Ms Michelle Godwin

Michelle is a Research Manager and the ANU node administrator for the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW). She supports the research stream on contexts of violence (guided by CI Professor Bina D’Costa), with a focus on situations and experiences of forced migration and trafficking at the Coral Bell School, College of Asia and the Pacific. With over a decade of experience with the United Nations she has lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Australia. From 2015-2020 she served in the director’s team of UNICEF’s global research office in Florence, Italy.  During the Covid-19 pandemic, Michelle was asked to join the Global Education Cluster in Geneva, guiding interagency groups in 25 emergency countries. The time she spent working with remote Aboriginal community teams with the Red Cross was formative for her.  Trained in Human Geography at the universities of Sydney and New England (Armidale), her insights on topics related to children and armed conflict in Asia, protection and participatory community development have been published in peer reviewed journals and books including Global Responsibility to Protect, Child Indicators Research, Development Policy Review and Cambridge University Press. Michelle is also a founding associate of international consulting firm, Tsunagu. She has always had an interest in interdisciplinary work, ethics, indigenous rights and the use of evidence in different contexts.