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Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute
2016 Annual Report
Front cover image: Farmers in Kaubwaga village, Misima Island, PNG, assisting Gina Koczberski to identify local
yam varieties. Photo credit: Jarrad Wemmal. More detail, page 70.
Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute
A Research Institute
in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Annual Report 2016
Contents
Director’s Overview ................................................................................................................ 1
About AAPI............................................................................................................................ 2
Institute membership ............................................................................................................3
2016 book covers.................................................................................................................... 4
Institute publications .............................................................................................................6
Member publications .............................................................................................................7
Research projects ................................................................................................................. 18
Institute research seminars ................................................................................................. 40
Researcher development program ....................................................................................... 41
Engagement: conferences, keynotes and other presentations .............................................42
Impact: awards, recognition and academic appointments...................................................54
Grant successes .................................................................................................................... 55
Editorial and professional memberships..............................................................................58
Research and community linkages ......................................................................................64
Publication credits ...............................................................................................................70
Director’s Overview
As the Institute completes its tenth year we have an opportunity not only to report on our
2016 activities but also to look back across a record of learning and achievement.
When the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute was established in 2007 there was a need for
a supportive and productive organization that would serve the needs of Humanities
and Social Science researchers as well as the strategic priorities of the University. The
national academic research framework was then a new approach that, in some respects,
was confronting as well as exciting. We all learned on the job, adapting to new challenges
as they – rather frequently – arose.
They still do. We are at the beginning of another reorientation of national research
priorities emphasising engagement and impact as well as quality publications. AAPI
is engaging with these adjustments as we always have. While change is not always a
comfortable experience it has, in our case, been the spur for many of the achievements
of our members and associates – around a hundred of them over the last ten years.
This annual report for 2016 once again demonstrates the commitment of our members
and associates as well as the quality of their research through extensive publications,
significant competitive and other grants, awards, promotions and an ever-evolving suite
of new projects to take us into the research future. What that future might hold is, of
course, to some extent uncertain. But I am certain that the people who make up this
research institute will continue to excel into our second decade.
Professor Graham Seal AM
Director Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute
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About AAPI
The Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute is organised in four major groups, reflecting the research strengths within its
membership.
Institute members and associates generally work across two or more of the groups.
Researchers also maintain their individual disciplinary profiles in accordance with their fields of expertise.
Societies in Change
Indian Ocean Region
This research is conducted primarily through the
Research Unit for the Study of Societies in Change
(RUSSIC), a multidisciplinary research unit located
within the Faculty of Humanities. RUSSIC is a forum
where academics, development practitioners,
government officials and NGO activists in Western
Australia meet to discuss processes of social, cultural
and environmental transformation associated with
global economic change to better understand the
interactions between global, regional and local forces.
The International Centre for the Indian Ocean
Region (ICIOR) undertakes academic and applied
research in the three interrelated fields of Security,
Economics and Society and Culture to produce new
understandings of the dynamics involved in the future
of the Indian Ocean Region and its peoples.
RUSSIC’s mission is to contribute to the development
of more inclusive societies in our region through
world-class scholarship and education.
There are seven broad inter-related themes in which
RUSSIC currently has research projects:
• Community adaptation and responses to
environmental change and uncertainty.
• Ethnic and religious mobilisation and conflict in
the Asia-Pacific region.
• Health, wellbeing, and education in vulnerable
communities.
• Governance.
• Migration, displacement and livelihood
transitions.
• Farming and fishing communities.
• Social and economic sustainability.
Cultural and Critical Studies
AAPI researchers in this cluster draw on critical,
creative, visual and cultural studies approaches to
study textual, media, popular cultural, social justice
and policy issues.
Among the major foci are:
• Creative writing and popular culture.
• Visual, media and textual studies.
• Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies, including
Indigenous, refugee, whiteness, multicultural and
border cultural studies.
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The basic research aims of this group are to:
• Initiate research on geopolitical, economic,
socio-cultural, environmental, scientific and
technological issues relevant to the Indian Ocean
Region (IOR).
• Promote dialogue on the peaceful uses and
ecologically sustainable development of maritime
resources based on the principle of Common
Heritage.
• Facilitate information flow and discussion on
international maritime regimes and the rights of
states and local communities representing the IOR.
• Encourage informed policy debate among
governments, NGOs, business groups, academics
and other stakeholders in the IOR on issues such
as the peaceful resolution of maritime disputes
and the ‘blue economy’ agenda.
Global Heritage Futures
Global Heritage Futures’ researchers study in a broad
field of tangible and intangible heritages. These are
located in history, cultural and intercultural identities,
socio-cultural issues, community, economics and
tourism in regional, national and global contexts.
Approaches include theoretical and applied
methodologies utilising fieldwork, archival research
and digital media and technologies.
Global Heritage Futures brings together a range
of related academic disciplines into a productive
research collaboration with an ongoing program of
project, grant and publication development. Research
is conducted in Australia and globally through strong
networks including universities, public cultural
institutions, governments and NGOs.
Institute Membership
Members
Governance
Distinguished Professor Dawn Bennett
The Institute’s day-to-day operations are the
Professor Erik Champion
responsibility of a management group chaired by the
Professor George N. Curry
Director.
Professor Tim Dolin
2016 Management Committe Members
Professor Timothy Doyle
Professor Graham Seal (Director)
Dr Caroline Fleay
Distinguished Professor Suvendrini Perera (Deputy
Distinguished Professor Anna Haebich
Director)
Dr Lisa K. Hartley
Professor George N. Curry
Emeritus Professor Roy Jones
Dr Thor Kerr
Dr Gina Koczberski
Dr Susan Leong
Dr Ali Mozaffari (Adjunct Research Fellow)
Dr Alexey D. Muraviev
Dr Susan Leong (ECR Representative)
Professor Dennis Rumley
Professor John R. Stephens
Institute Advisory Board
Professor Peter Stanley (Chair): Associate Director,
Professor Baden Offord
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian
Associate Professor Bobbie Oliver
Defence Force Academy–University of New South
Distinguished Professor Suvendrini Perera
Wales, Canberra.
Dr Nonja Peters
Ms Margy Burn: Assistant Director-General,
Adjunct Professor Bob Pokrant
Australian Collections and Reader Services, The
Professor Dennis Rumley
Professor Kim Scott
Professor Graham Seal
Professor John R. Stephens
Dr Yasuo Takao
Associate Professor Reena Tiwari
Professor Grace Q. Zhang
National Library of Australia.
Professor Edmund Terence Gomez: Department
of Administrative Studies and Politics, Faculty of
Economics and Administration, University of Malaya.
Emeritus Professor Brij V. Lal AM: College of Asia and
the Pacific, The Australian National University.
Dr Eric Omuru: Director, Cocoa Coconut Institute of
Papua New Guinea.
Associate Members
Dr Neville Roach AO: member, Indian Prime Minister’s
Dr Janice Baker
Global Advisory Council of Overseas Indians; patron,
Dr Stuart Marshall Bender
Dr Annette Condello
Dr Tod Jones
Dr Christina Lee
UNSW node of the Australia India Institute and
the Australian Chapter of India’s peak IT industry
association, NASSCOM.
Professor Graham Seal AM (Executive Officer):
Director, Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute.
Dr Rachel Robertson
Dr Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Dr John N. Yiannakis
Institute Research Officer
Dr Sue Summers
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Selection of 2016 AAPI Publications
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Books & Monographs
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AAPI
Institute Publication Series
Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific
This series draws primarily on the research of scholars working in, or with, the AustraliaAsia-Pacific Institute at Curtin University. Books in the series include a range of historical
and contemporary topics and issues relating to soci0-cultural, economic, political and
environmental change in Australia, Asia and the Southwest Pacific, as well as relations
within and between the countries of the region.
Publications
Lest we Forget? Marginalised Aspects of Australia at War and Peace, edited by Bobbie
Oliver and Sue Summers. Perth, WA: Black Swan Press, 2014.
Antipodean Traditions: Australian Folklore in the 21st Century, edited by Graham Seal and
Jennifer Gall. Perth, WA: Black Swan Press, 2011.
Biodiversity and Social Justice: Practices for an Ecology of Peace, edited by Angela
Wardell-Johnson, Naama Amram, Ratna Malar Selvaratnam and Sundari Ramakrishna.
Perth, WA: Black Swan Press, 2011.
Enter at Own Risk? Australia’s Population Questions for the 21st Century, edited by
Suvendrini Perera, Graham Seal, and Sue Summers. Perth, WA: Black Swan Press, 2010.
People, Place and Power: Australia and the Asia Pacific, edited by Dawn Bennett, Jaya
Earnest and Miyume Tanji. Perth, WA: Black Swan Press, 2009.
Place and People: New Dimensions in Regional Research, by Stephen Smith and Graham
Seal. Perth, WA: Black Swan Press, 2007.
Farming or Foraging? Household Labour and Livelihood Strategies Amongst Smallholder
Cocoa Growers in Papua New Guinea, by George N. Curry, Gina Kocsberski, Eric Omuru
and Robert S. Nailina. Perth, WA: Black Swan Press, 2007.
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Member Publications 2016
Janice Baker
Book
Baker, Janice. Sentient Relics: Museums and Cinematic
Affect. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016.
Book chapter
Baker, Janice. Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine
Exhibitions, edited by Shelley Ruth Butler and Erica
Lehrer, 265–283. Montreal and Kingston / London /
Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.
Other writing
Baker, Janice. Book review [Exits to the Posthuman
Future; The Posthuman; and Posthumanism]. In
Thesis Eleven, 132 (February 2016): 121–125 | doi
10.1177/0725513615596402.
Stuart Marshall Bender
Journal article
Bender, Stuart and Mick Broderick. “Dude, Get a Shot
of This”: The performance of violence in the school
shooting film excursion. Text Journal, 20, 2 (2016).
Other writing
Bender, Stuart. “Not really Hollywood: The media’s
misleading framing of Islamic State videos.” The
Conversation, 17 October 2016.
Dawn Bennett
Book chapters
Bennett, Dawn and Pamela Burnard. “Human capital
career creativities for creative industries work: Lessons
underpinned by Bourdieu’s tools for thinking.” In
Higher education and the creative economy: Beyond
the campus, edited by Roberta Comunian and Abigail
Gilmore, 123–142. London: Routledge, 2016.
Bennett, Dawn; Sunderland, Naomi; Bartleet, BrydieLeigh, and Anne Power. “Implementing and sustaining
higher education service-learning initiatives:
Revisiting Young et al.’s organizational tactics.”
Journal of Experiential Education. Published Online
First, 2016 | doi 10.1177/1053825916629987.
Bennett, Dawn; Rowley, Jennifer; Dunbar-Hall,
Peter; Hitchcock, Matthew, and Diana Blom.
“Electronic portfolios and learner identity: A case
study in music and writing.” Journal of Further
and Higher Education, 40, 1 (2016): 107–124 | doi
10.1080/0309877X.2014.895306.
Bennett, Dawn and Rachel Robertson. “ePortfolios
and the Development of Student Career Identity Within
a Community of Practice: Academics as Facilitators
and Guides.” In ePortfolios in Australian Universities,
edited by Jennifer Rowley, 65–82. Singapore: Springer
(2016): doi 10.1007/978-981-10-1732-2_5.
Journal articles
Mason, Bonita; Thomson, Chris; Bennett, Dawn,
and Michelle Johnston. “Putting the ‘love back in’
to journalism: Transforming habitus in Aboriginal
affairs student reporting.” Journal of Alternative and
Community Media (2016): 56–69.
Bennett, Dawn and Sally A. Male. “An Australian
study of possible selves perceived by undergraduate
engineering students.” European Journal of
Engineering Education (online first) (2016): 1–15 | doi
10.1080/03043797.2016.1208149.
Bennett, Dawn; Power, Anne, Thomson, Chris;
Mason, Bonita, and Brydie-Leigh Bartleet. “Reflection
for learning, learning for reflection: Developing
Indigenous competencies in higher education.” Journal
of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 13, 2
(2016).
Bennett, Dawn; Roberts, Lyn, and Christine
Creagh. “Exploring possible selves in a first-year
physics foundation class: Engaging students by
establishing relevance.” Physical Review Physics
Education Research, 12, 1 (2016): doi 10.1103/
PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.010120.
Bennett, Dawn. “Developing employability in
higher education music.” Arts and Humanities in
Higher Education, 15, 3-4 (2016): 386–395 | doi:
10.1177/1474022216647388.
Reid, Anna; Bennett, Dawn, and Peter Petocz.
“Creative workers’ perceptions of worth:
Understanding identity and motivation in a complex
workforce.” Australian Journal of Career Development,
25, 1 (2016): 33– 41 | doi 10.1177/1038416216637089.
Bennett, Dawn. “Developing employability and
professional identity through visual narratives.”
Australian Art Education, 37, 2 (2016): 100–115.
Hennekam, Sophie and Dawn Bennett. “SelfManagement of Work in the Creative Industries
in the Netherlands.” International Journal of Arts
Management, 19, 1 (2016): 31–41.
Hennekam, Sophie and Dawn Bennett. “Involuntary
career transition and identity within the artist
population.” Personnel Review, 45, 6 (2016): 1114–1131 |
doi 10.1108/PR-01-2015-0020.
Reid, Anna; Petocz, Peter, and Dawn Bennett.
“Is creative work sustainable? Understanding
identity, motivation, and worth.” Australian Journal
of Career Development, 25, 1 (2016): 33–41 | doi
10.1177/1038416216637089.
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Thomson, Chris; Mason, Bonita; Bennett, Dawn,
and Michelle Johnston. “Closing the arm’s-length
gap: Critical reflexivity in student Indigenous affairs
journalism.” Australian Journalism Review, 38, 1 (2016):
59–71.
Conference proceedings
Blackley, Susan; Bennett, Dawn and Rachel
Sheffield. “Enhancing work readiness and developing
professional identity through personalised, standardsbased digital portfolios.” In Research and Development
in Higher Education: The Shape of Higher Education,
edited by Melissa Davis and Allan Goody, vol. 39, pp.
300–306. Fremantle: Higher Education Research and
Development Society of Australasia, 2016.
Bennett, Dawn;and Jennifer Rowley. “ePortfolios In
Australian Higher Education Arts: Differences and
Differentiations.” International Journal of Education
and the Arts, 17, 19 (2016): 1–21.
Major reports
Richardson, Sarah; Bennett, Dawn and Lynne Roberts.
Investigating the relationship between equity and
graduate outcomes in Australia. Report submitted
to the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher
Education (NCSEHE). Perth, WA: Curtin University,
2016.
Bennett, Dawn; Richardson, Sarah, and Philip
MacKinnon. Enacting strategies for graduate
employability: How universities can best support
students to develop generic skills, Part A. Canberra,
ACT: Australian Government Office for Learning and
Teaching, Department of Education and Training, 2016.
Other writing
Bennett, Dawn and Sarah Richardson. “What do we
know about the work of performing arts graduates?”
Loud Mouth: The Music Trust E-zine, 10 May 2016.
Pitman, Tim and Dawn Bennett. “Explainer: what is
the Office for Learning and Teaching – and why does it
matter?” The Conversation, 23 May 2016.
Macarthur, Sally; Hope, Cat, and Dawn Bennett.
“The sound of silence: Why aren’t Australia’s female
composers being heard?” The Conversation, 31 May
2016.
Bennett, Dawn. “How Does Authorship Work?”
Australia-Asia-Pacifice Institute Research Review, July–
September 2016.
Hartley and Weiguo Qu, 219–234. Fudan University
Press, published late 2015 for early 2016.
Special journal issues
Marsh, Tim; Champion, Erik and Helmut Hlavacs
(guest editors). Entertainment in serious games
and entertaining serious purposes. Special issue,
Entertainment Computing, 14. Elsevier (2016): doi
10.1016/j.entcom.2016.02.003.
Journal articles
Champion, Erik. “Experiential Realism and Digital
Place-Making.” Metaverse Creativity: Building,
Performing, Learning and Authorship in Online 3D
Worlds. Intellect, 5, 1 (2015, published 2016): doi
10.1386/mvcr.5.1.51_1.
Champion, Erik. “Entertaining the similarities and
distinctions between serious games and virtual
heritage projects.” Entertainment in serious games
and entertaining serious purposes. Special issue,
Entertainment Computing, 14. Elsevier (2016): 67–74 |
doi 10.1016/j.entcom.2015.11.003.
Marsh, Tim; Champion, Erik and Helmut Hlavacs.
“Editorial”. Entertainment in serious games and
entertaining serious purposes. Special issue,
Entertainment Computing edited by T. Marsh, E.
Champion and H. Hlavacs, 14. Elsevier (2016): 15 | doi
10.1016/j.entcom.2015.11.003.
Champion, Erik. “Digital humanities is text heavy,
visualization light, and simulation poor.” Digital
Scholarship in the Humanities (2016): doi 10.1093/llc/
fqw053.
Conference proceedings
Champion, Erik. “Ludic Literature: Evaluating
Skyrim for Humanities Modding.” (Digital Humanities
Congress, Sheffield, 4S6 September 2014). Published
online in Proceedings of the Digital Humanities
Congress 2014 edited by Clare Mills, Michael Pidd and
Jessica Williams. Humanities Research Institute (HRI)
Digital, 2016.
Champion, Erik. “The Missing Scholarship Behind
Virtual Heritage Infrastructure.” Proceedings of
GCH 2016 – Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and
Cultural Heritage. European Association for Computer
Graphics, 2016.
Book chapter
Champion, Erik; Qiang, Li; Lacet, Demetrius, and
Andrew Dekker. “3D in-world Telepresence With
Camera-Tracked Gestural Interaction.” Proceedings of
GCH 2016 – Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and
Cultural Heritage. European Association for Computer
Graphics, 2016.
Champion, Erik. “Cross-cultural Learning, Heritage
and Digital Games.” In Re-Orientation: Trans-cultural,
Trans-lingual, Trans-media Studies in Narrative,
Language, Identity, and Knowledge, edited by John
Champion, Erik.” Worldfulness, Role-enrichment &
Moving Rituals: Design Ideas for CRPGs.” Diversity of
play: Games – Cultures – Identities, selected articles
from the 2015 International DiGRA conference. Special
Erik Champion
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issue, Transactions of the Digital Games Research
Association (ToDIGRA), 2, 3 (2016).
Champion, Erik. “Ludic Literature: Evaluating
Skyrim for Humanities Modding.” Proceedings of
the Digital Humanities Congress 2014, edited by Clare
Mills, Michael Pidd and Jessica Williams. Humanities
Research Institute (HRI) Digital, 2016.
Annette Condello
Book
Condello, Annette and Steffen Lehmann (eds).
Sustainable Lina: Lina Bo Bardi’s Adaptive Reuse
Projects. Switzerland: Springer, 2016.
Journal article
Dolin, Tim. “A Moabite among the Israelities: Ruth,
Religion, and the Victorian Social Novel.” Literature
and Theology: An international journal of religion,
theory and culture 30, 1 (2016): 67–81 | doi 10.1093/
litthe/fru062.
Other writing
Dolin, Tim. Book review [Roger Ebbatson, Landscape
and Literature 1830–1914: Nature, Text, Aura, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2013]. Victorian Studies, 58, 2 (2016):
380–381 | doi 10.2979/victorianstudies.58.2.35.
Timothy Doyle
Book chapters
Books
Condello, Annette and Steffen Lehmann. “Sustainable
Lina”. In Sustainable Lina: Lina Bo Bardi’s Adaptive
Re-use Projects, edited by Annette Condello and Steffen
Lehmann, 1–8. Switzerland: Springer, 2016.
Doyle, Timothy and Graham Seal (eds). Indian
Ocean Futures: New Partnerships, New Alliances, and
Academic Diplomacy. London & New York: Routledge,
2016 (hbk edn).
Annette Condello, “Salvaging the Site’s Luxuriance:
Lina Bo Bardi – Landscape Architect.” In Sustainable
Lina: Lina Bo Bardi’s Adaptive Re-use Projects, edited
by Annette Condello and Steffen Lehmann, 71–96.
Switzerland: Springer, 2016.
Doyle, Timothy and Dennis Rumley (eds). Africa
and the Indian Ocean Region. London & New York:
Routledge, 2016 (hbk edn).
George N. Curry
Doherty, Brian and Timothy Doyle (eds). Beyond
Borders: Environmental Movements and Transnational
Politics. London & New York: Routledge, 2016 (pbk
edn).
Book chapter
Ryan, Sean, Curry, George N; Germis, Emmanuel;
Koczberski, Gina, and Merolyn Kioa. “Challenges to the
democratisation of knowledge: Status hierarchies and
emerging inequalities in educational opportunities
amongst oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea.”
In Everyday Knowledge, Education, and Sustainable
Futures: Transdisciplinary approaches in the AsiaPacific region, edited by Margaret Robertson and Po
Keung Eric Tsang, 123–139. Volume 30 of the series
Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns
and Prospects. Singapore: Springer, 2016.
Doyle, Timothy (ed). Geoeconomics and Geosecurities
in the Indian Ocean Region. London & New York:
Routledge, 2016 (hbk edn).
Doyle, Timothy, McEachern, Doug and Sherilyn
McGregor. Environment and Politics, fully revised and
extended Fourth Edition. Routledge: London and New
York, 2016 (hbk edn).
Book chapters
Journal article
Doyle, Timothy. “The Coming Together of
Geoeconomics and Geosecurities in the Indian
Ocean Region.” In Geoeconomics and Geosecurities
in the Indian Ocean Region, edited by Timothy Doyle.
London: Routledge; 2016.
Koczberski, Gina and George N. Curry. “Changing
Generational Values and New Masculinities Amongst
Smallholder Export Cash Crop Producers in Papua New
Guinea.” Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 17, 3-4
(2016): 268–286.
Doyle, Timothy. “An Agenda for Environmental
Security in the Indian Ocean Region.” In Geopolitical
Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the
Indian Ocean, edited by Dennis Rumley and Sanjay
Chaturvedi. London: Routledge, 2016 (pbk edn).
Tim Dolin
Book chapter
Doyle, Timothy. “Introduction: Africa and the Indian
Ocean Region.” In Africa and the Indian Ocean Region,
edited by Timothy Doyle and Dennis Rumley. London
& New York: Routledge, 2016 (hbk edn).
Dolin, Tim. “Connectivity and Critical Reading
in the Late Age of Literature.” In Re-Orientation:
Trans-cultural, Trans-lingual, Trans-media Studies in
Narrative, Language, Identity, and Knowledge, edited
by John Hartley and Weiguo Qu, 257–271. Fudan
University Press, published late 2015 for early 2016.
Doyle, Timothy and Graham Seal. “Indian Ocean
Futures: New partnerships, new alliances and
academic diplomacy.” In Indian Ocean Futures: New
Partnerships, New Alliances, and Academic Diplomacy,
edited by Timothy Doyle and Graham Seal, 1–6.
London & New York: Routledge, 2016.
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Doyle, Timothy. “Climate Change as Comprehensive
Security in the Continuum: Geostrategy and
geoeconomics in the time and place of the ‘IndoPacific’.” In New Regional Geopolitics in the IndoPacific: Drivers, Dynamics and Consequences, edited
by Priya Chacko, 60–73. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge,
2016.
Rumley, Dennis and Timothy Doyle. “The Uranium
Trade in the Indian Ocean Region.” In The Security
of Sea Lanes of Communication in the Indian Ocean
Region edited by Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi
and Mat Taib Yasin, 106–123. Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge Revivals, 2016 (hbk edn).
Doherty, Brian and Timothy Doyle. “Beyond Borders:
Transnational Politics, Social Movements and Modern
Environmentalism.” In Beyond Borders: Environmental
Movements and Transnational Politics edited by Brian
Doherty and Timothy Doyle. London & New York:
Routledge, 2016 (pbk edn).
Doyle, Timothy and Adam Simpson. “Traversing more
than Speed Bumps: Green Politics under Authoritarian
Regimes in Burma and Iran.” In Beyond Borders:
Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics,
edited by Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle. London &
New York: Routledge, 2016 (pbk edn).
Doyle, Timothy and Brian Doherty. “Green Public
Spheres and the Green Governance State: The Politics
of Emancipation and Ecological Conditionality.”
In Beyond Borders: Environmental Movements and
Transnational Politics, edited by Brian Doherty and
Timothy Doyle. London & New York: Routledge, 2016
(pbk edn).
Doyle, Timothy. “Preface: Indian Oceans and
Seascapes: Blue economies and communities or race
to the bottom of the sea?” In Indian Ocean Futures
Communities, Sustainability and Security, edited by
Thor Kerr and John Stephens, xii–xx. Newcastle upon
Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Special journal issue
Doyle, Timothy J. (Editor-in-Chief). The Indian Ocean
Dialogue: An evolving forum for Indian Ocean maritime
security issues. Special issue of the Journal of the Indian
Ocean Region (JIOR), 12, 1 (2016).
Journal article
Book chapter
Fleay, Caroline. “Bearing Witness and the Intimate
Economies of Immigration Detention Centres in
Australia.” In Intimate Economies of Immigration
Detention: Critical Perspectives, edited by Deirdre
Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra, 70–87. Oxford:
Routledge, 2016.
Journal articles
Fleay, Caroline and Lisa K. Hartley. “Limited
resettlement and ongoing uncertainty: Responses to
and experiences of people seeking asylum in Australia
and Indonesia.” Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An
Interdisciplinary Journal, 8, 2 (2016): i–iv.
Fleay, Caroline; Lumbus, Anita, and Lisa K. Hartley.
“People seeking asylum in Australia and their access
to employment: Just what do we know? Cosmopolitan
Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8, 2 (2016):
63–83 | doi 10.5130/ccs.v8i2.4969.
Fleay, Caroline; Cokley, John; Dodd, Andrew;
Briskman, Linda, and Larry Schwartz. “Missing
the Boat: Australia and asylum seeker deterrence
messaging.” International Migration, 54, 4 (2016):
60–73 | doi 0.1111/imig.12241.
Other writing
Fleay, Caroline. Contributor to: “An Open Letter to
Australia’s Prime Minister and Political Leaders on
Racial Intolerance”. The Insider: The Official New
Matilda Blog, 1 August 2016.
Hartley, Lisa K. and Caroline Fleay. “FactCheck
Q&A: Do refugees cost Australia $100m a year in
welfare, with an unemployment rate of 97%?” The
Conversation, 15 February 2016.
Fleay, Caroline and Lisa K. Hartley. “The Regional
Impacts of Australian Asylum Seeker Policies: What
‘Stopping the Boats’ Means for People Seeking Asylum
in our Region.” Academy of the Social Sciences in
Australia Academy Papers 2, 2016.
Anna Haebich
Book chapters
Doyle, Timothy. “Foreword.” The Indian Ocean
Dialogue: An evolving forum for Indian Ocean
maritime security issues. Special issue of the Journal
of the Indian Ocean Region (JIOR), 12, 1 (2016): 1 | doi
10.1080/19480881.2016.1138716.
Haebich, Anna. “Bishop Salvado’s vision of Aboriginal
mission work in the Victoria Plains of the colony of
Western Australia.” In Rosendo Salvado e o mundo
aborixe de Australia, edited by R. Maiz and T. Shellam,
117–140. Cultural Council of Galicia Santiago de
Compostela, Spain: Mediateca, 2015 (published 2016).
Caroline Fleay
Journal articles
Special journal issue
Fleay, Caroline and Lisa K. Hartley. Guest editors,
special issue, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An
Interdisciplinary Journal 8, 2 (2016).
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Haebich, Anna. “Fever in the Archive.” In Mapping
Western Australia edited by Jon Stratton and Peter
Beilharz. Thesis Eleven, 135, 1 (2016): 82–98 | doi
10.1177/0725513616657887.
Haebich, Anna. “Indigenous Child Removal and
Settler Colonialism: An Historical Overview”. In
Thematic Edition Indigenous Children’s Wellbeing,
Australian Indigenous Law Review, 19, 1, (2015-2016):
20–31.
Lisa K. Hartley
Special journal issue
Fleay, Caroline and Lisa K. Hartley. Guest editors,
special issue, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An
Interdisciplinary Journal 8, 2 (2016).
Journal articles
Hartley, Lisa K.; Lala, Girish; McGarty, Craig, and
Ngaire Donaghue. “How activists respond to social
structure in offline and online contexts.” Journal
of Social Issues, 72, 2 (2016): 376–398 | doi: 10.1111/
josi.12171.
Fleay, Caroline and Lisa K. Hartley. “Limited
resettlement and ongoing uncertainty: Responses to
and experiences of people seeking asylum in Australia
and Indonesia.” Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An
Interdisciplinary Journal, 8, 2 (2016).
Fleay, Caroline; Lumbus, Anita, and Lisa K. Hartley.
“People seeking asylum in Australia and their access
to employment: Just what do we know? Cosmopolitan
Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8, 2 (2016):
63–83 | doi 10.5130/ccs.v8i2.4969.
Other writing
Hartley, Lisa K. and Caroline Fleay. “FactCheck
Q&A: Do refugees cost Australia $100m a year in
welfare, with an unemployment rate of 97%?” The
Conversation, 15 February 2016.
Fleay, Caroline and Lisa K. Hartley. “The Regional
Impacts of Australian Asylum Seeker Policies: What
‘Stopping the Boats’ Means for People Seeking Asylum
in our Region.” Academy of the Social Sciences in
Australia Academy Papers 2, 2016.
