Michelle Peterie The University of Sydney, Australia

Dr Michelle Peterie is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, working at the intersections of the sociology of emotions and the sociology of health. Taking a person-centred approach - and in close collaboration with research participants and third-sector stakeholders - her work seeks to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, families and communities. Michelle is currently leading an ARC DECRA project about children’s experiences of parental immigration detention and deportation, and an ARC Linkage Project about the long-term impacts of childhood immigration detention. Michelle co-leads the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies' research themes on 'Work, Education and Welfare' and 'Migration, Im/mobility and Belonging'. She is an Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Social Issues, an executive member of the Australian Social Policy Association’s Management Committee, and a co-convenor of The Australian Sociological Association’s Families and Relationships thematic group. Michelle is the author or editor of six books, including A Sociology of Care (with Alex Broom, 2026), Immigration Detention and Social Harm (2024) and Visiting Immigration Detention (2022). Beyond academia, Michelle has given invited expert testimony to the Australian Senate, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the Crown Solicitor, and her research has received international media attention.