Rate My Professor Aparna Hebbani

Hebbani has produced 57 scholarly works between 2004 and 2026, documented in UQ repositories. Key publications include her authored book Refugee settlement in Australia: a holistic overview of current research and practice (Routledge, 2024) and the co-edited Beyond the cities: the dynamics of migrant settlement in regional Australia (Springer, 2026, with Ataus Samad and Nichole Georgeou). Prominent journal articles are Predictors of employment status: a study of former refugee communities in Australia (Australian Psychologist, 2019, with Nigar G. Khawaja, Cindy Gallois, and Mairead MacKinnon), Employment aspirations of former refugees settled in Australia: a mixed methods study (Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2018, with Nigar G. Khawaja), Know thy neighbour: residential integration and social bridging among refugee settlers in Greater Brisbane (Journal of Refugee Studies, 2018, with Val Colic-Peisker and Mairead MacKinnon), Family and domestic violence in culturally and linguistically diverse Australians: A stakeholders' perspective (Australian Journal of Social Issues, 2025, with Nigar G. Khawaja and Agata Vitale), and On arrival: challenges and opportunities around early-stage resettlement of refugees in Australia (Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2025, with Pinyao Song and Dhaval Vyas).

She led a three-year ARC Linkage project from 2013 to 2015 titled Refugees' employment aspirations and inter-generational communication about future occupational pathways, examining employment experiences of newly-arrived refugee families in South East Queensland. Additional grants include UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund (2011-2013), Sudanese Community Association project (2011), UQ FirstLink Scheme (2010-2011), and UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund (2008-2009). Hebbani has supervised several PhD candidates to completion as principal and associate advisor on theses concerning communication, migration, and related fields.