Smith-Khan, Laura
Fields of Research (FoR 2020)
- 7 4807 Migration, asylum and refugee law
- 5 480405 Law and society and socio-legal research
- 4 470411 Sociolinguistics
- 4 480505 Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession
- 4 480704 Migration, asylum and refugee law
- 2 4704 Sociolinguistics
- 2 470405 Discourse and pragmatics
- 1 480403 Law and humanities
- 1 480406 Law reform
- 1 480413 Race, ethnicity and law
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Smith-Khan, Laura
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Biography
Dr Laura Smith-Khan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of New England (UNE), Australia. She is also the inaugural external affiliated member of the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR), at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research examines the inclusion and participation of minoritized groups in legal settings, especially migration processes, and seeks to address inequality. From 2019-2024, Dr Smith-Khan was a Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and in 2023 she was also a visiting researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. Her award-winning Fellowship project explored how legal assistance affected communication in migration procedures. She also examined the education and professional development of those studying Migration Law and Practice to become Registered Migration Agents. Dr Smith-Khan was the 2022 recipient of the Max Crawford Medal, Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities. She is co-founder and co-convenor of the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network. Through the network and her research, she aims to ensure that linguistic and interdisciplinary scholarship reaches legal sector audiences in accessible formats to improve participation for minoritized people. To this end, she has presented her research to government inquiries and reviews; refugee and migration judges and tribunal members; community legal centres; and barrister and migration practitioner associations. Her expertise is recognized and cited widely and internationally, including in EU-level guidance for asylum decision-makers. Dr Smith-Khan’s doctoral research, with supervision in both Law and Linguistics, explored language and credibility assessment in Australian asylum procedures and public discourse. Prior to this, she was a full-time research assistant on a project examining disability in forced migration, in refugee camps and urban refugee settings across six countries. With Chief Investigators from the Sydney Centre for International Law, University of Sydney, she has shared the project findings at the United Nations, with UNESCO, at international conferences, with government agencies, and in published reports, peer-reviewed articles, and book chapters, culminating in a pioneering (2017) book. Dr Smith-Khan has been admitted as a lawyer in the NSW Supreme Court and has assisted refugees and asylum seekers in paralegal and pro-bono roles. She has worked at four universities, in both law and linguistics, and speaks several languages.
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