Professor Linda Briskman is Margaret Whitlam Chair of Social Work, and Community Welfare. An experienced academic and human rights social worker, she began her social work career in the field of child and family welfare. Her fields of expertise are Indigenous rights; asylum seekers/ refugees; and racism, particularly Islamophobia. She conducts research and publishes across these three areas in Australia and internationally. She is currently a CI on an NHMRC project, Rainbow Knowledge, with Western A/Professor Karen Soldatic and a Western Australian team, and a member of a three-university project on Children of Islamophobia. Previous appointments include Professor of Human Rights at Swinburne University of Technology and Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights Education at Curtin University.