ACU Researcher

Marianne Van Galen Dickie, Lecturer

Dr Marianne van Galen-Dickie is a migration agent and academic. She holds a Doctorate in Professional Studies. Her long history of working in migration began with a career as the migration advisor for the Australian Democrats. Since 2023 Marianne has taught in the ACU Graduate Diploma of Migration Law and Practice and the Masters of Migration Law. She also works Sisters Inside assisting women facing deportation under the Migration Act and is a General Editor of Lexis Nexis Immigration Review. She is a Senior Member of the Higher Education Academy, the Law Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia as well as a member of the Law Council, the Migration Institute (and their Character and Cancellation Advisory Panel) and the Australia Character and Australian Visa Cancellation Working Group. From 2007 - 2016 she was the Sub Dean and Director of the Migration Law Program at the ANU College of Law. From 2007 -2016 she established and ran a pro-bono migration advice clinic in the ACT. Her work was recognised by the community of Canberra when she was nominated for the Australian of the Year. In 2016 she took up the position of Convenor for migration law in the LLM and was a Visiting Fellow at the ANU College of Law from 2018 - 2020. She then returned to policy advice working with Qld Senators Larissa Waters and Andrew Bartlett from 2018-2020 before returning to academia.