Roy Jones
Special journal issue
Jones, Roy (guest editor). Rural Action Research.
Special issue of Geographical Research: Journal of the
Institute of Australian Geographers, 54, 2 (2016): doi
10.1111/1745-5871.12141.
Journal articles
Cox, Shaphan; Birdsall-Jones, Christina; Jones,
Roy; Kerr, Thor, and Steve Mickler. “Indigenous
Persistence and Entitlement: Noongar occupations
in central Perth, 1988-1989 and 2013.” Journal of
Historical Geography, 54 (2016): 13–23 | doi 10.1016/j.
jhg.2016.07.002.
Jones, Roy and Christopher R. Bryant. “Editorial:
Participatory action research for rural and regional
development.” In Rural Action Research. Special issue
of Geographical Research: Journal of the Institute of
Australian Geographers, edited by Roy Jones, 54, 2
(2016): 115–117 | doi 10.1111/1745-5871.12185.
Jones, Roy. “Balancing the scales: learning to be
a retired geographer at the edge of the world.”
Arab World Geographer 19, 1-2 (2016): 77–83 | doi
10.5555/1480-6800.19.1.77.
Jones, Tod; Jones, Roy, and Michael Hughes. “Heritage
designation and scale: A world heritage case study of
the Ningaloo Coast.” International Journal of Heritage
Studies 22, 3 (2016): 242–260.
Conference proceeding
Jones, Roy. “Socioeconomic unsustainability to
environmental unsustainability? The trajectory of
tourism in Australia’s south west corner.” In Tourism
2016: Proceedings of the International Conference on
Global Tourism and Sustainability, edited by Sergio
Lira, Ana Mano, Cristina Pinheiro and Rogerio
Amoeda. Green Lines Institute for Sustainable
Development, Barcelos, Portugal, 2016.
Other writing
Jones, Roy. “How to get academic writing published
– some thoughts from a recovering editor.” AustraliaAsia-Pacific Institute Research Review, July-September
2016.
Tod Jones
Journal articles
Jones, Tod; Booth, Jessica, and Tim Acker. “The
Changing Business of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Art: Markets, audiences, artists and
the large art fairs.” Journal of Arts Management
Law and Society, 46, 3 (2016): 107–21 | doi
10.1080/10632921.2016.1182953.
Book chapter
Jones, Tod; Jones, Roy and Michael Hughes. “Heritage
designation and scale: A world heritage case study of
the Ningaloo Coast.” International Journal of Heritage
Studies 22, 3 (2016): 242–260.
Jones, Roy. “Local Government Amalgamation and
the Lack of a Metropolitan Government: A Political
Geography.” In Planning Boomtown and Beyond, edited
by Sharon Biermann. Crawley, WA: University of
Western Australia Press, 2016.
Hughes, Michael; Jones, Tod, and Ian Phau.
“Community Perceptions of a World Heritage
Nomination Process: The Ningaloo Coast Region of
Western Australia.” Coastal Management, 44, 2 (2016):
139–155 | doi: 10.1080/08920753.2016.1135275.
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Other writing
Jones, Tod. Book review [Thor Kerr, To the Beach, UWA
Publishing 2015]. Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute, 2016.
Jones, Tod and Greg Grabasch. “Four ways
Western Australia can improve Aboriginal heritage
Management.” The Conversation, 22 February 2016.
Racial Intolerance”. The Insider: The Official New
Matilda Blog, 1 August 2016.
Kerr, Thor. “Review Essay” [Andrew Perrin, American
Democracy, 2014 and Ingrid Volkmer, The Global
Public Sphere, 2014]. Continuum, 22 February 2016 | doi
10.1080/10304312.2016.1141865.
Jones, Tod, and Riwanto Tirtosudarmo. “Cultural
heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia.” Inside
Indonesia, 125, July–September 2016.
Gina Koczberski
Jones, Tod. “The Pattern of a Batik Revival.” Inside
Indonesia, 125, July–September 2016.
Kerr, Thor and John Stephens (eds). Indian Ocean
Futures: Communities, Sustainability and Security.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2016.
Ryan, Sean; Curry, George N; Germis, Emmanuel;
Koczberski, Gina, and Merolyn Kioa. “Challenges
to the Democratisation of Knowledge: Status
hierarchies and emerging inequalities in educational
opportunities amongst oil palm settlers in Papua
New Guinea.” In Everyday Knowledge, Education, and
Sustainable Futures: Transdisciplinary approaches in
the Asia-Pacific region, edited by Margaret Robertson
and Po Keung Eric Tsang, 123–139. Volume 30 of the
series Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues,
Concerns and Prospects. Singapore: Springer, 2016.
Book chapters
Journal article
Kerr, Thor and John Stephens. “Introduction.” In
Indian Ocean Futures Communities, Sustainability
and Security, edited by Thor Kerr and John Stephens,
xxi–xxv1. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2016.
Koczberski, Gina and George N. Curry. “Changing
Generational Values and New Masculinities Amongst
Smallholder Export Cash Crop Producers in Papua New
Guinea.” Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 17, 3-4
(2016): 268–286.
Thor Kerr
Book
Kerr, Thor. “Australian Border Works: Representation
of coastal places in Anzac Centenary books.” In
Indian Ocean Futures Communities, Sustainability
and Security, edited by Thor Kerr and John Stephens,
49–66. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2016.
Creagh, Robyn; Kerr, Thor; Cox, Shaphan, and Patricia
Ryder. “Securing Space for Hospitality in a Settlercolonial City.” In Indian Ocean Futures Communities,
Sustainability and Security, edited by Thor Kerr and
John Stephens, 229–246. Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Journal articles
Kerr, Thor and Shaphan Cox. “Media, Machines and
Might: Reproducing Western Australia’s violent state
of Aboriginal protection.” Somatechnics, 6, 1 (2016):
89–105 | doi 10.3366/soma.2016.0176.
Leong, Susan; Kerr, Thor, and Shaphan Cox. “Facades
of Diversity.” Thesis Eleven, 135, 1 (2016): 115–133 | doi
10.1177/0725513616657888.
Cox, Shaphan; Birdsall-Jones, Christina; Jones, Roy;
Kerr, Thor, and Steve Mickler. “Indigenous Persistence
and Entitlement: Noongar occupations in central
Perth, 1988-1989 and 2013.” Journal of Historical
Geography, 54 (2016): 13–23.
Other writing
Kerr, Thor. Contributor to: “An Open Letter to
Australia’s Prime Minister and Political Leaders on
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Book chapter
Susan Leong
Book chapters
Leong, Susan. “A Right and Not a Privilege: Freedom
of Expression and New Media in Malaysia.” The
Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia, edited by
Larissa Hjorth and Olivia Khoo, 155–164. London:
Routledge, 2016.
Leong, Susan. “Provisional business migrants to
Western Australia, social media and conditional
belonging.” Invited book chapter in Media and
Communication in the Chinese Diaspora: Rethinking
Transnationalism, edited by Wanning Sun and John
Sinclair, 184–202. London: Routledge, 2016.
Journal articles
Leong, Susan. “Sinophone, Chinese, and PRC
Internet: Chinese Overseas in Australia and the PRC
Internet.” Asiascape: Digital Asia, 3, 3 (2016): 117–137 |
doi 10.1163/22142312-12340055.
Leong, Susan and Terence Lee. “Malaysia
disconnecting from online freedoms.” East Asian
Forum, 18 March 2016.
Leong, Susan; Kerr, Thor, and Shaphan Cox. “Facades
of Diversity.” Thesis Eleven, 135, 1 (2016): 115–133 | doi
10.1177/0725513616657888.
Gomes, Catherine; Leong, Susan and Peidong Yang.
“Why Transitions?” In Transitions: Journal of Transient
Migration, 1, 1 (2017) (online first, 2016): 7–12.
Other writing
Journal articles
Leong, Susan. “Latter-Day Danger Asians.” Peril
Magazine, 17 June 2016.
Leong, Susan. “Getting India: Chetan Bhagat and the
Indian Middle Class.” Susan Leong: Academia Out
West, 23 August 2016.
Oliver, Bobbie. “Conflict on the Waterfront: Fremantle
Dock Workers and ‘New Unionism’, 1889 to 1945.”
In Fremantle: Empire, Faith and Conflict since 1829,
Studies in Western Australian History, 31, edited by
Deborah Gare and Shane Burke. Crawley: UWA Centre
of WA History, 2016.
Leong, Susan. “What they don’t tell you before you
embark on a PhD!” Australia-Asia-Pacifice Institute
Research Review, January–March 2016.
Oliver, Bobbie. “The Impact of Union Amalgamation
on Membership: An Australian case study.” SAGE Open
(2016): 1–8 | doi 10.1177/2158244016658086.
Ali Mozaffari
Other writing
Book chapter
Mozaffari, Ali. “Open Letter to the President Elect:
An example of heritage activism through the media
in Iran.” In Indian Ocean Futures Communities,
Sustainability and Security edited by Thor Kerr
and John Stephens, 15–33. Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Other writing
Mozaffari, Ali. “arayand-e bargozari va davari-e
mosabegheye tarahi dakheli va voroodihaye istgahe
metro tabriz be ghalam davar rouydad | A note on the
jury process for the design of the Tabriz Metro Station.”
Memar News, 2016.
Baden Offord
Book chapter
Offord, Baden. “Ramping up Cultural Studies:
Paedagogy and the activation of knowledge.” In The
Pedagogies of Cultural Studies, edited by Andrew
Hickey, 51–70. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.
Journal article
Gerber, Paula; Wilkinson, Cai; Langlois, Anthony J.,
and Baden Offord (2016). “Human rights in Papua
New Guinea: Is this where we should be settling
refugees?” Australian Journal of Human Rights, 22, 1
(2016): 27–66.
Oliver, Bobbie. “Underwood, Erica Reid (1907–1992).”
Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of
Biography. Australian National University, published
online 2016.
Suvendrini Perera
Book
Perera, Suvendrini. Survival Media: The Poetics and
Politics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka. New York:
Palgrave, 2016.
Book chapter
Perera, Suvendrini and Annette Seeman. “Impolitical
Mandate.” In Time, Temporality and Violence in
International Relations: (De)fatalizing the Present,
Forging Radical Alternatives, edited by Anna M.
Agathangelou and Kyle D. Killian, 119–28. New York:
Routledge Interventions Series, 2016.
Journal articles
Perera, Suvendrini. “Grim Design: Australia’s Pacific
Black Sites.” Cultural Anthropology, 31, 2 (2106).
Other writing
Perera, Suvendrini. Contributor to: “An Open Letter
to Australia’s Prime Minister and Political Leaders
on Racial Intolerance”. The Insider: The Official New
Matilda Blog, 1 August 2016.
Other writing
Perera, Suvendrini and Joseph Pugliese. “The tragedy
of Eaten Fish, the award-winning cartoonist on Manus
Island.” The Conversation, 9 September 2016.
Offord, Baden. Contributor to: “An Open Letter to
Australia’s Prime Minister and Political Leaders on
Racial Intolerance”. The Insider: The Official New
Matilda Blog, 1 August 2016.
Perera, Suvendrini and Joseph Pugliese. “Anti
Shelter.” In Insecurities: Tracing displacement and
shelter exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art
(MOMA), New York, October 2016.
Bobbie Oliver
Perera, Suvendrini. “Changing the date – and a state
of mind – from the westerly edges.” The Conversation,
1 December 2016.
Book
Oliver, Bobbie. The Locomotive Enginemen: A history
of the West Australian Locomotive Engine Drivers’,
Firemen’s and Cleaners’ Union. Perth, Western
Australia: Black Swan Press, 2016.
Nonja Peters
Book
Peters, Nonja (ed). A Touch of Dutch: Maritime,
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Military, Migration and Mercantile on the Western Third
1616–2016. Subiaco, Western Australia: Carina Hoang
Communications, 2016.
Journal article
Peters, Nonja. “Migration and the Indian Ocean
Rim (IOR) since 1450: The impact of immigration in
sustaining the European economy and generating
cultural heritage in both regions.” In Proceedings of
the Riga Conference in 2014 and the Turin Conference
in 2015, Migrants and Refugees – Then and Now, edited
by Hans Storhaug. Special issue of the Associated
European Migration institutions (AEMI) Journal, 13, 14,
(2016): 112–132.
Book chapters
Peters, Nonja. “Netherlands East Indies Dutch:
Experiences of war, occupation, revolution and
evacuation and rehabilitation in Australia, 1942-1946.”
In A Touch of Dutch: Maritime, Military, Migration and
Mercantile on the Western Third 1616–2016, edited by
Nonja Peters, 120–143. Subiaco, Western Australia:
Carina Hoang Communications, 2016.
Peters, Nonja. “Leaving from the Netherlands.” In
A Touch of Dutch: Maritime, Military, Migration and
Mercantile on the Western Third 1616–2016, edited by
Nonja Peters, 210–227. Subiaco, Western Australia:
Carina Hoang Communications, 2016.
Peters, Nonja. “Making a Dutch home in Western
Australia from the 1950s.” In A Touch of Dutch:
Maritime, Military, Migration and Mercantile on the
Western Third 1616–2016, edited by Nonja Peters,
252–269. Subiaco, Western Australia: Carina Hoang
Communications, 2016.
Peters, Nonja. “Dutch Labour in Western Australia.”
In A Touch of Dutch: Maritime, Military, Migration and
Mercantile on the Western Third 1616–2016, edited by
Nonja Peters, 288–299. Subiaco, Western Australia:
Carina Hoang Communications, 2016.
Peters, Nonja. “A Sense of Place: Being Dutch in
Western Australia.” In A Touch of Dutch: Maritime,
Military, Migration and Mercantile on the Western Third
1616–2016, edited by Nonja Peters, 326–349. Subiaco,
Western Australia: Carina Hoang Communications,
2016.
Peters, Nonja and Geert Snoeijer. “Our Mob:
Shipwreck survivors and WA Aboriginal peoples.” In
A Touch of Dutch: Maritine, Military, Migration and
Mercantile on the Western Third 1616–2016, edited by
Nonja Peters, 376–381. Subiaco, Western Australia:
Carina Hoang Communications, 2016.
Peters, Nonja. “Inner City Italian Business following
Migration to Western Australia.” In Caruso: Vittorio
and Venera: Their Lives and Legacy, co-edited by
Colleen Clay Cortenbach and Carolyn Caruso. Attadale,
WA: Smart-el Publishing, 2016.
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Other writing
Peters, Nonja and Geert Snoeijer (eds). Vêrlander:
Forgotten Children of the VOC, Vêrlander Publishing,
Amsterdam, 2016.
Peters, Nonja and Geert Snoeijer. “Introductory
Essay.” In Vêrlander: Forgotten Children of the VOC,
edited by Nonja Peters and Geert Snoeijer, 6–13.
Amsterdam: Vêrlander Publishing, 2016.
Peters, Nonja. “Our Mob: Western Australian
Aboriginals and the VOC.” In Vêrlander: Forgotten
Children of the VOC, edited by Nonja Peters and Geert
Snoeijer, 92–213. Amsterdam: Vêrlander Publishing,
2016.
Peters, Nonja. “Johanna Bruce –nee Herklots and
family 1850–1917.” In A Touch of Dutch: Maritime,
Military, Migration and Mercantile on the Western Third
1616–2016, edited by Nonja Peters, 176–177. Subiaco,
Western Australia: Carina Hoang Communications,
2016.
Bruchner, Frank and Nonja Peters. “Over 300,000
Australians Have Dutch Roots.” In Boomerang
Magazine (2016): 12–15.
Snoeijer, Geert and Nonja Peters.“Descendants of the
VOC?.” In Boomerang Magazine (2016): 26–32.
Bob Pokrant
Book chapters
Stocker, Laura; Burke, Gary; Petrova, Svetla, and
Bob Pokrant. “A Collaborative Approach to Coastal
Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in the Southwest of WA.”
In Indian Ocean Futures Communities, Sustainability
and Security, edited by Thor Kerr and John Stephens,
122–153. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2016.
Rahman, Mokhlesur and Bob Pokrant. “Changing
local weather and adaptation in two coastal villages
in Bangladesh.” In Indian Ocean Futures: New
Partnerships, New Alliances, and Academic Diplomacy,
edited by Timothy Doyle and Graham Seal, 73–96.
London & New York: Routledge, 2016.
Pokrant, Bob. “Climate Change and Development
Planning: From resilience to transformation?” In
Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology,
edited by Helen Kopnina and Eleanor ShoremanOuimet. London: Routledge, 2016 (hbk edn).
Rachel Robertson
Book chapters
Bennett, Dawn and Rachel Robertson. “ePortfolios
and the Development of Student Career Identity Within
a Community of Practice: Academics as Facilitators
and Guides.” In ePortfolios in Australian Universities,
edited by Jennifer Rowley, 65–82. Singapore: Springer
(2016): doi 10.1007/978-981-10-1732-2_5.
Robertson, Rachel. “Out of time: Maternal time and
disability.” In ‘New Maternalisms’: Tales of Motherwork
(Dislodging the Unthinkable), edited by Roksana
Badruddoja and Maki Motapanyane, 77–90. Bradford,
Ontario: Demeter Press, 2016.
Journal article
Robertson, Rachel and Paul Hetherington. “A Mosaic
Patterning: Space, time and the lyric essay.” In New
Writing: The International Journal for the Practice
and Theory of Creative Writing (2016): 1–11 | doi
10.1080/14790726.2016.1235204.
Creative work
Robertson, Rachel. “Rumpelstiltskin.” Meniscus, 4, 1
(2016): 33–34.
Other writing
Robertson, Rachel. “Ars moriendi” (review of Dying by
Corey Taylor). Australian Book Review, 382, June-July
2016: 41.
Robertson, Rachel. Review of: A Tear in the Soul
by Amanda Webster. Australian Book Review, 387,
December 2016.
Dennis Rumley
Books
Doyle, Timothy and Dennis Rumley (eds). Africa
and the Indian Ocean Region. London & New York:
Routledge, 2016 (hbk edn).
Rumley, Dennis; Chaturvedi, Sanjay, and Mat
Taib Yasin (eds). The Security of Sea Lanes of
Communication in the Indian Ocean Region. Abingdon,
Oxon: Routledge Revivals, 2016 (hbk edn).
Rumley, Dennis and Sanjay Chaturvedi (eds). Energy
Security and the Indian Ocean Region. Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge Revivals, 2016 (pbk edn).
Rumley, Dennis and Sanjay Chaturvedi. Geopolitical
Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the Indian
Ocean. London: Routledge, 2016 (pbk edn) | doi
10.4324/9781315689487.
Book chapters
Rumley, Dennis and Sanjay Chaturvedi.
“Introduction: Energy security and the Indian
Ocean Region.” In Energy Security and the Indian
Ocean Region, edited by Dennis Rumley and Sanjay
Chaturvedi. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Revivals, 2016
(pbk edn).
Rumley, Dennis. “The Geopolitics of Global and
Indian Ocean Energy Security.” In The Security of Sea
Lanes of Communication in the Indian Ocean Region,
edited by Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi and Mat
Taib Yasin. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Revivals, 2016
(hbk edn).
Rumley, Dennis; Chaturvedi, Sanjay and Mat Taib
Yasin. “Securing sea lanes of communication in the
Indian Ocean region”. In The Security of Sea Lanes of
Communication in the Indian Ocean Region, edited by
Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi and Mat Taib Yasin.
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Revivals, 2016 (hbk edn).
Rumley, Dennis and Timothy Doyle. “The Uranium
Trade in the Indian Ocean Region”. In The Security
of Sea Lanes of Communication in the Indian Ocean
Region, edited by Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi
and Mat Taib Yasin, 106–123. Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge Revivals, 2016 (hbk edn).
Rumley, Dennis. “The Geopolitics of Japan’s
Energy Security.” In The Security of Sea Lanes of
Communication in the Indian Ocean Region, edited by
Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi and Mat Taib Yasin,
150–165. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Revivals, 2016
(hbk edn).
Chaturvedi, Sanjay and Dennis Rumley. “Towards an
Indian Ocean Energy Community? Challenge Ahead.”
In The Security of Sea Lanes of Communication in the
Indian Ocean Region, edited by Dennis Rumley, Sanjay
Chaturvedi and Mat Taib Yasin. Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge Revivals, 2016 (hbk edn).
Rumley, Dennis. “The Geopolitics of Japan’s Energy
Security.” In Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and
Security in the Indian Ocean, edited by Dennis Rumley
and Sanjay Chaturvedi. London: Routledge, 2016 (pbk
edn).
Rumley, Dennis and Sanjay Chaturvedi. “Changing
Geopolitical Orientations, Regional Cooperation
and Security Concerns in the Indian Ocean.” In
Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and Security in
the Indian Ocean, edited by Dennis Rumley and Sanjay
Chaturvedi. London: Routledge, 2016 (pbk edn).
Chaturvedi, Sanjay and Dennis Rumley. “The Future
for Indian Ocean Cooperation.” In Geopolitical
Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the
Indian Ocean, edited by Dennis Rumley and Sanjay
Chaturvedi. London: Routledge, 2016 (pbk edn).
Other writing
Rumley, Dennis. “Academic Writing First Principles:
The message is the medium.” Australia-Asia-Pacific
Institute Research Review, July-September 2016.
Kim Scott
Book chapters
Scott, Kim. “The Embrace of Story.” In Re-Orientation:
Trans-cultural, Trans-lingual, Trans-media Studies
in Narrative, Language, Identity, and Knowledge,
edited by John Hartley and Weiguo Qu, 41–52. Fudan
University Press (published late 2015 for early 2016.)
Scott, Kim. “The Art of Pithy Narration and
Multicultural Representation in Fragments:
Contemporary Australian Short Stories.” Foreign
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Literature and Art, 3. Curtin University, WA: China
Australia Writing Centre (2016): 5–6.
Scott, Kim. “Departure.” In Foreign Literature and
Art, 3. Curtin University, WA: China Australia Writing
Centre (2016): 9–15.
Scott, Kim. “Two Hands Full.” In Best Australian
Essays, edited by Geordie Williamson, 313–324.
Carlton, Vic: Black Inc. 2016.
Journal articles
Scott, Kim. “The not-so-barren ranges.” Thesis Eleven,
135, 1 (2016): 67–81 | doi 10.1177/0725513616657886.
Scott, Kim. “Two Hands Full.” Westerly 61, 1 (2016):
166–177.
Other writing
Scott, Kim. “Kaya.” A poem –11 verses of Indigenous
Noongar prose with six verses of English text – etched
into 68 pre-cast concrete panels that circle the podium
of the new Perth Stadium, Burswood, WA, 2016.
Graham Seal
Books
Seal, Graham. The Savage Shore: Extraordinary
stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages
of discovery to Australia. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2016.
Doyle, Timothy and Graham Seal (eds). Indian
Ocean Futures: New Partnerships, New Alliances, and
Academic Diplomacy. London & New York: Routledge,
2016.
Seal, Graham and Kim Kennedy White (eds). Folk
Heroes and Heroines Around the World. Santa Barbara,
CA: ABC-Clio/Greenwood, 2016 (2nd edition).
Seal, Graham. Great Australian Journeys: Gripping
stories of intrepid explorers, dramatic escapes and
foolhardy adventures. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2016
(pbk edn).
Book chapter
Doyle, Timothy and Graham Seal. “Indian Ocean
futures: New partnerships, new alliances and
academic diplomacy.” In Indian Ocean Futures: New
Partnerships, New Alliances, and Academic Diplomacy,
edited by Timothy Doyle and Graham Seal, 1–6.
London & New York: Routledge, 2016.
Other writing
Seal, Graham. “Lost Treasures and How to Find
Them.” The Conversation, 26 April 2016.
Seal, Graham. Book review [Peter FitzSimons, Ned
Kelly. Bantam Press, London, 2016]. In BBC History
Magazine, March 2016.
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Seal, Graham. Contributor to: “An Open Letter to
Australia’s Prime Minister and Political Leaders on
Racial Intolerance”. The Insider: The Official New
Matilda Blog, 1 August 2016.
John R. Stephens
Book
Kerr, Thor and John Stephens (eds). Indian Ocean
Futures: Communities, Sustainability and Security.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2016.
Book chapters
Kerr, Thor and John Stephens. “Introduction.” In
Indian Ocean Futures Communities, Sustainability
and Security edited by Thor Kerr and John Stephens,
xxi–xxv1. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2016.
Stephens, John. “Heritage and Protest at the Guildford
Hotel.” In Indian Ocean Futures Communities,
Sustainability and Security, edited by Thor Kerr
and John Stephens, 67–89. Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Other writing
Stephens, John R. Book review [John J. Taylor, Between
Duty and Design: The architect soldier Sir J.J. Talbot
Hobbs, UWA Press]. Studies in Western Australian
History, 31 (2016).
Sue Summers
Book chapter
Summers, Sue. “‘These Were Wild Times’: The
evacuation of Dutch Nationals from the former
Netherlands East Indies to Western Australia, 194546.” In A Touch of Dutch: Maritime, Military, Migration
and Mercantile on the Western Third 1616–2016, edited
by Nonja Peters, 144–161. Subiaco, Western Australia:
Carina Hoang Communications, 2016.
Other writing
Summers, Sue. “Dirk Drok Vignette.” In A Touch of
Dutch: Maritime, Military, Migration and Mercantile on
the Western Third 1616–2016, edited by Nonja Peters,
162–163. Subiaco, Western Australia: Carina Hoang
Communications, 2016.
Yasuo Takao
Book
Takao, Yasuo. Japan’s Environmental Politics and
Governance: From Trading Nation to EcoNation.
Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016 (hbk edn).
Reena Tiwari
Encyclopedia entry
Book chapter
Zhang, Grace Q. “Chinese xiehouyu [sayings].” In
The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language,
edited by Chan Sin Wai, 395–407. London: Routledge,
2016.
Tiwari, Reena. “To Walk or Not to Walk? – re-claiming
the pedestrian space.” In Development in Context:
Challenges and Sustainable Urban Strategies, edited
by Carmen Mendoza Arroyo, Mbongeni Ngulube and
Ana Canizares. Barcelona: University International
Catalunya Press, 2016.
Journal articles
Nematollahi Shohreh; Tiwari, Reena, and Dave
Hedgecock. “Desirable Dense Neighbourhoods:
An environmental psychological approach for
understanding community resistance to densification.”
Urban Policy and Research 34, 2 (2016): 132–151 | doi
10.1080/08111146.2015.1078233.
Tiwari, Reena and Jessica Winters. “The death of
strategic plan: Questioning the role of strategic
plan in self-initiated projects relying on stakeholder
collaboration.” International Planning Studies (2016):
doi 10.1080/13563475.2016.1220288.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Book
Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw. Native colonisation: Education
and the economy of violence against tradition in
Ethiopia. New Jersey: Africa World Press & Red Sea
Press, 2016.
Book chapter
Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw. “An East African perspective
for paradigm shift on maritime security in the
Indian Ocean Region.” In Indian Ocean Futures: New
Partnerships, New Alliances, and Academic Diplomacy,
edited by Timothy Doyle and Graham Seal, 120–132.
London & New York: Routledge, 2017.
Other writing
Woldeyes, Yirga and Rebecca Higgie. “Born Free
Created Poor: Coming Out of Age in Ethiopia.” Westerly
Magazine, 61, 2 (2016).
Grace Q. Zhang
Journal articles
Zhang, Grace Q. and Peyman Sabet. “Elastic ‘I think’:
Stretching over L1 and L2.” Applied Linguistics, 37, 3
(2016): 334–353 | doi 10.1093/applin/amu020.
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Research Projects
Janice Baker
Rock Ontologies
Janice Baker (2015 – continuing).
How might we discern/articulate/embrace an
ontological perspective that respects the plurality
of cultural knowledge of earth-bodies, of ores and
minerals? What could such engagement do? There
must be care with such enquiry not to fall back into
humanisms that are too often an enlarged sense
of the individual through well-being based on
interconnections with the environment, and nostalgic
regressions that envisage some sort of utopian preindustrial past.
Focusing on the Pilbara region in north Western
Australia, this research explores rocks as not
subordinate to the humans that exist upon them and
that are cocooned by their elements. The project is
a kind of rock-ology; an ore(phosis) with rocks as a
force of their own, as a zone of contact with alterity.
While acknowledging western geological ontologies,
ore(phosis) responds to Indigenous sensory
embodiments of people and rocks, of cave sounds, of
ore music and of hearing the earth.
Stuart Marshall Bender
Australian Prisoners of War (POWs) in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bombings
1945
Chief Investigators: Stuart M. Bender (Curtin
University) and Mick Broderick (Murdoch University).
Partner Investigators: Bo Jacobs (Hiroshima City
University) and Robin Gerster (Monash University).
Project time frame: 2014 – 2016.
This project researches and presents the history
of Australian Prisoners Of War in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki prior to, during and after the atomic
bombings in August 1945. By extracting and repurposing the textual and audio­-visual records of
POWs and occupation soldiers, the researchers made
innovative use of the capacities of The HIVE’s large­-screen immersive displays to re-­present the in situ
place of these locations and events, juxtaposed with
and incorporating the historical record with the
contemporary milieu.
