Core expertise

Youth studies

Biography

Masha provides research, professional and administrative support across projects in the area of youth studies. She has a background in migration, intercultural and urban studies. Her publications range from interrogations of national identity through public policy, questions of belonging and social networks in diverse neighbourhoods, embodied practices and migrant placemaking, and investigations of visibility, racism and Islamophobia in Australia.
Besides academic roles, Masha worked in community and policy roles, in which she was engaged with a range of community, government, intra-government and NGO stakeholders in the area of health, multiculturalism and education.