Anna Halafoff

Dr Anna Halafoff is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Deakin University. She is a Chief Investigator on three Australian Research Council Discovery Projects – ‘Australian Spirituality’, ‘Worldviews of Generation Z Australians’ and ‘Religious Diversity in Australia’. Her other research interests include interreligious relations, religion and education, conspirituality, preventing violent extremism, and Buddhism in Australia.

Anna is the author of The Multifaith Movement: Global Risks and Cosmopolitan Solutions (2013), and co-author of Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity (with Andrew Singleton, Mary Lou Rasmussen, and Gary Bouma).

She has long argued for a critical approach to learning about worldview diversity – religious, spiritual and non-religious – in national and state curricula, as informed by her and her colleagues’ research findings.