Dawn Bennett
Equipping and enabling Australia’s educators to
embed employability across higher education
Dawn Bennett with research partners: Stephen
Billett, Griffith University; Wageeh Boles, QUT; Pamela
Burnard, Cambridge University; Gemma Carey,
Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University;
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Andrea Creech, University College, London; Helena
Gaunt, Guildhall School of Music and Drama,
London; Amanda Henderson, Griffith University
(NSTF); Sophie Hennekam, ESC La Rochelle School
of Business, France; Julie Howell, Curtin University
Careers & Employment Centre; Margaret Jollands,
RMIT; Lotte Latufeku, University of Wollongong;
Romy Lawson, University of Wollongong; David Lowe,
University of Sydney; Sally Male, UWA; Nicoleta
Maynard, Curtin University; Gary McPherson,
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music; David Radcliffe,
Purdue University, Indianapolis; Fred Rees, IUPUI,
Indianapolis; Anna Reid, Sydney Conservatorium of
Music; and Joe Shapter, Flinders University .
$250,000 OLT Senior National Teaching Fellowship
(category 1) project (2016).
Employability has received significant attention in
recent years. However, whilst the characteristics of
employability are generally understood, the challenge
of embedding employability development within
higher education programmes remains in critical
need of attention. Defining employability as ‘the
ability to find, create and sustain work and learning
across lengthening working lives and multiple
work settings’, this Fellowship leads a strategic
programme of change across higher education. Thus,
the Fellowship responds to the demand for change
within higher education (teaching) and among
students and graduates (learning) by operationalising
programmewide employability development. The
Fellowship emphasises the cognitive and social
aspects of employability through which learners
develop as individuals, professionals and social
citizens. In collaboration with a scholarly community
of experts, the Fellowship adopts a team-based
approach to build the sector’s capacity to prepare
graduates who are active and intentional in the
personal practices that support their work and
learning.
Aboriginal Community Engagement (ACE)
Dawn Bennett (C1), Michelle Johnston, Bonita Mason
and Chris Thomson (MCCA) (2013–continuing).
The Aboriginal Community Engagement (ACE) project
at Curtin University is a grassroots initiative that
enables students and faculty to develop awareness
of Aboriginal people and culture through study and
practice.
Led by four academics, ACE employs critical service
learning to guide engagement with local Aboriginal
community organisations, forming relationships of
trust before producing respectful works that meet the
professional requirements of students’ disciplines.
In 2016 the team created an online learning resource:
the Community Yarns website (Communityyarns.
com) which showcases student stories, projects,
partners, resources, and theoretical framework, with
a view to make a meaningful contribution towards
reconciliation through lasting partnerships with
Aboriginal communities.
Community partners include: Noongar Radio,
Langford Aboriginal Association, Wirrpanda
Foundation, Kinship Connections WA, the Aboriginal
Deaths in Custody Watch Committee, and Indigenous
Communities Education & Awareness Foundation.
Embedding and evidencing excellence in
employability development: Digital portfolios as
catalysts for emerging professional identity
Dawn Bennett with research partners: Susan Blackley,
Rachel Sheffield and Nicoleta Maynard, Curtin
University.
$19,000 Curtin University Teaching Excellence
Development funded project (2016).
This project explores the conditions and strategies
needed for musicians to sustain successful portfolio
careers, combining aspects of performance, recording,
creation, music direction, teaching, community
activities, health, retail and a presence in online
environments.
The three-year investigation with five key industry
partners will incorporate surveys as well as twelve
in-depth case studies of individual musicians/
ensembles in order to identify key success factors and
obstacles that will inform opportunities for training,
development and support.
Becoming and being a musician: The role of
creativity in student learning and identity formation
Dawn Bennett, Curtin University with Anna
Reid, Sydney Conservatorium (Australia) (2013 –
continuing).
• To enhance learning and teaching by embedding
learning outcomes that prepare future graduates for
employment;
Music students develop knowledge of themselves,
their peers and their creative thinking and practice
through a complex set of negotiations and experiences.
Their musical identity is in a fluid state as they
develop from expert musical learner to novice
professional musician. This transition is informed
by students’ study experiences, which in turn inform
their formation of professional identity and their
negotiation of the relationships between the personal
and the professional. In this study we explore the
role of creativity in students’ learning and identity
formation. The study explores creativity as a single
dimension of students’ developing professional ideas
and considers how pre-sage music experiences and
the affordances of degree programs mediate students’
creative activities.
• To support educators to scaffold students’ curation
of employability evidence in alignment with the
relevant professional standards; and
Engaging possible futures: Advancing the
effectiveness of university learning
This collaborative research project between the School
of Education, Research and Graduate Studies, and
the School of Engineering has trialled, for institutionwide engagement, an innovative, web-based template
with which educators and students can customise an
evidence-based, professional digital portfolio (PDP)
specific to their discipline with career portability.
The innovative design overcomes the four most
problematic aspects of current ePortfolio platforms:
cost; specificity; lifelong access; and ease of use for
new adopters. The project has three key aims:
• To determine the impact of these actions in the
positive development of emerging professional
identity.
In 2017 the team will work with the Australian Institute
for Teaching and School Leadership and Engineers
Australia to extend the trial and refine the DPD
template and associated pedagogy.
Making music work: Sustainable portfolio careers
for Australian musicians
Dawn Bennett – ARC Linkage Grant ($222,500.00) led
by Griffith University in collaboration with Woodside
Petroleum Ltd (2016 – 2017).
Funding partners: The Australia Council for the Arts,
Arts NSW, Arts Victoria, Department of Culture and the
Arts (WA) and Music Trust.
Research partners: Huib Schippers, Brydie-Leigh
Bartleet, Scott Harrison, and Paul Draper, Griffith
University; Ruth Bridgstock, Queensland University of
Technology.
Dawn Bennett, Curtin University funded Senior
Research Fellowship (2013–2017).
This Fellowship draws together a significant body of
research to advance the effectiveness of university
learning experiences. The aim is to identify and
advance the efficacy and legitimacy of strategies that
develop students’ professional self-concept and the
metacognitive capacity for self-regulation. The overall
goal is to develop an evidence-based epistemology that
engages students and educators in forward-oriented
approaches and develops graduates equipped to
thrive in an uncertain future. The Fellowship program
comprises a four-year structured inquiry that will
develop an evidence-based epistemology based on
research with two distinct student cohorts: students
from the creative and performing arts, for whom future
work is often complex and undefined; and doctoral
students aspiring to careers in higher education,
for whom future work is increasingly uncertain
and unstable. The Fellowship will interact with
undergraduate students, graduate degree students,
and higher degree by research students.
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Mindful of the likely destinations of these students,
the Fellowship will also advance knowledge about the
characteristics of work within the creative sector and
within higher education.
Improving work placement for international
students, their mentors and other stakeholders
Dawn Bennett, OLT Strategic Priority Funding (2014 –
2016).
Internationalisation and enrolment of international
students in higher degree institutions in Australia
has increased remarkably over the past decade.
Much current research on international students
acknowledges the many challenges that they face
when undertaking study in another country. There are
additional challenges when these students participate
in various work environments. It is important to note
however, that international students experience
their study, their work placement and even their
time away from home differently. Understanding that
individual international students have distinct needs,
in particular during work placement components of
study, is not present in existing learning and teaching
and research studies. This project aims to fill this gap
by addressing the Office for Learning and Teaching’s
priority area of Internationalisation by improving the
ways in which international students, as individuals,
engage with their work placement as well as with
their mentors or industry partner throughout the
assessment process.
Music for viola and piano composed by women
Dawn Bennett (2011 – 2016)
Co-chief investigator on an Australian Performing
Rights Association project that commissioned
and performed, and will soon research and record
a program of new works for viola and piano by
Australian composers, the majority of whom are
women. The works will connect to the project title
through their exploration of aural, cultural and
creative notions of Eastern and Western Australia in
the broadest sense. Funded separately is a recording to
be made at UWS and released by Wirripang Pty. Ltd.,
made available through the AMC and the National
Library, along with traditional research into the
working lives of the Australian composers.
Representations of ageing women in Chinese and
Australian writing
Liz Byrski (CI1), Dawn Bennett, Rachel Robertson,
Bonita Mason, GONG Qian (Curtin University); LUO
Yirong and LIU Jing (Ocean University of China);
Imelda Whelehan (University of Tasmania); ZHANG
Nan (Fudan University, China), and ZHOU Xiaojin
(Shanghai University of International Business and
Economics).
Duration of project: 2016–­continuing.
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The purpose of this project is to examine the ways in
which ageing women are represented in writing in
China and Australia and to investigate the impact of
negative stereotypical representations on women’s
sense of inclusion and well being. This literary
and scholarly project will compare and contrast
representations of aged women in fiction, non-fiction,
life writing and journalism, and will investigate
the origins of the negative stereotyping of female
ageing and consider its impact from a human rights
perspective. It will also trace the origins of stereotypes
through research on fairy tales, and children’s fiction
to see how these are carried through into adult fiction
and non fiction, comparing and contrasting these with
lived reality both observed and experienced.
The project will develop publications, the first of
which is an edited book in which scholarly articles
investigating representations stand alongside
examples of creative work in fiction and life writing,
which interrogate these issues. The project brings
together creative writers, journalists and academics to
produce diverse outcomes in a variety of genres. It will
also challenge academic writers to work in creative
genres for the first time.
Erik Champion
Cultural visualisation and heritage
Erik Champion, UNESCO Chair in Cultural
Visualisation and Heritage (2016 – 2020).
Research partner: UNESCO
The objectives of this four-year research partnership
include the creation of a Cultural Heritage and
Visualisation network to use and advise on 3D models
of World Heritage Sites, as well as to show how 3D
models can be employed in teaching and research.
Erik will be cooperating with UNESCO on a range of
programs and activities, in tandem with facilitating
new projects and collaborations with other UNESCO
chairs and scholars, particularly in the field of digital
culture and heritage.
A Research Fellow position and two related PhD
scholarships are currently being established, together
with a Visiting Fellows program that will include
Australian and international scholars.
GLAMVR
Erik Champion with Elaine Sullivan, Conal Tuohy,
Michael Wiebrands and Dominic Manley, plus Curtin
University academics, Karen Miller, Stuart Bender,
Artur Lugmayr, Lise Summers, and Pauline Joseph.
Funded by MCCA Strategic Research Grant: $12,700
(2016).
This research focused upon:
• Digital Heritage, including workflows and issues in
preserving, exporting and linking digital collections
(especially heritage collections for GLAM).
• Scholarly Making through the encouragement of
makerspaces and other activities in tandem with
academic research.
• Experiential Media, notably the development of AR/
VR and other new media technology and projects,
especially for the humanities.
A research in progress workshop – with the twitter
hashtag of Well #GLAMVR16 – was held on 26 August
at The HIVE at Curtin University. This included talks on
Digital Karnak, Linked Open Data Visualation, making
collections accessible in an online environment,
digital heritage interfaces and experiential media,
emotive media, visualisation and analysis of human
bio-feedback data, digital workflows (UNITY), and an
introduction to Augmented Reality.
Kinect Motion Tracking Systems Interface
Erik Champion with Karen Miller and Hannes
Herrmann (2016)
Software development for a camera tracking software
(Kinect camera) that will develop interaction for a
range of 3D digital environments such as Minecraft
based on movements and gestures of the participants.
(UWA), Curtin’s Professor Erik Champion, and UWA’s
Futures Observatory.
This study has been designed as an experiment in
experiential learning whereby students can duck,
parry, and swing at virtual opponents in order to
discover the physical, cultural, and emotional histories
of medieval and early modern combat. The game itself
will be made freely available to any tertiary classroom
with access to the HTC Vive. Erik Champion will help
with game design theory and design principles, Sue
Moore will help facilitate motion capture for animation
required for the game.
Annette Condello
‘Architectural spoils’: The work of Francesco Venezia
in Italy and beyond
Annette Condello (2014 – 2017).
This project seeks to discuss the current condition of
the built-up or lost environment via the recycling of
fragments. The research charts the transformation of
‘architectural’ spoils inherent in Venezia’s works and
landscapes in Italy and beyond, including Australia.
National endowment of humanities advanced topics
in the Digital Humanities
Pier Luigi Nervi and Australia exhibition
Erik Champion (2015 – 2016).
Research partner: Pier Luigi Nervi Foundation
Research partners: Alyson Gill, Institute Co-director
University of Massachusetts, and the Institute for
Digital Research and Education (IDRE), University of
California, Los Angeles.
Funding body: SOBE Operational Research Support
Program (NTRO).
Funding organisation: National Endowment of
Humanities Symposium.
This ongoing National Endowment of Humanities
Symposium (NEH) Advanced Topics in the Digital
Humanities Summer Institute was co-hosted by
University of Massachusetts Amherst and UCLA
and took place over two consecutive summers from
2015–2016.
Annette Condello (2016 – 2017).
This creative research project builds upon a subject
of Annette’s research: an essay and online interview
about the modern Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi’s
New Norcia Cathedral. This essay was published in the
Augmented Australia catalogue and video-interview
displayed at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale
(2014). The idea is to host an exhibition of Pier Luigi
Nervi’s projects (from the Pier Luigi Nervi Foundation
in Italy to Australia) in Perth.
It considered advanced problems and issues facing
scholars working with 3D content with an emphasis on
the end user experience. Participants presented their
findings at a four-day symposium at UCLA.
George N. Curry
Experiential Learning on the HTC Vive Virtual
Reality Platform
Gina Koczberski (CI1) and George N. Curry (2016 –
2019).
Erik Champion (with Michael Ovens [c1], Andrew
Lynch, Susan Morris, Mark Paynter).
Funding body: $1.2 million Australian Centre for
International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) grant.
Funded by: $6000 West Australian Network for
Dissemination (WAND) Small Grant.
This four year project aims to develop new knowledge
of the factors that explain women’s low level of
engagement in small-scale agricultural enterprises and
to identify and map the processes and pathways that
facilitate their move into managing their own smallscale enterprises.
This project focused on the further development
of Thine Enemy, a pilot study into the production
and evaluation of educational virtual reality games
currently being developed by project leader Michael
Ovens in collaboration with Prof. Andrew Lynch
Identifying opportunities and constraints for rural
women’s engagement in small-scale agricultural
enterprises in Papua New Guinea
The project is in collaboration with CARE
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International, the PNG University of Technology
and PNG’s three main national agricultural research
institutions: Coffee Industry Corporation, Oil Palm
Research Association and the Cocoa and Coconut
Institute.
Timothy Doyle
The project builds upon the existing large-scale
project: Strengthening livelihoods for food security
amongst cocoa and oil palm farming communities in
Papua New Guinea.
Funding: $55,000 Category 2 Grant, Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade, Commonwealth of Australia.
Strengthening livelihoods for food security amongst
cocoa and oil palm farming communities in Papua
New Guinea
Gina Koczberski (CI1) and George N. Curry (2014 –
2018).
The research is a four year collaborative project with
researchers from James Cook University, the PNG
University of Technology and two PNG agricultural
research institutes: PNG Oil Palm Research
Organisation & the Cocoa & Coconut Institute of PNG.
The research examines rising food insecurity amongst
smallholder cocoa and oil palm households in Papua
New Guinea (PNG). Amongst oil palm growers, falling
per capita incomes and declining access to land for
food gardening are emerging because of population
pressure; amongst cocoa growers, the pest, Cocoa Pod
Borer (CPB) is devastating smallholder production
and has significantly reduced people’s capacity to
purchase food. Given these threats to food security,
the overall aim of the project is to gain a detailed
socio-economic and cultural understanding of the
farming and livelihood systems of smallholders and to
assess the current status of food security and levels of
vulnerability among oil palm and cocoa smallholder
households. The range of adaptation strategies
adopted by smallholder households and the key
factors mediating their responses to environmental,
social and demographic stresses will also be examined.
The research findings will enhance our knowledge of
the outcomes and responses at the local level of the
growth of export and commercial agriculture, and in
particular the sustainability of farming systems and
rural communities in PNG.
Strengthening the bonds between scientific literacy
and human understanding: Local area networks
to help build cross-border solutions for disaster
management in the Asian and Pacific region
George N. Curry (2010 – continuing).
The project is aimed at developing the scientific skills
and competencies of young scientists in remote and
developing locations of the Asia and Pacific region.
The project is funded by the International Council
for Science under the auspices of the International
Geographical Union and the Australian Academy of
Science.
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Ocean-based food security and women’s economic
empowerment in the Indian Ocean Rim
Timothy Doyle (2016 – 2018).
This project is an investigation of issues pertaining to
the Indian Ocean Region, with particular reference
to issues of aquaculture and women’s empowerment.
This research will lead to the production of two
special issues of the Journal of the Indian Ocean
Region (Routledge, London), produced in partnership
between AAPI at Curtin University, and the IndoPacific Governance Research Centre at the University
of Adelaide. The grant will be primarily administered
by UoA.
The rise and return of the Indo-Pacific
Timothy Doyle, Dennis Rumley, and Sanjay
Chaturvedi (2016 – 2017).
Funded by: Oxford University Press.
The research underpinning this publication will
explore the Indo-Pacific concept as an ambiguous and
contested regional security construction, currently
gaining significant traction in both geopoliticalstrategic theorizing and policy-making circles. It will
critically examine the major drivers behind the reemergence of classical international and geopolitical
concepts and their deployment. The forthcoming 2017
publication will critically assess the resultant ‘new’
mappings of Indo-Pacific and will argue that national
constructions of the concept are more informed by
domestic political realities, anti-Chinese bigotries,
distinctive properties of 21st century US hegemony,
and nation-statist sentiments rather than genuine panregional aspirations.
Caroline Fleay
Impacts of Australia’s asylum seeker policy in the
region
Caroline Fleay and Lisa Hartley (2015 – 2016).
The mantra of both major Australian political parties is
that ‘stopping the boats’ has saved the lives of people
seeking asylum because they are prevented from
reaching Australia by sea. However, this ignores the
reality of the lives of many now effectively warehoused
in our region because of this policy. To date, relatively
little attention has been given to their experiences.
While the policies of the country in which they are
residing also impact on their experiences, it is clear
from researchers, non-government organisations
(NGOs) that work in the region, and those who are
living the experience themselves, that Australian
policies are having disturbing impacts beyond our
borders.
The research project brings together key Australian
academics, representatives from regional support
agencies in Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, and
the Australian representative from United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to explore
the impacts of Australia’s asylum seeker policy in the
region.
Australian Red Cross ‘In Search of Safety’ (ISOS)
community education program evaluation
engage with, understand, teach about and respond to
the lived experience of refugees and asylum seekers in
Australia, specifically in Perth.
A key aim of the project is to pilot an innovative
methodology in asylum seeker scholarship through
participatory action research in a university learning
context.
Caroline Fleay and Lisa Hartley (2016 – 2018).
Policy as punishment: Asylum seekers living in the
community without the right to work
Funding organisation and research partner: Australian
Red Cross.
Caroline Fleay and Lisa K. Hartley (2013 –
continuing).
‘In Search of Safety’ (ISOS) is a community education
program developed by the Red Cross Migration
Support Program in WA to help dispel the myths
and misunderstandings surrounding people seeking
asylum in Australia. A community education program
for primary schools, secondary schools and the
community, ISOS aims to create a more welcoming
Australia and a more inclusive community for all. ISOS
presents information and provides an environment
that encourages participants to make their own
conclusions about people seeking asylum and the
situation they face. This project will evaluate the
effectiveness of the ISOS program across a number of
Perth-based primary schools.
This project explores the experiences of asylum seekers
who arrived by boat to Australia after 13 August 2012
and now live in the Australian community on bridging
visas with no work rights and limited financial and
social support. The research is based upon extensive
interviews with 29 asylum seekers in Perth, Sydney
and Melbourne. All of those interviewed arrived by
boat after 13 August 2012, the date when the no work
rights policy commenced under the previous Labor
Government.
The pedagogies of human rights: Exploration,
innovation and activation
Baden Offord, Caroline Fleay, Lisa Hartley and Yirga
Gelaw Woldeyes.
Funded through Humanities Office of Research and
Development (2016 – 2018).
This project focuses on the development of new
research that engages with, understands, investigates,
activates, explores and showcases a range of diverse
pedagogies of human rights relevant to the challenges
of the 21st century. It aims to deepen and broaden the
theoretical, conceptual and practical understandings
of how human rights are communicated, experienced,
learned and taught in the 21st century, in both informal
and formal contexts, in traditional as well as in
innovative ways.
The project will identify and bring together a range of
leading and innovative human rights scholars across
Australia who share multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to human rights on a suite of
issues.
Enabling asylum seeker scholarship through
listening and lived experience
Baden Offord, Lisa K. Hartley, Caroline Fleay, Yirga
Gelaw Woldeyes and Elfie Shiosaki (2015 – 2016).
A Curtin University Faculty of Humanities $32,772.80
funded project.
The goal of this project is to develop new ways to
The research highlights the distress and fear many
are enduring caused by not being able to work and
the ongoing uncertainty about their refugee claims.
The policy continues under the current Coalition
Government and affects more than 25,000 asylum
seekers in Australia who continue to live well below
the poverty line in a situation of forced unemployment
and uncertainty.
Bearing witness: Researching the detention of
asylum seekers
Caroline Fleay and Lisa K. Hartley (2012 – continuing).
There are few formal monitoring bodies that
investigate the detention of asylum seekers in Australia
and those that do are hampered by their inability to
enforce their recommendations. Researchers that visit
immigration detention centres can help to provide
another form of monitoring. This project interrogates
the conducting of research into immigration detention
in Australia by exploring such research as an act
of bearing witness. It also explores the role of the
researcher as witness, activist and academic.
Anna Haebich
‘Ancestor words’: Noongar letter writing in Western
Australian government archives from the 1860s to
the 1960s
ARC Discovery Project, 2016 – 2018 ($263, 603).
Anna Haebich with Tiffany Shellam, Monash
University; Elfie Shiosaki, Curtin University, and
Professor Ellen Percy Kraly, Colgate University, USA.
This project aims to produce the first account of
Noongar letter writing in Western Australian archives
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from 1860 to 1960. The project’s significance lies
in revealing this hidden activism in the archive,
restoring silenced Noongar stories to the documents,
advancing scholarly understanding, and promoting
decolonisation of the Western Australian archive.
Expected outcomes include an ethical Noongar
research model and community research knowledge
space developed with Noongar leaders. This new
evidence of Noongar political agency could benefit
sustainability for the emerging Noongar nation and
advance equity and reconciliation for all citizens of the
Australian settler nation and advocacy for Indigenous
rights internationally.
Gathering the oral histories of Carrolup
Anna Haebich (2014 – continuing).
Research partners: Michelle Johnston (Noongar
Danjoo), Ellen Percy Kraly (Colgate University) and
Steve Mickler (advisor, Curtin University).
This project is recording the stories and memories of
the families of the artists (all now deceased) who are
represented in the Herbert Mayer Carrolup Children’s
Art Collection at Curtin University. The project will
produce high quality audio oral history interviews
and professional standard video interviews that will
be the basis for a research archive, Noongar Dandjoo
production, 50 minute stand-alone documentary, and
book of Carrolup stories and art. The project is one in a
broader Carrolup project at Curtin University involving
the John Curtin Gallery being designed in consultation
with the South West Land and Sea Council, Noongar
Elders and the community.
Our stories, our way: Collaborative methodology for
Indigenous oral history
Anna Haebich, with Elfie Shiosaki (CI1) and Michelle
Johnson (Curtin University), Sue Anderson (University
of South Australia and President of Oral History
Australia), Lorina Barker (University of New England)
and Brenda Gifford (National Film and Sound Archive).
Project duration: 2016 – continuing.
Funded through the Curtin University Operational
Research Support (ORS) scheme funded ($7,895).
Oral traditions in Indigenous communities are
framed by unique Indigenous epistemologies. This
research project explores innovative methodologies for
preserving Indigenous oral histories which empower
Indigenous peoples to tell their own stories in their
own ways. This project supports an emerging national
network of researchers from Curtin, the University of
South Australia, the University of New England and
the National Film and Sound Archive.
Lisa K. Hartley
Exploring public attitudes: Relationships between
false beliefs, prejudice and support for harsh asylum
seeker policy in Australia
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Lisa K. Hartley, Anne Pedersen (Curtin University) and
Stuart Lecke (Queensland University of Technology)
(2016 – 2017).
As the number of refugees and asylum seekers
increase, industrialised countries have applied
increasingly restrictive policies to deter those seeking
protection from entering their borders. Most recently,
the Australian government has implemented a range
of punitive policies such as sending asylum seekers
attempting to arrive to Australia by boat to Nauru and
Manus Island.
Previous research has found that prejudice towards
asylum seekers and false beliefs about asylum seekers
are positively associated with support for stricter
government policies. The current research seeks to
identify and explore false beliefs held by members
of the Australian public that are strongly associated
with support for harsher policies. Such research will
be valuable in the development of public education
campaigns.
Differentiating attitudes towards humanitarian
refugees and asylum seekers
Lisa Hartley with Anne Pedersen (2013 – 2016).
In recent years, public and political discourse
has focused on differentiating between refugees
who arrive in Australia with official authorisation
from the Australian Government and people who
arrive by boat and then seek refugee status (asylum
seekers). Through a community survey of Australians
living in Perth, this project seeks to examine social
psychological factors, such as threat, emotions
and national identity, that underpin differences in
attitudes towards these two groups. The project will
also examine the level of support for policies aimed at
public assistance, opportunities, and rights for asylum
seekers compared with refugees.
Australian Red Cross ‘In Search of Safety’ (ISOS)
community education program evaluation
Caroline Fleay and Lisa K. Hartley (2016 – 2018).
Funding organisation and research partner: Australian
Red Cross.
‘In Search of Safety’ (ISOS) is a community education
program developed by the Red Cross Migration
Support Program in WA to help dispel the myths
and misunderstandings surrounding people seeking
asylum in Australia. A community education program
for primary schools, secondary schools and the
community, ISOS aims to create a more welcoming
Australia and a more inclusive community for all. ISOS
presents information and provides an environment
that encourages participants to make their own
conclusions about people seeking asylum and the
situation they face. This project will evaluate the
effectiveness of the ISOS program across a number of
Perth-based primary schools.
The pedagogies of human rights: Exploration,
innovation and activation
Baden Offord, Caroline Fleay, Lisa K. Hartley and Yirga
Gelaw Woldeyes (2016 – 2018).
the Australian representative from United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to explore
the impacts of Australia’s asylum seeker policy in the
region.
Funded through Humanities Office of Research and
Development, Curtin University.
Policy as punishment: Asylum seekers living in the
community without the right to work
This project focuses on the development of new
research that engages with, understands, investigates,
activates, explores and showcases a range of diverse
pedagogies of human rights relevant to the challenges
of the 21st century. It aims to deepen and broaden the
theoretical, conceptual and practical understandings
of how human rights are communicated, experienced,
learned and taught in the 21st century, in both informal
and formal contexts, in traditional as well as in
innovative ways.
Caroline Fleay and Lisa K. Hartley (2013 –
continuing).
The project will identify and bring together a range of
leading and innovative human rights scholars across
Australia who share multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to human rights on a suite of
issues.
Enabling asylum seeker scholarship through
listening and lived experience
Baden Offord, Caroline Fleay, Lisa K. Hartley, Yirga
Gelaw Woldeyes and Elfie Shiosaki (2015–continuing).
A Curtin University Faculty of Humanities funded
project ($32,772.80).
The goal of this project is to develop new ways to
engage with, understand, teach about and respond to
the lived experience of refugees and asylum seekers in
Australia, specifically in Perth.
A key aim of the project is to pilot an innovative
methodology in asylum seeker scholarship through
participatory action research in a university learning
context.
Impacts of Australia’s asylum seeker policy in the
region
Caroline Fleay and Lisa K. Hartley (2015 – 2016).
The mantra of both major Australian political parties is
that ‘stopping the boats’ has saved the lives of people
seeking asylum because they are prevented from
reaching Australia by sea. However, this ignores the
reality of the lives of many now effectively warehoused
in our region because of this policy. To date, relatively
little attention has been given to their experiences.
While the policies of the country in which they are
residing also impact on their experiences, it is clear
from researchers, non-government organisations
(NGOs) that work in the region, and those who are
living the experience themselves, that Australian
policies are having disturbing impacts beyond our
borders.
The research project brings together key Australian
academics, representatives from regional support
agencies in Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, and
This project explores the experiences of asylum seekers
who arrived by boat to Australia after 13 August 2012
and now live in the Australian community on bridging
visas with no work rights and limited financial and
social support. The research is based upon extensive
interviews with 29 asylum seekers in Perth, Sydney
and Melbourne. All of those interviewed arrived by
boat after 13 August 2012, the date when the no work
rights policy commenced under the previous Labor
Government.
The research highlights the distress and fear many
are enduring caused by not being able to work and
the ongoing uncertainty about their refugee claims.
The policy continues under the current Coalition
Government and affects more than 25,000 asylum
seekers in Australia who continue to live well below
the poverty line in a situation of forced unemployment
and uncertainty.
Bearing witness: Researching the detention of
asylum seekers
Caroline Fleay and Lisa K. Hartley (2012 – continuing).
