Dr Melissa Lovell
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Position: Convenor
School and/or Centres: Herbert & Valmae Freilich Foundation
Email: melissa.lovell@anu.edu.au
Researcher profile: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/lovell-me
- Social Policy
- Citizenship
- Political Theory And Political Philosophy
- Australian Government And Politics
- Race And Ethnic Relations
- Critical and interpretive theoretical approaches
- Australian Indigenous Affairs
- Colonial and neoliberal concepts of government and citizenship
- Policy areas including social security legislation, criminal justice, education and health policy
- Politics of Indigenous childhood
- Assumptions of Indigenous deficit that underpin arguments about child welfare and risk