Caroline Lenette

Caroline Lenette is Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Deputy Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute. She is affiliated with the Forced Migration Research Network, and Sydney Health Ethics (University of Sydney).

Caroline is interested in the links between arts-based research and policymaking, especially in health. She explores how storytelling through creative means can influence decision-makers towards meaningful change, and how ethics in research practice is conceptualised in participatory research. Caroline undertakes social-justice focussed research in collaboration with community-based organisations on different aspects of forced migration. She is the author of Arts-based methods in refugee research: Creating sanctuary (2019, Springer).

Caroline was awarded a University Medal (Bachelor of Human Services) from Griffith University in 2003 and was the valedictorian. She was also shortlisted for the FASS Dean’s Research Award for Achievement as ECR (2016). 

Affiliations: UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute; UNSW Forced Migration Research Network; Kaldor Centre Emerging Scholars Network (UNSW); Gendered Violence Research Network (UNSW); Sydney Health Ethics (University of Sydney, 2019).