Sarah Jane Lipura

Dr. Sarah Jane D. Lipura is a multilingual researcher-practitioner with a doctoral degree in Asian Studies from the University of Auckland (UoA), where she was recipient of the University Doctoral Scholarship, Faculty of Arts Research Grant and, Universitas 21 Doctoral Mobility Scholarship. 

Prior to coming to New Zealand, Sarah was founding director of the Korean Studies Programme, Ateneo de Manila University, with which she remains transnationally affiliated as Managing Editor of Social Transformations: Journal of the Global South. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she actively publishes in the fields of international student/youth mobilities, migration and Asian Studies. 

As practitioner, Sarah participates in initiatives that promote migrant and international student well-being. She also previously worked at North Asia CAPE, where she developed language and cultural immersion programmes for New Zealand schools and communities. Her work aside, she enjoys spending time and traveling with her family, who holds residence in both New Zealand and the Philippines. 

Sarah is lead convenor of the Philippine Studies Network Aoteaora New Zealand