Our People
Interactions Institute has a growing network of interdisciplinary researchers (anthropology, sociology, education, futures-studies, linguistics, gender-studies, film and media) and training associates to form the appropriate research team for each research project and training program. Our research network includes experienced Australian and international scholars. The director(s) directly oversee each research project to its timely completion. Our trainers and workshop facilitators are qualified and experts in their fields.
Dr Zazie Bowen
Founding Director/Researcher
Dr Zazie Bowen is an anthropologist who specialises in critical research with children and young people, education research, play studies, South Asian studies, gender studies, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropological archives, futures studies and contemporary anthropological theory.
She combines research and teaching. Zazie held a senior administrative role in an international NGO working with women’s community projects and supporting young people’s formal and informal education programmes in Africa, India, Australia and the Pacific.
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Dr Inge Kral
Senior Research Associate
Dr Inge Kral is a researcher with more than two decades experience planning, conducting and publishing from research projects, with a focus on Indigenous education; literacy and informal learning; languages; digital media; anthropology and history. She is an educator with more than two decades experience as a lecturer and supervisor; adult educator; teacher linguist; primary school teacher and curriculum developer.
Inge has extensive experience in community and stakeholder consultation and evaluation, project management, report publication and government submissions. She is an ethnographic film-maker for language and culture documentation and intangible heritage collection curation for archiving at internationally recognised endangered languages archives.
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Dr Nelia Hyndman-Rizk
Senior Research Associate
Nelia Hyndman-Rizk is an anthropologist by training, she is an experienced senior lecturer and intercultural trainer. Her interdisciplinary research, teaching and consulting experience addresses three broad fields:
(i) Migration studies, multiculturalism, globalisation, transnational mobility, belonging and settlement, intercultural interaction.
(ii) The dynamics of the Lebanese diaspora, comparative ethnic entrepreneurship and contemporary social movements in the Middle East.
(iii) Her consultancy skills include: Organisational development, Intercultural training, global teams, intercultural l management, cultural intelligence in organisations, conflict resolution skills and intercultural communication, cultural competence in organisations (health, law business).
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