Sandra Carrasco

I am a Peruvian-Australian academic. I am currently a Lecturer in Humanitarianism and Development at Deakin University, Australia. I was previously employed as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Newcastle and received the prestigious postdoctoral McKenzie Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. I hold a PhD and master’s in environmental management from Kyoto University, Japan and a master’s in education from Victoria University, Australia. I have professional and research experience in the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. My research interests include equality, diversity and inclusion, community resilience and sustainable development, disaster risk reduction and post-disaster recovery, governance and city planning, incremental housing, urban poverty, and migrant and refugee studies.