People

Kaye Quek

Senior Lecturer

Dr Kaye Quek is a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT and co-director as well as chief investigator in European Union and Australia Trade Relations and Ambitious Negotiations (EUATRAN) Centre of Excellence. Her research focuses on gendered abuses of human rights with a broader interest in international law, human trafficking and feminist politics. As the Program Manager of the Bachelor of Arts (International Studies), she has overseen the dual award exchange program which facilitates mobilities for Global Studies students from RMIT and Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. She is also the course coordinator of the undergraduate subject Contemporary Europe. 

Julian Lee

Professor

Professor Julian CH Lee is Associate Dean of Global and Language Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. He is co-director and a chief investigator in European Union and Australia Trade Relations and Ambitious Negotiations (EUATRAN) Centre of Excellence. Before joining RMIT University, he was an Economic and Social Research Council (ESCR) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Kent (UK) and was a fellow of the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS; Leiden, Netherlands). His research has been supported through funding from the Toyota Foundation; the Sumitomo Foundation; the Australia-Malaysia Institute; the Australia-Indonesia Institute; and the Wenner Gren Foundation. 

Professor Emeritus Bruce Wilson

Former Director

Professor Bruce Wilson is the former director of the European Union Centre of Excellence at RMIT. In his emeritus capacity, he continues to lead research and debate on EU–Australian relations, place-based innovation systems and regional development, and shares advice on building partnerships between Australian organisations and their European counterparts. He has published extensively and presented at EU forums on Smart Specialisation as well as placed-based innovation and sustainability.

Professor Wilson was also a founding co-director of Pascal (Place, Social Capital and Learning) International Observatory and a member of the Advisory Board and Committee of the Hume Global Learning Village. He has extensive experience in working with all levels of government on organisational and social change, and is committed to linking researchers and policymakers with city and regional governments on social and economic policy, innovation, lifelong learning and environmental policy.

Bruno Mascitelli

Honorary Professor

Bruno Mascitelli is an Honorary Professor at RMIT University and has been active in the European Studies environment for some time. An academic at Swinburne University and holder of a Jean Monnet Chair (2016-2019), Bruno was President of the European Studies Association from 2004 until 2021. He has published widely on European and Italian political economy and is a co-author of his latest book The road to the European Union: Albania and the Italian “partner".

Nikkola Mikocki-Bleeker

Research and Project Officer

Nikkola Mikocki-Bleeker is a research and project officer working in the European Union and Australia Trade Relations and Ambitious Negotiations (EUATRAN) Centre of Excellence. She/they are a graduate of International Studies as well as a Master’s of Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing, with many years’ experience working in commercial research and project management across public, private and tertiary sectors at a media analysis organisation.