Professor Kevin Dunn
DEAN - SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES & PSYCHOLOGY,
Dean's Unit School of Social Sciences & Psychology
PROFESSOR,
Geography and Urban Studies (SoSSP)
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Newcastle (NSW)
- BA University of Wollongong
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit School of Social Sciences & Psychology
- Geography and Urban Studies (SoSSP)
Contact
| Email: | K.Dunn@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 6513 |
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| Location: | P.G.88 Penrith (Kingswood) |
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Biography
Kevin Dunn is Head of School and Professor in Human Geography and Urban Studies, and commenced this position at UWS in May 2008. He was formerly at the University of NSW (1995-2008), and the University of Newcastle (1991-1995). His areas of research include: immigration and settlement; Islam in Australia; the geographies of racism; and local government and multiculturalism. He teaches cultural and social geography, migration and urban studies. Recent books include Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World (2003) and Introducing Human Geography: Globalisation, Difference and Inequality (2000).
This information has been contributed by Professor Dunn.
Publications
Books
- Dunn, K., Garner, B., Mcguirk, P., Doyle, G., Waitt, G., Summut, J. and Biddle, D. (2003), 'Geography's New Frontiers Conference Proceedings, Conference Papers No. 17', : The Geographical Society of New South Wales 0725-6248.
- Dunn, K., Winchester, H. and Kong, L. (2003), 'Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World', : Pearson Education 0582288789.
- Dunn, K. (2001), 'Proceedings of the Civics and Citizenship in Geography Conference, Conference Papers No. 16', : The Geographical Society of New South Wales 0725-6248.
Chapters in Books
- Dunn, K. and Kamp, A. (2012), 'A failed political attempt to use global Islamophobia in Western Sydney: the 'Lindsay leaflet scandal'', Glbal Islamophobia: Muslims and moral panic in the West, Ashgate 9780754678724.
- Dunn, K. and Kamp, A. (2012), 'A failed political attempt to use global Islamophobia in Western Sydney : the 'Lindsay leaflet scandal'', Global Islamophobia : Muslims and Moral Panic in the West, Ashgate 9781409431190.
- Dunn, K. (2012), 'Do Australians care about human rights? : awareness, hierarchies of sympathy and universality', Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia, Thomson Reuters Australia 9780455229973.
- Nelson, J., Dunn, K. and Paradies, Y. (2011), 'Australian racism and anti-racism: Links to morbidity and belonging', Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations: Looking through the Lens of Social Inclusion, Ashgate 9781409428800.
- Dunn, K. (2009), 'Public attitudes towards hijab-wearing in Australia: uncovering the bases of tolerance', Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 1443801690.
- Paradies, Y., Forrest, J., Dunn, K., Pedersen, A. and Webster, K. (2009), 'More than tolerance: Racism and the health of young Australians', Youth Identity and Migration: Culture, Values and Social Connectedness, Common Ground Publishing 1863356223.
- Dunn, K. and Kamp, A. (2009), 'The hopeful and exclusionary politics of Islam in Australia: looking for alternative geographies of 'Western Islam'', Muslim Spaces of Hope: Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West, Zed Books 9781848133006.
- Dunn, K. (2009), 'Meinig, D.', International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier 9780080449111.
- Dunn, K. (2009), 'Performing Australian nationalisms at Cronulla', Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots, Multiculturalism and National Belonging, Institute of Criminology Press 9780975196786.
- Dunn, K. and Forrest, J. (2008), 'Contemporary Manifestations on Racism in Australia', Racisms in the New World Order: Realities of Cultures, Colours and Identity, Cambridge Scholars 1847182232.
- Dunn, K. and Roberts, S. (2006), 'The social construction of an Indo-Chinese-Australian neighbourhood in Sydney: the case of Cabramatta', From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries, University of Hawaii Press 0824829034.
- Dunn, K. (2005), 'Interviewing', Qualitative Research Methods in Geography, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press 019555079X.
- Dunn, K., Hanna, B. and Thompson, S. (2001), 'The local politics of difference', Everyday Diversity: Australian Multiculturalism in Practice, Common Ground Publishing 1863350810.
Journal Articles
- Dunn, K. (2013), 'Cultural diversity, racialisation and the experience of racism in rural Australia : the South Australian case', Journal of Rural Studies, 9.
