The Australian Research on Refugee Integration Database (ARRID) is a searchable database developed to facilitate greater access to research for anyone who is interested in understanding more about refugee settlement in Australia. This includes students, academics, people with refugee backgrounds, policymakers and practitioners.

Recently updated, ARRID provides a comprehensive view of refugee research in Australia, which can be searched by topic, author/s, dates of publication and more. It has also mapped over 20 years of Australian research on refugee settlement onto an adapted conceptual framework for understanding refugee integration that was originally developed by Ager and Strang and utilised by the UK Home Office.

In this short webinar, Dr Louise Olliff, senior policy officer at the Refugee Council of Australia and a member of the team involved in the development of ARRID, will provide an introductory guide to using ARRID and highlight some of the latest features.

Presenter

Dr Louise Olliff has worked in research, policy and advocacy on refugee issues for over 20 years. With a PhD in Anthropology and Development Studies from the University of Melbourne (2018), Dr Olliff is the author of Helping Familiar Strangers: Refugee Diaspora Organizations and Humanitarianism (Indiana University Press, 2022), co-editor and contributor to Understanding Diaspora Development: Lessons from Australia and the Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and contributor to over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and major research reports.

Dr Olliff has worked for the Refugee Council of Australia since 2009 and is currently employed as a Senior Policy Advisor. Dr Olliff is also an Adjunct Fellow of the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADR) at Western Sydney University, works as a Research Fellow (casual) at the University of Melbourne, a Lecturer (casual) at Deakin University, and was formerly a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University.