ProfAmanda Wise

Amanda is an adjunct professor based in the Faculty of Design and Society. Her disciplinary background spans sociology, human geography, and cultural research. She has an international reputation for scholarship at the intersection of cultural diversity, migration, labour, urban life, and social resilience. Known principally for foundational contributions to the field of everyday multiculturalism — the study of how people negotiate difference in the ordinary spaces of cities, workplaces, and neighbourhoods — with comparative ethnographic work across Australia and Singapore.