Dr. phil. Farah Purwaningrum is an honorary associate at School of Social and Political Sciences and Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre – The University of Sydney.
Farah is a sociologist with an interdisciplinary background in law. She attained her PhD from Rheinische Friedrich Universität Bonn, Germany in December 2012. During her training in Bonn, she was a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholar in 2009-2012. She was a British Chevening Scholar in 2006-2007 throughout her LL.M studies at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. She has held a lectureship in Sociology and a fellowship at the Institute of Asian Studies, University of Brunei Darussalam (IAS-UBD). Prior to her appointment in Brunei Darussalam, in 2009-2012 she was a Junior Researcher at Department of Political and Cultural Change (ZEFa) – Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany. Farah is currently retraining to be a lawyer, holding a position of senior counsel in Lawyerindo.
Farah has a keen interest in research areas of the sociology of knowledge, comparative studies, and sociology of health. In these research areas; her papers have appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as International Social Science Journal, ANUDevelopment Bulletin, South East Asia Research, the International Journal of Health Planning and Management, International Sociological Association (ISA) -E Symposium. Farah’s current writing projects are manuscript preparation on ‘Strengthening Regulatory Reform in Indonesia: Market, Health and Politics Perspectives’ and a joint book proposal on ‘The Age of Healthcare Migration: Dentistry and Globalisation’. She is a steering board member of International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee (RC)15 on Sociology of Health. Her most recent joint paper proposal on ’Discourses on the Right to Health in Evidence-based Policymaking in Indonesia in 2009-2017’ was awarded as one of the best papers for presentation at the 4th Conference on Human Rights: ‘Human Rights in Southeast Asia: Theory Meets Practice’ jointly organised by University of Jember and Sydney Southeast Asia Centre – The University of Sydney on 13-15 October 2019.