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Emma Mitchell is a Macquarie University Research Fellow (MQRF) in the Sociology Discipline within the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University. Her research focuses on culturally and linguistically diverse contexts of poverty, welfare, and housing precarity, examining the material and social supports that enable survival in hardship.
Dr. Mitchell completed her PhD in Sociology from Macquarie University, which formed the basis of her recent book Making a Life on Mean Welfare: Voices from Multicultural Sydney (2023). Her current MQRF project employs a child-focused, creative approach to investigate how children's care activities help sustain low-income families.
Mitchell's research interests center on welfare systems, housing precarity, poverty studies, and multicultural societies. Her work examines how minority ethnic, Indigenous, and Anglo welfare users navigate Australian welfare systems, with particular attention to the often-hidden care infrastructures that sustain people reliant on government income support.
Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on housing precarity among international students, welfare systems, and community care infrastructures, with notable contributions to understanding how people make ends meet in post-welfare contexts.
Scientific Awards and Recognition:
- Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF)
- Funding for ARC Discovery Project 'Shadow Care Infrastructures: Sustaining Life in Post-welfare Cities' (2021-2024)
- Funding for ARC Linkage project on experiences of waiting for social housing
Mitchell has collaborated extensively on research projects including the Vertical Villages project (2019-2020) exploring resident experiences in multicultural, high-density urban environments. She specializes in qualitative methodologies and teaches an intensive introduction to qualitative research through ACSPRI. Her current work with A/Prof. Emma Power, A/Prof. Kathy Mee, and A/Prof. Ilan Wiesel examines how people reliant on government income support make ends meet and traces the care infrastructures that sustain them.
