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Grants

• 'The Role of Community Sponsorship for Refugee Resettlement in Australia': Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2022-2025 (led by Professor Susan Kneebone and with Dr Anthea Vogl) DP220101675
• 'Mobilising Litigation to Effect Legal, Policy and Social Change': Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award DE240100652

Books & edited collections

• Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• Feminist Engagement with International Law (Edward Elgar, 2019) (with Professor Susan Harris Rimmer)

Refereed journal articles

• 'Broken Bonds: How COVID-19 Border Restrictions Transformed Experiences and Conceptualisations of Citizenship', forthcoming, Journal of Law and Society
• 'Mini-Public Adjudication of Human Rights Disputes: An Empirical Evaluation' Federal Law Review, forthcoming (with Henry Palmerlee and Ron Levy)
• 'Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experiences' Introduction to Special Issue for Refugee Survey Quarterly, (2024) 43(2) (with Veronica Fynn Bruey, Jessica Hambly, Eve Lester and Matthew Zagor)
• 'The Deliberative Democratic Turn in Human Rights' Federal Law Review, forthcoming (with Professor Ron Levy)
• 'Australia's International and Domestic Borders as Sites of Dislocation, Division and Distrust: The Socio-Political Impacts of COVID-19 Travel Bans' Law in Context (2023) 38(1) (with Associate Professor Olivera Simic)
• 'Becoming an Internally Displaced Person in Australia: State Border Closures During the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Role of International Law on Internal Displacement' Australian Journal of Human Rights (2022) 28(1) (with Associate Professor Olivera Simic)
• 'COVID-19 Border Closures: A Violation of Non-Refoulement Obligations in International Refugee and Human Rights Law?' Australian Yearbook of International Law (2022) 39(1) (with Chanelle Taoi)
• 'International Solidarity and Palestinian Refugees: Lessons for the Future Directions of Refugee Law' Human Rights Review (2021) 22(4)
• 'Backlashes Against International Commitments and Obligations: Asylum as Restorative Justice' Australian Yearbook of International Law (2020) 38(1)
• 'On what Legal Grounds will a Refugee be Saved from Camp Life?' International Journal of Refugee Law (2016) 28(3)
• 'Protection Closer to Home? A Legal Case for Claiming Asylum at Embassies and Consulates' Refugee Survey Quarterly (2014) 33(4)
• 'Are We There Yet? Measuring Human Rights Sensibilities' Australian Journal of Human Rights (2014) 20(1) (with Professors Simon Rice and Denise Meyerson)
• ‘Separating the Persecutors from the Persecuted: A Feminist and Comparative Examination of Exclusion from the Refugee Regime’ International Journal of Refugee Law (2014) 26(1)
• 'A Sometimes Dangerous Convergence: Refugee Law, Human Rights Law and the Meaning of 'Effective Protection'' Macquarie Law Journal (2013) 12
• ‘A Question of Discretion: A Critical Analysis of New Legal and Evidentiary Hurdles for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) Asylum Seekers in the United Kingdom’ Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration (2012) 2(1)

Book chapters

• ‘Australia and Forced Displacement: A New Research Agenda?’ in Because Covid…Pandemic Responses, Rationales and Ruses (ANU Press, forthcoming).
• 'Decolonising Civil Procedure: Court Process as Continuing Colonisation and Tool for Indigenous Justice' in Decolonisation, Anti-Racism and Legal Pedagogy: Strategies, Successes and Challenges (Routledge, 2024).
• 'The Evolution of Safe Third Country Law and Practice' in The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford University Press, 2021) (with Dr Eleni Karageorgiou and Dr Luisa Felini Freier De Ferrari)
• 'International Human Rights Law in Feminist Scholarship on Peace and Conflict: Disappearing and Re-emerging?' in Handbook of Feminist Peace Research (Routledge, 2021) (with Lousie Craker)
• 'Sexing the Leviathan: The Possibilities for Feminist Analyses of Crimmigration', in Crimmigration in Australia: Law, Politics and Society (Springer, 2019)
• 'Destination Australia: Journeys of the Moribund', in Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe (Lexington Press, 2019)
• ‘New Directions in Article 1D Jurisprudence: Greater Barriers for Palestinian Refugees Seeking the Benefits of the Refugee Convention' in The Research Handbook on International Refugee Law (Edward Elgar, 2019)
• 'The Future(s) of Feminist Engagement with International Law' in Feminist Engagement with International Law (Edward Elgar, 2019) (with Dr Susan Harris-Rimmer)
• ‘The Future of Feminist Engagement with Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre and out of the 'Pink Ghetto'?' in Feminist Engagement with International Law (Edward Elgar, 2019)
• ‘A Feminist (Legal) Analysis of the Interface Between Refugee Law and the Mandates of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions’ in Current Issues in Transitional Justice (Springer, 2014) (with Dr Natalia Szablewska)

