Prof Jock Collins with Prof Hurriyet Babacan 4Rs Conference October 2008
Jock Collins is Professor of Economics at the University Technology Sydney (UTS) where his research interests centre on an interdisciplinary study of immigration and cultural diversity in the economy and society, a field that he has published in since 1974.
His recent research has been on Australian immigration, ethnic crime, immigrant entrepreneurship, ethnic precincts and tourism and the social use of ethnic heritage and the built environment. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including Bin Laden in the Suburbs: criminalizing the Arab other (with Scott Poynting, Greg Noble and Paul Tabar). He is also the author of over 50 articles in international and national academic journals and book chapters.
His work has been translated in French, Japanese, Arabic, Dutch, Chinese, Swedish, Turkish and Italian.
Jock has had visiting academic appointments in the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States and has been a consultant to the OECD, ILO and the Australian and NSW governments.
