Professor Gaby Ramia
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Professor Gaby Ramia

BCom, MCom W'gong, Grad. Cert. Ed. Stud. (Higher Ed.), PhD UNSW
Chair of Discipline
Discipline of Government and International Relations
Phone
+61 2 9036 5236
Address
A02 - Social Sciences Building
The University of Sydney
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Professor Gaby Ramia

Gaby Ramia is Professor of Policy and Society, Discipline of Government and International Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney.

Gaby’s research is in public and social policy and governance, particularly in relation to work, employment, education and welfare. He has been a chief investigator in Australian Research Council (ARC) funded projects dealing with: governance networks, social networks and the employability and wellbeing of long-term unemployed people; social security in China; international education and the welfare of international students; and international student housing.

Gaby has significant academic leadership experience at The University of Sydney, including roles as: Interim Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences; Associate Dean (Postgraduate Coursework Programs) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; and Director of the Graduate School of Government. He has also taught in a wide range of policy-related areas, including public administration, public policy, and international policy.

Project titleResearch student
The Lived Experience(s) of those who access food poverty relief services delivered by Faith Based Organisations in Western SydneyGeoffrey BROWN
Early Childhood Education and Care Policies in Australia and the Gendered Dimensions of CareIsabella WILSON

Publications

Books

  • Ramia, G. (2024). International Student Policy in Australia: The Welfare Dimension. Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G. (2020). Governing Social Protection in the Long Term: The Relationship Between Social Policy and Employment Relations in Australia and New Zealand. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G., Marginson, S., Sawir, E. (2013). Regulating International Students Wellbeing. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press.

Edited Books

  • Ramia, G., Farnsworth, K., Irving, Z. (2013). Social Policy Review 25. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press.
  • Kilkey, M., Ramia, G., Farnsworth, K. (2012). Social Policy Review 24. Bristol: The Policy Press.
  • Holden, C., Kilkey, M., Ramia, G. (2011). Social Policy Review 23. Bristol: Policy Press.

Book Chapters

  • Ramia, G. (2023). Adding the Social to the Public, and the International to the Social: The Study of Social and Public Policy, Old and New. In Zoe Irving (Eds.), Teaching Social Policy: International, Comparative and Global Perspectives, (pp. 130-144). Online: Edward Elgar. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G. (2022). International Students: During, Before and After. In J. Horne & M. A. M. Thomas (Eds.), Australian Universities: A conversation about public good. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Ramia, G. (2015). The Regulation of International Higher Education. In Sally Varnham, Patty Kamvounias, Joan Squelch (Eds.), Higher Education and the Law, (pp. 53-63). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.

Journals

  • Dyson, B., Ramia, G. (2024). Language Development vs Language Support: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Two Australian Universities’ Policies on Student Linguistic Capabilities. Higher Education Research and Development, 43(8), 1737-1753. [More Information]
  • Peterie, M., Ramia, G., Broom, A., Choi, I., Brett, M., Williams Veazey, L. (2024). ’You're on Your Own, Kid’: A Critical Analysis of Australian Universities’ International Student Mental Health Strategies. Australian Journal of Social Issues. [More Information]
  • Hastings, C., Overgaard, C., Wilson, S., Ramia, G., Morris, A., Mitchell, E. (2023). Crowded house: accommodation precarity and self-reported academic performance of international students. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 54(7), 1190-1209. [More Information]

Conferences

  • Lansbury, R., Wailes, N., Ramia, G. (2002). Integrating Interests and Institutions: the case of Industrial Relations Reform in Australia and New Zealand. British Journal of Industrial Relations Conference, United Kingdom: Brtish Journal of Industrial Relations.

Report

  • Carney, T., Ramia, G. (2009). Emerging Patterns of Social Protection in Australia.

Research Reports

  • Morris, A., Hastings, C., Wilson, S., Mitchell, E., Ramia, G., Overgaard, C. (2020). The experience of international students before and during COVID-19: Housing, work, study and wellbeing., (pp. 1 - 131). Sydney, Australia: University of Technology Sydney.

