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.
Jane Dyson
Jane Dyson teaches on issues related to global inequalities and young people in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. She conducts long-term ethnographic research in the Indian Himalayas examining gender, work, youth politics, and social transformation from the perspective of social geography, cultural anthropology and development studies. Dyson's research is presented in her book, Working Childhoods (Cambridge University Press, 2014), journal articles, and in her award-winning films, Spirit and Lifelines. In Australia, she examines inequalities among young people, particularly in the context of food insecurity on university campus.