- Loosemore, M., Phua, F., Teo, M. and Dunn, K. (2012), 'Management strategies to harness cultural diversity on Australian construction sites : a social identity perspective', Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 11.
- Pedersen, A., Dunn, K., Forrest, J. and McGarty, C. (2012), 'Prejudice and discrimination from two sides : how do middle-eastern Australians experience it and how do other Australians explain it?', Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 9.
- Dunn, K., Dunn, K., Nelson, J. and Nelson, J. (2011), 'Challenging the Public Denial of Racism for a Deeper Multiculturalism', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 16.
- Pedersen, A., Paradies, Y., Hartley, L., Dunn, K. and Dunn, K. (2011), 'Bystander antiprejudice: Cross-cultural education, links with positivity towards cultural 'outgroups' and preparedness to speak out', Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 12.
- Loosemore, M., Phua, F., Dunn, K., Dunn, K. and Ozguc, U. (2011), 'The politics of sameness in the Australian construction industry: Comparing operative and manager attitudes towards cultural diversity', Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 18.
- Dunn, K., Pelleri, D. and Maeder-Han, K. (2011), 'Attacks on Indian students:The commerce of denial in Australia', Race and Class, 18.
- Loosemoore, M., Phua, F., Dunn, K. and Ozguc, U. (2011), 'The politics of sameness in the Australian contruction industry: Comparing operative and manager attitudes towards cultural diversity', www.emeraldinsight.com, 18.
- Dunn, K., Gandhi, V., Gandhi, V., Pelleri, D. and Maeder-Han, K. (2011), 'Racism in the Tertiary Education Sector: A Case of Indian Student Attacks in Australia', Geography Bulletin, 10.
- Dunn, K., Loosemore, M., Phua, F. and Ozguc, U. (2011), 'Everyday Ethnic Diversity and Racism on Australian Construction Sites', The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, 23.
- Pain, R., Phillips, D., Nagel, C., Mohammad, R., Mclean, D., Dunn, K. and Hopkins, P. (2011), 'Reading Peter Hopkins' The Issue of Mascuine Identities for British Muslims Adfter 9/11: A social Analysis', Political Geography - Elsevier, 10.
- Forrest, J. and Dunn, K. (2011), 'Attitudes to diversity: new perspectives on the ethnic geography of Brisbane, Australia', Australian Geographer, 19.
- Nelson, J., Nelson, J., Dunn, K. and Paradies, Y. (2011), 'Bystander Anti Racism: A Review of the Literature', Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, 22.
- Loosemore, M., Phua, F., Dunn, K. and Ozguc, U. (2010), 'Operatives' experiences of cultural diversity on Australian construction sites', Construction Management and Economics, 12.
- Stevenson, D., Dunn, K., Possamai, A. and Piracha, A. (2010), 'Religious Belief across 'Post-secular' Sydney: the multiple trends in (de)secularisation', Australian Geographer, 28.
- Dunn, K. (2010), 'Embodied transnationalism: bodies in transnational spaces', Population, Space and Place, 9.
- Dunn, K., Kamp, A., Shaw, W., Forrest, J. and Paradies, Y. (2010), 'Indigenous Australians' Attitudes Towards Multiculturalism, Cultural Diversity, 'Race' and Racism', Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 13.
- Forrest, J. and Dunn, K. (2010), 'Attitudes to multicultural values in diverse spaces in Australia's immigrant cities, Sydney and Melbourne', Space and Polity, 22.
- Dunn, K. (2009), 'Embodied transnationalism: bodies in transnational spaces', Population, Space and Place, 9.
- Dunn, K., Forrest, J., Pe-Pua, R., Hynes, M. and Maeder-Han, K. (2009), 'Cities of race hatred? The spheres of racism and anti-racism in contemporary Australian cities', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 14.
- Kenna, T. and Dunn, K. (2009), 'The virtuous discourses of private communities', Geography Compass, 18.
- Dunn, K. (2008), 'Putting Transnationalism in Context: comparing Hong Kong Chinese-Australians in Sydney and Brisbane', The Australian Geographer, 18.
- Dunn, K. (2008), 'Comparative analyses of transnationalism: a geographic contribution to the field', The Australian Geographer, 7.
- Dunn, K., Klocker, N. and Salabay, T. (2007), 'Contemporary racism and Islamaphobia in Australia: racialising religion', Ethnicities, 26.
- Forrest, J. and Dunn, K. (2007), 'Constructing racism in Sydney, Australia's largest ethnic city', Urban Studies, 23.
