Associate Professor Helen Forbes-Mewett is Discipline Head of Sociology at Monash University and Deputy Director of the Monash Migration Centre. She is member of the Victorian Multicultural Commission Regional Advisory Committee, Advisor to the Centre for Holistic Health, Senior Fellow of the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) and member of the IEAA Research Committee. She is Board Member and Associate Editor for the Journal of International Students and Board Member of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education.