About: Wanda Skowronska

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Wanda Skowronska lives in Sydney, Australia, and works as an educational psychologist. She also writes for several periodicals, being a regular contributor to Annals Australasia. She is the author of To Bonegilla from Somewhere (2013) which is an account of the largest migrant camp in Australia's history. She completed a PhD at the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne in 2011 and is a sessional lecturer at the John Paul II Institute. Her forthcoming book is a compilation of Australian Catholic conversion stories.

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Syrian refugees, European havens and wanting ‘to be a person’

Syrian refugees, European havens and wanting ‘to be a person’

September 13, 2015 at 7:55 pm 0 comments

As he alighted from a boat recently on the island of Kos in Greece, an out of breath Syrian refugee was met by a journalist’s microphone and said simply  – ‘I want to be a person. Here I can be a person’. Yet another man nearby said in  broken EnglishRead More

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Psychological ploys of Russian political life

August 11, 2015 at 3:13 pm 0 comments

It is difficult for western Europeans to understand the nature of deception in Russia’s current regime. Not that there is anything new about it – decades of refinement in dissembling, disinformation and projection  – beyond the comprehension of most ordinary people – is entrenched in Russian political life. Using psychologicalRead More