- Perrin, R. and Dunn, K. (2007), 'Tracking the settlement of North African immigrants: speculations on the social & cultural impacts of a newly arrived immigrant group', The Australian Geographer, 21.
- Dunn, K. and Forrest, J. (2006), ''Core' culture hegemony and ethnic identity: perceptions of the privileged position of Australians with British backgrounds', Ethnicities, 28.
- Dunn, K. (2006), 'A comparative genealogy on place: cultural geography and cultural studies', Geographical Research, 4.
- Dunn, K. and Forrest, J. (2006), 'Racism and intolerance in Eastern Australia: a geographic perspective', The Australian Geographer, 20.
- Dunn, K. (2005), 'Repetitive and troubling discourses of nationalism in the local politics of mosque development in Sydney, Australia', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22.
- Dunn, K. (2005), 'Australian public knowledge of Islam', Studia Islamika, 32.
- Dunn, K. (2005), 'A paradigm of transnationalism for migration studies', New Zealand Population Review, 17.
- Dunn, K., Hay, I. and Street, A. (2005), 'Making the most of your conference journey', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 13.
- Dunn, K., Forrest, J., Burnley, I. and Mcdonald, A. (2004), 'Constructing racism in Australia', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 22.
- Dunn, K. (2004), 'Islam in Sydney: contesting the discourse of absence', Australian Geographer, 21.
- Dunn, K. (2004), 'New words within new worlds: academic dynamism as elixir', Australian Geographical Studies, 3.
- Dunn, K. (2003), 'Using cultural geography to engage contested constructions of ethnicity and citizenship in Sydney', Social and Cultural Geography, 13.
- Dunn, K. and Klocker, N. (2003), 'Who's driving the asylum debate? Newspaper and Government representations of asylum seekers', Media International Australia, 22.
- Dunn, K. and Thompson, S. (2002), 'Multicultural services in local government in Australia: An uneven tale of access and equity', Urban Policy and Research, 17.
- Dunn, K. and Mahtani, M. (2001), 'Media representations of ethnic minorities', Progress in Planning, 10.
- Dunn, K. (2001), 'Representations of Islam in the politics of mosque development in Sydney', Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 18.
- Dunn, K., Hanna, B. and Thompson, S. (2001), 'The local politics of difference: an examination of intercommunal relations policy in Australian local government', Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research, 19.
- Dunn, K., Hanna, B., Thompson, S., Murphy, P. and Burnley, I. (2001), 'Multicultural policy within local government in Australia', Urban Studies, 18.
- Dunn, K. and Mcdonald, A. (2001), 'The geography of racisms in NSW: A theoretical exploration and some preliminary findings', Australian Geographer, 16.
- Dunn, K. (2001), 'The cultural geographies of citizenship in Australia', Geography Teachers Association of New South Wales. Geography Bulletin, 5.
Conference Papers
- Piracha, A., Dunn, K., Goodman, R., Maginn, P. and Phibbs, P. (2011), 'Australian Public Attitudes towards Town Planning: Towards a Research Agenda', Proceedings of the World Planning Schools Congress 2011 (Planning's Future - Future's Planning: Planning in an Era of Global (Un)Certainty and Transformation), Perth WA.
- Dunn, K., Maginn, P., Mcguirk, P., Buxton, M., Piracha, A., Phibbs, P. and Pelleri, D. (2009), 'What do public want from the planning system', State of Australian Cities: City Growth, Sustainability, Vitality and Vulnerability, Perth WA.
- Dunn, K., Kenna, T. and Burnley, I. (2007), 'A holistic approach to studying social segregation in Australian cities', State of Australian Cities National Conference 2007, Adelaide.
- Dunn, K., Forrest, J., Pe-Pua, R. and Smith, S. (2005), 'Experiences of racism in the Australian body politics: extent, spheres, and cultural unevenness', The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia, UQ Australian Studies Centre Conference, Brisbane, 24-26 November 2004, .
- Dunn, K. (2003), 'New cultural geographies in Australia: identity, citizenship and space', Geography's New Frontiers Conference, Gladesville.
- Dunn, K., Gandhi, V., Burnley, I. and Forrest, J. (2003), 'Racism in Australia: Cultural imperialism, disempowerment & violence', Windows on a Changing World: Proceedings of the 22nd New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, New Zealand.
