Dr Rifaie Tammas leads the Centre’s Impact and Evaluation stream. He oversees a range of projects that seek to measure and maximise the impact of programs, initiatives and infrastructure in Western Sydney. 

Rifaie brings over a decade of experience in research, monitoring and evaluation in higher education and community development projects in Australia and overseas. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Sydney and has provided extensive media commentary for BBC, ABC News and Al Jazeera. Rifaie is a native Arabic speaker and was the winner of the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at Macquarie University in 2017. 

Prior to joining the Centre for Western Sydney, Rifaie worked as a Senior Research Associate at Macquarie University. He has also been involved in the development and coordination of several mentoring programs for students and academics from refugee backgrounds at several Australian universities and delivered training to hundreds of academics and students across Australia and the UK. Rifaie worked as a citizen journalist in 2012 and 2013, reporting on the Syrian Uprising from his hometown in Syria.

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