There are few formal monitoring bodies that
investigate the detention of asylum seekers in Australia
and those that do are hampered by their inability to
enforce their recommendations. Researchers that visit
immigration detention centres can help to provide
another form of monitoring. This project interrogates
the conducting of research into immigration detention
in Australia by exploring such research as an act
of bearing witness. It also explores the role of the
researcher as witness, activist and academic.
Roy Jones
Moral ecologies: Histories of conservation,
dispossession and resistance
Roy Jones (Curtin University) with Carl Griffin
(University of Sussex) and Iain Robertson (University
of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland).
Project duration: 2015 – 2017.
This research is a global extension and application
of the ideas presented by Karl Jacoby’s (2001) Crimes
Against Nature, a pioneering study of vernacular
environmental ethics. Through this, the overarching
aim is to offer a significant overview and evaluation
of the moral ecology concept by illustrating its
application in a range of geographical, historical
and cultural settings. Moral Ecologies: Conservation,
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Dispossession and Resistance (Palgrave MacMillan
World Environmental History series, 2017) takes both
a global stance and a temporally deep perspective,
examining a variety of contexts from the early 18th
century to the past in the present. In so doing, this
project draws together historians, geographers,
anthropologists, archaeologists, cultural theorists
and conservationists using a variety of materials from
the archive to the field. As such, this forthcoming
publication, co-edited by Jones, Griffin and
Robertson, and with chapters from Curtin University
and international scholars, will provide make a
novel, timely and important contribution to global
environmental history.
Final frontiers? The lives and legacies of twentieth
century land settlement schemes
Roy Jones (Curtin University) with co-editor Alexandre
M. A. Diniz (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas
Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil). Several Curtin and
national/international scholars will be contributing
authors.
Duration of project: 2015 – 2018.
The research underpinning this proposed volume
contains a series of case studies of land settlement
projects, all of which were contemplated and /or
undertaken at various dates throughout the 20th
century and, in some cases, are still ongoing. Their
physical environments encompass equatorial jungles,
warm temperate rainforests, cool temperate grasslands
and even land reclaimed from the sea and they are
located in remote regions of the Americas, Europe,
Australasia and the Asia-Pacific. Their proponents
include state/local, national and imperial governments
and multinational corporations and they have enjoyed
varying levels of success not only during their
establishment but also in terms of the immediacy and/
or the duration of any such success. The case study
chapters will all include considerations of the extent
to which these schemes have been successful over
the period since their initial establishment and the
underlying reasons for their success or failure.
Tod Jones
Asian heritage movements
Tod Jones in collaboration with Ali Mozaffari (2013 –
continuing).
This project seeks to understand the role of activism
in the transformations of heritage and its politics with
a specific focus on the Asian continent. To this end,
it draws on theories of social movements to discern
various modes of engagement as well as the use of
strategies, resources, material and emotional factors
in forming activism in cultural heritage. Combining
the knowledge gathered in heritage and in movements
studies, the project seeks to develop an methodologies
for understanding heritage politics.
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The impact of urban indigeneity: A comparative
analysis of Perth, Beersheba and Pohkara
Tod Jones (2016 – 2019).
Funded by RUSSIC, Curtin University.
This project will investigate the nature and impact
of a growing, yet under-researched, phenomenon of
indigenous (re)urbanisation. It will generate datasets
on three modern cities each situated in a region which
retains a traditional indigenous population (Perth,
Australia; Beersheba, Israel; and Pokhara, Nepal) but
which are now largely populated by settler/immigrant
groups (including less local indigenous groups) in
order to take analysis of urban indigenous issues from
a descriptive to an analytic mode. The similarities and
differences between indigenous groups in different
urban and national contexts are little understood.
The project seeks to understand urban presence and
movement of indigenous people primarily through:
land claims and ownership (through families and
language groups); heritage and historical/cultural
connections and claims; housing; and self-government
and indigenous organisations.
Thor Kerr
Recognition of indigenous rights: Identifying
obstructions in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and
the United States
Thor Kerr with collaborating researchers in Australia,
Canada, New Zealand and the United States (2012 –
2020).
In 2007, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the
United States were the only members of the United
Nations to vote against its Declaration on the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples. This project tackles the
problem of these settler states in attempting to realise
decolonised status without recognising the rights
of their indigenous people. This project seeks to
address this transnational cultural problem through
international research collaboration that focuses on
the normalisation of obstruction to recognition of
indigenous rights within communities in colonised
lands.
The project has been conceptualised to answer these
questions: How is obstruction of indigenous rights
normalised in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and
the United States? What similarities and differences
can be identified in the normalisation of obstruction to
indigenous rights in these states?
The primary outcome of this project is a series of
co-authored academic papers on how recognition of
indigenous rights is obstructed in public conversation
in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United
States. Outputs may also include experimental
interventions in public conversation and an edited
volume or co-authored monograph.
Indian Ocean Futures: Communities, sustainability
and security
Funding body: $1.2 million Australian Centre for
International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) grant.
Thor Kerr and John R. Stephens (2014 – 2016).
This four year project aims to develop new knowledge
of the factors that explain women’s low level of
engagement in small-scale agricultural enterprises and
to identify and map the processes and pathways that
facilitate their move into managing their own smallscale enterprises. The project is in collaboration with
CARE International, the PNG University of Technology
and PNG’s three main national agricultural research
institutions: Coffee Industry Corporation, Oil Palm
Research Association and the Cocoa and Coconut
Institute. The project is building upon the existing
large-scale project: Strengthening livelihoods for
food security amongst cocoa and oil palm farming
communities in Papua New Guinea.
Funded by the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute.
Rapid change in the trade, demographics, culture
and environment of people of the Indian Ocean rim
demands a revaluation of how their communities,
sustainability and security are constituted. Indian
Ocean Futures: Communities, Sustainability and
Security (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016)
addresses serious issues affecting local, national,
regional and transnational communities in this
region. The book is organised into three broad
areas: the heritage and identity of communities,
their sustainability and their security. The first
section examines how heritage and identity are
negotiated in establishing the basis of communities
and public discussion of their futures. The following
section explores different practices and approaches
to sustaining communities. These range from
technologies being developed for sustainable cities
to the adoption of traditional practices for food
management. The final section investigates how
security crises are imagined and the development of
strategies to deal with future security issues.
This collection offers the reader an overview of key
discourses shaping understandings of the future of the
Indian Ocean region.
Community frontiers in reclamation contests
Thor Kerr (2013 –­continuing)
This project has been supported by AAPI, Curtin
University’s School of Media, Culture and Creative
Arts and School of Built Environment, Nyoongar Tent
Embassy, State Library of Western Australia, ForBali,
Rumah Sanur, Ubud Readers and Writers Festival,
UWA Publishing and The Jakarta Post.
The project examines community frontiers that emerge
in public contests over island and waterfront land
reclamation. These contests have proved to be rich
discursive nodes for analysing places, the production
of communities and legitimization of governance
spaces. Through cultural studies, media studies and
associated interdisciplinary approaches, this project is
contributing to understanding the grammar of space
by identifying and theorizing the complex relations
of subjectivity, sensual experience, environment,
mediated space-time, narrative and desire in
discourses and practices around reclamation projects.
Strengthening livelihoods for food security amongst
cocoa and oil palm farming communities in Papua
New Guinea
Gina Koczberski (CI1) and George N. Curry (2014 –
2018).
The research is a four year collaborative project with
researchers from James Cook University, the PNG
University of Technology and two PNG agricultural
research institutes: PNG Oil Palm Research
Organisation & the Cocoa & Coconut Institute of PNG.
The research examines rising food insecurity amongst
smallholder cocoa and oil palm households in Papua
New Guinea (PNG). Amongst oil palm growers, falling
per capita incomes and declining access to land for
food gardening are emerging because of population
pressure; amongst cocoa growers, the pest, Cocoa Pod
Borer (CPB) is devastating smallholder production
and has significantly reduced people’s capacity to
purchase food. Given these threats to food security,
the overall aim of the project is to gain a detailed
socio-economic and cultural understanding of the
farming and livelihood systems of smallholders and to
assess the current status of food security and levels of
vulnerability among oil palm and cocoa smallholder
households. The range of adaptation strategies
adopted by smallholder households and the key
factors mediating their responses to environmental,
social and demographic stresses will also be examined.
The research findings will enhance our knowledge of
the outcomes and responses at the local level of the
growth of export and commercial agriculture, and in
particular the sustainability of farming systems and
rural communities in PNG.
Christina Lee
Gina Koczberski
Identifying opportunities and constraints for rural
women’s engagement in small-scale agricultural
enterprises in Papua New Guinea
Gina Koczberski (CI1) and George N. Curry (2016 –
2019).
Spectral spaces and hauntings: The affects of
absence
Christina Lee (2013 – 2017).
The research underpinning this forthcoming edited
collection explores the affective registers of spectral
spaces, and the ‘aliveness’ of landscapes that are
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marked by absent presences that include industrial
wastelands, vanished mining towns, sites of
trauma and the nostalgic home. Further, the project
investigates the after-affects of events, challenging the
compulsion for contained historical narratives and
closure. The chapters are informed by interdisciplinary
approaches that include cultural studies, memory
studies and cultural heritage, and draw from a
diversity of mediums such as film, photography,
literature and architecture.
Susan Leong
Harnessing Australian-Chinese’s cultural fluency to
bridge the export gap
Susan Leong and Michael Keane (2016 – 2017).
Funded by Australia-China Council (ACC) ($19,990).
The 2015 Australian international businesses survey
reveals China is among their top three target markets
in six out of eight industries but many firms see the
lack of knowledge about local language, culture
and business practices as a major barrier to their
ambitions. Despite this, little note is taken of the
cultural literacy of professionals and entrepreneurs
from China who already reside in Australia. Rather,
there is great concern with the acquisition of Chinese
cultural fluency from scratch.
This project seeks to learn how Chinese-Australians
can bridge the gap in cultural fluency and boost
Australian industries’ ability to export to China.
Working with business migrants in Melbourne,
graduates in Adelaide and young professionals in
Perth, the project will conduct online surveys, faceto-face workshops and interviews study and develop
bilingual on and offline tools to tap into ChineseAustralians’ cultural capital and fulfill Australia’s
export ambitions.
Digital China: From cultural presence to innovative
nation
Michael Keane, Ming Cheung, Susan Leong, Jing Zhao.
Brian Yecies, Anthony Fung, Yuanpu JIN and Yahong
LI (2016 – continuing).
ARC Discovery Project ($249,500.00)
This project aims to investigate how digital platforms
and technologies help Chinese culture and ideas reach
the world. While China’s global cultural presence
has increased, it is not seen as an innovative nation.
The project examines how the Chinese government’s
internet+ strategy changes power dynamics among
political institutions, commercially motivated digital
companies and online communities. The project
will investigate internationalisation strategies and
consumption of Chinese culture on digital platforms
in China, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and South
Korea. It expects to understand the implications
of China’s digital ascendency and the lessons for
Australia in the post-resources boom era.
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Ali Mozaffari
Transcending religion: Pre-Islamic heritage and
cultural stability in Iran
Ali Mozaffari (2016 – continuing)
Funded by 2016 DECRA grant (DE170100104):
$353,124.00 (Deakin University).
This project aims to examine pre-Islamic heritage as
a potential contributor to a more stable Middle East
by studying its role in an emergent Iranian zone of
cultural influence in the Middle East. Understanding
contributing factors to stability in the Middle East is
crucial to managing Australia’s cultural, economic,
and security concerns.
The project will develop a situated, multi-scalar
method of analysis to establish the function of preIslamic heritage using the Parsa-Pasargadae region
as an illustrative example. The project expects to
deliver insights into the culture and collective identity
formation within Muslim societies, and provide a
platform for comparative research in the Middle East.
Heritage and liminality
Ali Mozaffari (2015 – 2017)
This project is concerned with understanding and
theorisation of the uncertain conditions of life and
settlements fabric within Buffer Zones in heritage.
It proposes to conceptualise such zones as liminal.
Liminality refers to the in-between condition in time
and place, the condition of being out of the ordinary
and structured routine of society, a situation where
new events can take place. Rooted in ethnology and
anthropology, and emerging in the early decades of
the 20th century from the study of religious rituals,
theories of liminality were taken up subsequently in
other fields including international relation, politics
and landscape (geography). However, the concept of
liminality and its potential for the analysis of certain
heritage conditions (including within buffer zones)
is not previously explored. The project is intended to
bridge this gap.
Reorganisation and improvement of the entry axis to
the Pasargadae World Heritage Site
Ali Mozaffari (2013 – 2016).
Research partner: Parsa Pasargadae Research
Foundation (PPRF) Iran.
The purpose of this project, initially funded and
based at Curtin University, and currently pursued at
the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, was
to develop and apply a holistic cross-disciplinary
framework to the understanding of heritage in
Muslim societies through the case study of Iran. Its
methodology is applicable to the study of places
with similar pre-Islamic/Islamic layers of identity.
It examined the impact of discourses of heritage on
individual and national identity in Muslim societies
with a pre-existing layer of identity.
Revolutionary Built Environment? The production of
architecture in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Ali Mozaffari (CI) in collaboration with Nigel
Westbrook (UWA) (2011 – continuing).
This project examines the relationship between
political discourses of authenticity and nativism in the
time leading to and after of the Islamic Revolution and
the production of the built environment. The project
began as a small grant (Research Development Award)
at UWA (CI Ali Mozaffari) and has so far resulted in a
number of papers and presentations.
Contemporary heritage movements in Asia since the
1990s
Researchers: Ali Mozaffari in collaboration with Tod
Jones (2013 – continuing).
This project seeks to understand the role of activism
in the transformations of heritage and its politics with
a specific focus on the Asian continent. To this end,
it draws on theories of social movements to discern
various modes of engagement as well as the use of
strategies, resources, material and emotional factors
in forming activism in cultural heritage. Combining
the knowledge gathered in heritage and in movements
studies, the project seeks to develop an methodologies
for understanding heritage politics.
Understanding pre-Islamic heritage in Muslim
societies: The example of Iran and the World
Heritage site of Pasargadae
Ali Mozaffari (2013 – 2016).
and would focus entirely on its continentalist/
land-driven strategic agenda. Following Putin’s rise
to power in 2000, there are strong grounds for the
understanding that after years of decline and neglect,
Russia’s political military leadership was strongly
supporting the systematic restoration of its fallen
maritime capability. In particular, emphasis has been
directed to considerable upgrades of Russia’s ability
to deploy power at sea in the Pacific-Indian Ocean
strategic theaters.
The project has two specific goals:
• To provide an indepth analysis of the evolution of
Russia’s strategic culture specifically in relation to
the nation’s multi-level interaction with maritime
environment.
• To provide historical and most up-to-date overviews
of the evolution of Russian naval power in the
Pacific and other theaters and to conceptualise the
strategic implications for Asia-Pacific and global
balance of power.
Baden Offord
Australia as an ally: Building human rights and
social inclusion frameworks for LGBTIQ populations
in our region
Baden Offord with Paula Gerber, Monash University;
Anthony Langlois, Flinders University, and Cai
Wilkinson, Deakin University, together with the
Australian Human Rights Commission (2015 – 2016).
The purpose of this project, funded and based at Curtin
University, and completed in 2016, was to develop and
apply a holistic cross-disciplinary framework to the
understanding of heritage in Muslim societies through
the case study of Iran. Its methodology is applicable
to the study of places with similar pre-Islamic/Islamic
layers of identity. It examined the impact of discourses
of heritage on individual and national identity in
Muslim societies with a pre-existing layer of identity.
This project will provide a strategic framework for
the Australian government to engage in protection
and promotion of rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) people in South and Southeast
Asia and the Pacific.
Alexey D. Muraviev
A Curtin University Faculty of Humanities $32,772.80
funded project.
Russian sea power in the 21st century
Alexey D. Muraviev (2010 – continuing).
Research Partners: International Institute for Strategic
Studies, London; Sea Power Centre – Australia; Royal
Australian Navy, Canberra.
During the Cold War (1947–1991), the Soviet Union
emerged as a global maritime power with the world’s
second largest navy. Following the collapse of the
USSR in December 1991, Russian naval power has
undergone a dramatic transformation, resulting in
the significant reduction of operational activity and
its numerical strength. Such rapid change provided
grounds for assumptions that the new Russia would
abandon Soviet approaches to the use of sea power
Enabling asylum seeker scholarship through
listening and lived experience
Baden Offord, Caroline Fleay, Lisa K. Hartley, Yirga
Gelaw Woldeyes and Elfie Shiosaki (2015 – 2016).
The goal of this project is to develop new ways to
engage with, understand, teach about and respond to
the lived experience of refugees and asylum seekers in
Australia, specifically in Perth.
A key aim of the project is to pilot an innovative
methodology in asylum seeker scholarship through
participatory action research in a university learning
context.
The pedagogies of human rights: Exploration,
innovation and activation
Baden Offord, Caroline Fleay, Lisa K. Hartley and Yirga
Gelaw Woldeyes.
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Funded through Humanities Office of Research and
Development, Curtin University, 2016–2018.
Memorialisation of work fatalities
This project focuses on the development of new
research that engages with, understands, investigates,
activates, explores and showcases a range of diverse
pedagogies of human rights relevant to the challenges
of the 21st century. It aims to deepen and broaden the
theoretical, conceptual and practical understandings
of how human rights are communicated, experienced,
learned and taught in the 21st century, in both informal
and formal contexts, in traditional as well as in
innovative ways.
This research draws attention to the privileging of
memories to fallen armed services personnel, of which
there are many thousands around Australia, compared
with the few monuments that have been raised in
commemoration of employees killed in the course of
their work. It asks why this selectiveness occurs.
The project will identify and bring together a range of
leading and innovative human rights scholars across
Australia who share multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to human rights on a suite of
issues.
Bobbie Oliver
The Independent Education Union of Western
Australia (IUEWA) history project
Bobbie Oliver (2015 – 2017).
Funding organisation and industry partner: IUEWA.
The aim of the project is to research and write a
history of the IEUWA, which was founded in 1960,
using archival sources and interviews. Contracted
publication outcome: Oliver, Bobbie. Stand Up, Step
Forward, Speak Out: A history of the Independent
Schools Salaried Officers’ Association and the
Independent Education Union in Western Australia,
1960-2015. Perth, WA: Black Swan Press, 2017.
An examination of the rise and decline of 20th
century Australian trade unionism through the
history of the Locomotive Engine Drivers’, Firemen’s
and Cleaners’ Union of Western Australia 1886–1999
Bobbie Oliver (2008 – 2016).
This project, published by Black Swan Press in 2016,
explores the social phenomenon of the rise and
decline of trade unionism in 20th century Australia
through the history of one particular union, Western
Australia’s longest running industrial union, the
Locomotive Engine Drivers’, Firemen’s and Cleaners’
Union (LEDFCU) and its national and international
connections.
It proposes to use this history as a means by which to
examine three characteristics of Australian industrial
history in the 20th century: the influence of a British
industrial diaspora on the development of Australian
trade unionism; features that distinguished the
Australian (and New Zealand) industrial systems from
the rest of the world, and whether these led to the
dominance of unionism mid-twentieth century, and
the relatively sharp decline of union membership and
influence in Australia since the 1970s.
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Bobbie Oliver (2016 – continuing).
Mobilising for the Great War
Bobbie Oliver (2016 – continuing).
This research, to be published in 2017 by the Army
History Unit (Canberra) in collaboration with Big
Sky Publishing (Qld), contains papers from the 2014
conference of the same name jointly hosted by Curtin
University and the Royal United Services Institute
(RUSI) at the Army Museum, Fremantle.
Edited by Bobbie Oliver, this book will contain
chapters by: David Horner on Australian military
mobilisation for World War I, David Stevens on sea
power in the Pacific, Alexey Muraviev on Russian
sea power and its impact on the Dardanelles
campaign, Captain Wayne Gardiner on the joint Army/
Navy expeditionary force to New Guinea (the first
Australians to fight in World War I) and Bobbie Oliver
on the role of the Labor government at the beginning
of the war.
Conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War
Bobbie Oliver (2016 – continuing).
This research draws upon the court records of
objectors and their letters to support organisations,
including pacifist and human rights groups. The
research phase is now complete, and the writing of a
monograph to cover the National Service and Vietnam
War periods (1950–72) is in process.
A people’s history of Wundowie
Bobbie Oliver with Diana MacCallum and Amanda
Davies (2014 – continuing).
The aim of the project is to research and write a
history of the town of Wundowie in the Avon Valley.
Wundowie has considerable aesthetic, historic,
social and scientific value, making it a suitable site
in which to study facets of Australian history, culture
and society in the 20th century. In 1941, the state
government established an iron and steel industry at
Wundowie, because of iron ore deposits locally and at
Koolyanobbing, and the nearby railway and timber.
The foundry, built in the mid to late 1940s, underwent
many changes with the changing economic climate.
It continues to operate, but is now privately owned.
Post-World War II, Wundowie was a destination
for displaced persons from Europe. Interviews are
central to the project, which focusses on gathering the
collections of residents past and present as part of the
research methodology.
Radical Perth
Bobbie Oliver with Charlie Fox (University of Western
Australia) and Lenore Layman (Murdoch University)
(2013 – 2015).
The edited book arising from this research will contain
essays by a number of different authors on sites of
radical and alternative activity around Perth and
Fremantle.
Suvendrini Perera
Deathscapes: Mapping race and violence in settler
states
Suvendrini Perera (CI1) with Sherene Razack (UCLA),
Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University), Jonathan
Inda (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and
Marianne Franklin (University of London). (2014 –
continuing).
Funded by an ARC Discovery Grant 2016–2018
($444,984.00).
This project seeks new ways to document, understand
and respond to the critical issue of racialised deaths in
sites of state custody such as police cells, prisons and
immigration detention centres. It plans to examine the
conditions under which Indigenous and border-related
deaths occur, and to explore how legal and social
accountability for them is assigned. Moving away
from individual national contexts, it seeks to identify
and map, at global as well as local levels, the shared
institutional practices, technologies and explanatory
frameworks that characterise custodial deaths in the
key settler states of Australia, Canada and the United
States. This may inform policy-making with the aim of
preventing deaths in custody.
The Deathscapes project had its first workshop in
Sydney from April 5-6, 2016. The workshop brought
together the academic partners in the research –
Macquarie University, the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, the University of Toronto and
Goldsmiths College, London – with collaborating
community groups, the Aboriginal Legal Services,
Toronto (ALST) and Indigenous Social Justice
Association, Sydney (ISJA).
Damage by Design: Australian off-shore detention
Suvendrini Perera with Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie
University).
Duration of project: 2016 – 2018.
The project theorizes Australia’s immigration
imprisonment system on Nauru and PNG as an
offshoot of the global military-medical-legal complex
that also encompasses other sites of offshore
incarceration and punishment such as U.S. black
sites in the war on terror. It will culminate in a book
addressing the military, medical and legal aspects of
offshore detention in the Pacific.
Outcomes so far include an invited contribution to
the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 2016 Exhibition
on Shelter and Displacement in New York, and a
plenary panel at the InASA 2016 Reimagining Australia
conference.
Racial violence in settler societies
Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University), Abigail Bakkan
(University of Toronto) and Sherene Razack (UCLA)
(2015 – continuing).
Partnership Development Grant awarded by the
Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council, April 2014.
The overall goal of the proposed university-community
research partnership is to develop new ways to
understand, teach about, and respond to state
violence against Indigenous and racialized groups
with a specific focus on Canada and Australia. These
two states share comparable histories as white settler
societies (societies that Europeans establish on
non-European soil). The project will be undertaken
in partnership with three community advocacy
organizations, the African Canadian Legal Clinic
(ACLC) in Toronto, Aboriginal Legal Service of Toronto
(ALST), and Indigenous Social Justice Association
(ISJA) in Sydney, Australia. We seek funding to initiate
this international network of scholars and community
partners all of whom are involved in documenting,
analyzing, and responding to state violence against
Indigenous and racialized people.
Old atrocities, new media: Terror images and the
visual-military complex
Suvendrini Perera, ARC Discovery Project (2014 –
2017).
This research centres on the relations between twentyfirst century visual technologies and the age-old
practice of the massacre-atrocity. It takes as its major
case study the atrocities at the end of the war in Sri
Lanka in 2009.
The most graphic form of knowledge about these mass
deaths and rapes was produced through digitally
transmitted visual images. The research asks how
new forms of recording and circulating images of
atrocity, whether in the form of trophy photographs
or other digital documents, shape the reception
of, and responses to, atrocity. These questions are
contextualised against a broader examination of the
historical and evolving relations between visual media
and atrocity images from the Holocaust to Abu Ghraib.
Visual economies of terror and transnational digital
cultures
Suvendrini Perera (2012 – continuing).
The project investigates the phenomenon of wartime
trophy videos in the context of their transnational
digital transmission across disparate geographical
contexts and spectatorships. While triumphal or
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atrocity photographs from the battlefield are not new,
my focus is on how these are being transformed by
contemporary modes of transmission and reception via
digital technologies and social media. In the context
of the war on terror, the research poses the following
questions: What are the interrelations between the
war as it ramifies across geographical locations and
sites, and contemporary visual-cultural economies
(including digital technologies, representational and
aesthetic repertoires, scopic regimes, communicative
and entertainment modes and networks of social
connectivity)? Do these new visual economies not
only amplify the effects of violence and terror but
also enable and facilitate new forms of violent
performativity and new modalities of atrocity and
‘horrorism’? What are their distinctive conditions of
production, circulation, reception and consumption?
What forms of visual subjectivity, modalities of
spectatorship and possibilities of witness do they
give rise to, in particular for global and diasporic
viewing subjects? What relations of complicity and
responsibility do they engender?
Tamil diasporic futures in the post-war era
Suvendrini Perera (2009 – 2016).
How can countries of the global north, such as
Australia, Canada, Norway or the United Kingdom,
engage with and seek to accommodate increasingly
complex and mobile diasporic identities, networks
and citizenships in the future? And what does the
future hold for conflict-generated diasporas when
their dreams of homeland meet with decisive defeat?
At the end of the war in Sri Lanka diasporic Tamils
face an uncertain future after the loss of any realistic
hope of achieving their imagined homeland. Their
host governments, too, face uneasy dilemmas, from
the arrival of increasing numbers of asylum seekers
to apprehensions about the future allegiances
of members of these diasporic populations (eg.
International Crisis Group 2010).
While diaspora studies has enjoyed an immense
growth since the 1990s, its analyses and approaches
are largely oriented towards long-established groups,
beginning with the paradigmatic instance of the Jewish
diaspora. The complexity, specificity, volatility, and
contingency of contemporary diasporic formations,
especially those generated by war and conflict, have
received less attention. The aim of this project is to
reach a deeper understanding of these new formations
and their significance through a focused cultural
analysis of the experience of diasporic Tamils in the
global north by developing an innovative approach via
a diaspora cultural studies.
Nonja Peters
Diasporic Australians at a glance: A prototype for
the digital preservation of Australian immigrant’s
cultural heritage
Nonja Peters (2012 – continuing).
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Partner organisations: Huygens ING Institute; School
of Humanities and Communication Arts, University
of Western Sydney; ANU Centre for European Studies;
National Archives of Australia (NAA) and the National
Archives of the Netherlands.
The thematic of this project are the socio-cultural
material traces that append to the historical activity
of people moving from one region to settle in another,
in which the movement of bodies through space
combines with information about their mobility
through time. At the same time, it is to also signal the
technical and conceptual challenges surrounding the
consolidation of different data sources (both hard copy
and digital) from a prior generation of technology to
successive generations. For example, many Dutch
community groups in both countries are actively
collecting documents, artefacts, photographs and
maps to pass on to future generations. However, few
have developed sustainable workflows to ensure the
sustainability of their ‘collections’ and rarely are they
familiar with cataloguing and metadata conventions
which help describe an item’s provenance, role and
position in the world. Planning for digital preservation
therefore is uneven, leading to concerns about a
‘digital gap’ in a community’s history. Mitigating
the deleterious effects then of information loss and
fading human recollection is an issue central to
both the continued accessibility of cultural heritage
materials and the digital preservation of historical
knowledge beyond technology format lifetimes. The
projects builds upon the 2005 – 2011 research project,
Footsteps of the Dutch in Australia 1606 – 2006, with
a key research outcome, Dutch Australians at a Glance
(DAAAG) website.
Orphans of the Dutch East India Company
photographic and oral history exhibition
Nonja Peters with Dutch photographer Geert Snoeijer,
Dr Aone van Engelenhoven (Indonesia, University of
Leiden) and Dr Bart de Graaff (independent lecturer,
South Africa).
Funded by: Mutual Cultural Heritage Programme,
Cultural Heritage Agency, The Netherlands.
The idea behind this project conceptualised by Geert
Snoeijer is a symbolic reconnection to a partly lost
identity that dominates the lives of large groups of
people. As spectators listen (by headphone) to the
storytellers and hear them talk about past and present,
about both their ancestors and themselves, space and
time become an illusion and create a new reality. By
presenting all protagonists in one show and space, we
are also symbolically connecting them to each other
—highlighting the nature of their links to a common
past, as stepbrothers and stepsisters. The exhibition
will be on display in various stages in 2016–17 at the
WA Museum Geraldton, West Frisian Museum in Hoorn
the Netherlands, Bloemfontein Gallery South Africa
and The National Gallery, Jakarta.
The Dutch in Western Australia, 1616 – 2016
Nonja Peters (2005 – 2016).
