Hungary | Completed |
| Shaping narratives in transition: examining local memory initiatives prior to Colombia¿s 2016 peace agreement | Completed |
| The `good refugee¿: storytelling and belonging in Australia¿s asylum seeker debates | Completed |
| The aesthetic domain of psychoanalysis: psychoanalysis, lyric poetry and neuropsychoanalysis | Completed |