2024

  • Ramia, G. (2024). International Student Policy in Australia: The Welfare Dimension. Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]
  • Dyson, B., Ramia, G. (2024). Language Development vs Language Support: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Two Australian Universities’ Policies on Student Linguistic Capabilities. Higher Education Research and Development, 43(8), 1737-1753. [More Information]
  • Peterie, M., Ramia, G., Broom, A., Choi, I., Brett, M., Williams Veazey, L. (2024). ’You're on Your Own, Kid’: A Critical Analysis of Australian Universities’ International Student Mental Health Strategies. Australian Journal of Social Issues. [More Information]

2023

  • Ramia, G. (2023). Adding the Social to the Public, and the International to the Social: The Study of Social and Public Policy, Old and New. In Zoe Irving (Eds.), Teaching Social Policy: International, Comparative and Global Perspectives, (pp. 130-144). Online: Edward Elgar. [More Information]
  • Hastings, C., Overgaard, C., Wilson, S., Ramia, G., Morris, A., Mitchell, E. (2023). Crowded house: accommodation precarity and self-reported academic performance of international students. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 54(7), 1190-1209. [More Information]
  • Wilson, S., Hastings, C., Morris, A., Ramia, G., Mitchell, E. (2023). International Students on the Edge: The Precarious Impacts of Financial Stress. Journal of Sociology, 59(4), 952-974. [More Information]

2022

  • Ramia, G., Mitchell, E., Morris, A., Hastings, C., Davies, J. (2022). Explaining Government Policy Inaction on International Student Housing in Australia: The Perspectives of Stakeholders. Higher Education Policy, 37, 21-39. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G. (2022). International Students: During, Before and After. In J. Horne & M. A. M. Thomas (Eds.), Australian Universities: A conversation about public good. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Morris, A., Mitchell, E., Wilson, S., Ramia, G., Hastings, C. (2022). Loneliness within the Home among International Students in the Private Rental Sector in Sydney and Melbourne. Urban Policy and Research, 40(1), 67-81. [More Information]

2021

  • Ramia, G. (2021). Crises in international education, and government responses: a comparative analysis of racial discrimination and violence towards international students. Higher Education, 82(3), 599-613. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G., Perrone, L. (2021). Crisis Management, Policy Reform, and Institutions: The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 in Australia. Social Policy and Society, 22(3). [More Information]
  • Morris, A., Wilson, S., Mitchell, E., Ramia, G., Hastings, C. (2021). International Students Struggling in the Private Rental Sector in Australia Prior to and During the Pandemic. Housing Studies, 38(8). [More Information]

2020

  • Ramia, G. (2020). Governing Social Protection in the Long Term: The Relationship Between Social Policy and Employment Relations in Australia and New Zealand. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G., Peterie, M., Patulny, R., Marston, G. (2020). Networks, case managers, and the job-search experiences of unemployed people. Social Policy and Administration, 54(5), 765-776. [More Information]
  • Morris, A., Hastings, C., Wilson, S., Mitchell, E., Ramia, G., Overgaard, C. (2020). The experience of international students before and during COVID-19: Housing, work, study and wellbeing., (pp. 1 - 131). Sydney, Australia: University of Technology Sydney.

2019

  • Peterie, M., Ramia, G., Marston, G., Paltuny, R. (2019). Emotional Compliance and Emotion as Resistance: Shame and Anger among the Long-Term Unemployed. Work, Employment and Society, 33(5), 794-811. [More Information]
  • Peterie, M., Ramia, G., Marston, G., Paltuny, R. (2019). Social Isolation as Stigma-Management: Explaining Long-Term Unemployed People's 'Failure' to Network. Sociology, 53(6), 1043-1060. [More Information]
  • Patulny, R., Ramia, G., Feng, Z., Peterie, M., Marston, G. (2019). The strong, the weak and the meaningful: do friends or acquaintances help us get "any" job, or "meaningful" work? International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 39(5/6), 376-394. [More Information]