A LotteryWest Community Grants Program project.
This social history project documents Dutch contact
with, and resettlement in, Western Australia from
1616 to 2016. In particular, it is eliciting factors
characteristic of Dutch emigration and resettlement
in WA and articulates the impact the Netherlandsborn and their progeny have had on the state’s social,
cultural, economic and cultural heritage and cultural
tourism development.
Rachel Robertson
Dangerous ideas about mothers
Rachel Robertson (Curtin University) with Camilla
Nelson (Notre Dame University, Sydney) (2016–2017).
This essay collection currently in research, to be
co-edited by Rachel Robertson and Camilla Nelson,
will bring together the work of both well-known and
emerging writers, scholars and public intellectuals
producing dangerous and challenging work in the field
of ethics and critical motherhood studies.
Special Issue of TEXT journal – The Essay
Rachel Robertson (Curtin University) with Kylie
Cardell (Flinders University) (2016–2017).
What is an essay? Who writes essays, and how? What
does the essay do in the Australian publishing context
and why should we pay attention to this? What is
problematic about the essay, and why?
This special issue of TEXT, to be co-edited by Rachel
Robertson and Kylie Cardell, extends an invitation to
writers, scholars, and creative practitioners to think
through the implications of the essay as an evolving
contemporary genre in Australasia.
While the editors presume a focus on contemporary
literature and national context, given the recent
popularity of the essay here, they also welcome
contributions that gauge and reflect on the genre as it
has developed historically, or that trace its inflections
in international contexts of relevance to Australasian
stories and voices —especially those used in tertiary
contexts as a creative practice.
The Mosaic Project
Rachel Robertson (Curtin University) with Paul
Hetherington (University of Canberra) (2015 – 2017).
The Mosaic Project is a collaborative practice-led
research project that explores the lyric essay as a
literary genre by theorising it as mosaic-like in terms of
its form and patterning. It is a collaboration between
an essayist (Robertson) and a poet (Hetherington).
The project involves on-site creative practice in four
different places and examines themes of time, hands,
identity, brokenness and risk. Outcomes will include a
collection of lyric essays (or creative non-fiction) and
three co-authored scholarly journal articles.
Maternal ambivalence
Rachel Robertson with Christina Fernandes, School of
Social Work, Curtin University (2015 – 2017).
This research takes a critical disability studies
approach to maternal ambivalence, drawing on our
own lived experiences of mothering disabled children
and our scholarly backgrounds in social work and
cultural studies respectively. Our research uses the
insights available from these different subject positions
in a dialogue that extends our thinking on maternal
ambivalence and represents some of our diverse
experiences of mothering disability. The outcome will
be a co-authored scholarly book chapter.
The future of disability theory
Rachel Robertson with Katie Ellis and Mark Kent,
Curtin University (2014 – 2017).
This research project focuses on the implementation
of disability theory in the field of maternal studies.
When complete, it will be published within an edited
book with international and Australian contributors. A
further chapter will be a co-written introduction which
will explore disciplinary questions, new directions in
disability theory and the evolving research agenda.
Representations of ageing women in Chinese and
Australian writing
Liz Byrski (CI1), Dawn Bennett, Rachel Robertson,
Bonita Mason, GONG Qian (Curtin University); LUO
Yirong and LIU Jing (Ocean University of China);
Imelda Whelehan (University of Tasmania); ZHANG
Nan (Fudan University, China), and ZHOU Xiaojin
(Shanghai University of International Business and
Economics).
Duration of project: 2016–­continuing.
The purpose of this project is to examine the ways in
which ageing women are represented in writing in
China and Australia and to investigate the impact of
negative stereotypical representations on women’s
sense of inclusion and well being. This literary
and scholarly project will compare and contrast
representations of aged women in fiction, non-fiction,
life writing and journalism, and will investigate
the origins of the negative stereotyping of female
ageing and consider its impact from a human rights
perspective. It will also trace the origins of stereotypes
through research on fairy tales, and children’s fiction
to see how these are carried through into adult fiction
and non fiction, comparing and contrasting these with
lived reality both observed and experienced.
The project will develop publications, the first of
which is an edited book in which scholarly articles
investigating representations stand alongside
examples of creative work in fiction and life writing,
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which interrogate these issues. The project brings
together creative writers, journalists and academics to
produce diverse outcomes in a variety of genres. It will
also challenge academic writers to work in creative
genres for the first time.
Dennis Rumley
The rise and return of the Indo-Pacific
Timothy Doyle, Dennis Rumley, and Sanjay
Chaturvedi (2016 – 2017).
Funded by: Oxford University Press.
The research underpinning this publication will
explore the Indo-Pacific concept as an ambiguous and
contested regional security construction, currently
gaining significant traction in both geopoliticalstrategic theorizing and policy-making circles. It will
critically examine the major drivers behind the reemergence of classical international and geopolitical
concepts and their deployment.
The book will critically assess the resultant ‘new’
mappings of Indo-Pacific and will argue that national
constructions of the concept are more informed by
domestic political realities, anti-Chinese bigotries,
distinctive properties of 21st century US hegemony,
and nation-statist sentiments rather than genuine panregional aspirations.
Kim Scott
Noongar Kaatdijin Bidi – Noongar knowledge
networks; or, why is there no Noongar Wikipedia
Len Collard (CI) UWA, Kim Scott, John Hartley and the
late Niall Lucy, Curtin University (LIEF grant, 2014 –
2016).
The ‘Noongarpedia’ project will use the Noongar
language to model and assess the extent to which
minority languages can thrive by using globally
accessible internet technologies. It will generate
critical insights into the relations between knowledge,
culture and technology and investigate how oral and
informal knowledge sources can be accessed for a textbased website in the digital era.
The outcomes of this project will include a greater
understanding of how to link technology with users
for community sustainability, as well as further
insights into how social learning can be improved
via interacting online networks. More information
available on Wikipedia and Facebook.
Mobilising song archives to nourish an endangered
Aboriginal language
Clint Bracknell, Linda Barwick and Kim Scott (2016 –
continuing).
ARC Discovery Project: $312,400.00
This project aims to explore how song can preserve
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vanishing Indigenous languages. Song and language
are integral to the wellbeing and knowledge of
Indigenous peoples, and the loss of Indigenous
languages is a national and global crisis. Focusing on
the endangered Nyungar language of the south-west
of Western Australia, this project will develop a model
to recirculate and perform archival songs in online
and physical spaces, engaging the community while
developing resources for future use.
The outcomes of this project are expected to inform
global efforts to sustain intangible cultural heritage
and contribute to the Australian reconciliation agenda.
Graham Seal
Transported convicts of the British Empire
Graham Seal (2016 – continuing).
This project examines the human history of convict
transportation within the British empire from the
17th to the 20th centuries. Convicts were transported
from England, Scotland and Ireland to the American
colonies, the West Indies, British India, the Straits
settlements, west and southern Africa and Australia.
Convicts were also transported to, from and within
the countries that made up what came to be known
as the British empire. This project draws on extensive
archival and personal records to produce a new and
clearer account of the social, political and economic
deployments of the legal instrument of transportation.
Western Australian folklife project
Graham Seal (Australian Folklore Research Unit,
Curtin University) with Rob and Olya Willis (National
Library of Australia) (2004 – continuing).
The WA Folklife Project is a collaboration between the
National Library of Australia, the Australian Folklore
Research Unit at Curtin University and the Australian
Folklore Network. The collecting, recording and
documentation of the folklore of Western Australians
has been conducted since 2004, preserving a
substantial body of material that would otherwise have
remained undocumented.
While some collecting work has been carried out
previously in this area, the Folklife Project is the first
sustained and focused collecting project undertaken
by professional fieldworkers using high quality
equipment.
The 2016 fieldwork program took place in Broome
and Perth during August focusing upon Indigenous
community music, pearling culture and Paralympians.
The recordings, photographs, reports, interviews
and related documentation are accessioned into the
collections of the National Library and the WA Folklore
Archive in the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library,
from where they are accessible to regional, national
and international communities.
Publication of the collected writings of Peter Ellis
Graham Seal, Australian Folklore Network, Curtin
University (2015 – 2017).
Research partner: National Library of Australia.
Collected writings and research of the late Peter Ellis
who made an outstanding contribution to Australian
folklore, especially in relation to traditional dance and
music.
The global outlaw hero
Graham Seal (2000 – continuing).
The Global Outlaw Hero is an ongoing survey
and analysis of a global mythology with potent
consequences. From the Roman Empire to the present,
both real and mythic outlaw heroes have influenced
social, political, economic and cultural outcomes.
The outlaw hero mythology has ongoing consequences
in popular culture, politics, tourism, heritage and in
the current outbreak of global terrorism.
The life and times of Thomas Wood
Graham Seal (2000 – 2017).
Partners: Oxford University, National Centre for
English Cultural Tradition at Sheffield University,
English Folk Dance and Song Society, National Library
of Australia, National Film and Sound Archive.
An investigation of the life and influence of English
musician, writer and traveller Thomas Wood.
Celebration and commemoration: The Australian
year
Graham Seal (2012 – continuing).
Research into the history and persistence of calendar
observations and related customs in Australia and
elsewhere in the world, especially in relation to
migration.
John R. Stephens
Indian Ocean Futures: Communities, Sustainability
and Security
Thor Kerr and John R. Stephens (2014 – 2016).
examines how heritage and identity are negotiated
in establishing the basis of communities and
public discussion of their futures. The following
section explores different practices and approaches
to sustaining communities. These range from
technologies being developed for sustainable cities
to the adoption of traditional practices for food
management. The final section investigates how
security crises are imagined and the development of
strategies to deal with future security issues.
This collection offers the reader an overview of key
discourses shaping understandings of the future of the
Indian Ocean region.
Lakhnu Village community development project,
India
A Curtin University School of Built Environment interdisciplinary project led by Reena Tiwari with Jake
Schapper, John R. Stephens, Dianne Smith, Dave
Hedgcock (2011 – continuing).
Winner of the 2015 Curtin Research Impact and
Engagement Award for Research Excellence.
Since 2009, the School of Built Environment has
conducted research and fieldwork into improving
conditions for the rural poor in the village of Lakhnu
in Uttar Pradesh, India. The key focus of this ongoing
development program is sustainability, community,
sanitation, health and development which has
involved significant work from Curtin University
students and helped to forge strong relationships with
community stakeholders.
In 2016, four action projects were co-planned, codesigned and co-constructed with the Lakhnu
community with a supplementary project surveying
households with a view to further projects for the
improvement of health and amenity for the villagers.
The team’s partners for projects in India are Western
Australia based NGO IREAD, who have a long history
of philanthropy in the Lakhnu district, and the Dr
Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture (BNCA)
College for Women, Pune, named the best architecture
college in Asia for the year 2014-15 by the prestigious
World Consulting and Research Corporation (WCRC)
after a research survey by KPMG.
Funded by the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute.
Bringing them home
Rapid change in the trade, demographics, culture
and environment of people of the Indian Ocean Rim
demands a revaluation of how their communities,
sustainability and security are constituted.
Reena Tiwari and John R. Stephens (2016 –
continuing).
Indian Ocean Futures: Communities, Sustainability
and Security (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016)
addresses serious issues affecting local, national,
regional and transnational communities in this region.
The goal of the Bringing Them Home project is to
establish former Aboriginal Mission sites as healing
centres for Stolen Generation survivors and trauma in
the Aboriginal community.
The publication is organised into three broad areas:
the heritage and identity of communities, their
sustainability and their security. The first section
In October 2016, a MOU was signed between the
Southern Aboriginal Corporation’s Bringing Them
Home Committee and Curtin University that will
Research partners: Bringing Them Home Committee,
Southern Aboriginal Corporation.
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provide opportunities for Curtin students to undertake
practice-based learning for credit toward their degrees,
at the former mission sites of Carrolup/Marribank and
Wandering Brook.
The students will assist in identifying the community’s
needs and vision for the future of the sites, research
‘best practice’ examples of healing spaces and assist
with the development of heritage restoration and
renovation plans.
Importantly, the students – with Curtin University
team leaders Professors Reena Tiwari and John
Stephens (School of Built Environment) – will
also have the chance to learn how to engage with
Aboriginal people in effective, culturally appropriate
and respectful ways.
The Desert Mounted Corps Memorial
John R. Stephens (2012 – continuing).
This project analyses the ideological, political and
commemorative meanings of the Desert Mounted
Corps Memorial in its three iterations: as a memorial
on the banks of the Suez Canal, as a memorial in
Albany and centerpiece of the Centennial of Anzac
commemorations and as a memorial on Anzac Parade
in Canberra ACT.
Trafficking vegetation: Homely and un-homely
landscapes
John R. Stephens (2012 – continuing).
During and after the First World War there was an
energetic two-way passage of plants and vegetation
between overseas battlefield cemeteries and Australia.
The transportation of plant material was ostensibly
to either make cemetery landscapes reminiscent of
home, or to remind those in Australia of the resting
place of loved ones. But this trade in vegetation could
also carry deep political and ideological significance
illustrated by the folkloric status of the ‘Gallipoli Pine’
in Australian commemoration. This project examines
the trafficking of plant material in terms of the power
of vegetation and landscape to invoke the political, the
familiar, the un-homely and the uncanny.
Sue Summers
Dutch evacuees from the former Netherlands East
Indies to Western Australia, 1945-46
Sue Summers (2005 –2016).
This project on the former Netherlands East Indies
focuses upon the 6000 Dutch Nationals evacuated
to Australia over eight to ten months from 1945–1946
after the capitulation of the Japanese in August 1945.
The majority had been incarcerated in prisoner of war
camps and were given temporary accommodation in
Australia on the condition that the Dutch government
in exile would take full responsibility for their
maintenance, health and accommodation costs.
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This caused considerable friction with the Australian
government and trade unions at the time, as the
efficacy and largesse of the Dutch Administration
reflected badly on the facilities and services available
to Australian servicemen returning from overseas duty.
Research findings are included in multiple entries on
the Dutch Australians at a Glance (DAAAG) website
and in a research chapter published in 2016.
Yasuo Takao
The politics of LGBT policy adoption: Shibuya
Ward’s same-sex partnership certificates in the
Japanese context
Yasuo Takao (2016 – continuing).
As people living in Japanese metropolitan areas are
exposed to more diverse lifestyles, value or moral
conflicts challenge the conventional interpretation of
urban politics. It appears that the salience of economic
considerations in urban politics is increasingly being
displaced by that of cultural considerations. This
requires a theoretical inquiry of how the politics of
moral issues account for variation in policy adoption.
In this project, Yasuo Takao examines the assumptions
of morality politics that is claimed to constitute a
distinctive type of policy formation. This examination
is illustrated by using the politics of LGBT (lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender) policy adoption in
Shibuya, one of the twenty-three city Wards of Tokyo,
as a case study. Shibuya’s LGBT policy adoption is
not a clear-cut case of reducing the policy to moral
regulation and social identity, but the morallycharged political issue constitutes a less distinctive
quality of morality politics as the material interests of
political actors and their constituencies still account
for different motivations operated at different stages
of policy making. Equally important, the capability
of human agents, who were able to collectively
interpret the political opportunity structures of the
morally-charged issue, largely explain why Shibuya
adopted the policy while others with a similar policy
environment did not.
The politics of lowering the voting age from 20 to 18
in Japan: Will the minimum age really mitigate the
impact of ‘Silver Democracy’?
Yasuo Takao (2016 – continuing).
On 10 July 2016, Japanese aged 18 and 19 cast their
ballots for the first time in the Upper House election
as Japan’s legislature lowered the minimum voting
age from 20 to 18 years of age. This amendment was a
major shake-up of Japan’s electoral systems since 1945,
when Japanese women were given the right to vote
and the minimum voting age was lowered from 25 to
20. Japanese lawmakers highlighted an urgent need to
ensure intergenerational equity through encouraging
younger voters to play a greater role in Japan’s
increasingly elderly-oriented society.
This project examines the underpinnings beneath the
rhetoric of intergenerational equity with qualitative
evidence concerning the ruling government’s motives
for the reform of the nation’s electoral systems. In 2007
under the first Abe cabinet, the minimum voting age
sparked much discussion in the media but in 2009 as
the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power, the
debate subsided. In 2012 the debate resurged with the
formation of the second Abe cabinet, leading to the
2015 amendment of the Public Office Election Law to
lower the voting age.
the same scientific knowledge has different effects in
different political cultures and always been enmeshed
in local contexts. I claim that knowledge co-production
through collaboration between policy elites, scientists
and citizens is likely to enhance the credibility and
legitimacy of science-driven climate policies.
To identify the policy determinants of lowering the
voting age, this study will present an inquiry of how
the associated problem was recognized as important
and how the proposed policy became politically
feasible in policy agenda setting.
This project tests the linkages between domestic and
foreign affairs in the issue area of climate change. It
seeks to understand the coalition-building process
of problem-solving endeavour to develop a climate
change policy at the local level.
The rise of the ‘Third Age’ citizens in Japan: From
beneficiaries to participants
Reena Tiwari
Yasuo Takao (2016 – continuing).
This project claims that the ‘third age’ is an emerging
predictor of political participation.
Japan, like many other developed countries, has
accepted the chronological aged of 65 and older
as ‘elderly, yet the number of people who remain
physically fit and willing to engage socially is growing
rapidly. Some remain in the labor force in order to
support their family members; others continue to
work, despite being eligible for Social Security.
Living longer and healthier lives has made it possible
for older people to seek a brand new way of political
participation and, further, to generate a new way of
communication in politics. The third age citizens may
not necessarily become a consolidated voting bloc,
yet they could shape a collective age-based identity in
political processes.
Is nuclear energy feasible for tackling climate
change? Scientific versus social knowledge in
Japan’s climate politics
Yasuo Takao (2013 – 2016).
The future use of nuclear energy has been the subject
of heated debate, due to the two factors, that is, the
need to cut carbon emission and the safety of nuclear
power plants, which appear to be diametrically
opposed. The 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident has
galvanized public sentiment against nuclear energy.
Ruling out the nuclear option, which is one of the
major low-carbon technology options currently
available, is bound to present a further challenge in
reducing emissions. Balancing the problems of nuclear
power against its contribution to climate mitigation
is an inescapable dilemma. This study will explore
the climate change debate, with special reference
to scientific knowledge and its social problems. It
seeks to find ways of how scientific knowledge and
social concerns come together to produce policies
for environmental protection. My assumption is that
Rethinking sustainable communities in Japan: local
governance and the advocacy coalition politics of
climate change
Yasuo Takao (2009 – 2016).
Lakhnu Village community development project,
India
A Curtin University School of Built Environment
inter-disciplinary project led by Reena Tiwari with
Jake Schapper, John R. Stephens, Dianne Smith, Dave
Hedgcock (2011 – continuing).
Winner of the 2015 Curtin Research Impact and
Engagement Award for Research Excellence.
Since 2009, the School of Built Environment has
conducted research and fieldwork into improving
conditions for the rural poor in in the village of
Lakhnu in Uttar Pradesh, India. The key focus of
this ongoing development program is sustainability,
community, sanitation, health and development which
has involved significant work from Curtin University
students and helped to forge strong relationships with
community stakeholders.
In 2016, four action projects were co-planned, codesigned and co-constructed with the Lakhnu
community with a supplementary project surveying
households with a view to further projects for the
improvement of health and amenity for the villagers.
The team’s partners for projects in India are Western
Australia based NGO IREAD, who have a long history
of philanthropy in the Lakhnu district, and the Dr
Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture (BNCA)
College for Women, Pune, named the best architecture
college in Asia for the year 2014-15 by the prestigious
World Consulting and Research Corporation (WCRC)
after a research survey by KPMG.
Indigenous connections – Pilbara communities
Reena Tiwari with Michael Trees, Gumala Aboriginal
Corporation (2015–2018).
Collaborative partners: Wakuthuni Indigenous
Community, Gumala Aboriginal Corporation and the
Ashburton Aboriginal Corporation, Western Australia.
The Indigenous Connections–Pilbara Communities
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project provides a platform for sharing knowledge
and developing appreciation for the ‘homelands
movement’, a movement that began in the late 1960s
and saw thousands of Indigenous Australians move
back to their ancestral lands.
Researchers and students from the School of
Built Environment (SOBE) at Curtin University in
collaboration with GUMALA Aboriginal Corporation
are engaged in developing livelihood solutions that
are sustainable and culturally sensitive to ensure the
future economic development, and subsequently
protection, of these communities. The project aims to
engender an understanding of indigenous heritage
and heritage asset management as they relate
to development of the Banyjima, Nyiyaparli and
Innawonga Traditional Owners from the Pilbara region
in Western Australia.
In 2016 fieldwork, a nature-scape play facility using
waste (tyres, plastic bottles, un-used water tank) was
designed and constructed. The project was linked with
the ‘Work for Dole’ program and saw Indigenous job
seekers teaming up with Curtin students to construct
the Facility. Skill transference and team-building were
the key objectives of this project and the constructed
structure responded to play requirements of the
community kids.
Bringing them home
Reena Tiwari and John R. Stephens (2016 –
continuing).
Research partners: Bringing Them Home Committee,
Southern Aboriginal Corporation.
The goal of the Bringing Them Home project is to
establish former Aboriginal Mission sites as healing
centres for Stolen Generation survivors and trauma in
the Aboriginal community.
In October 2016, a MOU was signed between the
Southern Aboriginal Corporation’s Bringing Them
Home Committee and Curtin University that will
provide opportunities for Curtin students to undertake
practice-based learning for credit toward their degrees,
at the former mission sites of Carrolup/Marribank and
Wandering Brook.
The students will assist in identifying the community’s
needs and vision for the future of the sites, research
‘best practice’ examples of healing spaces and assist
with the development of heritage restoration and
renovation plans.
Importantly, the students – with Curtin University
team leaders Professors Reena Tiwari and John
Stephens – will also have the chance to learn how to
engage with Aboriginal people in effective, culturally
appropriate and respectful ways.
Wanted rhythmanalysts
Reena Tiwari (2016 – continuing).
Research partner: Cultural Geographer, Kevin S. Fox.
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Does the City of Salzburg have rhythm? Or rhythms,
plural? How do we access it? Or them? The concept
of rhythmanalysis is explored. How can communities
better imagine the geographies in which they live by
unpacking the rhythms that make up those spaces.
The Salzburg Rhythmanalysis Project is officially
announced and citizen-rhythmanalysts are called to
participate.
For further information, tune in to Episode 15,
WANTED: Rhythmanalysis on Radio Fabrik’s radio
essay program in Salzburg, Austria, ‘Geographical
Imaginations: Brief Expeditions into the Geographies
of Everything and Nothing’ (24 January 2016).
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Education and the economy of violence against
traditions in Ethiopia
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes (2015 – 2016).
This study is a rigorous and critical analysis of the
significance and relevance of tradition to modern
education in Ethiopia. It challenges the view that
considers non-western traditions as backward and
antithetical to progress.
The study analyses textual and empirical sources
to interpret the ideas and principles that enabled
Ethiopians to maintain political and social cohesion,
independence from European colonialism, and
indigenous methods of knowledge production for
several centuries. It will show how consciousness of
western political power developed among Ethiopian
political leaders who, at the dawn of the 20th century,
introduced formal education by copying it from
western sources in order to modernise the state.
The imitation of western institutions and legal and
educational systems with complete disregard to
Ethiopian tradition gave rise to student radicalism
and state violence especially during the period
of the Derg. Taking the above analytical finding as
a context, the study further analyses the effect of
the current education system on the lives of current
Ethiopian students. It shows how Ethiopian students
experience a deep sense of alienation from tradition
and from the modernist system in the country, which
is elitdom. Alienation from tradition is experienced
largely due to the development of Eurocentric
worldview through education, with students
developing a sense of detachment from their local
communities based on the belief that their tradition ßis
antithetical to modernisation. This study will increase
our understanding of how forces of globalisation cut
through traditional and cultural spaces using the
formal channels of the state, and what realities this
process holds for people in places like Ethiopia.
Enabling asylum seeker scholarship through
listening and lived experience
Baden Offord, Lisa K. Hartley, Caroline Fleay, Yirga
Gelaw Woldeyes and Elfie Shiosaki (2015 – 2016).
A Curtin University Faculty of Humanities $32,772.80
funded project.
journalists, and the strengthening of the outcomes of
the previous two phases.
The goal of this project is to develop new ways to
engage with, understand, teach about and respond to
the lived experience of refugees and asylum seekers in
Australia, specifically in Perth.
This project aims at contributing research-based
knowledge to this cause, especially on the content and
teaching of human rights from the perspective of those
from diverse backgrounds.
A key aim of the project is to pilot an innovative
methodology in asylum seeker scholarship through
participatory action research in a university learning
context.
The principal methodology is a participatory active
research that engages students, religious scholars
and researchers in an educational environment.
Through my ‘Human Rights History across Cultures
and Religions’ Unit, faith-based scholars deliver a
series of lectures on human rights from their respective
religious or cultural backgrounds. Each lecture is
followed by evaluative seminars and intensive focus
group discussions which focus upon human rights
values across diverse faiths and cultures. One of the
goals is the publication of a practical booklet to be be
distributed to human rights educators, activists and
media professionals.
The pedagogies of human rights: Exploration,
innovation and activation
Baden Offord, Caroline Fleay, Lisa K. Hartley and Yirga
Gelaw Woldeyes (2016 – 2018).
Funded through Humanities Office of Research and
Development, Curtin University, 2016–2018.
This project focuses on the development of new
research that engages with, understands, investigates,
activates, explores and showcases a range of diverse
pedagogies of human rights relevant to the challenges
of the 21st century. It aims to deepen and broaden the
theoretical, conceptual and practical understandings
of how human rights are communicated, experienced,
learned and taught in the 21st century, in both informal
and formal contexts, in traditional as well as in
innovative ways.
The project will identify and bring together a range of
leading and innovative human rights scholars across
Australia who share multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to human rights on a suite of
issues.
Critical appreciative dialogue and human rights
education
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes (2015 – 2016).
The teaching of human rights emphasises the
importance of dialogue as a means of co-creating
inclusive and desired worlds among diverse identities,
worldviews and practices. The main objective
of this project is to develop new conceptual and
methodological insights for the teaching of human
rights from the perspective of diverse cultures and
religions. In particular, this project seeks to develop
Critical-Appreciative Dialogue as a possible teaching
methodology that takes into account the challenges as
well as the opportunities that are presented to us due
to differences and diversities in religions and cultures.
How to teach human rights from the perspective of
diverse cultures and religions
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes (2016 – continuing).
An Australian Research Theology Foundation Inc.
funded project ($5000).
Grace Q. Zhang
Communicating strategically in Australian border
control: The role of vagueness
Grace Q. Zhang (2009 – continuing).
This research is one of the few attempts to explore
how Australians custom officers and passengers play
‘communication games’ in tension-prone situations.
This study reveals dynamic and pragmatic use of vague
language.
The findings will not only add conceptual dimensions
to the study of pragmatics and intercultural
communication, but will also provide useful guidelines
to help achieve better mutual understanding and
overcome communication breakdowns.
The elastic use of ‘some’
Grace Zhang (2016 – continuing).
This comparative study, based on data from L1
(English) and L2 (Chinese and Vietnamese) speakers,
is a micro-study on the use of ‘some’, which has
important implications for contrastive pragmatics
research and language educators’ training.
Stretching language in social discourse
Grace Zhang (2016 – continuing).
Language stretching (e.g. I kind of like Perth) is an
important but often overlooked part of language use.
This study intends to reveal shared versus culturally
specific linguistic and sociocultural features of
language stretching.
The third phase of the UN World Program for Human
Rights Education (2015–2019) focuses on the teaching
of cultural actors such as media professionals and
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Institute Research Seminar Series
Coordinated by Graham Seal and Sue Summers
Seminar 1
Emerging architecture: Re-inventing the village in the sky?
Dr. Joo Hwa (Philip) Bay, School of Built Environment (SOBE), Curtin University.
Curtin University, 7 March 2016.
Seminar 2
Western Australia’s disappearing ‘shackie’ settlements: A heritage or a memory?
Emeritus Professor Roy Jones, Department of Planning and Geography, Curtin University.
Curtin University, 4 April 2016.
Seminar 3
Lina Bo Bardi – Landscape Architect.
Dr Annette Condello, School of Built Environment (SOBE), Curtin University.
Curtin University, 2 May 2016.
Seminar 4
Kalla yarning at Matagarup: Televised legitimation and the limits of heritage from below.
Dr Shaphan Cox, Department of Planning and Geography, School of Built Environment (SOBE) and Dr Thor Kerr,
School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts (MCCA), Curtin University.
Curtin University, 13 June 2016.
Seminar 5
Native colonisation: Education and the economy of violence against tradition in Ethiopia.
Dr Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University.
Curtin University, 1 August 2016.
Seminar 6
Fading Lights: Australian POWs and BCOF troops on Japan, 1945-52.
Dr Stuart Bender, Department of Screen Arts, MCCA, Curtin University and Mick Broderick, Associate Professor of
Media Analysis, Murdoch University.
The HIVE, Curtin University, 5 September 2016.
Seminar 7
Living with relics: The rise of Majapahit heritage and community conflict in Trowulan, East Java.
Dr Tod Jones, Department of Planning and Geography, Curtin University.
