Student food insecurity has plagued Australian universities over the last decade and has only worsened with the Covid-19 pandemic. Through their SSRC-funded research, Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey, and Gyorgy Scrinis examine how the pandemic affected international students enrolled in universities in the Australian state of Victoria. International students, they explain, were particularly impacted by the pandemic due to their precarious work circumstances and being initially left out of state support initiatives.
Craig Jeffrey
Craig Jeffrey teaches on India, youth and social change at the University of Melbourne. He has been conducting social research in India for over 25 years and is author of several books on youth in India, youth more generally, and economic and social change in India. His books include Timepass: Youth, Class and the Politics of Waiting (Stanford University Press, 2010) and Degrees without Freedom: Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in North India (with Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery; Stanford University Press, 2017). Jeffrey is also former director of the Australia India Institute, where he started a major postdoctoral program focused on India research.