Olivia Dun

PhD Candidate

Madsen Building (F09), Room 405
Phone: +61 2 9351 7691
Fax: +61 2 9351 3644
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Supervisor
Prof Phil Hirsch

Olivia Dun is a research associate and joint PhD candidate with United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, Germany and the University of Sydney, Australia. Her PhD research is about the role of the environment in forcing people to migrate and the level of protection, aid and assistance provided to such migrants. In particular her PhD will focus on the links between flooding and migration in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Since 2007 she has also been working for the Environmental Change in Forced Migration Scenarios (EACH-FOR) project and has experience conducting research in South-east Asia and the Pacific Islands. Olivia has obtained a Master of Arts (Forced Migration, Asylum and Refugees) degree from Charles Sturt University, Australia and a Bachelor of Science (Environmental) degree from the University of Sydney. From 2003 – 2007 she spent four years working for the Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs particularly on refugee matters. Prior to that, she spent two years in Lao PDR as an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development working in the field of natural resource management and was also a research assistant at the Australian Mekong Resource Centre (AMRC).