2018

  • Piper, N., Ramia, G. (2018). Social regulation of transnational migration: Perspectives from the Asia Pacific. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 59(1), 87-91. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G. (2018). The Development of Policy on International Student Welfare and the Question of Crisis Response. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 53(1), 71-82. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G., Patulny, R., Marston, G., Cassells, K. (2018). The Relationship Between Governance Networks and Social Networks: Progress, Problems and Prospects. Political Studies Review, 16(4), 331-341. [More Information]

2017

  • Ramia, G. (2017). Higher Education Institutions and the Administration of International Student Rights: A Law and Policy Analysis. Studies in Higher Education, 42(5), 911-924. [More Information]

2015

  • Ramia, G. (2015). The Regulation of International Higher Education. In Sally Varnham, Patty Kamvounias, Joan Squelch (Eds.), Higher Education and the Law, (pp. 53-63). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.

2013

  • Ramia, G. (2013). Contemporary debates and developments in the UK. In Gaby Ramia, Kevin Farnsworth, Zoe Irving (Eds.), Social Policy Review 25, (pp. 1-2). Bristol, UK: The Policy Press.
  • Ramia, G. (2013). Introduction. In Gaby Ramia, Kevin Farnsworth, Zoe Irving (Eds.), Social Policy Review 25, (pp. xi-xii). Bristol, UK: The Policy Press.
  • Ramia, G., Marginson, S., Sawir, E. (2013). Regulating International Students Wellbeing. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press.

2012

  • Sawir, E., Marginson, S., Forbes-Mewett, H., Nyland, C., Ramia, G. (2012). International student security and English language proficiency. Journal of Studies in International Education, 16(5), 434-454. [More Information]
  • Kilkey, M., Ramia, G., Farnsworth, K. (2012). Social Policy Review 24. Bristol: The Policy Press.

2011

  • Ramia, G., Marginson, S., Sawir, E., Nyland, C. (2011). International Business and Cross-Border Education: A Case of the Janus Face of Globalisation? Global Business and Economics Review, 13(2), 105-125. [More Information]
  • Holden, C., Kilkey, M., Ramia, G. (2011). Social Policy Review 23. Bristol: Policy Press.

2010

  • Kong, E., Ramia, G. (2010). A Qualitative Analysis of Intellectual Capital in Social Service Non-Profit Organisations: A Theory-Practice Divide. Journal of Management and Organization, 16(5), 656-676. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G., Carney, T. (2010). The Rudd Government's Employment Services Agenda: Is it Post-NPM and Why is that Important? Australian Journal of Public Administration, 69(3), 263-273. [More Information]
  • Carney, T., Ramia, G. (2010). Welfare Support and 'Sanctions for Non-Compliance' in a Recessionary World Labour Market: Post-Neoliberalism or Not? International Journal of Social Security and Workers Compensation, 2(1), 29-40.

2009

  • Forbes-Mewett, H., Marginson, S., Nyland, C., Ramia, G., Sawir, E. (2009). Australian University International Student Finances. Higher Education Policy, 22(2), 141-161. [More Information]
  • Carney, T., Ramia, G. (2009). Emerging Patterns of Social Protection in Australia.
  • Nyland, C., Forbes-Mewett, H., Marginson, S., Ramia, G., Sawir, E., Smith, S. (2009). International Student-Workers in Australia: A New Vulnerable Workforce. Journal of Education and Work, 22(1), 1-14. [More Information]

2008

  • Davies, G., Ramia, G. (2008). Governance Reform Towards "Serving Migrant Workers": The Local Implementation of Central Government Regulations. The China Quarterly, (193), 140-149. [More Information]
  • Sawir, E., Marginson, S., Deumert, A., Nyland, C., Ramia, G. (2008). Loneliness and International Students: An Australian Study. Journal of Studies in International Education, 12(2), 148-180. [More Information]
  • Lambell, R., Ramia, G., Nyland, C., Michelotti, M. (2008). NGOs and International Business Research: Progress, Prospects and Problems. International Journal of Management Reviews, 10(1), 75-92. [More Information]

