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Loretta Baldassar

Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow, Edith Cowan University
Areas of ExpertiseAgeing, Australian settler society, ethnicity, race relations, migration and second generation, social uses of new technologies, Transnationalism, transnational families, women, gender, sexuality
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Loretta Baldassar is Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia and a founding member of the ECU Migration Research Network. Her research and teaching areas include migration, transnational families, ageing across the lifecourse, and Australian society. Loretta is Vice President of the International Sociological Association, Migration Research Committee (31) and a Regional Editor for the leading Global Networks Journal. Professor Baldassar has successfully supported 5 international postdoctoral Fellowships, supervised over 30 doctoral students, 25 honours students, and several student internships. In 2020 and 2021, Professor Baldassar was named Australian research field leader in migration studies (social sciences) and in ethnic cultural studies (humanities). Professor Baldassar has four current intersecting areas of research progress and development: transnational families, ageing across the life course, youth mobilities, and internationalization at home. What connects these research areas is a focus on social care, family and community relations, culture and linguistic diversity, and the role of new technologies in supporting wellbeing. Professor Baldassar is also a leading scholar in Italian migration studies.