CERC Fellow
Associate Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne

Associate Dean, International
Director, Faculty International Unit
Faculty International Unit
University of Melbourne
PhD MA BA (Hons) DipEd GradDipMigrantStud

Lesleyanne Hawthorne is the Associate Dean (International) of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and Foundation Director of the Faculty International Unit. She is also a member of the CERC Advisory Board.

Her current research interests are in the field of global migration, particularly with regard to the processes and flows of skilled migration. In particular she is working on issues concerning the place of Australia in the international context of migration, and also the changes affecting different countries receptiveness and policy toward migration. Of late she has also switched more attention to the changing needs, and policies, of Europe towards migration.

A/Prof Hawthorne has been commissioned to conduct policy assessment for both the Australian and Canadian governments.

A/Prof Hawthorne’s major publications include:

• Refugee: The Vietnamese Experience (L Hawthorne, Oxford University Press, 1982 330pp)
  
• Making It in Australia (L Hawthorne, Edward Arnold, 1988 288pp)
  
• Labour Market Barriers for Immigrant Engineers in Australia (L Hawthorne, Commonwealth of Australia, 1994 164pp)
  
• Immigrants and the Professions in Australia (Monash University, 1997 88pp, B Birrell & L Hawthorne)
  
• Evaluation of the General Skill Migration Category (B Birrell, L Hawthorne & S Richardson, Commonwealth of Australia, 2006 306pp)
  
• The Registration and Training Status of Overseas Trained Doctors in Australia (L Hawthorne, G Hawthorne & B Crotty, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra 2006 179pp)
  
• Labour Market Outcomes for Migrant Professionals: Canada and Australia Compared (L Hawthorne 2006 forthcoming, Statistics Canada, Ottawa 150pp).