Research associates

The following people are Associates of the Centre. These are people not employed within the Centre but with whom we have research ties and who contribute to the research culture of the Centre.

Peter Annear

Research Associate, Globalism Research Centre

Recent research: health policy and planning; health economics and financing

Eugenia Arvanitis

Researcher, Ionian island of Lefkada, Greece

Recent research: multicultural educational policy and practice; ethnic community development, sustainability and identity; community-building education; teachers' training.

Paul Battersby

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Program Manager, International Studies, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning

Recent research:Australia-Asia relations; Thai studies, Thai village culture and development; community sustainability; global governance; regionalisation in the Asia Pacific.

Desmond Cahill

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Professor of Intercultural Studies, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning

Recent research: immigrant, ethnic and intercultural education; religion, cultural diversity and globalization; ethnic communities in diasporic contexts; intercultural marriages; world, population movements and crime; the Polish and Vietnamese communities in Australia.

John Callinan

Community Researcher, Hamilton

Guosheng Chen

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Manager, Language and Global Culture Programs and Manager, Chinese-Australian Studies and Contemporary Culture Forum, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning

Recent research: internationalization of higher education; East Asian studies, language teaching and research; the Chinese diaspora and its development in the contemporary global context.

Esther Charlesworth

Research Associate, Globalism Research Centre

Recent research: post-war and post-disaster reconstruction; urban design, social issues and sustainability; social responsibility and architecture.

Bill Cope

Managing Director, Common Ground

Adjunct Professor, Globalism Research Centre

Recent research: pedagogy; instructional design; digital literacy; multiliteracies; publishing; semantic web; histories and practices of representation; cultural pluralism; globalisation.

Cicely Fenton

Community Research, Hamilton

John Fien

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Innovation Professor of Sustainability

Recent research: sustainable consumption; education for sustainability; sustainability in the workplace; the use of multimedia in teacher education for sustainability.

Julie Foster-Smith

Researcher, Globalism Research Centre

Recent research: Aboriginal education in Australian schools; community development strategies in Papua-New Guinea; indigenous epistemologies; 'intercultural travel'.

Cathy Greenfield

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Associate Professor, School of Applied Communication

Recent research: the relations between media; politics and the government of populations; current media rhetoric pertaining to Howardism and neo-liberalism more generally; media populism; the politics of finance journalism.

Elizabeth Grierson

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Head of School, School of Art

Recent research: art as a site of knowledge; creative methodologies; globalisation and identity; cultural politics; art and the academy; poststructuralism and the philosophy of education; knowledge and subjectivity

Hariz Halilovich

Researcher Associate, Globalism Research Centre

Recent research: cultural hybridity; identity; displacement; refugees; the politics of violence in former Yugoslavia; nationalism; ethnocentrism; globalization.

John Handmer

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Innovation Professor, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning

Recent research: public policy issues in risk and community safety; emergency planning and management; community resilience; the interface of spatial information science and risk and safety management; sustainable development.

Mary Kalantzis

Chair of Education, Research Professor, Research and Innovation

Recent research: education, productive diversity, pedagogy, e-learning and multiliteracies; multicultural Australia; refugee and indigenous issues.

Jeff Lewis

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Associate Dean, Research and Innovation

Recent research: media and cultural theory; transculturalism; new communications technology; textual studies; globalization studies; cultural democracy and the media; 9/11, terror and the mediation of war; community responses to the Bali bombings.

Grant McBurnie

Office of International Development, Monash University

Recent research: the globalization of higher education, including trade in education in the Asia-Pacific region; transnational education; quality assurance in international education; international education policy studies.

Jock McCulloch

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Professor of History, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning

Recent research: politics of development; colonial history of Southern Africa; post-colonial studies; medical sociology.

Peter Marden

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Senior Lecturer, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning (International Development)

Recent research: political philosophy; social theory; democracy studies; international politics.

