Portrait of Maryanne Loughry
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Maryanne Loughry

Adjunct Faculty

Social Work

Biography

Dr. Maryanne Loughry is a Sister of Mercy and a member of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea (ISMAPNG). Maryanne has worked in refugee work with the Jesuit Refugee Service commencing as a psychologist in detention centres and refugee camps in South East Asia in 1988. From 1996-2004 she was the Pedro Arrupe tutor at the University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre from where she conducted research, programme evaluations and humanitarian training in the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, South East Asia, and the UK and she continues to be a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford and a member of Campion Hall Oxford. Dr. Loughry serves on the Governing Committee of the International Catholic Migration Committee (ICMC) and is on the advisory committees of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, and the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, University of Melbourne. She is presently researching the psychosocial effects of climate-induced displacement in the Pacific.

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4.15 / 5

Based on 138 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

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