Curtin University, 3 October 2016.
Seminar 8
The rise and return of the Indo-Pacific: Oceans, seas and civilisational linkages.
Timothy Doyle, Distinguished Research Fellow, Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin University, and
Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Adelaide.
Curtin University, 7 November 2016.
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Institute Researcher Development Program
A central element of AAPI’s operation is the facilitation of research careers within the institute and through the
Faculty of Humanities.
To further this aim, AAPI provides an ongoing program of research development activities and opportunities,
including:
workshops
seminars
mentoring
‘hot groups’
publication
project incubation
online researcher toolbox
Items added to the Researcher Toolbox in 2016 include:
• Dr Susan Leong: ‘What they DON’T tell you before you embark on a PhD!’
• Dr Tim Pitman (Faculty of Humanity’s Research Development Advisor): ‘How to write an effective grant
application’.
• Emeritus Professor Roy Jones: ‘How to get academic writing published – some thoughts from a recovering
editor’.
• Professor of Indian Ocean Studies, Dennis Rumley: ‘Academic writing first principles: The message is the
medium’.
• John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Dawn Bennett: ‘How does authorship work?’
These practical articles are available online to all Curtin University staff and students and can be accessed under
‘Resources’ on the AAPI website.
These activities are advertised throughout the Faculty and are of interest to researchers at all stages of their careers
and, in many cases, to HDR students.
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Engagement:
Conferences, Keynotes & Other Presentations
Janice Baker
Janice Baker, ‘Pilbara Dirt: Rock ontology and the
rhetoric of big mining in Western Australia’. Precarium
presentation, Critical & Cultural Studies Stream,
Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University, 17 February
2016.
Stuart Marshall Bender
Stuart Bender, ‘Special biometric devices for audience
engagement’. Presentation at the GLAM VR: Talks
on Digital Heritage, Scholarly Making & Experiential
Media Workshop, The HIVE, Curtin University, 26
August 2016.
Stuart Bender with Mick Broderick, ‘Fading Lights:
Australian POWs and BCOF troops on Japan, 1945-52’.
AAPI research seminar presentation, Curtin University,
5 September 2016.
Stuart Bender (with Erik Champion, Pauline Joseph,
Karen Miller, Janice Chan, Lise Summers and Artur
Lugmayr), convenors, GLAM-VR workshop, The HIVE,
Curtin University, 26 September 2016.
Dawn Bennett
Sonia Ferns and Dawn Bennett. ‘International
students and the challenges of work placement: A
workshop for academic staff’. Workshop delivered at
the 40th Western Australian Teaching and Learning
Forum, Curtin University, 28–29 January 2016.
Kay Hartwig, Georgina Barton, Dawn Bennett,
Sonia Ferns, Liz Jones, and Anna Podorova. ‘The
international student experience: Challenges and
opportunities of work placements.’ Presentation at
the 2016 Asia-Pacific Association for International
Education Conference, Melbourne, 29 February–3
March 2016.
Dawn Bennett, Cat Hope and David Hawkins,
‘Creatives and the small end of town’. Panel
presentation, Humanities Industry Research Forum,
Curtin University, 18 March 2016.
Dawn Bennett, Tama Leaver, Stuart Clarke and
Marilyn Coen. ‘Make your work visible and build
community: A workshop on social media, online
communities and more’. An Office of Research and
Graduate Studies Workshop, Curtin University, 20 April
2016.
Keynote address for the Embedding employability into
teaching and learning: Developing broad graduate
skills to enhance employability conference, Victoria
University, Melbourne, 31 May–1 June 2016.
Martin Smith, Dawn Bennett, Patrick Crookes, and
Kenton Bell. ‘Transnational study on employability
in higher education’. Paper presented at the WACE
International Research Symposium, Vancouver Island,
Canada, 12–15 June 2016.
Sonia Ferns and Dawn Bennett, ‘Success stories’.
Presented at WISP: Work Placement for International
Student Programs Forum, Griffith University, Brisbane,
2 June 2016.
Dawn Bennett, Trevor Cullen, Jessica Vanderlelie
and Joe Shapter, ‘Why we haven’t finished with
employability’. Panel convened for the 39th annual
conference of the Higher Education Research and
Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA),
Fremantle, Western Australia, 4–7 July 2016.
Susan Blackley, Rachel Sheffield, and Dawn
Bennett,‘Expanding student experience: Improving
pre-service teachers’ work readiness by challenging
their developing professional identities’. Paper
presented at the 39th annual conference of the Higher
Education Research and Development Society of
Australasia (HERDSA), Fremantle, Western Australia,
4–7 July 2016.
Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Dawn Bennett, and Ann Power,
‘Arts-based service learning as creative practice and
teaching method: Six years of reciprocal learning in
Australian higher music education’. Presented at the
Community Music: Emerging Contexts, Practices, and
Pedagogies Symposium (with L. Higgins, J. Henley,
G. Howell, & K. Deane), 32nd International Society
for Music Education World Conference, Glasgow,
Scotland, 19–23 July 2016.
Dawn Bennett, Patrick Schmidt, Gier Johansen, and
Ruth Wright, ‘Involuntary career change: Dealing
with the unintended’. Presented at the international
symposium, The Labour Market for Music Workers
in the New Millennium, 32nd International Society
for Music Education World Conference, Glasgow,
Scotland, 19–23 July 2016.
Dawn Bennett, ‘Who writes the papers? Authorship
and co-authorship’. Seminar presentation for staff and
graduate students, Curtin University, May 2016.
Dawn Bennett, Susan Blackley, and Rachel Sheffield,
‘Assembling identity: Digital portfolios, photographs,
drawings and textual narratives in pre-service
teacher development’. Presented at 2nd International
Conference on ‘Building Interdisciplinary Bridges
Across Cultures’ (BIBAC 2016), Cambridge University,
30 July – 1 August 2016.
Dawn Bennett, ‘Increasing our capacity to innovate:
Producing graduates for an evolving workforce’.
Dawn Bennett, Michelle Johnson, Bonita Mason, and
Chris Thomson, ‘Working with Australia’s first people:
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The role of service learning in exposing intercultural
voices’. Presented at 2nd International Conference on
‘Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Across Cultures’
(BIBAC 2016), Cambridge University, 30 July – 1 August
2016.
Dawn Bennett and Diana Blom, ‘How to make
research based practice really work!’ Curtin Research
and Innovation Week 2016 presentation, Tim Winton
Lecture Theatre, 31 August 2016.
Dawn Bennett, ‘Breaking open WIL: Preparing
students for 2020 and beyond’. Keynote address for
WIL 2020: Pushing the boundaries, 2016 National
Conference of the Australian Collaborative Education
Network, Macquarie University, Sydney, 30 September
2016.
Elizabeth Knight, Dawn Bennett, Aysha Divan, Louise
Kuchel, David Van Reyk, Karen Burke da Silva, and
Jodie Horn, ‘A review of how top universities portray
employability strategies on their websites’. National
Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services.
Adelaide, November, 2016.
Erik Champion
Erik Champion, co-ordinator, ‘The Situation Engine:
Hyper-immersive digital technologies for student
learning’. Presentation by Sidney Newton and
Russell Lowe (UNSW), The HIVE, Curtin University, 22
February 2016.
Erik Champion, ‘Archaeological Discovery, Game
Genres, Game Mechanics’. Invited and partially
funded keynote presentation at the ‘Interactive Pasts’
Conference, Leiden University, Netherlands, 4–5 April
2016.
Erik Champion, invited talk and panel member, ‘3DH’.
University of Hamburg, Germany, 6 April 2016.
Erik Champion, ‘Playful heritage’. Invited presentation
via Skype, Department of Anthropology, University of
Auckland, New Zealand, 16 May 2016.
Erik Champion, ‘Philosophical Issues of Place and
the Past in Virtual Reality’. Presentation, The EastWest Philosophy Place Conference, Department of
Philosophy, University of Hawaii, 24 May–1 June 2016.
Erik Champion, participant in US$218,139 NEH
Humanities Heritage 3D Visualization: Theory and
Practice grant for US workshop/institute event led by
Alyson Gill and Lisa Snyder. Held at Arkansas State
University, 8–14 June 2015, and 3 day symposium 20–23
June 2016, UCLA.
Erik Champion, invited and funded contribution
as panellist and critic, ‘National Endowment of
Humanities Symposium (NEH) Advanced Topics in the
Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of
California, Los Angeles, USA, 20–23 June 2016.
Erik Champion, ‘Increasing the Life and Usage of
Virtual Heritage Models’. Invited speaker for The
4th International Symposium on Cultural Heritage
Conservation and Digitization (CHCD 2016), Beijing,
China, 7–9 August 2016.
Erik Champion, ‘A Scholarly Or Communal Digital
Eco-system For 3D Heritage’. Invited/funded keynote
presentation for: Presenting Cultural Specificity in
Digital Collections Workshop, National University of
Singapore, 12–14 August 2016.
Erik Champion, ‘Introduction’. GLAM VR: Talks on
Digital Heritage, Scholarly Making & Experiential
Media Workshop, The HIVE, Curtin University, 26
August 2016.
Erik Champion, ‘Digital heritage interfaces and
experiential media’. Presentation at the GLAM
VR: Talks on Digital Heritage, Scholarly Making &
Experiential Media Workshop, The HIVE, Curtin
University, 26 August 2016.
Erik Champion (with Pauline Joseph, Karen Miller,
Janice Chan, Stuart Bender, Lise Summers and Artur
Lugmayr), convenors, GLAM-VR workshop, The HIVE,
Curtin University, 26 September 2016.
Erik Champion, ‘Serious Games for History and
Heritage: Learning From Triumphs and Disasters’.
Invited presentation, Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, (Aula
Magna) of Ca’ Foscari University, in Palazzo Ca’ Dolfin,
organized by Ca Foscari University, Venice, 3 October
2016.
Erik Champion, ‘The Missing Scholarship Behind
Virtual Heritage Infrastructure’. Presentation, 14th
EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural
Heritage, Genoa, Italy, 5–7 October 2016.
Erik Champion, Li Qiang, Demetrius Lacet, and
Andrew Dekker, ‘3D in-world Telepresence with
Camera-Tracked Gestural Interaction’. Presentation,
14th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and
Cultural Heritage, Genoa, Italy, 5–7 October 2016.
Erik Champion, ‘Game Design, Virtual Heritage and
Digital History’. Spazju Kreattiv (the National Centre
for Creativity), Malta, 12 October 2016.
Erik Champion (with MCCA and Curtin Library
team members), ‘Curtin Cultural Makathon’. Curtin
University Library Makerspace, 10–11 November, 2016.
Erik Champion, ‘Bridging Creative Communities And
Digital Heritage’. Presentation at the New Knowledge
Environments in the Digital Humanities Symposium,
The HIVE, Curtin University, 13 December 2016.
Annette Condello
Annette Condello, ‘Bo Bardi’s recovery projects in
Salvador’. Presentation of peer-reviewed conference
paper co-written with independent consultant, Steffen
Lehmann, at Society of Architectural Historians, SAH
2016 Annual International Conference, Pasadena, USA,
7 April 2016.
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Annette Condello, ‘Lina Bo Bardi – Landscape
Architect’. AAPI research seminar presentation, Curtin
University, 2 May 2016.
Annette Condello, ‘Citrus and Peach Urban
Landscapes’. Presentation in the ‘(Im)material
memory traces in the urban landscape, Europe, 1920th century’ session, Reinterpreting Cities, European
Association for Urban History (EAUH) Conference,
Helsinki, 25 August 2016.
Annette Condello, ‘Permeable Landscape
Constructions / Costruzioni permeabili per I paesaggi’.
Invited keynote seminar presentation: ‘Lake Garda’s
Waterfronts –Hypotheses and Projects’ Italy Summer
School, Universita’ degli Studi di Brescia. Held at
Comune di Soiana del Lago, Lombardy, 8 September
2016.
Annette Condello, ‘Luxury and Architecture’.
Invited lecture, Scuola Politecnica, Dipartimento
di Architettura, Universita’ di Palermo, Sicily, 13
September 2016.
George N. Curry
Gina Koczberski, Simon Foale, and George Curry,
convenors, ‘Panel 7: Adaptation, Resilience &
Changing Land and Marine-based Livelihood Systems
in the Pacific’. The 6th Biennial Conference of The
Australian Association for Pacific Studies: Tides of
Transformation Pacific Pasts, Pacific Futures. James
Cook University, Cairns, 1 April 2016.
George Curry, Gina Koczberski, Esley Peter, Robert
Nailina & Kathleen Natera, ‘Defining successful
adaptation & resilience: How do we reconcile
indigenous and market values in an agricultural
system under stress?’ Paper presented the 6th Biennial
Conference of The Australian Association for Pacific
Studies: Tides of Transformation Pacific Pasts, Pacific
Futures. James Cook University, Cairns, 1 April 2016.
George Curry, Gina Koczberski, Emmanuel Germis,
Veronica Bue, Steven Nake, and Paul Nelson, ‘Land
pressures and social networks of exchange: Securing
gardening land in the oil palm belt of West New Britian
Province, PNG’. Paper presented at the 6th Biennial
Conference of The Australian Association for Pacific
Studies: Tides of Transformation Pacific Pasts, Pacific
Futures. James Cook University, Cairns, 1 April 2016.
Sean Ryan, Gina Koczberski and George Curry,
‘Migration, economic development and education
levels in PNG: A case study from West New Britain’.
Paper presented at Frontiers of Geographical
Knowledge, Institute of Australian Geographers
Conference, Adelaide, 29 June–1 July 2016.
Tim Dolin and Lucy Dougan, ‘Submitting and what
to expect: Examination process’. Office of Research
and Graduate Studies Workshop, Curtin University, 4
October 2016.
Tim Dolin, Panel Chair, ‘Ties that Bind: Indigenous
art as the medium for acknowledging agency and
engaging communities’. InASA Conference 2016–
Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility. University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8
December 2016.
Timothy Doyle
Timothy Doyle, ‘Oceans and Seas: Cultural
Intersections in the Indian Ocean Region’. IORA Track
Two Regional Conference, Intersections of Culture in
the Indian Ocean Region, Institute of Policy Research
(LIPI), Jakarta, 11–12 September 2016.
Timothy Doyle and David Brewster, ‘20th Anniversary
of the Indian Ocean Rim Association: Visions
of Regional Architecture’. Invited and funded
presentation at the International Symposium for IORA
20th Anniversary on ‘Learning from the Past and
Charting the Future’, Yogyakarta, 13–15 September
2016.
Timothy Doyle, Delegation Head for the Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 22nd Meeting of the
Indian Ocean Rim Academic Group (IORAG), Jakarta,
10 October 2016.
Timothy Doyle, ‘Cultural Intersections in the Indian
Ocean Region’. Presentation at the Regional Workshop
on Intersection of Culture in the Indian Ocean Region,
Institute of Policy Research (LIPI), Jakarta, 11–12
October 2016.
Timothy Doyle, ‘The Politics of Hope’. Presentation at
‘Hope in the Dark’ – The 2016 National Environment
Annual Meeting, Sydney University, 20–23 October
2016.
Timothy Doyle, ‘Rise and Return of the Indo-Pacific:
Oceans, Seas, and Civilisational Linkages,’ AAPI
research seminar presentation, Curtin University, 7
November 2016.
Caroline Fleay
Caroline Fleay, Panel Member, ‘Stories of courage’,
Refugee Week Public Lecture, Curtin University, 24
June 2016.
Caroline Fleay, Keynote Speaker, Edmund Rice Centre
VIP WA Event for Refugee Week, Trinity College, Perth,
23 June 2016.
Tim Dolin
Caroline Fleay, ‘Setting the political scene’.
Presentation at seminar, Refugee Experiences: The
Right to Thrive, Not Just Survive, Curtin University, 10
November 2016.
Tim Dolin, Chair, Humanities Research Celebration
Awards ceremony, Curtin University, 30 August 2016.
Caroline Fleay, ‘Unsettling assumptions about people
seeking asylum and their access to employment’.
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Paper presented at From Surviving to Thriving:
Inclusive Work and Economic Security for Refugees
and People Seeking Asylum, Brotherhood of St
Laurence Research Forum, University of Melbourne, 7
December 2016.
Caroline Fleay, Panel Chair, ‘Refugee and asylum
seekers in narratives and media’. InASA Conference
2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility. University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8
December 2016.
Caroline Fleay, ‘Refugee activism and the challenges
of overthrowing “Stop the Boats”’. Presentation in the
Telling Stories: Refugee Activism Online & Framing
Narratives panel. InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining
Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility.
University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8 December 2016.
Anna Haebich
Anna Haebich, ‘Gifts of Noongar theatre performance’.
Keynote address, Go Between, In Between: Borders of
Belonging Conference, University of Barcelona, Spain,
18–22 January 2016.
University, Germany, 11 October 2016.
Anna Haebich, Chair, ‘Kimberley Cultural Renewal:
Unsettling the Dynamic; Reimagining the Future’.
Presentation by Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain
(artistic directors of Marrugeku dance-theatre
company) and Steve Kinnane. InASA Conference
2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility. University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 7
December 2016.
Anna Haebich, Plenary Address, ‘Past Tense:
Reimagining Noongar history through performance’.
InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility. University of
Notre Dame, Fremantle, 9 December 2016.
Anna Haebich, Panel Chair, ‘Spotlight: The WA
Indigenous Community Stories (ICS) Program’. InASA
Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility. University of Notre Dame,
Fremantle, 9 December 2016.
Laura Stocker, Anna Haebich, Rebecca Mayo and
Gary Burke, ‘Baron Charles von Hügel in Australia:
Botanical exploration as a transnational, transcultural
and interdisciplinary endeavour’. Paper presented at
the InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility. University of
Notre Dame, Fremantle, 7–9 December 2016.
Anna Haebich, ‘Dancing out of the shadows:
Performing Indigenous belonging.’ Presentation
within the Cultural Struggle of Australia: Negotiating
Belonging (I) Panel, Go Between, In Between: Borders
of Belonging Conference, University of Barcelona,
Spain, 18–22 January 2016.
Roy Jones
Anna Haebich, ‘A Interpretación Musical Na Misión De
Nova Nursia Ata 1900’. Paper presented at the launch
of Rosendo Salvado e o mundo aborixe de Australia,
Cultural Council of Galicia, Spain, 28 January 2016.
Roy Jones, ‘Western Australia’s disappearing
“shackie” settlements: A heritage or a memory?’ AAPI
research seminar presentation, Curtin University, 4
April 2016.
Laura Stocker, Anna Haebich, Rebecca Mayo, Gary
Burke, ‘Baron Charles von Hügel in Australasia: His
influence on botany, art and cultural interactions’.
Paper presented by Stocker and Burke, Building
Bridges: Cities and Regions in a Transnational
World,Regional Studies Annual Conference, KarlFranzen-University, Graz, Austria, 3–6 April 2016.
Roy Jones, ‘From Tom Edwards to Mark Allen: A
century of workers’ protest and memorialisation in
Fremantle and Perth’. Australian Historical Association
Conference, Federation University, Ballarat, 4–9 July
2016.
Anna Haebich, ‘Ancestors words: Noongar letter
writing 1860-1960’. Invited NAIDOC presentation,
Albany Public Library, 5 July 2016.
Anna Haebich, ‘Swan River Colony through the lens of
Minang performance’. Invited NAIDOC presentation,
WA Albany Museum, 5 July 2016.
Anna Haebich, ‘Corroborees, collectors and
climate change in a settler colony, through a
decolonising prism’. Keynote address, Nature and
Environment in Australia Conference, Gesellschaft für
Australienstudien (Association for Australian Studies
(GASt), Cologne University, 28 September–1 October
2016.
Anna Haebich, ‘Custodians, country, corroborees and
collectors in a settler colony’. Invited speaker, Curating
Heritage German-Australian Perspectives symposium,
Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg
Roy Jones and Amma Buckley, ‘From the Horse and
Cart to the Internet: A century of rural connectivity
change in rural Western Australia’. Presentation at
Sustainability of Rural Systems: Balancing Heritage
and Innovation, 24th Colloquium of the Commission
on the Sustainability of Rural Systems, International
Geographical Union, University of Liege, Belgium,
17–22 July 2016.
Roy Jones, Chair, ‘Living with relics: The rise
of Majapahit heritage and community conflict
in Trowulan, East Java’. AAPI research seminar
presentation by Tod Jones, Curtin University, 3 October
2016.
Roy Jones, ‘Socioeconomic unsustainability to
environmental unsustainability? The trajectory of
tourism in Australia’s south west corner’. Presentation
at the 2016 International Conference on Global Tourism
and Sustainability, Lines Institute for Sustainable
Development, Lagos, Portugal, October 12–14 2016.
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Roy Jones, ‘The diverse and changing value and values
of heritage: An “Antiques Roadshow” perspective’.
Paper presented at the Heritage Futures Workshop,
University of Brighton, 20 October 2016.
Roy Jones and Amma Buckley, ‘From the horse and
cart to the internet: Connectivity change and rural
sustainability in Western Australia’. Invited and
funded presentation at the Professional Association
of Romanian Geographers Workshop, Defining the
Rural World’s Future – from Survival to Innovation,
University of Bucharest, Romania, 24 October 2016.
Roy Jones, ‘Development, demography and
sustainability: The trajectory of tourism in Australia’s
south west corner’. Paper presented at the Ovidian
University of Constanta, 26 October 2016.
Roy Jones and Amma Buckley ‘From the horse and
cart to the internet: connectivity change and rural
sustainability in Western Australia.’ Paper presented at
the University of Craiova, Romania, 28 October 2016.
Tod Jones
Shaphan Cox and Tod Jones, ‘Australian urban
indigenous activism and governance: Between
engagement and contention’. Urban Theory
Symposium, Sydney, 28–29 April 2016.
Tod Jones and Ali Mozaffari, convenors and coChair, ‘Activism, Civil Society and Heritage’. Panel
presentation at the ‘What Does Heritage Change?’
Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)
Conference, Montreal, 3–8 June 2016.
Tod Jones, ‘Crimes against cultures: The relationship
of Majapahit sites and artefacts with the residents
of Trowulan, East Java’. Presentation at the New
Directions and Frontiers in Cultural Geography
(2) session, Institute of Australian Geographers
Conference, Adelaide, 30 June 2016.
Tod Jones, ‘Using interviews as qualitative research
methodology’. Humanities Office of Research and
Graduate Studies Workshop, Curtin University, 25
August 2016.
Tod Jones, ‘Living with relics: The rise of Majapahit
heritage and community conflict in Trowulan, East
Java’. AAPI research seminar presentation, Curtin
University, 3 October 2016.
Stephanie Harris, Shaphan Cox, Tod Jones, Huiyao Jia,
and Cecilia Xia, ‘The limits of economic creativity: the
missing patterns of creative practices’. Presentation,
InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility. University of
Notre Dame, Fremantle, 7–9 December 2016.
Thor Kerr
Thor Kerr and Shaphan Cox, ‘Border security in settler
publics: Confinement of the UN Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples’. Paper presented by
Thor Kerr within the Cultural Struggle of Australia:
Negotiating Belonging (II) Panel, Go Between, In
Between: Borders of Belonging Conference, University
of Barcelona, Spain, 18–22 January 2016.
Thor Kerr with Hyeonseo Lee, Masha Gessen and Janet
DeNeefe, ‘Silenced.’ Discussion on censorship chaired
by Krishna Sen, Perth Writers Festival, 21 February
2016.
Shaphan Cox and Thor Kerr, ‘Kalla yarning at
Matagarup: Televised legitimation and the limits
of heritage from below’. AAPI research seminar
presentation, Curtin University, 13 June 2016.
Thor Kerr, invited address, ‘Solidarity within our
community: Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia’,
Bersih5 Perth event, 19 November 2016.
Thor Kerr, ‘Art and the frontier of social movements’.
Presentation at the Art and Politics, Mist on the
Mirror: Negating, negotiating and navigating power?
Workshop, Bureau of Ideas, Perth, 21 November 2016.
Thor Kerr, Discussant, Precarious Spaces panel with
Christina Lee, Karen Hill and Susannah Radstone.
Precarious Times 1-day Interdisciplinary Symposium,
Curtin University, 6 December 2016.
Thor Kerr, Chair, launch of: Thor Kerr and John
Stephen, Indian Ocean Futures: Communities,
Sustainability and Security (Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2016). Sundowner, InASA Conference
2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 7
December 2016.
Ali Mozaffari and Tod Jones, Chair, ‘Activism, Civil
Society and Heritage’. Panel presentation at the ‘What
Does Heritage Change?’ Association of Critical Heritage
Studies (ACHS) Conference, Montreal, 3–8 June 2016.
Thor Kerr, Panel Chair, ‘Ruminations, Reconciliations,
Remediations: Through a Canadian Looking Glass’.
InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility. University of
Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8 December 2016.
Tod Jones and Diana MacCallum, Convenors,
‘Territory, Built Forms and Justice: Contests over
urban space’. A staff symposium with Professor Oren
Yiftachel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Curtin
University, 21 September 2016.
Thor Kerr, Chair, ‘Changing the date – and a State
of Mind’. Pop up Plenary Panel, InASA Conference
2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility. University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 9
December 2016.
Tod Jones, Ali Mozaffari and Marieke Bloembergen,
convenors, ‘Heritage Activism, Politics and Practice
in Asia-Oceania’. Heritage and Social Movements
Workshop, Curtin University, 17 October 2016.
Thor Kerr, Closing Panel Chair, InASA Conference
2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility. University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 9
December 2016.
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Gina Koczberski
Gina Koczberski, Simon Foale, and George Curry,
convenors, ‘Panel 7: Adaptation, Resilience &
Changing Land and Marine-based Livelihood Systems
in the Pacific’. The 6th Biennial Conference of The
Australian Association for Pacific Studies: Tides of
Transformation Pacific Pasts, Pacific Futures. James
Cook University, Cairns, 1 April 2016.
George Curry, Gina Koczberski, Esley Peter, Robert
Nailina and Kathleen Natera, ‘Defining successful
adaptation and resilience: How do we reconcile
indigenous & market values in an agricultural system
under stress?’ Paper presented the 6th Biennial
Conference of The Australian Association for Pacific
Studies: Tides of Transformation Pacific Pasts, Pacific
Futures. James Cook University, Cairns, 1 April 2016.
George Curry, Gina Koczberski, Emmanuel Germis,
Veronica Bue, Steven Nake, and Paul Nelson, ‘Land
pressures and social networks of exchange: Securing
gardening land in the oil palm belt of West New Britian
Province, PNG’. Paper presented at the 6th Biennial
Conference of The Australian Association for Pacific
Studies: Tides of Transformation Pacific Pasts, Pacific
Futures. James Cook University, Cairns, 1 April 2016.
Sean Ryan, Gina Koczberski and George Curry,
‘Migration, economic development and education
levels in PNG: A case study from West New Britain’.
Paper presented at Frontiers of Geographical
Knowledge, Institute of Australian Geographers
Conference, Adelaide, 29 June–1 July 2016.
Christina Lee
Susan Leong and Terrence Lee, ‘The Long Shadows
of Internet Giants: Chinese cybersovereignty and
internet governance in Singapore and Malaysia’.
Pre-Conference ‘The Politics and Economics of New
Media Industry’ for the International Communication
Association (ICA) 2016 Annual Conference, Fukuoka,
Japan, 9 June 2016.
Susan Leong and Wilfred Wang, ‘Ways of Doing,
Ways of Being: Mediating the everyday life of PRC
migrants in Australia’. 2016 ICA Post-Conference and
14th Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC)
‘Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese
Setting’, Fudan University, Shanghai, 14–15 June 2016.
Susan Leong, ‘Global Bersih’. Presentation at
the International Association for Media and
Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference 2016,
Leicester, 27–31 July 2016.
Christina Lee, Susan Leong, and Rachel Robertson,
co-convenors, Precarious Times 1-day Interdisciplinary
Symposium, Curtin University, 6 December 2016.
Susan Leong, ‘Banal Precariousness’. Presentation,
Banal Precariousness Panel, Precarious Times 1-day
Interdisciplinary Symposium, Curtin University, 6
December 2016.
Susan Leong, ‘Perth Calling: Media, Mobility &
Imaginaries’. Paper presented at the Transnational
Mobility in the Asia Pacific: Family, Friends, Facebook
Symposium, RMIT, Melbourne, 3 November 2016.
Susan Leong, ‘Banal Precariousness’. Presentation,
Banal Precariousness’ Panel, Precarious Times 1-day
Interdisciplinary Symposium, Curtin University, 6
December 2016.
Christina Lee, ‘Writing (the Absent) Home and
Displacements of Self’. Paper presented at the
‘Cultural Identity: Self-Conception in the Age of
Displacement, Diaspora and International Travel’
Conference, 2nd Annual Dialogue of the China
Australia Writing Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai,
26–ß27 September 2016.
Susan Leong, ‘Feels like Home: Australia’s Imagined
Migrant as Ordinary’. Presentation in the Migrant
Imaginaries Panel. InASA Conference 2016–
Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 9
December 2016.
Christina Lee, Susan Leong, and Rachel
Robertson, co-convenors, Precarious Times 1-day
Interdisciplinary Symposium, Curtin University, 6
December 2016.
