[4] Halafoff is Associate Professor in Sociology of Religion in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, in Burwood, Australia[5] and the coordinator of the Spirituality and Wellbeing (SWell) Research Network.
[9] Halafoff was a Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects on the Worldviews of Generation Z Australians[10] and on Religious Diversity in Australia[11] and the Chief Investigator on the International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society project on Conspirituality in Australia.
[13] Halafoff's research has had an impact on government policy and curriculum development in the area of religious diversity, particularly in the state of Victoria.
She is a regular guest on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Soul Search[14] and God Forbid[15] and contributor to the ABC's Religion & Ethics program,[16] and The Conversation.
In 2011, Halafoff was named a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations' Global Expert in the fields of interfaith relations and religion, conflict and peacebuilding.