Dr. Tamara Jane Wood.
Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW.
Dr Tamara Wood is a Lecturer in Law at the Latrobe University Law School and a Senior Research Fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW. Dr Wood is an expert in the fields of international refugee law, regional refugee law (with a focus on Africa), free movement agreements, complementary pathways to protection, and displacement in the context of natural hazards, disasters and climate change. She is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Platform on Disaster Displacement, and the co-founder of the Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN). She has acted as a consultant to UNHCR, IOM, Platform on Disaster Displacement, Nansen Initiative on Disaster-Induced Cross-Border Displacement, Institute for Security Studies Africa and the World Bank.
Dr. Tamara has published on refugee law issues in leading international law journals and lectured in refugee and human rights law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Prior to academic work, Tamara worked as a refugee advocate in Australia, assisting onshore refugee applicants with their claims for asylum.
Publications/recent projects
1. Tamara Wood, ‘The 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa’, in Satvinder Juss (ed), Research Handbook on Refugees (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming)
Tamara Wood, ‘The 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa’, in Satvinder Juss (ed), Research Handbook on Refugees (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming)
2. Tamara Wood, ‘Lessons in Refugee Hospitality from the Horn of Africa’The Conversation, 23 October 2015
- Tamara Wood, ‘Lessons in Refugee Hospitality from the Horn of Africa’The Conversation, 23 October 2015
3. Tamara Wood, ‘Developing Temporary Protection in Africa’ (2015) 49 Forced Migration Review 23
- Tamara Wood, ‘Developing Temporary Protection in Africa’ (2015) 49 Forced Migration Review 23
4. Tamara Wood, ‘Expanding Protection in Africa? Case Studies of the Implementation of the 1969 African Refugee Convention’s Expanded Refugee Definition’ (2014) 26(4) International Journal of Refugee Law 555
- Tamara Wood, ‘Expanding Protection in Africa? Case Studies of the Implementation of the 1969 African Refugee Convention’s Expanded Refugee Definition’ (2014) 26(4) International Journal of Refugee Law 555
5. Tamara Wood, ‘The African War Refugee: Using IHL to Interpret the 1969 African Refugee Convention’s Expanded Refugee Definition’, in David Cantor and Jean-François Durieux (eds), Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2014).
- Tamara Wood, ‘The African War Refugee: Using IHL to Interpret the 1969 African Refugee Convention’s Expanded Refugee Definition’, in David Cantor and Jean-François Durieux (eds), Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2014).