Ali Mozaffari
Christina Lee, ‘Haunted futures: The ghost city of
Kangbashi, Ordos’. Paper presented at the Precarious
Times 1-day Interdisciplinary Symposium, Curtin
University, 6 December 2016.
Susan Leong
Susan Leong, ‘Asian Disruptions of Digital
Technologies’. Paper presented at the Digital
Disruption in Asia: Methods and Issues Conference,
Leiden, 24–25 May 2016.
Susan Leong, organiser, ‘Zunar Australian Tour –
Perth’, Curtin University, 17 June 2016.
Ali Mozaffari, ‘Reclaiming Islamic heritage through
the image of traditional habitat’. Paper presented at
the Liberal Arts International Conference (LAIC) 2016,
Texas A&M, University of Qatar, Doha, 31 January – 3
February 2016.
Ali Mozaffari and Tod Jones, convenors and coChair, ‘Activism, Civil Society and Heritage’. Panel
presentation at the ‘What Does Heritage Change?’
Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)
Conference, Montreal, 3–8 June 2016.
Ali Mozaffari, ‘Liminality and/in Heritage: Examining
the potentials of a known concept.’ Paper presented
at the ‘What Does Heritage Change?’ Association of
Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) Conference, Montreal,
3–8 June 2016.
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Ali Mozaffari and Nigel Westbrook, convenors and
co-Chair, ‘Heritage and Liminality: Cross-cultural
and inter-disciplinary perspectives on liminality and
cultural heritage’. Panel presentation at the ‘What
Does Heritage Change?’ Association of Critical Heritage
Studies (ACHS) Conference, Montreal, 3–8 June 2016.
Ali Mozaffari, ‘Heritage Activism and Mass Media
in Iran’. Paper presented at the ‘What Does Heritage
Change?’ Association of Critical Heritage Studies
(ACHS) Conference, Montreal, 3–8 June 2016.
Ali Mozaffari and Parisa Pourhosseini, ‘Transitioning
into World Heritage: Liminality and ambiguity in
Pasargadae (Southern Iran)’. Paper presented at the
‘What Does Heritage Change?’ Association of Critical
Heritage Studies (ACHS) Conference, Montreal, 3–8
June 2016.
Ali Mozaffari, ‘Bound by heritage? Re-imagining the
domain of Iranian culture since the 1990s’. Invited
lecture presentation, Centre for Critical Heritage
Studies, Department of Culture and Aesthetics,
Stockholm University, 26 September 2016.
Tod Jones, Ali Mozaffari and Marieke Bloembergen,
convenors, ‘Heritage Activism, Politics and Practice
in Asia-Oceania’. Heritage and Social Movements
Workshop, Curtin University, 17 October 2016.
Alexey D. Muraviev
Alexey D. Muraviev, convenor, ‘Marking Boundaries,
Marking Friendship: Timor-Leste and Australia’. Public
lecture by His Excellency Xanana Gusmão, the former
President and Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Tim
Winton Lecture Theatre, Curtin University, 26 April
2016.
Alexey D. Muraviev, ‘Back in the Game? Russia’s
Strategic and Defence Policy in the Indo-Pacific’.
Presentation, National Security Summit, 30–31 August,
Canberra
Alexey D. Muraviev, ‘Bear in the Land of Dragons.
Russia’s Strategic and Defence Policy in the IndoPacific. Implications for Australian National Security’.
Presentation, Department of Criminology and Security
Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, 4 October 2016.
Alexey D. Muraviev, ‘Russia and South China Sea
Dispute. Political-Military Considerations’ (closed-door
defence briefing), Department of Defence, Canberra, 6
October 2016.
Alexey D. Muraviev, ‘Red Star East 2.0. Russia’s
Strategic and Defence Policy in the Indo-Pacific.
Implications for Australian National Security’.
Presentation, The Australian National University,
Canberra, 6 October 2016.
Alexey D. Muraviev, ‘Russia’s Strategic and Defence
Policy in the Indo-Pacific: Implications for Australian
National Security’. Presentation, Australian Strategic
Policy Institute, Canberra, 7 October 2016.
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Alexey D. Muraviev, ‘Russia and South China Sea
Dispute’. Presentation, IISS-Asia, Singapore, 11
October 2016.
Alexey D. Muraviev, ‘Russia’s Strategic and Defence
Policy in the Indo-Pacific. Implications for Australian
National Security. Closed-door defence briefing, HMAS
Stirling, Royal Australian Navy, 3 November 2016.
Baden Offord
Baden Offord, Chair, The Sixteenth Doireann
McDermott Lecture: ‘Gifts of Noongar theatre
performance’ presented by Anna Haebich at the
Go Between, In Between: Borders of Belonging
Conference, The University of Barcelona, Spain, 18
January 2016.
Baden Offord, Chair, Curtin University Featured
Plenary Panel II, ‘Cultural Struggle of Australia:
Negotiating Belonging’. Go Between, In Between:
Borders of Belonging Conference, The University of
Barcelona, Spain, 21 January 2016.
Baden Offord, ‘Of cul-de-sac champions, civilization,
hidden curriculum and Aussie Rules’. Presentation
within the Cultural Struggle of Australia: Negotiating
Belonging (II) Panel, Go Between, In Between: Borders
of Belonging Conference, University of Barcelona,
Spain, 21 January 2016.
Baden Offord, Plenary Speaker, ‘Closing Panel’.
Go Between, In Between: Borders of Belonging
Conference, The University of Barcelona, Spain, 22
January 2016.
Baden Offord, Chair, ‘Reimagining Australia’, a
keynote presentation by Graeme Innes, Chair of the
Attitude Foundation and former Australian Disability
Discrimination Commissioner. Held at Curtin
University, 29 February 2016.
Baden Offord, Convenor and Chair, Inaugural Annual
Curtin University Human Rights Public Lecture
delivered by Professor Gillian Triggs, President of
the Australian Human Rights Commission. Curtin
University, 12 May 2016.
Baden Offord, Conference Co-Chair, IAFOR Asian
Conference on Cultural Studies, Kobe, Japan 3–6 June
2016.
Baden Offord, Opening Address, ‘Cultural Struggle
and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday, The
IAFOR Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, Kobe,
Japan, 3–6 June 2016.
Baden Offord, Plenary Panel Presenter, ‘Current
Challenges and Opportunities in the Humanities and
Cultural Studies’. Presentation with Koichi Iwabuchi
(Monash University) and Donald Hall (Lehigh
University). The IAFOR Asian Conference on Cultural
Studies, Kobe, Japan, 3–6 June 2016.
Baden Offord, Plenary Panel Chair and Discussant,
‘Social Movements and Critical Pedagogy’, with
Professor Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash Asia Institute)
with Professor Noriko Manabe (Temple University)
and Professor David Slater (Sophia University), IAFOR
Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, Kobe, Japan 3–6
June 2016.
Baden Offord, Chair, ‘Cultural Struggle and Praxis:
Negotiating Power and the Everyday’. The IAFOR Asian
Conference on Cultural Studies, Kobe, Japan 3–6 June
2016.
Baden Offord, Chair, keynote speech by Burmese
refugee Rubi NiChin at Refugee Week 2016 Film
screening of ‘How I Became a Refugee, Curtin
University, 20 June 2016.
Baden Offord, ‘Ending Homophobia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility.’ Paper presented at the
Australian Ally Conference, Western Sydney University,
27 June 2016.
Baden Offord, Plenary presentation, ‘Ending
homophobia: encounter, recognition, responsibility’.
Australian Ally Conference, Western Sydney University,
28 June 2016.
Baden Offord, Plenary Panel Speaker, ‘Global
Studies in Challenging Times: Focussing on the Arts,
Humanities and Cultural Studies’. With Donald E.
Hall (Lehigh University), Sue Ballyn (University of
Barcelona) and Bill Phillips (University of Barcelona).
The IAFOR Global Studies Conference on The Global
and The Local: Crossing Sites of Cultural, Critical, &
Political Intervention, Barcelona, 16 July 2016.
Baden Offord, ‘Holding to Account: Visualising
Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Betrayal’. The Fourth
Kathleen Firth Keynote Lecture, IAFOR Global Studies
Conference on The Global and The Local: Crossing
Sites of Cultural, Critical, & Political Intervention,
Barcelona, 16 July 2016.
Baden Offord, Chair, ‘The City: Site and History’,
The IAFOR Global Studies Conference on The Global
and The Local: Crossing Sites of Cultural, Critical, &
Political Intervention, Barcelona, 18 July 2016.
Baden Offord, Chair, ‘Native colonisation: Education
and the economy of violence in Ethiopia’. AAPI
research seminar presentation by Yirga Gelaw
Woldeyes, Curtin University, 1 August 2016.
Baden Offord, Public Lecture, ‘Human Rights and
the Critical Impulse’. Presentation at the Centre
for Critical Human Rights Research, University of
Wollongong, 11 August 2016.
Baden Offord, book launch speaker, ‘Rethinking
Sexual Citizenship: Asia-Pacific Perspectives’, Special
Issue of Sexualities. Centre for Critical Human Rights
Research, University of Wollongong, 11 August 2016.
Baden Offord, Master Class, ‘Doing Critical Human
Rights Research’. Presentation at the Centre for
Critical Human Rights Research, University of
Wollongong, 12 August 2016.
Baden Offord, Convenor and Chair, ‘From Alfred
Kinsey to Orlando and beyond: The role of research
in confronting homophobia’. Public lecture by the
Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG, panel discussion,
and launch of Curtin LGBTIQ Collaborative Research
Network, Tim Winton Lecture Theatre, Curtin
University, 26 August 2016.
Baden Offord, Chair, ‘The Value of Human Rights
Education at University’. Centre for Human Rights
Education (CHRE) research seminar by Nina Burridge
UTS), Curtin University, 9 September 2016.
Baden Offord, Chair, ‘LGBTIQ Asylum Seekers in
Australia – an Analysis of Recent Case Law’. Centre
for Human Rights Education seminar by Josh Pallas,
Curtin University, 15 September 2016.
Suvendrini Perera and Baden Offord, ‘Expanding the
Frame of Visibility’. Plenary presentation, Visualizing
Human Rights Conference, Western Australian
Maritime Museum, Fremantle, 5 December 2016.
Baden Offord, Chair, Barat Ali Batoor Keynote
presentation. Visualising Human Rights Conference,
Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, 6
December 2016.
Baden Offord, MC, InASA Conference 2016–
Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility formal opening. InASA Conference
2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility. University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 7
December 2016.
Baden Offord, Closing Panel Participant, InASA
Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility. University of Notre Dame,
Fremantle, 9 December 2016.
Baden Offord, Panelist and Moderator, ‘Moon Over
Our Heads’. International Human Rights Day, Centre
for Stories, Northbridge, 10 December 2016
Bobbie Oliver
Bobbie Oliver, ‘Iron Town: Wundowie from Boom
to Bust’. Presentation at the Australian Historical
Association Conference, Ballarat, 4–8 July 2016.
Bobbie Oliver, ‘“Honour and praise we are jealous of
giving to him who in danger works hard day to day”
— memorialisation and industrial disasters in Western
Australia’. Presentation in the War and Emotions
panel, InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility. University of
Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8 December 2016.
Suvendrini Perera
Suvendrini Perera, ‘Now little ship, look out!’.
Presentation within the Cultural Struggle of Australia:
Negotiating Belonging (I) Panel, Go Between, In
Between: Borders of Belonging Conference, University
of Barcelona, Spain, 18–22 January 2016.
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Suvendrini Perera, Co-convenor Jumbanna
Indigenous House of Learning, UTS. ‘Violence against
Indigenous women in Canada and Australia: What are
the links?’ University of Technology Sydney, 7 April
2016.
Suvendrini Perera, ‘The smoke of burning
bridges: Refugee lives and the media of survival’.
Keynote address at Bearing Witness: Unspeakable
crimes, invisible atrocities, The 2nd Tamil Studies
Symposium, York University, Canada, 7 May 2016.
Suvendrini Perera, ‘Calling the Australian State to
Account’. Presentation at the advance screening of the
December 2014 documentary, Call to Account, held at
Curtin University, 14 May 2016.
Suvendrini Perera, ‘Small Acts: Performance,
Activism and the Spaces Between’. Keynote address
at the Performing Precarity: Refugee Representation,
Determination and Discourses Conference, University
of Otago, New Zealand, 21–23 November 2016.
Suvendrini Perera, ‘Lost at Sea: Searching for
Australia’s Moral Compass’. Public lecture in
association with the Performing Precarity: Refugee
Representation, Determination and Discourses
Conference, University of Otago, New Zealand, 22
November 2016.
Suvendrini Perera, ‘See you in the funny pages:
Technics, Weak Signals, Counter-artifactualities’.
Keynote address, Technicity, Temporality,
Embodiment conference, Byron Bay, 1–3 December
2016.
Suvendrini Perera and Baden Offord, ‘Expanding the
Frame of Visibility’. Plenary presentation, Visualizing
Human Rights Conference, Western Australian
Maritime Museum, Fremantle, 5 December 2016.
Suvendrini Perera, ‘Reimagining the Borderscape’.
Plenary address, InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining
Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility.
University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 7 December 2016.
Suvendrini Perera, Chair, ‘Racial Australianisation
and the affective registers and emotional practices
of Islamophobia’. Plenary address by Randa AbdelFattah, InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining
Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility.
University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8 December 2016.
Suvendrini Perera, Panel Chair, ‘Telling Stories:
Refugee Activism online & framing narratives’. InASA
Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility. University of Notre Dame,
Fremantle, 8 December 2016.
Suvendrini Perera, Panel Chair, ‘Exploring Memorials
and Histories’. InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining
Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility.
University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 9 December 2016.
Robert Eggington, Rachel Pemberton, Suvendrini
Perera, Lynn MacLaren, and Tony Birch, ‘Changing
the date – and a State of Mind’. Pop up Plenary Panel,
InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia:
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Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility. University of
Notre Dame, Fremantle, 9 December 2016.
Nonja Peters
Nonja Peters, ‘The Long Dutch Connection with
Western Australia’. Presentation for National Seniors
Australia – Floreat and Districts Branch’ meeting, Mt
Claremont Community Centre, Claremont, 9 June 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘Dutch Journeys to the Western Edge
1616-2016’. Talk to primary school teachers, State
Library of Western Australia, 29 June 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘Arrivals and Departures on Victoria
Quay 1906-1960’. Presentation, International Maritime
History (IMHC7) conference, Murdoch University,
Perth, 1 July 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘Human legacy from Dutch VOC
shipwreck survivors’. Western Land Exhibition
Community Talks Program, Royal Western Australian
Historical Society, Nedlands, 6 July 2016.
Sally May, Nien Schwartz, Arnold Stroobach and
Nonja Peters, ‘Dutch Doings: 400 years of Dutch
connections to WA’. Community Open Day, State
Library Western Australia, Perth, 7 August 2016.
Nonja Peters, Curator talk , Dutch Journeys to the
Western Edge 1616–2016 exhibition, State Library of
Western Australia, 7 August 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘The Dutch in Business in Australia’.
Presentation, Australian Business In Europe, (ABIE
group), Amsterdam, 22 September 2016.
Nonja Peters,‘Developing a sustainable model in
mutual cultural digital heritage: Tools and cases’.
Paper presented at European migrant diasporas and
cultural identities, Associated European Migration
Institutions (AEMI) Annual Meeting and Conference,
Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, 30 September
2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘Cultural Heritage’. Workshop for
cultural heritage professionals organised by by
Dutchculture in collaboration with the Department of
Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture, the Arts, and
Science, Amsterdam, 5 October 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘The Long Dutch Presence in Western
Australia’. Presentation for National Seniors Australia
– Floreat and Districts Branch’ meeting, Mt Claremont
Community Centre, 13 October 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘Shipwrecked on the WA Shore’.
Presentation, Women’s International Shipping and
Trading Association (WISTA), Fremantle, 13 October
2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘The contribution migrants make to
Australia’. Keynote presentation, UN Day, Government
House Ballroom, Perth, 21 October 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘Human legacy from Dutch VOC
shipwreck survivors’. Public Program, John Curtin
Gallery, Curtin University, 26 October 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘Descendants of the VOC’. Floor talk,
launch of The making of Descendants of the VOC
Exhibition, WA Museum, Geraldton, 5 November 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘A Touch of Dutch: Visual Snapshots of
the 400 year + Dutch Western Australian Connection’.
Floor talk, KEMH Alumni, King Edward Memorial
Hospital for Women lecture theatre, Subiaco, 24
November 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘History in the City: Four centuries of a
Dutch presence in WA’. Citiplace Community Centre,
Perth, WA, 7 December 2016.
Nonja Peters, ‘Orphans of the VOC: About the
research findings’. Floor talk at Netherlands’ launch
of Descendants of the VOC exhibition, West Frisian
Museum, Hoorn, Netherlands, 17–18 December 2016.
Rachel Robertson
Rachel Robertson with Deborah Hunn, ‘International
Women’s Day Reading and Talk’ featuring Purple
Prose: An anthology of women’s writing, Fremantle
Library, 8 March 2016.
Rachel Robertson, ‘Baby Gammy: Disability, bodies
and borders’. Presentation within the Cultural
Struggle of Australia: Negotiating Belonging (II)
Panel, Go Between, In Between: Borders of Belonging
Conference, University of Barcelona, Spain, 18–22
January 2016.
Rachel Robertson, Chair, ‘This suburban life’. Forum
with Tony Birch, Steven Carroll and Martin McKenzieMurray, Perth Writers Festival, 19 February 2016.
Rachel Robertson, Chair, ‘In the storyteller’s hands’.
Forum with Laura Barnett, Debra Adelaide and Iain
Pears, Perth Writers Festival, Sunday 21 February 2016.
Liz Byrski and Rachel Robertson, ‘Purple Prose’.
Discussion, Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival,
4 June 2016.
Liz Byrski and Rachel Robertson, ‘The Write Advice:
Curtin Writing and Publishing Flash Mob’. Full day
Workshop, Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival,
4 June 2016.
Rachel Robertson, ‘Counting to 1000’. Presentation,
Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival, 3–6 June
2016.
Rachel Robertson, convenor, ‘Write your story’. For
Jigsaw Inc, Perth, 30 July, 17 September and 22 October
2016.
Rachel Robertson, ‘Purple Prose’. Author talk,
Teahouse Books, Denmark WA, 13 August 2016.
Rachel Robertson, Panel Member, ‘The Power
and the Passion: Writing from the Heart’. Creative
Conversations, China Australia Writing Centre, Curtin
University, 10 September 2016.
Rachel Robertson, Author talk, Purple Prose,
Mandurah Public Library, 14 October 2016.
Rachel Robertson, ‘Cross-thievery: Text and image
in creative non-fiction’. Presentation, Association of
Australasian Writing Programs Conference, University
of Canberra, 28–30 November 2016.
Christina Lee, Susan Leong, and Rachel Robertson,
co-convenors, Precarious Times 1-day Interdisciplinary
Symposium, Curtin University, 6 December 2016.
Rachel Robertson, ‘On vulnerability, fractured lives
and fractured prose: Life writing about precarious
experience’. Presentation, Precarious Times
Symposium, Curtin University, 6 December 2016.
Rachel Robertson, Panel Chair, ‘Reimagining
Australia via Disability & Media’. InASA Conference
2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility. University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 7
December 2016.
Rachel Robertson, Panel Chair, ‘Lost and Found? The
Significance of Literary Translation in Reimagining
our Own and Other Cultures’. Paper presented in the
Re-Imagining Form in Australian Creative Writing
Panel. InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility. University of
Notre Dame, Fremantle, 7 December 2016.
Rachel Robertson, Panel Chair, ‘Re-Imagining
Australia via Disability and Media’. InASA Conference
2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility. University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 7
December 2016.
Rachel Robertson, Panel Chair, ‘Clay Memory
and Pentridge Prison’. InASA Conference 2016–
Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility. University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8
December 2016.
Rachel Robertson, Panel Chair, ‘Lost and Found? The
Significance of Literary Translation in Reimagining
our Own and Other Cultures’. InASA Conference
2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility. University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8
December 2016.
Dennis Rumley
Dennis Rumley, ‘One Belt, One Road: Some
implications for Australian national development’.
Paper presented at Building the ‘“Belt and Road”:
Connection, Innovation and Sustainable Development
International Think Tank Association Forum’.
Hosted by the China Center for Contemporary World
Studies, Shenzhen Municipal Government and Fudan
University and organised by the Development Research
Center of Shenzhen Municipal Government. Held at
the Shenzhen Wuzhou Guest House Shenzhen, China,
22–23 February 2016.
Dennis Rumley, Discussant, Australia-India 1.5
Track Defence Strategic Dialogue’. International
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forum organised by Future Directions International
(FDI), Perth and the Institute for Defence Studies and
Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. Fremantle, 1 August 2016.
Dennis Rumley, Chair, ‘Rise and Return of the IndoPacific: Oceans, Seas, and Civilisational Linkages’.
AAPI research seminar presentation by Timothy Doyle,
Curtin University, 7 November 2016.
Dennis Rumley, ‘A “new” Cold War in the IndoPacific Region?’. Paper presented to the Sixth RIIO
International Conference on ‘South Asian Regional
Cooperation – in response to strategy and economy’,
Kunming, China, 17 November 2016.
Dennis Rumley, ‘Regional security challenges and
responses in the Indian Ocean’. Paper presented to the
Center for One Belt One Road Studies (COBOR), Fudan
University, Shanghai, 26 November 2016.
Kim Scott
Kim Scott, performer reading, ‘Home: Our Place. Our
Songs. Our Stories’. Perth Festival opening event, 13
February 2016.
Kim Scott, Panel Member, ‘The Novel Through Time’.
Creative Conversations, China Australia Writing
Centre, Curtin University, 10 September 2016.
Kim Scott, with Ingrid Cumming and Jenny Buchanan.
‘Noongarpedia workshop’ delivered as Professional
Development Session to teaching staff, Mt Lockyer
Primary School, Albany, WA, 10 October 2016.
Kim Scott, Closing Address, Australian Short Story
Festival, Centre for Stories, Northbridge, WA, 23
October 2016.
Graham Seal
Graham Seal, convenor, ‘Folklore and Family History’
Workshop. Cygnet Folk Festival, Tasmania, 9 January
2016.
Graham Seal, Convenor, National Folklore Conference,
National Library of Australia, 24 March 2016.
Graham Seal and Sue Summers, co-ordinators,
Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute seminar series, Curtin
University, 2016.
Graham Seal, Chair, ‘Kalla yarning at Matagarup:
Televised legitimation and the limits of heritage
from below.’ AAPI research seminar presentation by
Shaphan Cox and Thor Kerr, Curtin University, 13 June
2016.
Graham Seal, ‘The Robin Hood Principle: A cultural
approach to outlaw heroes’. Invited paper, The Rise
and Future of Heroism Science: A Cross-Disciplinary
Conference, Murdoch University, 11 July 2016.
Graham Seal, Chair, ‘Fading Lights: Australian POWs
and BCOF troops on Japan, 1945-52’. AAPI research
seminar presentation by Stuart Marshall Bender and
Mick Broderick, Curtin University, 5 September 2016.
Graham Seal, ‘Publish! A hands on workshop for
early career researchers’. Office of Research and
Graduate Studies workshop series presentation, Curtin
University, 11 October and 7 November 2016.
Graham Seal, ARC Grants Workshop Panel, Curtin
University, 7 November 2016.
John R. Stephens
Kim Scott, Opening Address, Symposium: Yurlmun:
Mokare Mia Boodjar. (Public event to mark WA
museum and British Museum collaboration regarding
19th century artefacts). Albany, WA, 3 November 2016.
John R. Stephens, Chair, ‘Western Australia’s
disappearing “shackie” settlements: A heritage or a
memory?’ AAPI research seminar presentation by Roy
Jones, Curtin University, 4 April 2016.
Kim Scott, Workshop Leader, ‘Wirlomin Noongar
Language and Stories Project’. Albany, WA, 26–27
November 2016.
John R. Stephens, Chair, ‘Lina Bo Bardi – Landscape
Architect’. AAPI research seminar presentation by
Annette Condello, Curtin University, 2 May 2016.
Kim Scott, ‘Circles and Sand’. Plenary address, InASA
Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility. University of Notre Dame,
Fremantle, 7 December 2016.
Kim Scott, Chair, launch of: Susan Bradley-Smith,
The Screaming Middle: A memoir in verse (Interactive
Publications, 2016). Sundowner, InASA Conference
2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, 7
December 2016.
Kim Scott, Chair, ‘The Harbinger of Peace and
Tranquility: The Frontier in the Age of Global
Warming’. Plenary address by Tony Birch, InASA
Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility. University of Notre Dame,
Fremantle, 9 December 2016.
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Sue Summers
Sue Summers, Panel Chair, ‘Ingigenous Creative
Encounters through Memory, Storytelling and Art’.
InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility. University of
Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8 December 2016.
Sue Summers and Graham Seal, co-ordinators,
Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute seminar series, Curtin
University, 2016.
Reena Tiwari
Reena Tiwari, ‘Heritage Asset Planning for Remote
Communities’. Presentation, The Asset Institute,
Queensland University of Technology, 27 May 2016.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Grace Q. Zhang
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, ‘The Creation of native
colonialism in Ethiopia’. Presentation, Political
Science and International Relations & UWA Africa
Research Cluster seminar, UWA, 26 April 2016.
Grace Q. Zhang, ‘How elastic a little can be and how
much a little can do in Chinese’. Presentation at the
International Conference on Linguistic Attenuation:
Semantic and Pragmatic Perspectives, Valencia, Spain,
15–18 June 2016.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, ‘Native colonisation:
Education and the economy of violence in Ethiopia’.
AAPI seminar presentation, Curtin University, 1
August 2016.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, ‘International development
and human rights: A critical analysis’. Presentation
for Careers Without Borders: Human Rights and
International Development, an Australian Institute
of International Affairs Young Professionals Network
event, Curtin Graduate School of Business, Perth, 15
September 2016.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, ‘The Role of Human Rights for
International Peace’. Presentation for International
Day of Peace, a Curtin University community event, 21
September 2016.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, ‘Critical Appropriation in
Educational Research in Africa’. Paper presented
at the Creating Diverse and Inclusive Communities
Conference, Queens College, New York, 10–11
November 2016.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Discussant, Native
colonialism: Education and the Economy of Violence
against Traditions in Ethiopia (Africa World Press and
Red Sea Press 2016). Sankofa Video, Books and Café.
Washington, DC., 1 December 2016.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Panel Participant,
‘Reimagining Australia Through the African Lens’.
InASA Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility. University of
Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8 December 2016.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, ‘African Human Rights
Perspectives: Lessons for Australia’. Paper presented
atInASA Conference 2016–Reimagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility. University of
Notre Dame, Fremantle, 8 December 2016.
John N. Yiannakis
Peyman Sabet and Grace Q. Zhang, ‘Vague expression
of ‘I think’ and its negative forms: A comparative
study of L1 and L2 speakers’. Presentation at the
International Conference on Linguistic Attenuation:
Semantic and Pragmatic Perspectives, Valencia, Spain,
15–18 June 2016.
Engagement | creative production |
public artwork
Stuart Bender and Mick Broderick, ‘Fading Lights:
Australian POWs and BCOF troops on Japan, 1945-52’.
Exhibition + seminar, The HIVE, Curtin University, 5
September 2016.
Dawn Bennett and Diana Blom, ‘Australia East and
West, New Music for Viola and Piano’. Recital, Curtin
Research and Innovation Week 2016, Tim Winton
Lecture Theatre, 31 August 2016.
Nonja Peters, Guest Curator, The Dutch on the Western
Edge 1616–2016 Exhibition, State Library of Western
Australia, 24 June 2016–26 September 2016.
Geert Snoeijer and Nonja Peters, exhibition curators,
Descendants of the VOC: A Photographic Essay.
Western Australian Museum, Geraldton, November
2016– February 2017.
Geert Snoeijer and Nonja Peters, exhibition curators,
Descendants of the VOC: A Photographic Essay.
Westfries Museum, Hoorn, the Netherlands, 16
December 2016 – February 2017.
Kim Scott. “Kaya.” A poem –11 verses of Indigenous
Noongar prose with six verses of English text – etched
into 68 pre-cast concrete panels that circle the podium
of new the Perth Stadium, Burswood, WA, 2016.
John N. Yiannakis, ‘Black Night, White Day: Greeceborn Women in Australia’. Open lecture, Greek Centre,
Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 16 June 2016.
John N. Yiannakis, ‘True Grit: Greek women in postwar Australia’. Presentation, Modern Greek Studies
Association of Australia and New Zealand 13th
Biennial Conference on Modern Greek Studies at the
Crossroads: Language, Culture and Pedagogy in an
Age of Disruption and Innovation, La Trobe University
Melbourne, 1–4 December 2016.
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Impact:
Awards, Recognition & Academic Appointments
Stuart Bender
Tod Jones
Stuart Bender took out the 2016 Humanities
Research and Creative Production Award in the ‘Best
Major Creative Work’ (ECR category) for the digital
visualisation project and exhibition: Australian
Prisoners of War (POWs) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at
the time of the Atomic Bombings 1945.
Tod Jones, elected to the Council of the Institute of
Australian Geographers (IAG).
