Professor Desmond Cahill
Emeritus Professor
Details
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College: Design and Social Context
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Department: Design and Social Context
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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des.cahill@rmit.edu.au
Research fields
- 4401 Anthropology
- 4410 Sociology
- 5004 Religious studies
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
- 3903 Education systems
- 3904 Specialist studies in education
Supervisor projects
- Intercultural Email Negotiation of a PhD Opportunity: A Study of Saudi Research Students in Australia
- 20 Jul 2015
- Young Incarcerated Vietnamese Offenders and the Risk Factors in Their Offending: A Life History Approach
- 4 Mar 2013
- A STUDY INVESTIGATING L2 TEXT CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING BY INDONESIAN EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: A MIXED-METHOD ANALYSIS
- 25 Aug 2011
Teaching interests
Immigrant and refugee movements and settlement; history, policy and practice in Australian immigration; ethnic community development; immigrant, refugee, multicultural and interfaith education; ESL/EFL and LOTE (languages other than English) education; second language acquisition, language maintenance and language shift; other world population movements, including contract workers, international students, intermarriages etc.; cross-cultural communication and miscommunication; globalization, its processes and impacts; diasporas and transnationalism; religion, globalization and cultural diversity; major world faiths, religious extremism, terrorism and human security, especially in relation to Christianity and Islam; changes in Catholicism; the management of ethnic and religious diversity; global and local interfaith movements.
Research interests
Sociology, Religion and Religious Studies, Historical Studies, Cultural Studies, Human Geography, Political Science
