Research and Policy Advisor

Tammi Jonas is the Research and Policy Advisor of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA).

In 2008, she served as President of the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association (UMPA, now the Graduate Student Association), having held roles previously as both Coursework and Research Education Officer. Tammi was also the elected graduate student member of Melbourne University Council in 2009. She first became involved in campus politics at UCSD protesting America's actions in the 1991 Gulf War, and later by protesting poor course quality during a teaching degree at Deakin University.

Tammi is undertaking her PhD at the University of Melbourne, investigating the relationship between engagement with multicultural foodways and cosmopolitan attitudes in Melbourne. Tammi is also a busy mother of three politically engaged, food adventuring young children.

Research and Policy Advisor's email address is:
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tammi [at] capa.edu.au