Our People

Governance

The Castan Centre governance structure is as follow:

• Professor the Hon Kevin H Bell AM QC – Executive Director
• Associate Professor Melissa Castan – Academic Director
• Associate Professor Maria O’Sullivan – Deputy Director (Research)
• Dr Ronli Sifris – Deputy Director (Education)

Membership

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law is comprised of:

• The governance office-holders (see above)
• The Academic Members, who come from the Faculty of Law at Monash University and also potentially from other Faculties or institutions
• The Affiliate Members, who come from the HDR cohort of the Faculty
• The staff

Program research areas

The main research, policy and impact work of the Castan Centre is undertaken by thematic Program Research Groups.  These and the convenors are:

• Charters of Rights (Prof the Hon Kevin Bell AM QC)
• Climate Change and Human Rights (Dr Joanna Kyriakakis)
• Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Professor Jean Allain)
• Gender and Sexuality (Dr Tania Penovic)
• Privacy and Access to Information (Associate Professor Normann Witzleb)
• Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights (Associate Professor Melissa Castan)

Advisory Board

The Castan Centre has an Advisory Board, which is being reconstituted (announcement expected soon)

The governance office-holders, Academic and Affiliate Members and staff of the Centre are presented below.

Affiliates