Dr Eliza Crosbie
The University of Melbourne
About
Dr Eliza Crosbie is a Research Fellow in the Migration and Health Unit at the Melbourne School of Public and Global Health, University of Melbourne. A Human Geographer, her research explores national and international refugee settlement policy and practice, with a focus on translating research into advocacy and policy change to improve settlement outcomes.
Eliza specialises in collaborative and community-engaged research, working closely with community researchers to ensure that research priorities, processes, and outcomes are aligned with community aspirations. Her work uses participatory, co-designed and mixed-methods approaches to strengthen social inclusion, health, belonging, and wellbeing for migrants and refugees, and the communities in which they settle.
Her PhD explored the settlement experiences of farmers from the Great Lakes Region of Africa whose needs were unmet within existing policy frameworks. Guided by Ubuntu as a culturally grounded research framework, Eliza developed Ubuntu-led settlement as a policy intervention to support more equitable and effective settlement outcomes for Great Lakes communities in Australia.
Alongside her academic work, Eliza has extensive practitioner experience in community development in Australia and internationally. This includes supporting migrant women experiencing domestic and family violence in Australia, and contributing to post-earthquake recovery initiatives in rural Nepal. These roles draw on her training in Development Studies at the University of Newcastle and continue to shape her practice-oriented, justice-focused research.