Associate ProfessorLuara Ferracioli
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
BIO
PhD (ANU)
A/Prof Luara Ferracioli was awarded her PhD in 2013. She works on the philosophy of immigration and the philosophy of the family. Her recent books include Liberal Self-Determination in World of Migration (OUP, 2022) and Parenting and the Goods of Childhood (OUP, 2023). She has recently completed a book entitled The Future of Gestation: A Normative Inquiry (under contract with Oxford University Press).
AWARDS
- University of Sydney Research Excellence and Inclusion Prize – Thompson Prize – 2026
- Australasian Association of Philosophy Teaching (Inclusive Curriculum) Award – 2025
- Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Early Career Research (ECR) Excellence Award - 2022
FELLOWSHIPS
- Clare Hall College Visiting Fellowship, University of Cambridge, 2028
- Nuffield College Visiting Fellowship, University of Oxford, 2027
- Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, 2026
- ABC Top 5 Residency Program, Humanities, 2021
- Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellowship, UCHV Princeton 2021-2022
- Oxford/Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship, 2011-2013
EXTERNAL GRANTS
- The Australian Research Council (ARC) FT Grant, “Citizen-making in the 21st Century: The Ethics of Demographic Renewal” 2027-2030 (100%, $1,313,532.00)
- The Australian Research Council (ARC) DP Grant, “Australia’s Shared Responsibility for Pacific Climate Refugees” 2025-2028, with C. Collins and T. Macdonald (33%, $165,762.00)
- FAPESP (Brazil), Transpondo Fronteiras, International PI, 2026-2030 (5%, BR$ 929.260,00, CI: R. Wihby)
- The Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Grant, “Life without Birth: The Ethics, Politics, and Law of Artificial Wombs,” 2022-2025 (100%, $352,000)
- The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) VENI GRANT, “Asylum Theory for a Non-ideal World,” 2015-2019 (100%, 250,000€)
INTERNAL GRANTS
- SSSHARC Research Impact Accelerator (with R. Cox, E. Hill. A. Rees, J. Scully) – 2024 (20%, 5,000AUD)
- FASS Strategic Research Theme, University of Sydney, “BioHumanities,” (with W. Anderson, N. Ehlers, P. Griffiths, S. Van Wichelen, 2018-2019 (20%, 79,100AUD)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS & PUBLIC LECTURES
Speaker – “The Ethics of Depopulation” JUSTLA Mid-Conference - Reimagining Justice in the 21st Century, Campinas 2026 (Scheduled)
Panellist – “Conversation for Good: Across Political Philosophies” Sydney Ideas, Sydney 2026
Speaker – “The Ethics of Depopulation” Hale Public Lecture, Perth 2026
Speaker – “The Ethics of Depopulation” LSE Auguste Comte Memorial Lecture, London 2025
Speaker – “What to Expect when you are Expecting…Climate Change” Raising the Bar, Sydney 2025
Guest – Meet the Solutionists, with Mark Scott (Season 4 Episode 4), Sydney 2025
Speaker - Webinar, Victorian Women's Trust - Early Childhood Education and Care: Making a Fairer System for Families and Children, Sydney 2025
Speaker – “Ending the ‘Tyranny’ of Pregnancy” Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney 2024
Speaker – “The Ethics of Artificial Wombs” University of Sydney Challis Lecture, Sydney 2023
Speaker – “Stealing Culture” Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney 2022
LEADERSHIP
Program Leader: A Good Childhood – Sydney Policy Lab – Current
FASS BPPE Director – Current
Associate Editor – Analysis – Current
Deputy Head of School (Research) – School of Humanities – 2025
Philosophy Representative – PPE Degree Committee – 2024-2025
Representative – Australasian Representative for the Society of Applied Philosophy – 2022-2024
Member – 2024 Thematic Review into Research Translation through Social Enterprise – 2024
LANGUAGES
- PortugueseCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
SCHOOL
- School of Humanities
AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA
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