.cropimg.width=1920.crop=square.jpeg "HDR Student")
Phuong An Nguyen
Supervisors: Maree Higgins, Andrew Brooks
Phuong An Nguyen (Anna) is a PhD Candidate at the UNSW School of Social Sciences, with an educational background in communications and social policy. They completed a Master of Public Policy & Governance at UNSW in 2025. Being a person of colour and the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, she is passionate about human rights, and justice, particularly for negatively racialised, and LGBTIQA+ communities. Anna is currently the Co-convenor of the Forced Migration Research Students Network, and an Associate at the Australian Human Rights Institute.
- Research area
- Research outputs
Phuong An's research area is forced migration and anti-racism, grounded in First Nations solidarity, decolonisation, and intersectionality. Their Master's thesis researched the influence of the Fraser Government’s policy framing and surrounding political discourse on Vietnamese refugee intake and resettlement. Their PhD research will be conducting a conjunctural analysis of the Australian government's refugee and asylum-seeker policy responses, with focus on the process of racialisation in policy and media.