Meet the editor

Dr. Ingrid Muenstermann is a sociologist at heart. She is a migrant from Germany to Australia where she established her academic career. Presently, she is a casual academic at Flinders University of South Australia and a teacher of German at the School for the German Language, Adelaide, Australia. Dr. Muenstermann began her lifelong career as a secretary in Germany, then as an office assistant in Australia, and then worked

in different secretarial positions in the healthcare industry and studied part-time until receiving a scholarship to complete a Ph.D. Since 1996, she has been teaching/ tutoring different topics of migration and health at Adelaide University, Charles Sturt University, and Flinders University, Australia. She has published several articles and edited books on migration and health and the environment and ageing.

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