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Dr. Lucy Fiske is a Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where she has been employed since 2018. Previously, she held academic positions at Curtin University (2003–2014) and the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University (2011–2015), followed by a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at UTS (2014–2018). Her research and teaching focus on human rights, refugee and asylum seeker experiences, and gender justice in post-conflict settings, grounded in her prior social work practice with displaced populations.
Lucy’s academic work examines how refugees in prolonged transit (particularly Indonesia) accumulate social and cultural capital despite statelessness. She theorizes citizenship as a social practice, explores friendship as resistance to state power, and critiques Australian immigration detention policies. Her co-edited volume Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice (2019) and monograph Human Rights, Refugee Protest and Immigration Detention (2016) are foundational texts in the field.
Her 15 most recent articles analyze intersections of disability and race in Australian immigration, Hazara refugee strategies in Indonesia, and transitional justice in post-conflict societies, with fieldwork-based insights from the DRC, Uganda, and Kenya. Lucy serves on the editorial board of Sociological Perspectives on Human Rights and Development, leads the UTS-LBW Trust Refugee Teacher Training program, and is a Research Integrity Advisor for FASS. She supervises PhD and Master’s students on topics including refugee education and post-conflict trauma interventions.
