Dr Tamara Wood

Dr Tamara Wood

Senior Research Fellow

PhD ()
LLB (Hons I) (Melbourne)
Grad Dip Ed (Melbourne)
BA (Melbourne)

Law & Justice
A&R Kaldor Ctr Int Refugee Law

Dr Tamara Wood is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and a former PhD graduate and Nettheim Doctoral Teaching Fellow at Law. She is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Platform on Disaster Displacement, Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN) Steering Group, and International Journal of Refugee Law Case Law Editorial Team. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London, and an Adjunct Senior Researcher in Law at the University of Tasmania.

Dr Wood researches in the fields of international refugee law, regional refugee law (with a focus on Africa), free movement agreements, complementary pathways to protection, and displacement in the context of natural hazards, disasters and climate change. She has published widely on refugee protection and forced migration, including in leading international law journals such as the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the International Journal of Refugee Law. She has acted as a consultant to UNHCR, IOM, Platform on Disaster Displacement, Nansen Initiative on Disaster-Induced Cross-Border Displacement, Institute for Security Studies Africa and the World Bank. She lectures in international refugee law, regional refugee protection and Australian public law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

  • Book Chapters | 2021
    Wood T, 2021, 'Defining ‘Refugees’: The International and Regional Refugee Definitions Compared and Contrasted', in Costello C; Foster M; McAdam J (ed.), Oxford Handbook for International Refugee Law, Oxford University Press,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Wood T, 2019, 'The 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa’ in Satvinder Juss', in Juss SS (ed.), Research Handbook on International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 16 - 30,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Wood TJ, 2014, 'The African War Refugee: Using IHL to Interpret the 1969 African Refugee Convention’s Expanded Refugee Definition', in Cantor D; Durieux J-F (ed.), Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 179 - 203,
  • Journal articles | 2022
    Evans R; Baker S; Wood T, 2022, 'Expanding durable solutions for refugees: possibilities for developing education pathways in Australia', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 28, pp. 308 - 328,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Gleeson M; Wood T; Barbour B; Jeffries R; Moodley R, 2022, 'Case Law Summaries', International Journal of Refugee Law, 34, pp. 82 - 92,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Wood T, 2022, 'The role of free movement agreements in addressing climate mobility', Forced Migration Review, 69, pp. 62 - 64,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Gleeson M; Wood T; Barbour B; Jefferies R; Moodley R, 2021, 'Case Law Summaries', International Journal of Refugee Law, 33, pp. 671 - 681
    Journal articles | 2021
    McAdam J; Wood T, 2021, 'The Concept of “International Protection” in the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration', Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies, 23, pp. 191 - 206,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Wood T; Barbour B; Gleeson M; Jefferies R; Moodley R, 2021, 'Kwatra v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2021] FCA 58 (4 February 2021)', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFUGEE LAW, 33, pp. 497 - 505,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Ndonga Githinji E; Wood T, 2019, 'Prospects for the Global Compacts in Africa: Combining International Solidarity with Home-Grown Solutions', International Journal of Refugee Law, 30, pp. 699 - 703,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Wood T, 2019, 'Who is a Refugee in Africa? A Principled Framework for Interpreting and Applying Africa’s Expanded Refugee Definition', International Journal of Refugee Law, 31, pp. 290 - 320,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Wood TJ, 2015, 'Developing temporary protection in Africa', Forced Migration Review, 49, pp. 23 - 23,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Wood TJ, 2014, 'Expanding Protection in Africa? Case Studies of the Implementation of the 1969 African Refugee Convention’s Expanded Refugee Definition', International Journal of Refugee Law, 26, pp. 555 - 580,
    Journal articles | 2012
    McAdam J; Wood T, 2012, 'Australian Asylum Policy All at Sea: An analysis of plaintiff M70/2011 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and the Australia-Malaysia arrangement', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 61, pp. 274 - 300,
  • Reports | 2021
    McAdam J; Wood T; Bower E; Weerasinghe S, 2021, Submission to the US Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration on the impacts of climate change on migration, protection and resettlement,
    Reports | 2020
    McAdam J; Wood T; Weerasinghe S; Bower E, 2020, Submission to the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement in the context of Disasters and Climate Change,
    Reports | 2020
    McAdam J; Wood T; Weerasinghe S; Bower E, 2020, Submission to the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement in the context of Disasters and Climate Change,
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Wood T, 2020, 'Applying Africa’s regional refugee definition to people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change', presented at Climate Litigation in Africa, 26 August 2020 - 27 August 2020
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Wood T, 2020, 'Chair, Africa Research Group Panel', presented at Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Emerging Scholars Network Workshop, 12 November 2020
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Wood T, 2020, 'Climate change, displacement and refugee law', presented at Engaging Tales of Social Justice seminar, Global Climate Change Week, University of Tasmania, 19 October 2020
    Reports | 2020
    Wood T, 2020, The Role of Complementary Pathways in Refugee Protection, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Sydney,
    Reports | 2018
    Wood T; Higgins C, 2018, Special humanitarian intakes: enhancing protection through targeted refugee resettlement, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, , Sydney,
  • Media | 2022
    Wood T; Hansen-Lohrey C, 2022, New immigration detention bill could give Australia a fresh chance to comply with international law, ,
    Media | 2020
    Wood T, 2020, New pact paves way for innovative solutions to disaster and climate change displacement in Africa,
    Media | 2019
    Wood T, 2019, Protecting people displaced by disasters and climate change: novel legal approaches in Africa,
    Media | 2018
    Wood T; Higgins C, 2018, Targeted resettlement is one way to implement Global Refugees Compact, ,