Dr Laurence Brown

Laurence has been Director of the Australian National Internships Program (ANIP) for a decade managing policy research internships with Parliament, Commonwealth Government Agencies, the ACT Legislative Assembly, Embassies, NGOs, Think Tanks and Peak-Body organisations.

He taught migration history at the University of the West Indies, the American University of Paris and the University of Manchester. He has held research fellowships at ANU’s Centre for European Studies and the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, and in the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester. In Manchester, he was previously co-Director of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre.

BA (Hons 1st class, Sydney), D.Phil (York)

• the spatial analysis of migration
• Caribbean migration and development
• comparative history of labour migration
• the social and economic dynamics of ethnic inequalities
• research communication and decision-making