- Dunn, K. (2001), 'Examining local inter-communal relations and place making', Civics and Citizenship in Geography Conference, Gladesville.
Research
Current Projects
| Title: | Resilience and the NSW Police Community Engaged Counter-Radicalisation Model |
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| Years: | 2013-06-26 - 2013-09-30 |
| ID: | P00021376 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Kennedy, Kevin Dunn and Jan Ali |
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| Title: | Cyber-racism and community resilience [via UTS] |
| Years: | 2013-06-14 - 2016-06-13 |
| ID: | P00021061 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn |
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| Title: | Muslims on Campus: University Life for Muslim students in Australia |
| Years: | 2012-11-15 - 2014-08-01 |
| ID: | P00021215 |
| UWS Researchers: | Adam Possamai and Kevin Dunn |
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| Title: | Ethnic discrimination in the private rental housing market |
| Years: | 2011-01-01 - 2014-12-31 |
| ID: | P00018298 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn and Rae Dufty-Jones |
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| Title: | Rethinking Multiculturalism/Reassessing Multicultural Education |
| Years: | 2011-03-21 - 2015-03-20 |
| ID: | P00017819 |
| UWS Researchers: | Megan Watkins, Gregory Noble and Kevin Dunn |
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| Title: | The ordinariness of Australian Muslims: attitudes and experiences of Muslims |
| Years: | 2011-11-15 - 2013-09-14 |
| ID: | P00020300 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn |
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| Title: | An exploration of the frequency, outcomes, enablers and constraints of bystander anti-racism [via Deakin Uni] |
| Years: | 2012-04-11 - 2015-04-10 |
| ID: | P00020027 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn |
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| Title: | Ethnic Discrimination in the Rental Market and Overcoming Barriers to Affordable Housing |
| Years: | 2011-11-09 - 2014-11-08 |
| ID: | P00020461 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn, Michael Darcy, Rae Dufty-Jones and Laura Schatz |
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Previous Projects
| Title: | Supplementary paper for the Freedom of Religion and Belief in the 21st Century project |
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| Years: | 2009-07-22 - 2009-10-30 |
| ID: | P00017084 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn |
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| Title: | Racism Data Collection Project |
| Years: | 2008-05-31 - 2009-05-30 |
| ID: | P00016213 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn |
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| Title: | Constructing regionally appropriate anti-racism strategies for Australia |
| Years: | 2008-12-31 - 2012-04-06 |
| ID: | P00016168 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn |
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| Title: | Collaborative Housing Innovations in Austrealian Cities: International Lessons |
| Years: | 2010-05-28 - 2011-05-27 |
| ID: | P00018717 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn, Deborah Stevenson, Emma Power and Rae Dufty-Jones |
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| Title: | Mapping "actual existing" neoliberal planning and sources of alternatives in a shrinking Australian hinterland community : Broken Hill, New South Wales |
| Years: | 2011-09-13 - 2013-05-12 |
| ID: | P00020431 |
| UWS Researchers: | Laura Schatz and Kevin Dunn |
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| Title: | Effects of the NSWPS Counter-Radicalisation Community Engagement Model |
| Years: | 2010-09-13 - 2011-09-12 |
| ID: | P00018730 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Kennedy, Kevin Dunn, Sanja Milivojevic and Jan Ali |
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| Title: | Managing cultural diversity on Australian construction sites [via UNSW] |
| Years: | 2010-07-14 - 2011-06-30 |
| ID: | P00017146 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn |
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| Title: | Islam, youth masculinities and place: international perspectives |
| Years: | 2010-11-17 - 2011-11-16 |
| ID: | P00019468 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kevin Dunn and Adam Possamai |
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Supervision
Professor Dunn is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Title: | Building Inclusive Organisations: Moving From Evidence To Practice |
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| Title: | Is the Australian Public's Awareness of the Skilled Migration Program Commensurate with the Efforts by Government, Policy Makers and Public Interest Groups? |
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Previous Supervision
| Title: | Politics and Practice of Local Anti-Racism: The Need to 'Speak' Racism |
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| Field of Research: | SOCIAL WORK |
| Thesis: | Politics and Practice of Local Anti-Racism: The Need to 'Speak' Racism |
Media
Media Contact Details
| Media Officer: | UWS Media Unit |
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| Phone: | (02) 9678 7083 |
| Email: | media@uws.edu.au |
