Dr Helen Forbes-Mewett is Senior Lecturer and Discipline Head of Sociology, School of Social Sciences. She is also Deputy Director of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre. Helen's interdisciplinary background includes Sociology, Psychology and International Business, degrees all awarded by Monash University. Her work focuses on human security, migration, cultural diversity, and social cohesion, with a particular focus on international students. Since 2018, Helen has supervised to completion six PhD theses. In addition, Helen is currently supervising a 12 Higher Degree Research students from 10 different countries - all undertaking work relating to migration, international education/students and social inclusion. Helen also sits on the following boards/committees:
Victorian Multiculltural Commission, Regional Advisory Council (Eastern Region)
Chinese Centre for Holistic Health Advisory Board
Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, Community Consultative Committee
Multicultural Settlement Committee
Communities’ Council on Ethnic Issues (Eastern Region) Inc.
Victorian Government Research Institute on Social Cohesion (RIOSC) (Member)
International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Research Committee
Editorial Board Member and Associate Editor, Journal of International Students
Advisory Board, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1057 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7437-0966 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@ForbesMewett |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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UN Countries
Roles
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Monash University
University, Clayton, Australia
Senior Lecturer -
Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre
Research Institute, Clayton, Australia
Deputy Director -
Monash University
University, Clayton, Australia
Associate Professor
Research
“I Just want to be Happy”: An Exploration of the Aspirations, Values, and Psychological Wellbeing of Australian Young People
| Authors | Ashley Humphrey, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Ana-Maria Bliuc |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Emerging Adulthood | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Cohesion, corrosion and fire adaptation: The case of Boolarra in Australia
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Allegra Schermuly |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Identity and Belonging Among Chinese Australians
| Authors | Jennifer Martin, Dharma Arunachalam, Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2023 |
The New Security: Shifting the Boundaries
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | The Handbook of Security |
Global Markets, Risk, and Organized Irresponsibility in Regional Australia: Emergent Cosmopolitan Identities Among Local Food Producers in the Liverpool Plains☆
| Authors | Helen Forbes‐Mewett, Kien Nguyen‐Trung |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Rural Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Community stakeholder and opinion formation toward end-of-life planning in Chinese community in Australia
| Authors | Wilfred Yang Wang, Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Death Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Regional migration and the local multicultural imaginary: the uneasy governance of cultural difference in regional Australia
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Kieran Hegarty, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Together Here, Now and Forever: Chinese Immigrants’ Belonging in Australia, Family, Ethnicity and Memorialisation
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Gil-Soo Han, Wilfred Yang Wang |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Intercultural Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Aspirational Individuals, Hopeful Communities: Histories and Subjectivities of Precarity in Regional Australia
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Allegra Clare Schermuly, Kieran Hegarty |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Critical Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social support from bonding and bridging relationships in disaster recovery: Findings from a slow-onset disaster
| Authors | Kien Nguyen-Trung, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Dharmalingam Arunachalam |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction |
Police legitimacy: perspectives of migrants and non-migrants in Australia
| Authors | Allegra Clare Schermuly, Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Defining Vulnerability
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Kien Nguyen-Trung |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | Vulnerability in a Mobile World |
International Student Migration and Mental Health
| Authors | Jiamin Gan, Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | Vulnerability in a Mobile World | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
My own business, not my children’s: negotiating funeral rites and the mobility and communication juncture among Chinese migrants in Melbourne
| Authors | Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Wilfred Yang Wang |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Mobilities |
Whose ‘fault’ is it? Becoming homeless in Singapore
| Authors | Harry Tan, Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
The neighbourhood context of crime against international students
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Sociology |
The impact of regional higher education spaces on the security of international students
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Higher Education Research & Development | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
International Students and Gender-Based Violence
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Jude McCulloch |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Violence Against Women | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Food, identity and belonging: a case study of South African-Australians
| Authors | Allegra Clare Schermuly, Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | British Food Journal | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Campus Support Services, Programs, and Policies for International Students
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Global Perspectives and Local Challenges Surrounding International Student Mobility
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
International Students and Crime
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Jude McCulloch, Chris Nyland |
| Year | 2015 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Chinese Transnational Investment in Australia: A Case Study of Insider/Outsider Relations
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Chris Nyland, Bruce Thomson |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES |
Funding international student support services: tension and power in the university
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Chris Nyland |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Higher Education |
Governing the International Student Experience: Lessons From the Australian International Education Model
| Authors | Chris Nyland, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Charmine E. J. Härtel |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Academy of Management Learning & Education | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
International Student Security and English Language Proficiency
| Authors | Erlenawati Sawir, Simon Marginson, Chris Nyland, ... |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Studies in International Education |
Sinophobia as Corporate Tactic and the Response of Host Communities
| Authors | Chris Nyland, Helen Forbes-Mewett, S. Bruce Thomson |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Contemporary Asia |
International student security: a view from Beijing
| Authors | Helen Forbes‐Mewett, Chris Nyland, Sijun Shao |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | International Studies in Sociology of Education |
The international student safety debate: moving beyond denial
| Authors | C. Nyland, H. Forbes‐Mewett, S. Marginson |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Higher Education Research & Development |
Reconnecting the Research–Policy–Practice Nexus in Higher Education: ‘Evidence-Based Policy’ in Practice in National and International Contexts
| Authors | William Locke |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | Higher Education Policy | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
International student‐workers in Australia: a new vulnerable workforce
| Authors | Chris Nyland, Helen Forbes‐Mewett, Simon Marginson, ... |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Education and Work | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Cultural Diversity, Relocation, and the Security of International Students at an Internationalised University
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Chris Nyland |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Studies in International Education |
The National Identity, Security, Future Hope and Wellbeing of Young People Living in the Unrecognised State of Transnistria
| Authors | Ashley Humphrey, Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Ethnopolitics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
International Students in the Time of COVID-19
| Authors | Catherine Gomes, Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of International Students | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Vulnerability and Resilience in a Mobile World
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of International Students | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social Capital and the U.S. College Experiences of International Student-Athletes and Non-Athletes
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Madeleine Pape |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of International Students | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Global Perspectives on International Student Experiences in Higher Education
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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