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Dr. Catriona Stevens is a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University (ECU), affiliated with the Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab. She holds a PhD from The University of Western Australia (2020) and previously worked as Manager of Research Engagement at the SAGE Living Lab at UWA. Her expertise spans migration studies, aging, care workforce dynamics, transnational caregiving, and elder abuse prevention.
Research interests include migration policy, class analysis in migration contexts, transnational aging strategies, and elder abuse intervention. She leads projects such as the No More Shame initiative to combat elder abuse stigma and Befriending with GENIE, an MRFF-funded study addressing loneliness in dementia caregivers. Stevens has secured significant grants totaling over $2M AUD, including a Forrest Prospect Fellowship (2021-2023).
Professional roles include Board Member of the International Sociological Association’s RC31 (Sociology of Migration) and Convenor of the Australian Sociological Association’s Migration, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism Thematic Group. Awards include the Jean Martin Award for Best Sociology Thesis (2020-21) and ECU’s Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellowship (2024).
Current supervisions involve five PhD students focusing on topics like aged care quality in China, rural psychosocial care in WA, and transnational identities of Bhutanese students. Stevens also contributes to policy development through reports like Everyone’s Business: Research into Responses to Elder Abuse in WA (2023).
Her work bridges sociology and applied research, with over 24 peer-reviewed outputs since 2017, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to global migration and aging challenges.
