Academy Fellow

Andrew Jakubowicz is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology Sydney. He has taught at universities in the USA, Europe and Asia, and was the foundation director of the Centre for Multicultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. He has published widely on ethnic diversity issues, disability studies and media studies. He was foundation chair of the Disability Studies and Research Institute and is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His interest and expertise in policy studies related to racism and ethnicity are evident in projects such as Migrants and the Legal System (1975), Ethnicity Racism and the Media (1994), Political Islam in Australia (2007), Jewish wartime refugees from Europe in China and Australia (2001), International student futures in Australia: A human rights perspective on moving forward to real action (2010), Mapping Progress: Human Rights and International Students in Australia (2015), Cyber Racism and Community Resilience (2017), Does the Media fail Aboriginal political aspirations? (2019) and Research Strategies for Multicultural Australia (2024). From 2014 to 2016 he was a member of the Multicultural NSW Advisory Board, having previously served on the NSW Police Commissioner’s multicultural advisory committee. Since 2020 he has served as senior consultant on cultural diversity to the Disability Royal Commission, member of the CALD advisory group to the Commonwealth Vaccine Task force, and as a consultant on racism research with the Australian Human Rights Commission. Recently he has published the Information Brief Multicultural Arc: making multicultural Australia past, present and future.

Member Commonwealth Migrant Task Force 1973-1975

Member Board Special Broadcasting Service 1983-1986

Member Australia Council Multicultural Advisory Committee (ACMAC) 2002-2005

Member Advisory Board for Multicultural NSW 2016-2018

Member CALD Communities COVID-19 Health Advisory Group Australian Department of Health 2020-2022

Senior Advisor Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Royal Commission on Violence Against, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability 2021-2022

FRSN

1. 2020 Thomas A., A. Jakubowicz and H. Norman 2019, Does the media fail Aboriginal political aspirations? Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
2. 2019 “The voices of diversity in multicultural societies: using multimedia to communicate authenticity and insight” in K. Darian-Smith, and P. Hamilton (eds) Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switz. pp. 185-202.
3. 2018 “Algorithms of hate: How the Internet facilitates the spread of racism and how public policy might help stem the impact”, Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 151, part 1, pp. 69–81
4. 2017 “New Australian ways of knowing ‘multiculturalism’ in a period of rapid social change: when ibn Khaldun engages Southern theory”, in Martina Boese and Vince Marotta (eds) Critical reflections on Migration, ‘race’ and Multiculturalism, Routledge, London.
5. 2017 Jakubowicz, A. et al. Cyber Racism and Community Resilience, Palgrave Macmillan, London.