Professor Desmond Cahill

• Holy sites, holy cities: Inter-faith interaction between religious schools in Melbourne's north-west suburbs. Funded by: Department of Immigration and Citizenship Contract from (2003 to 2004)
• Indochinese Prisoners in Port Phillip Prison - Agreement. Funded by: Uniting Church Aust (Property Trust) Research Grant from (1999 to 1999)

Immigrant and refugee movements and settlement; history, policy and practice in Australian immigration; ethnic community development; immigrant, refugee, multicultural and interfaith education; ESL/EFL and LOTE (languages other than English) education; second language acquisition, language maintenance and language shift; other world population movements, including contract workers, international students, intermarriages etc.; cross-cultural communication and miscommunication; globalization, its processes and impacts; diasporas and transnationalism; religion, globalization and cultural diversity; major world faiths, religious extremism, terrorism and human security, especially in relation to Christianity and Islam; changes in Catholicism; the management of ethnic and religious diversity; global and local interfaith movements.

• Cahill, D. (2015). Turkish Cypriots in Australia: The evolution of a multi-hyphenated community and the impact of transnational events In: Reconciling Cultural and Political Identities in a Globalized World, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
• Bouma, G.,Cahill, D.,Dellal, H.,Zwartz, A. (2011). Freedom of religion and belief in 21st century Australia: A research report prepared for the Australian Human Rights Commission In: Australian Human Rights Commission Sydney, Australia
• Cahill, D. (2009). In transition: The governance of religious and ethnic diversity in contemporary Australia In: International Migration and the Governance of Religious Diversity, McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston, Canada
• Cahill, D. (2009). Religious education and interreligious education: Their context in social capital and social cohesion in Australia In: Journal of Religious Education, 57, 4 - 16
• Cahill, D. (2007). From dagoes to doers: Accommodating Australia's Italian immigrants by Church and State In: The Pastoral Care of Italians in Australia: Memory and Prophecy, Connorcourt Publishing, Victoria, Australia
• Cahill, D. (2006). Lifting the low sky: Are Dutch Australians assimilationists or accomodationists? In: The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, Australia
• Cahill, D. (2005). Managing and regulating religion in the context of global governance In: Integrated Governance: Linking up Government, Business and Civil Society, ,
• Cahill, D. (2004). Missionaries on the move : a pastoral history of the Scalabrinians in Australia and Asia, 1952-2002, Center for Migration Studies, New York, USA
• Cahill, D. (2004). Globalization, Christianity and Fundamentalism In: Around the Globe, 1, 15 - 20
• Cahill, D.,Potaski, J. (2004). John Potaski, Australia's first Polish settler: a problematic beginning In: Polonia in Australia: Challenges and Possibilities in the New Millennium, Common Ground, Melbourne, Australia