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Email

vaughan.f@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Research Fellow - Research Focussed
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health - Centres and Institutes
Education
PhD
The University of Melbourne
Masters
University of Birmingham
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Ghana, Legon
ORCID

0000-0002-5237-3445

Dr Franka Vaughan

Research Fellow - Research Focussed
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

29 Scholarly works
2 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Everyday racism in Australian community sport
    DOI: 10.1177/10126902261457980
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    17. G’day Mate! I’m Franka Vaughan, innit?
    DOI: 10.11647/obp.0508.17
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    “Please Come Home! … Join Us in the Building of a New Liberia”: Diaspora Return, and the Politics of Belonging
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-09933-4_5
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    Belonging to Nineteenth Century Liberia: Interrogating the Experiment of Americo-Liberia in the Grain Coast of Africa
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-09933-4_3
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    The Conditions of Belonging in Post-War Liberia
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-09933-4_8
  • 2025

    Research grants (other domestic)

    The Effects of Racism on Health and Wellbeing
  • 2021

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Inclusive Ageing, Free From Racism: African Australian Seniors Anti-Racism Project
Franka Vaughan

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2025
VicHealth Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program
2018
University of Melbourne
2012
University of Birmingham, UK

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    Dawn of a New Era? The Brutal End [or Continuation] to Settler Colonialism in Liberia
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-09933-4_4
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    Between Race and Descent: The Racial Dynamics in Liberia’s Citizenship Negotiations
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-09933-4_7
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    Introduction: But Why Liberia, Though?
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-09933-4_1
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    G’day Mate! I’m Franka Vaughan, innit? A Mobile Academic’s Tales of Visa Woes and Other Misadventures
    DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0508.17
  • 2026

    Book

    Settler Colonialism in Liberia
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-09933-4

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