Professor Hurriyet Babacan has a distinguished career over the last 25 years with a proven track record of achievement in senior leadership and strategic management roles. She has a distinguished record in scholarship in research, teaching and learning and community and professional service. She has held senior roles in higher education, public administration, and research and training such as Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic and Research), Dean, Head of School and Director of research Institutes. She was the Foundation Director of the Cairns Institute (2009-2012) and Director of the Institute for Community, Engagement and Policy Alternatives at Victoria University. In the public sector she has held roles such as Victorian Manager, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Executive Director Community Outcomes Branch in the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Commissioner with the inaugural Multicultural Commission and CEO of Tablelands Regional Council.

Professor Babacan brings extensive track record of leading multidisciplinary research in Australia and the Asia Pacific. Hurriyet has published widely in national and international publications relating to economic and social development including two publications for UNESCO. She has delivered keynote presentations at numerous national and international conferences. She has been Convenor or Steering Committee member of numerous high level conferences including the United Nations- Queensland Government Conference on Engaging Communities. Professor Babacan has been an expert member on numerous departmental and international working parties including the Council of Europe/OECD working party on wellbeing and Ministerial or Premier’s advisory committees relating to women, immigration and settlement, child protection, economic development, employment and education, multiculturalism, equal opportunity and regional development. Professor Babacan is a reviewer for the Australian Research Council. She is also editorial board member or reviewer for numerous international journals.

Professor Babacan has been recognised for her work through a number of awards including the Order of Australia 2014 (AM) for outstanding contribution, as academic and author, and for furthering multicultural community, education and social policy development; Bi-Centenary Medal awarded by the Prime Minister, 2002 and the Multicultural Services Award by the Premier of Queensland. Hurriyet was the Queensland State Finalist in the Telstra Business Women’s Award in the for Community and Public Service category in 2003. Professor Babacan name has been listed in the Australian Women’s Archives as recognition of women leaders who have contributed to Australia

Interests

Research

• Professor Babacan’s research is multidisciplinary and espouses the principles of ‘engaged scholarship’. Her research interests include: Social /community development and wellbeing Regional economic development Culture and diversity Governance and policy Gender

Research Disciplines

• Social work (4409)
• Sociology (4410)

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Journal Articles

• Fairman B, Voak A and Babacan H (2022) Human Mobility and Dismantling Cultural Dominance: Creating Collaborative Conversations to Secure Talent in a Post-Covid world. Journal of Resilient Economies, 2 (1). pp. 96-101
• Babacan H and Gopalkrishnan N (2021) COVID-19: engaging the most vulnerable. ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement, 5 (1).
• Babacan H and McHugh J (2020) RE-thinking agricultural supply chains in Northern Australia. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 26 (3). pp. 239-268
• Babacan A and Babacan H (2018) Repositioning lifelong learning in legal education. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 20 (2). pp. 122-148

Books

• Collins J, Krivokapic-Skoko B, Jordan K, Babacan H and Gopalkrishnan N (2020) Cosmopolitan place making in Australia: immigrant minorities and the built environment in cities, regional and rural areas. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore

Book Chapters

• Gopalkrishnan N and Babacan H (2022) Social Enterprise and Inclusive Economic Development. In: The Routledge handbook of Global Development. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 129-139
• Gopalkrishnan N and Babacan H (in press) Cultural Partnership Practice and Mental Health in Higher Education. In: Mental Health and Higher Education in Australia. Springer Nature, Singapore, pp. 51-66
• Babacan H and Gopalkrishnan N (2021) Investing in the future: human and social service development in Northern Australia. In: Leading From The North: rethinking Northern Australia development. Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 45-80
• Dale A, Vella K, Ruth P, Babacan H, Cottrell A, Costantini W, Hardacker M and Pert P (2020) Typical social adaptation measures in climate change planning: a tropical region case study. In: Economic Effects of Natural Disasters: theoretical foundations, methods, and tools. Elsevier, London, UK, pp. 237-260
• McGinty S, Bursey S and Babacan H (2018) I just want an education! Young people's perspectives. In: Gauging the Value of Education for Disenfranchised Youth: flexible learning options. Innovations and Controversies: interrogating educational change. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 63-81
• Babacan H and Gopalkrishnan N (2017) Prevailing paradigms: enforced settlement, control and fear in Australian national discourse. In: Disciplinary Spaces: spatial control, forced assimilation and narratives of progress since the 19th century. Sozial und Kulturgeographie, 14. Transcript Verlag, Blelefeld, Germany, pp. 189-219
• Babacan H and Gopalkrishnan N (2016) Public policy, immigrant experiences, and health outcomes in Australia. In: Immigration, Public Policy, and Health: newcomer experiences in developed nations. Canadian Scholars' Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 59-95

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 73+ research outputs authored by Prof Hurriyet Babacan from 2005 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• ReStorying: Place (in)Vested Governance (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• A Student Agency Approach to Classroom Engagement (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Prescient custodians: biocultural ecological economics and restorative governance of the Wet Tropics (2022, Masters , Secondary Advisor)
• Cause for hope or despair? Evaluating race discrimination law as an access to justice mechanism for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Indigenous economic development and sustainable livelihoods for northern Australia (2022, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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