Beyond the Cities: The Dynamics of Migrant Settlement in Regional Australia
暫譯: 超越城市：澳洲地區移民定居的動態

Dr Ataus Samad is an academic at the School of Business, Western Sydney University, Australia. He has developed an emerging and impactful research profile in leadership and migrant settlement in regional Australia. Dr Samad collaborates with interdisciplinary researchers nationally and internationally, contributing to a strong portfolio that includes peer-reviewed articles, conference presentations, authored books, research reports, and media commentary. His scholarly contributions are increasingly recognised across academic, government, practitioner, and media domains. His expertise is further acknowledged through editorial board roles with journals such as the Journal of Management & Organisation and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. He also serves as a peer reviewer for publishers including Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and Springer, and has been invited to assess potential monographs.
Dr Samad's commitment to inclusive practice is shaped by his own migrant experience and his professional background with the United Nations, Australian Government agencies, and NGOs. He served on the Multicultural Queensland Advisory Council (2016-2018), contributing to Queensland's Multicultural Charter. He has also chaired advisory boards of two not-for-profit organisations in Sydney, New South Wales. These roles recognised his leadership in policy and community engagement and laid the foundation for his academic research.

Dr Aparna Hebbani is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland (UQ). With a PhD in intercultural communication, she has over 25 years of experience researching marginalised migrant and refugee populations. Her work explores settlement challenges such as acculturation, intergenerational differences, wellbeing, resilience, digital literacy, and family dynamics. Her Queensland-based projects have involved stakeholders from settlement agencies to community associations, with collaborators from universities across Australia. Over 16 years, she has secured numerous competitive grants and published extensively. She has served on the Multicultural Queensland Advisory Council, Queensland India Council, Board of Directors of Radio 4EB, UQ's Cultural Inclusion Council, and the National Advisory Group of The LOTE Agency.

Professor Nichole Georgeou is a leading scholar in humanitarian and development studies at Western Sydney University. She is a core academic in the Humanitarian and Development Studies (HADS) program and Founder and Co-Director of the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI). Her research critically examines the politics of aid, development, and humanitarian governance, with a focus on power, localisation, and gender equity. She has conducted extensive work on international volunteering, development governance, and the intersection of security and aid, particularly in South Asia and the Pacific.
Professor Georgeou also researches migrant and refugee settlement in Australia, including youth acculturation, identity formation, and the impact of policy and service delivery on integration. She has studied the lived experiences of youth and women from migrant backgrounds, especially in education, employment, and access to services. Her other interests include disaster risk reduction, community resilience, and civil society's role in crisis response. Across her work, she is committed to ethical, culturally informed, and locally grounded research that supports more just and inclusive humanitarian and development practice. Her scholarship is widely published and informs both academic and policy debates.

阿塔斯·薩馬德博士是澳大利亞西悉尼大學商學院的學者。他在澳大利亞地區的領導力和移民安置方面建立了新興且具影響力的研究形象。薩馬德博士與國內外的跨學科研究者合作，貢獻了一個強大的作品集，包括同行評審的文章、會議報告、著作、研究報告和媒體評論。他的學術貢獻在學術界、政府、實務界和媒體領域中越來越受到認可。他的專業知識也通過擔任《管理與組織期刊》（Journal of Management & Organisation）和《人文與社會科學通訊》（Humanities and Social Sciences Communications）等期刊的編輯委員會成員而得到進一步認可。他還擔任劍橋大學出版社、帕爾格雷夫·麥克米倫出版社和施普林格出版社的同行評審，並受邀評估潛在的專著。
薩馬德博士對包容性實踐的承諾受到他自身移民經歷和在聯合國、澳大利亞政府機構及非政府組織的專業背景的影響。他曾擔任多元文化昆士蘭諮詢委員會（2016-2018）的成員，為昆士蘭的多元文化憲章做出貢獻。他還擔任過新南威爾士州悉尼兩個非營利組織的諮詢委員會主席，這些角色認可了他在政策和社區參與方面的領導力，並為他的學術研究奠定了基礎。

阿帕娜·赫班尼博士是昆士蘭大學（UQ）傳播與藝術學院的高級講師。她擁有跨文化交流的博士學位，擁有超過25年的研究邊緣化移民和難民群體的經驗。她的研究探討了安置挑戰，如文化適應、代際差異、福祉、韌性、數位素養和家庭動態。她在昆士蘭的項目涉及從安置機構到社區協會的利益相關者，並與來自全澳大利亞的多所大學的合作者合作。在過去的16年中，她獲得了多項競爭性資助並廣泛發表了研究成果。她曾擔任多元文化昆士蘭諮詢委員會、昆士蘭印度委員會、4EB廣播電台董事會、UQ文化包容委員會和LOTE機構的全國諮詢小組成員。

尼科爾·喬治奧教授是西悉尼大學人道主義和發展研究的領先學者。她是人道主義和發展研究（HADS）項目的核心學者，也是人道主義和發展研究倡議（HADRI）的創始人和共同主任。她的研究批判性地檢視了援助、發展和人道主義治理的政治，重點關注權力、本地化和性別平等。她在國際志願服務、發展治理以及安全與援助的交集方面進行了廣泛的研究，特別是在南亞和太平洋地區。
喬治奧教授還研究澳大利亞的移民和難民安置，包括青少年的文化適應、身份形成以及政策和服務提供對融入的影響。她研究了來自移民背景的青少年和女性的生活經歷，特別是在教育、就業和服務獲取方面。她的其他興趣包括災害風險減少、社區韌性以及公民社會在危機應對中的角色。在她的工作中，她致力於進行道德的、文化知情的和本地根植的研究，以支持更公正和包容的人道主義和發展實踐。她的學術成果廣泛發表，並為學術和政策辯論提供了參考。