Dr Dimi Giorgas
Lecturer
PhD (Sociology), Australian National University 2000
Grad Cert (Higher Education), Australian National University 2005
BA Honours (Sociology), Flinders University 1994/
Dimi Giorgas
Bio
Dimi teaches in the areas of social research methods, social inequality, immigration and settlement policy and in gender and the family. Currently she is working on a n ARC Discovery Grant Project examining regionalism, governance and federalism in Australia jointly with Griffith University, University of New England and the University of Melbourne; and a project on second generation Australians which examines settlement issues such as identity, transnationalism and dual citizenship. Dimi has presented at several national and international conferences on issues to do with social capital, the second generation in Australia and on ethnicity and migration. In 2004 she convened a symposium on Social Capital: past, present and future held at CSU Wagga Wagga. Previously, she has worked at the Australian National University and various Commonwealth Government departments.
Teaching
First year
- Social Inequality
- Introduction to Politics and Social Policy
Second/third year
- Social Research
- Policy Research
- Immigration and Settlement Policy
- Gender, Family and Society
Research
- Identity, transnationalism and dual citizenship among the second generation
- Ethnicity as a form of social capital among second generation Australians
- Immigration: settlement outcomes and processes
- Social inequality and social capital
Recent publications
Membership of professional associations and groups
- The Australian Sociological Association Inc. (TASA)
- International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28)
- National Institute of Social Sciences, ANU
- TASA Thematic Group on Immigration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
- TASA Thematic Group on Social Stratification
Curriculum Vitae
- 2003-current - Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, CSU.
- 2002-2003 - Visiting Fellow, Australian Centre for Population Research, RSSS, Australian National University
- 2002-2003 - Research Consultant,Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong.
- 2001-2002 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Centre for Population Research, RSSS, Australian National University
- 1999-2001 - Research Officer/Social Analyst, Social Statistics Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics
- 1997-2003 - Tutor/Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