Bill Martin

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Director Research, School of Business IT

Recent research: knowledge in enterprises (in particular the construction industry); knowledge cultures and strategies; knowledge in business models and metrics for knowledge.

Dave Mercer

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Co-ordinator International Urban Environment, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning

Recent research: indigenous issues and citizenship; indigenous welfare and the potential of tourism; energy and society, with particular reference to climate change, technology choice and the 'resource curse' in relation to Timor L'Este; natural hazard discourse, with particular reference to climate change and the fire hazard in Australia; demographic and labour market change in regional Australia.

Terri Nicholson

Community Researcher, Hamilton

Jane Perry

Post-Compulsory Education and Training Research Centre

Recent research: international post-compulsory education and training policy.

Marjorie Quinn

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Program Leader Social Work, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning

Recent research: community work and international partnerships-particularly Zambia (following two and a half years working there) and Bangladesh (around the teaching of the course 'International Perspectives on Community Development' in Bangladesh).

Leanne Reinke

Research Associate, Globalism Research Centre

Recent research: changing communication technologies; Indigenous politics and reconciliation; traditional knowledge systems; theories of community formation and transformation under globalization; cultural dimensions of online education.

Jacob Rumbiak

Senior Research Associate, Globalism Research Centre
Australian West Papua Association

Recent research: continuing to create awareness, conditions, and relations for nationbuilding, peace-seeking dialogue between West Papuans, West Papua and Indonesia, and between both nations and the international community.

Christopher Scanlon

Researcher Associate, Globalism Research Centre

Recent research: links between cultural diversity and bio-diversity; micro-finance and micro-credit; bio-piracy and Indigenous knowledge; Third-Way politics; globalization and social policy; theories of information society; social capital approaches to governance.

Gyorgy Scrinis

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Research Associate, Globalism Research Centre

Recent research: genetically modified foods; theories of technological and agricultural forms; globalization and corporatization of the food system; food security; nutritionism, functional foods and forms of food consumption.

Judith Shaw

Monash University

Recent research: microfinance, micro-enterprise development and the impact of globalization on labour markets in developing countries.

Chris Shepherd

Research Associate, Globalism Research Centre

Recent research: postcolonial science studies and anthropology; agricultural development at their sites of implementation in the Third World; NGOs and indigenous peoples in Latin America.

Julian Silverman

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Co-ordinator of Diploma of Community Education, School of Education

Recent research: student skill development during exposure to issues and activist practices of untouchable communities; caste, gender and strategies of social change; VET-based learning assessment programs in partnership with indigenous and other diverse communities.

Joseph Siracusa

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Professor in Global Studies, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning

Recent research: international diplomacy; ethical and humanitarian intervention; international security; Australia-United States security issues; United Nations reform; strategic responses to terrorism.

John Smithies

Director, Cultural Development Network, City of Melbourne

Ceridwen Spark

Research Associate, Globalism Research Centre

Recent research: issues of race, Indigeneity and colonialism; the 'traditional-modern' encounter between Western and traditional PNG cultures and medicines.

Deb Verhoeven

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Associate Professor, School of Applied Communications

Recent research: 'Communicating urban rivalries: "first" and "second" cities' (with Brian Morris); rethinking Australian national cinema; policy analysis of recent developments in the film industry particularly box-office performance; critical appraisal of current release movies; recipient of ARC support (2005-7) for 'Regional Markets and Local Audiences: Case Studies in Australian Cinema Consumption, 1928-1980'; specialist interest in diasporic film audiences in Melbourne 1955-80.

Peter Williams

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Researcher, School of Applied Communication

Recent research: history of communication technologies, especially radio; representations of Indigenous people and land; finance journalism and the neoliberal culture of finance capitalism.

Nicola Yelland

Former Professor and Head of the Department of School and Early Childhood, FELCS

Recent research: learning technologies; mathematical literacies; learning in the information age; education.

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