2007

  • Carney, T., Ramia, G., Chapman, A. (2007). Comparativism, the labour-social policy nexus and intra-national analysis: a case study. Policy and Politics, 35(2), 233-250. [More Information]

2006

  • Ramia, G. (2006). Administering Global Welfare: Public Management, Governance and the New Role of INGOs. In P. Henman and M. Fenger (Eds.), Administering Welfare Reform: International Transformations in Welfare Governance, (pp. 185-211). Bristol UK: Policy Press.
  • Ramia, G., Wailes, N. (2006). Putting Wage-Earners into Wage-Earners' Welfare States: The Relationship Between Social Policy and Industrial Relations in Australia and New Zealand. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 41(1), 49-68.
  • Carney, T., Ramia, G., Chapman, A. (2006). Which Law is Laggard? Regulation and the Gaps Between Labour Law and Social Security Law. In C. Arup, P. Gahan, J. Howe, R. Johnstone, R. Mithchell & A. ODonnell (Eds.), Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation - Essays on the Construction, Constitution and Regulation of Labour Markets and Work Relationships, (pp. 383-409). Sydney: Federation Press.

2005

  • Deumert, A., Marginson, S., Nyland, C., Ramia, G., Sawir, E. (2005). Global migration and social protection rights: The social and economic security of cross-border students in Australia. Global Social Policy, 5(3), 329-352. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G., Chapman, A., Michelotti, M. (2005). How well do Industrial Relations and Social Policy Interact? Labour Law and Social Security Law in the Social Protection of Sole Parents. The International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 21(2), 249-279.
  • Ramia, G. (2005). Industrial Relations in the Context of Workfare: Comparing Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, 30(3), 65-78.

2003

  • Ramia, G. (2003). Global Social Policy, INGOs and the Importance of Strategic Management: an emerging research agenda. Global Social Policy, 3(1), 79-101. [More Information]
  • Wailes, N., Ramia, G., Lansbury, R. (2003). Interests, institutions and industrial relations. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 41(4), 617-637. [More Information]
  • Ramia, G., Carney, T. (2003). New public management, the job network and non-profit strategy. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 6(2), 253-275.

2002

  • Carney, T., Ramia, G. (2002). From Rights to Management: Contract, New Public Management and Employment Services. Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (Kluwer Law International).
  • Wailes, N., Ramia, G. (2002). Globalisation, Institutions and Interests: Comparing Recent Changes in Industrial Relations Policy in Australia and New Zealand. Policy and Society, 21(1), 74-95.
  • Lansbury, R., Wailes, N., Ramia, G. (2002). Integrating Interests and Institutions: the case of Industrial Relations Reform in Australia and New Zealand. British Journal of Industrial Relations Conference, United Kingdom: Brtish Journal of Industrial Relations.

2001

  • Carney, T., Ramia, G. (2001). Contactualism and Citizenship: Rivals or bedfellows? Law in Context, 18, 8-33.
  • Carney, T., Yeatman,, A., Ramia, G. (2001). Contractualism and Citizenship. Australia: Federation Press.
  • Carney, T., Yeatman,, A., Ramia, G. (2001). Introduction. Law in Context, 18, 1-7.

1999

  • Carney, T., Ramia, G. (1999). From Citizenship to Contractualism: The Transition from Unemployment Benefits to Employment Services in Australia. Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 6(3), 117-139.

Selected Grants

2024

  • International Education Policy, Ramia G, Sydney Policy Lab/Sydney Policy Lab Node

2023

  • International Education Policy in and for Australia: Stakeholder Perspectives, Ramia G, Sydney Policy Lab/Research for Policy Impact Award
  • Collaborative Governance for the Social and Emotional Wellbeing of International Students in Australia, Ramia G, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS External Engagement Fund 2023