Dr Alanna Kamp is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography, Western Sydney University. She is researcher at the Young and Resilient Research Centre, Challenging Racism Project, and Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies.
Dr Kamp’s research and teaching lies in the areas of Australian cultural and social diversity, national identity, racism/anti-racism, and social cohesion. She has received research funding from the Australian Research Council, Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, NSW Department of Communities and Justice, Centre of Resilient and Inclusive Societies, and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). Her work utilises national-level quantitative methods as well as smaller-scale qualitative techniques that are influenced by multi-disciplinary research (post-colonialism, feminism, history, diaspora etc). She has published pioneering (and award winning) work on Chinese Australian women’s experiences of national and cultural identity, participation and contribution, racism and belonging. She has also published in the areas of Indigenous Studies, Asian Australian Studies, and Islamophobia. She is elected member of the NSW Geographical Names Board, provides academic advice to the Australian Human Rights Commission and insights to Australian news media.