Conference papers & presentations

• 'Rewriting Refugee Law - Shifting Debates in Gender Scholarship' International Association for Refugee and Migration Judges, University of Newcastle, November 2022
• 'Feminism as Method in International Law Research' Refugee Law Initiative, November 2022
• 'Rewriting Refugee Law' Refugee Law Initiative Conference, University of London, June 2022
• 'Community Sponsorship Scholarship: Directions and Lacunas' Refugee Law Initiative Conference, University of London, June 2022
• 'Crimmigration and Critical Legal Theory', Crimmigration Law Talks, Leiden Law School, May 2022
• 'Lived Experiences of Australia's COVID-19 Border Closures', COVID-19 and Borders Conference, University of Hong Kong, May 2022
• 'Getting Wiser with Age? Article 1D Jurisprudence: From Stuck in the Past to Pointing the Way Forward' Refugee Law Initiative Conference, University of London, June 2021
• 'Gendering Border Externatisation' Resposibility Sharing or Shedding? Reflections from Europe and Australia CONREP Conference, Deakin University, February 2020
• 'Refugee and Judicial Narratives of Refuge: From Affinity to Incongruity' Narrating Displacement Conference, University of Oxford, October 2019
• 'A State of Exception or A State of Exceptionality?: Challenges to Offshore Processing in the South Pacific' Public Interest Lawyering Conference, La Trobe University, August 2019
• 'International Solidarity from the Perspective of Palestinian Refugees' The Spirit of International Solidarity, the Right to Asylum, and the Response to Displacement – An Interdisciplinary Symposium, La Trobe University, February 2019
• 'Feminist Claims in Turbulent Times' IPSA Confernce, University of Queensland, July 2018
• 'Gender in Refugee Law - From the Margins to the Centre and out of the Pink Ghetto' Conference on Gender, Asylum and Families, College of Law and Business, Tel Aviv, March 2017
• 'Trump's Executive Orders from the Lens of Refugee Law', The Explosive President: Donald Trump's Migration Policy and its Impact on International Law and Non-Discrimination Principles, Centre for International and Public Law, Canberra, 13 February 2017
• 'The Post-Exclusion Dilemma: An Australian Perspective' International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Poland, July 2016
• 'A Woman's Refuge?' The Future of Women's Engagement with International Law, Brisbane, June 2016
• 'Protection from Refuge' Access to Asylum: Current Challenges and Future Directions, Prato, May 2014
• 'The Intersections of Refugee and International Criminal Law: Unintended Consequences' The Impact of Migration Law and Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, October 2013
• ‘At the Edge of Law and Morality: A Feminist and Comparative Examination of Exclusion from the Refugee Regime on the Grounds of Criminality’, Canadian Law and Society’s Law on the Edge Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 2013
• ‘Recent Jurisprudence on Article 1F of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 1951 and the Insights Offered by a Feminist Legal Analysis’, Migration Law Series, University of Oxford Law School, Oxford, May 2012
• ‘A Day in the Life of a Litigator’, Queensland Law Society Expo, Brisbane, July 2011
• ‘An Update on the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Torture, Prohibition and Death Penalty Abolition) Act 2010 (Cth), and the Interaction of Australian Authorities With Death Penalty Jurisdictions’, Law Council of Australia’s 2010 National Access to Justice and Pro Bono Conference, Brisbane, August 2010

Government submissions

• Submission to Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Repairing Medical Transfers) Bill 2019 (2019) (with Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law)
• Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights on Complementary Protection (2013) (with Professor Jane McAdam et al)

Case notes & book reviews

• 'Protection amid Chaos: The Creation of Private Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps' International Journal of Refugee Law (2017) 29(3)

Other

• 'Feminism as Method: How do we do Gender in International Refugee Law?' Refugee Law Initiative Blog, University of London, (2023)
• 'The Evolutuion of Programs for Community Sponsorship of Refugee in Australia' Refugee Law Initiative Blog, University of London, (2022, with Professor Susan Kneebone and Dr Anthea Vogl)
• 'Challenging the Legality of Externalisation Agreements: A Near Impossibility?' Forced Migration Review (2021, with Dr Eleni Karageorgiou and Dr Luisa Felini Freier De Ferrari)
• Is Australia's Outward Travel Ban in Breach of International Human Rights LAW?, ANU COVID-19 and International Law: https://law.anu.edu.au/research/essay/covid-19-and-international-law/aus...
• COVID-19 Travel Restrictions: A Violation of Non-Refoulement?, ANU COVID-19 and International Law: https://law.anu.edu.au/research/essay/covid-19-and-international-law/cov...
• COVID-19 Travel Bans: The Right to Seek Asylum When You Cannot Leave Your Homeland, Kaldor Centre COVID-19 Watch: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/publication/covid-19-travel-bans-ri...
• Deportation of Tamil Family not just a matter of Compassion but Law, ABC News: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-03/legal-question-remains-in-tamil-f...
• University Reforms Burden Women with Higher Debt: https://www.broadagenda.com.au/2020/university-reforms-set-to-widen-gend...
• Not Waving but Drowning: High Seas Interceptions of Asylum Seekers and the Courts as Access to Justice Gatekeepers' Legal Date (2013) 25(3)