Dawn Bennett
Dawn Bennett, awarded a Commonwealth Office
of Learning and Teaching (OLT) National Senior
Teaching Fellowship, May 2016.
Dawn Bennett, appointed Vice-Chair Australia for the
new International Federation of National Teaching
Fellows launched at the Houses of Parliament, UK, 8
September 2016.
Dawn Bennett, recipient of a 2016 Australian
Award for Excellence in University Teaching (AAUT)
($25,000), Old Parliament House, Canberra, 1
December 2016.
Tod Jones, appointed a Fellow at the Netherlands
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and
Social Sciences (NIAS), Amsterdam.
Thor Kerr
Thor Kerr, appointed WA Greens candidate for the
Federal Seat of Tangney, April 2016.
Susan Leong
Susan Leong, appointed to the AAPI Management
Committee as 2016 ECR Representative.
Alexey Muraviev
Alexey Muraviev, Special Commendation Award for
Outstanding Media Commentary, November 2016.
Ali Mozaffari
Erik Champion
Erik Champion, appointed UNESCO Chair of Cultural
Heritage and Visualisation, co-signed by both Curtin
and UNESCO, September 2016.
Annette Condello
Annette Condello, promoted to Senior Lecturer,
October 2016.
Anna Haebich
Anna Haebich, appointed a Research Affiliate with
HfE Australia Pacific Observatory – Environmental
Humanities, Sydney University.
Anna Haebich, re-elected to the Alumni Committee
of the German Academic Exchange Service for
Australia (DAAD) WA – Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst.
Roy Jones
Roy Jones, re-appointed for a second four-year
term as Steering Committee Member, International
Geographical Union Commission on the Sustainability
of Rural Systems, effective 2012–2020.
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Ali Mozaffari, appointed Research Fellow, Faculty of
Arts and Education, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin
University, Melbourne.
Ali Mozaffari, appointed Adjunct Research Fellow,
Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University.
Suvendrini Perera
Suvendrini Perera, appointed a John Curtin
Distinguished Professor, May 2016.
Suvendrini Perera’s Survival Media: The Poetics and
Politics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka (Palgrave,
2016), nominated for ENMISA Distinguished Book
Award of the International Studies Association, USA,
2016.
Grace Q. Zhang
Grace Zhang, promoted to Professor, October 2016.
2016 Grant Successes
Dawn Bennett
Anna Haebich
Dawn Bennett, $250,000 OLT Senior National
Teaching Fellowship (category 1) funding for the
2017–2018 research project: Equipping and enabling
Australia’s educators to embed employability across
higher education.
Anna Haebich (with Elfie Shiosaki, Michelle Johnson,
Sue Anderson and Lorina Barker): $7,895 Curtin
University Operational Research Support (ORS) scheme
funding for the research project: Our stories, our way:
Collaborative methodology for Indigenous oral history.
Dawn Bennett, $19,000 Curtin University Teaching
Excellence Development Funding for the 2016–2017
research project: Embedding employability skills for
the future into the curriculum.
Anna Haebich, $2570 AAPI funding to bring Dalisa
Pilgrim and Rachael Swaine (Kartiya) Sydney Coartistic Director, Marrugeku, to Perth to participate
in the ‘Kimberley Cultural Renewal: Unsettling the
Dynamic; Reimagining the future’ panel, InASA
Conference, Fremantle, 7–9 December 2016.
Dawn Bennett, $263,762 ARC Linkage Grant (lead
Griffith) for the 2016–2018 research project: Making
music work: Sustainable portfolio careers for
Australian musicians.
Erik Champion
Erik Champion, $2,500 combined AAPI funding
towards attendance at The 11th East-West
Philosophers’ Conference, University of Hawaii,
together with editing and research support for the
forthcoming Routledge publication, Phenomenology of
Place and Virtual Place.
Erik Champion and colleagues, $12,700 MCCA School
Strategic Research grant (August-December 2016) for
the research project and workshop: GLAM-VR.
Erik Champion (with Michael Ovens, Andrew Lynch,
Susan Morris, Mark Paynter): $6000 West Australian
Network for Dissemination (WAND) Small Grant for the
project: Experiential Learning on the HTC Vive Virtual
Reality Platform.
Annette Condello
Annette Condello, $7,200 SOBE Operational Research
Support Program (NTRO) funding for the ‘Pier Luigi
Nervi and Australia’ research project and exhibition.
Timothy Doyle
Timothy Doyle, $55,000 Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade, Commonwealth of Australia Category
2 grant – administered by University of Adelaide,
research project in partnership with the Australia-AsiaPacific Institute, Curtin University – for the research
project and forthcoming Routledge publication:
Ocean-based Food Security and Women’s Economic
Empowerment in the Indian Ocean Rim.
Timothy Doyle, $33000 contract to cover costs
incurred in his 2016–2019 role as DFAT Focal Point for
the Indian Ocean Rim (administered by the University
of Adelaide).
Gina Koczberski and George Curry
Gina Koczberski and George Curry: $1.2 million
funding from the Australian Centre for International
Agricultural Research (ACIAR) for the four-year
research project: Identifying opportunities and
constraints for rural women’s engagement in smallscale agricultural enterprises in Papua New Guinea.
Caroline Fleay and Lisa Hartley
Caroline Fleay and Lisa Hartley, $47,514.69
Australian Red Cross funding towards the 2016–2018
project: Australian Red Cross ‘In Search of Safety’
(ISOS) community education program evaluation.
Tod Jones
Tod Jones, $13,200 funding from the Cooperative
Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation
for an evaluation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Art Economies Project.
Tod Jones, $2,360 AAPI Special Project Seed Funding
towards the research project: The impact of Urban
Indigeneity: A comparative analysis of Perth,
Beersheba and Pohkara.
Tod Jones, $3,900 RUSSIC funding towards the
research project: The impact of Urban Indigeneity: A
comparative analysis of Perth, Beersheba and Pohkara.
Tod Jones, $1059 AAPI funding towards organisation
of the October 2016 Heritage and Social Movements
Workshop, including travel costs for co-convenor, Ali
Mozaffari.
Shaphan Cox and Tod Jones, $7,402 SOBE Operational
Research Support Program (NTRO) funding for
the September 2017 Decolonising Settler Cities
Symposium.
Tod Jones and Diana MacCallum, $2054 Curtin
University Operational Research Support (ORS)
funding for the research project: Resource Cities.
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Christina Lee, Susan Leong & Rachel
Robertson
Christina Lee, Susan Leong and Rachel Robertson:
$13,272 MCCA Strategic Projects Grant plus $2,500
AAPI funding for the Precarious Times one-day
Interdisciplinary Symposium, Curtin University, 6
December 2016.
Anna Haebich
Anna Haebich with Elfie Shiosaki,Curtin University;
Tiffany Shellam, Monash University;and Professor
Ellen Percy Kraly, Colgate University, USA: $263, 603
ARC Discovery Project funding for the 2016 – 2018
research project, ‘Ancestor words’: Noongar letter
writing in Western Australian government archives
from the 1860s to the 1960s.
Susan Leong
Susan Leong and Michael Keane: $19,990 AustraliaChina Council (ACC) Business Research Grant (2016–
2017) for the research project, Harnessing AustralianChinese’s cultural fluency to bridge the export gap.
Susan Leong: $5000 MCCA Small Grant towards
presentation of paper, ‘Global Bersih: Because I
Belong in Malaysia’ at International Association
for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
Conference, Leicester, July 2016.
Susan Leong: $,2600 AAPI funding to represent
AAPI at the 2016 Australian Academy of the
Humanities Annual Symposium, and to present a
paper at the Transnational Mobility in the Asia Pacific:
Family, Friends, Facebook 2016 Symposium, RMIT,
Melbourne, November 2016.
Susan Leong (with Michael Keane [CI1], Ming Cheung,
Jing Zhao, Brian Yecies, Anthony Fung, Yuanpu Jin and
Yahong Li): $249,500.00 ARC Discovery Grant (2017–
2019) for the research project, Digital China: From
cultural presence to innovative nation.
Ali Mozaffari
Ali Mozaffari: $353,124.00 DECRA funding
(DE170100104) for the research project, Transcending
religion: Pre-Islamic heritage and cultural stability in
Iran (Deakin University).
Suvendrini Perera
Suvendrini Perera: $444,984.00 ARC Discovery Grant
(CI1) ‘Deathscapes: Mapping Race and State Violence
in Settler Societies’ (2016-2019). Partners: Joseph
Pugliese (Macquarie), Sherene Razack (Toronto),
Jonathan Inda (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),
Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths).
Suvendrini Perera, $2,500 AAPI funding towards the
research project, Damage by Design, and a related
panel presentation – Anti-Shelter: Imaging and
Imagining Australia’s Pacific Black Sites – at the InASA
Conference, Fremantle, 8 December 2016.
Nonja Peters
Nonja Peters: $10,000 funding from the State Library
of Western Australia to stage the exhibition, Dutch
Journey’s to the Western Edge, on display at SLWA, 24
June –26 September 2016.
Marjolein ‘t Hart, Leo Lucassen, Nonja Peters, and
Paul Arthur: €7000 Nias Lorenz Program funding for
the Nias Lorenz Workshop, ‘Towards a Sustainable
Model for the Digital Preservation of Immigrant
Cultural Heritage’, Leiden University, 22–26 August
2016.
Nonja Peters (C1): $15,000 Faculty of Humanties
funding to bring three Dutch academics to present
Masterclasses on sustainability and engage in
research collaborations with CUSP researchers and
archives, museums, universities, and libraries in the
Netherlands and Australia, September 2016.
Geert Snoeijer, Nonja Peters, Bart de Graaff, Aone
van Engelhoven: $100,000 funding from Dutch
Culture, Amsterdam towards the research project and
exhibition, Descendants of the VOC, 2016.
Nonja Peters and Geert Snoeijer: $10,000 Western
Australian Museum funding to stage the Descendants
of the VOC exhibition at the Western Australian
Museum, Geraldton, November 2016–February 2017.
Nonja Peters and Geert Snoeijer: $20,000 Healthway
funding for preparation of the exhibition, Descendants
of the VOC: A photographic essay, Western Australian
Museum, Geraldton, November 2016–February 2017.
Baden Offord, Caroline Fleay, Lisa K.
Hartley, & Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Nonja Peters and Geert Snoeijer: $15,000 Department
of Culture and the Arts, WA, funding to publish the
Vêrlander: Forgotten Children of the VOC (Vêrlander
Publishing, Amsterdam, 2016) publication in tandem
with the launch of the exhibition, Descendants of
the VOC, Western Australian Museum, Geraldton, 5
November 2016.
Baden Offord, Caroline Fleay, Lisa K. Hartley, and
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes: $9,736 Curtin University
Humanities Office of Research and Development
(ORS) 2016–2018 funding for the research project, The
pedagogies of human rights: Exploration, innovation
and activation.
Nonja Peters and Geert Snoeijer: €2,500 funding from
the Australian Embassy in The Hague to bring Noongar
Aboriginal Barry Maguire to the Netherlands to open
the Descendants of the VOC exhibition at the West
Frisian Museum, Hoorn, Netherlands, 17 December
2016.
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Kim Scott
Kim Scott, Clint Bracknell and Linda Barwick:
$312,400.00 ARC Discovery Project funding for the
research project, Mobilising song archives to nourish
an endangered Aboriginal language (University of
Sydney led project).
Reena Tiwari & John Stephens
Reena Tiwari, John Stephens and team: $44,000 grant
awarded by the Australian Government, through the
Department of Education, under the 2016 round of the
New Colombo Plan Mobility Program to send twenty
students plus two staff to participate in the Lakhnu
Village Community Development Project, India, 2o16.
Reena Tiwari: $3000 AAPI funding towards image
editing and indexing expertise for Routledge
contracted publication, Connecting Places, Connecting
People: Paradigm for urban living in the 21st century.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes: $5000 funding from the
Australian Research Theology Foundation Inc. for the
research project, How to teach Human Rights from the
perspective of diverse cultures and religions.
Grace Q. Zhang
Grace Q. Zhang: $2,500 AAPI funding and $2,535.78
School of Education RATLD scheme support for the
development of an ARC grant application.
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Editorial and Professional Memberships
Stuart Marshall Bender
Member, Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving
Image.
Office for Learning and Teaching: Creating an effective,
accessible and sustainable digital repository.
Gender Equality Working Group member, Curtin
University Athena SWAN project.
Dawn Bennett
Convenor, Humanities Professoriate, Curtin University.
Editorial Board member, International Journal of Music
Education (SAGE).
Inaugural Co-chair, Curtin Academy.
Editorial Board member, Heroism Science: Promoting
the transdisciplinary study of heroism in the 21st century
(USA).
Editorial Board member, Frontiers in Psychology.
Editorial Board member, Journal of the First-Year
Experience and Students in Transition.
Editorial Board member, Music Performance Research
(MPR).
Editorial Board member, Australian Journal of Music
Education (ASME).
Erik Champion
International Committee member, ICOMOS Charter
on the Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural
Heritage sites.
Editorial Board member, Open Library of Humanities.
Editorial Board member, Studies in the Digital
Humanities.
Editorial Board member, The Journal of Interactive
Humanities.
Editorial Board member, Digital Creativity.
College of Reviewers, Higher Education Research and
Development.
Editorial Board member, Games and Culture: A Journal
of Interactive Media.
Advisory Board member, The creative turn: An
Australia-wide study of creativity and innovation in
secondary schools.
Editorial Board member, Gaming and Virtual Worlds.
Commissioner, Education of the Professional Musician
Commission (CEPROM).
Editorial Board member, International Journal of
People-Oriented Programming (IJPOP).
Board of Directors (Executive), International Society
for Music Education (ISME).
Review Board member, The Journal of Interactive
Technology and Pedagogy.
Board of Directors, Music Council of Australia.
Advisory Committee member, Explorations in Heritage
Studies (book series), Berghahn books.
Executive Committee member, National Council of
Tertiary Music Schools.
Co-chair, Music Industry and Careers Advisory Group,
Music Australia.
Editorial Board member, Journal of Virtual Reality and
Broadcasting.
Annette Condello
Affiliate Member, Australian Institute of Architects.
Local Advisory Board member, Queensland
Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University.
Editorial Board member, Luxury: History, Culture,
Consumption Journal, Routledge.
Advisory Board member,VetSetGO employability and
wellbeing project, OLT.
George N. Curry
Assessor, Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT)
competitive grants and awards.
Editorial Board member, PNG Coffee Journal.
Australian Research Council (ARC) Peer reviewer.
Editorial Board member, International Journal of
Population Research.
ARC Assessor, Australian Research Council competitive
grants.
National Committee member for Geography, Australian
Academy of Science.
Steering Group Member, Australasian Council for
Undergraduate Research.
Member, Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG).
Program leader, Australian Learning and Teaching
Fellows Network.
Reference Group member, Australian Government
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Co-Director, Research Unit for the Study of Societies in
Change (RUSSIC), Curtin University.
Management Board member, Australia-Asia-Pacific
Institute (AAPI), Curtin University.
Tim Dolin
Anna Haebich
Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of
Humanities, Curtin University.
Advisory Committee member, Griffith Review.
Foundation member, China-Australia Writing Centre,
Curtin University and Fudan University, Shanghai,
China.
Advisory Committee member, International
Association of Australian Studies (InASA) 2016
Conference, ‘Re-imagining Australia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility’.
Timothy Doyle
Chief Editor, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region (JIOR),
Routledge, UK.
International Editorial Board member, Social
Movement Studies, Routledge.
International Editorial Board member, Global
Faultlines, Pluto Press, UK.
Series Editor of the Introductions to Environment –
Society and Environment Series for Routledge, London.
Founding Series Editor, with Phil Catney, Transforming
Environmental Politics and Policy Series, Routledge,
London.
Editorial Committee member, Studies in Western
Australian History.
Fellow, Australian Academy for the Humanities.
Fellow, Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
Advisory Board member, ARC Centre of Excellence for
the History of Emotions, UWA.
Advisory Group member, Carrolup, Curtin University.
History Project Committee member, Australian
Academy of Humanities.
Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
Patron, Kinship Connections WA.
Member, Stolen Generations Alliance WA.
Member, Alumni Committee, Deutscher Akademischer
Austausch Dienst (DAAD).
Member, Social Sciences Historical Justice and Memory
Research Network, Swinburne University.
Member, Somatechnics Research Network, Macquarie
University.
Australian Department Foreign Affairs and Trade
Academic Focal Point, Indian Ocean Rim.
Research Affiliate, HfE Australia Pacific Observatory –
Environmental Humanities, Sydney University.
Professor, Department of Politics and International
Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Alumni Committee member, DAAD Australia for WA –
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst.
Distinguished Research Fellow, Australia-Asia-PacificInstitute, Curtin University.
Steering and Advisory Committee member,
International Association of Australian Studies
(InASA) 2016 Conference, ‘Re-imagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility’.
Emeritus Professor, School of Philosophy,
International Relations and Environment, Keele
University, UK.
Founding Chair, Indo-Pacific Governance Research
Centre, University of Adelaide.
Caroline Fleay
Board Member, Refugee Council of Australia.
Member, A Fair Go for Asylum Seekers Campaign,
Western Australia.
Member, Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE),
Curtin University.
Research and Graduate Studies representative, Faculty
of Humanities Teaching and Learning Committee,
Curtin University.
Advisory Committee member, International
Association of Australian Studies (InASA) 2016
Conference, ‘Re-imagining Australia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility’.
Lisa K. Hartley
Advisory Committee member, Curtin University Human
Research Ethics Committee (HREC) – Faculty of
Humanities Representative.
Member, Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE),
Curtin University.
Member, Tertiary Education for Asylum Seekers
Working Group, Western Australia.
Member, A Fair Go for Asylum Seekers Campaign,
Western Australia.
Member, Kaldor Centre Emerging Scholars Network on
Refugee and Migration Studies, UNSW.
Advisory Committee member, International
Association of Australian Studies (InASA) 2016
Conference, ‘Re-imagining Australia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility’.
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Roy Jones
Advisory Board Chair, Urban and Regional Planning,
University of Western Australia.
Guest editor, Cultural Intersections in the Indian Ocean
Region, special edition of the Journal of Indian Ocean
Region, forthcoming 2017.
Steering Committee member, International
Geographical Union, Commission on the Sustainability
of Rural Systems (IGU–CSRS).
Gina Koczberski
Scientific Committee Member, Tourism 2016:
International Conference on Global Tourism and
Sustainability, Green Lines Institute for Sustainable
Development.
Co-Director, Research Unit for the Study of Societies in
Change (RUSSIC), Curtin University.
Scientific Committee Member, Heritage 2016: 5th
International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable
Development, Green Lines Institute for Sustainable
Development.
Geography Examining Panel member, Western
Australian Certificate of Education ATAR course,
School Curriculum and Standards Authority.
Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Australian
Geographers (IAG) (lifetime award).
Management Committee member, Research Unit for
the Study of Societies in Change (RUSSIC), Curtin
University.
Non-Member Director, Wadjuk Boodja Gateway
Aboriginal Corporation.
International Reader, Australian Research Council.
Member, Australian Association for the Advancement
of Pacific Studies (AAAPS).
Member, Institute of Australian Geographers.
Member, Association for Social Anthropology in
Oceania (ASAO).
Christina Lee
Editorial Board member and Reviews Editor,
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.
Susan Leong
Series Editor, Media, Culture and Communication
in Asia-pacific Societies, Rowman and Littlefield
International.
Member, Tourism Research Cluster, Curtin University.
Associate Editor, Transitions: Journal of Transient
Migration, Intellect Publications.
Tod Jones
Member, Asian Studies Association of Australia
(ASAA).
Council member, Institute of Australian Geographers
(IAG).
Member, Asian Australian Studies Research Network
(AASRN).
Co-Director, Research Unit for the Study of Societies in
Change (RUSSIC), Curtin University.
Member, International Association for Media and
Communication Research (IAMCR).
Board Member, Tourism Research Cluster, CBS, Curtin
University.
Member, Migration Institute of Australia (MIA).
Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced
Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS),
Amsterdam.
Thor Kerr
Steering and Advisory Committee member,
International Association of Australian Studies
(InASA) 2016 Conference, ‘Re-imagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility’.
Member, Asian Creative Transformations Research Lab
(ACT), Curtin University.
Member, Digital China Lab Program, Centre for Culture
and Technology (CCAT), Curtin University.
Management Commitee member (ECR representative),
Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin
University.
Ali Mozaffari
Commissioner, BCI (Building Construction
Interchange) Asia, Jakarta.
Founding co-editor, Explorations in Heritage Studies,
Berghahn Publishers.
Member, International Australian Studies Association
(InASA).
Member, Iranian Building Engineers Association
(registered architect).
Member, Australian Studies Centre, Barcelona
University (CEA).
Advisory Group member, Centre for Critical Heritage
Studies, Department of Culture and Aesthetics,
Stockholm University.
Member, Posthumanism and Technology Program,
Centre for Culture & Technology (CCAT), Curtin
University.
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Member, International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Science (IUAES).
Member, Architectural Humanities Research
Association (AHRA).
Vice President, Cultural Studies Association of
Australasia (CSAA).
Member, International Council of Museums, Australia
(ICOM).
Executive Board member, International Association of
Australian Studies (InASA).
Member, International Council on Monuments and
Sites (ICOMOS).
International Advisory Board member, Intersectional
Research Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice
(INCISE), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
Member, International Society of Iranian Studies.
Member, Association of Critical Heritage Studies
(ACHS).
Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Education, Alfred
Deakin Institute, Deakin University.
Adjunct Research Fellow, Australia-Asia-Pacific
Institute, Curtin University.
Alexey D. Muraviev
Executive Board member, Australian Public Network.
Australian Committee member, Council for Security
Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (Aus-CSCAP).
Member, Research Network for a Secure Australia,
University of Melbourne.
Member, Australasian Association of Communist and
Post-Communist Studies, ANU.
Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies
(IISS), London.
Senior Research Fellow, Future Directions
International Research Network.
Non-residential Fellow, Sea Power Centre – Australia,
(SPC–A).
Member, Australian Institute of International Affairs,
WA.
Member, Royal United Services Institute, WA.
Russia-NATO Experts Group member, Brussels,
Belgium.
Advisory Board member, Centre for Australian Studies,
The University of Barcelona, Spain.
Executive Council member, International Academic
Forum (IAFOR), Nagoya, Japan.
Director, Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE),
Curtin University
Member, Curtin University Human Research Ethics
Committee.
Conference Convenor, Advisory and Steering
Committee member, International Association
of Australian Studies (InASA) 2016 Conference,
‘Re-imagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility’.
Bobbie Oliver
Editorial Board member, Labour History – the Journal
of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.
Executive Member, History Council of Western
Australia.
Executive Member, Western Australian History
Foundation (WAHF).
Vice-President and Federal Executive delegate,
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
(ASSLH), WA.
Member, Australian Historical Association (AHA).
Member, The Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives
Centre, ANU.
Advisory Panel member, CIVSEC 2018 International
Congress and Exposition – Australian Maritime,
Defence and Aerospace Foundation of Australia.
Suvendrini Perera
Baden Offord
Editorial Board member, Journal of the Association for
the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL).
Contributing Editor, The Review of Education,
Pedagogy and Cultural Studies (Taylor and Francis).
Editorial Board member, Cultural Studies Review.
Editorial Board member, The International Journal of
Human Rights (Taylor and Francis).
Advisory Board member, Social Alternatives.
Advisory Board member, Writing from Below: Gender,
sexuality and diversity.
Member, China-Australia Writing Centre, Curtin
University and Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Deputy Director, Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute
(AAPI), Curtin University.
Editorial Board member, German Australian Studies
Journal.
Editorial Board member, Somatechnics.
Editorial Board member, Hecate.
Editorial Board member, Critical Race and Whiteness
Studies.
Editorial Board member, Borderlands e-journal.
Editorial Board member, Journal of Intercultural
Studies.
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Editorial Board member, Cultural Studies Review.
Steering and Advisory Committee member,
International Association of Australian Studies
(InASA) 2016 Conference, ‘Re-imagining Australia:
Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility’.
Editorial Advisory Committee member, Australian Book
Review.
Reflections Editor, Life Writing.
Prose editor, Westerly.
Editorial Board member, Axon: Creative Explorations.
Nonja Peters
Library Council member, National Library of Australia
(2010–2016).
Vice-Chair, Western Australian Maritime Museum
Advisory Committee.
Advisory Committee member, National Archives of
Australia, WA.
Advisory Board member, Dirk Hartog 2016, Embassy of
the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Australia.
Foundation member, China-Australia Writing Centre,
Curtin University and Fudan University, Shanghai,
China.
Advisory Committee member, International
Association of Australian Studies (InASA) 2016
Conference, ‘Re-imagining Australia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility’.
Dennis Rumley
Board member, Dutch Australian Foundation (DAF).
Distinguished Research Fellow and Professor of Indian
Ocean Studies, Curtin University.
Vice Chair, Associated Netherlands Societies of WA
(ANSWA).
Management Committee member, Australia-AsiaPacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin University.
Academic Council member, The Indo Project,
California USA.
Chair, Indian Ocean Research Group Inc (IORG).
Committee member, Royal Western Australian
Historical Society (RWAHS).
Committee member, Friends of the Battye Library,
State Library of Western Australia (SLWA).
Member, Curtin University Sustainability Policy
Institute (CUSP), Curtin University.
Member, 400-year Commemorations Committee,
Department of the Premier and Cabinet, WA.
Honorary Fellow, Australia India Institute, University
of Melbourne.
Associate, Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre,
University of Adelaide.
Member, The Silk Road Think Tank Association (SRTA),
China.
Editorial Board member (and founding editor), Journal
of the Indian Ocean Region (JIOR) (Routledge).
Kim Scott
Bob Pokrant
Editorial Advisory Board member, International Journal
of Climate Change Strategies and Management.
International Advisory Board member, International
Centre for Climate Change Adaptation and
Development (ICCCAD), Bangladesh.
Fellow, Australian Anthropological Society.
Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute.
Member, Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA).
Rachel Robertson
Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the
Humanities (AAH).
Member, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
Member, Australian Society of Authors (ASA).
Member, Australian Writers Guild (AWG).
Member, First Nations Australia Writers’ Network
(FNAWN).
Member, The Writing Network, MCCA, Curtin
University.
Member, Australian Society of Authors (ASA).
Member, South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council
(Wagyl Kaip).
Member, Association for the Study of Australian
Literature.
Chair and Convenor, Wirlomin Noongar Language and
Stories Project Inc.
Member, International and Australian Motherhood
Initiative for Research and Community Involvement
(AMIRCI).
Member, China-Australia Writing Centre, Curtin
University and Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
National Executive member, Association of
Australasian Writing Programs.
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Program leader, Indigenous Culture and Digital
Technologies Program, Curtin University’s Centre for
Culture & Technology (CCAT).
Graham Seal
Director, Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin
University.
Director, Australian Folklore Unit, Curtin University.
Editorial Board member, Australian Folklore.
Committee member, Pedestrian Committee, Transport
Research Board, Washington.
Member, Society of Architecture Historians Australia
and New Zealand.
Member, Urban Development Institute of Australia.
Series Editor, ‘Studies in Australia, Asia and the
Pacific’ series, Black Swan Press.
John N. Yiannakis
Editorial Board member, Folklife: A Journal of
Ethnology.
Member, Hellenic Community of Western Australia.
Convenor, Australian Folklore Network (AFN).
Advisory Board member, Outlaws in Literature, History
and Culture Monograph Series, Ashgate.
International Advisory Board member, Folklore—
Journal of The Folklore Society (UK).
Editorial Board member, Heroism Science: Promoting
the transdisciplinary study of heroism in the 21st century
(USA).
Advisory Committee member, International
Association of Australian Studies (InASA) 2016
Conference, ‘Re-imagining Australia: Encounter,
Recognition, Responsibility’.
Editor, Writing Life Australia.
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Member, The African Studies Association of
Australasia and the Pacific.
Member, Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE),
Curtin University.
Advisory Committee member,International Association
of Australian Studies (InASA) 2016 Conference,
‘Re-imagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition,
Responsibility’.
John R. Stephens
Councillor, Heritage Council, State Heritage Office,
Western Australia (statutory appointment).
Councillor, National Trust of Australia (WA) Council
(statutory appointment).
Registered Architect (non-practising division).
Management Commitee member, Australia-Asia-Pacific
Institute (AAPI), Curtin University.
Member, Architects Institute of Australia (WA Chapter).
Member, Architects Institute of Australia (WA Chapter)
Heritage Committee.
Member, International Council on Monuments and
Sites (ICOMOS).
Sue Summers
Managing Editor, Black Swan Press.
Managing Editor, ‘Studies in Australia, Asia and the
Pacific’ series, Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI),
Curtin University.
Member, Friends of the Battye Library, State Library of
Western Australia (SLWA).
Reena Tiwari
Advisor, International Scientific Board, Italian
Association of Technology.
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Research and Community Linkages
AAPI members have research affiliations and
partnerships with the following research centres and
institutes, organisations and government departments.
Curtin University
Asian Business Centre (ABC), Curtin Business School
Asian Creative Transformations Research Lab (ACT),
Curtin University
Local and National Organisations,
Associations and Government
Departments
Action Aid Australia
Army Museum of Western Australia
Arts NSW
Arts Victoria
Athena Swan Project, Curtin University
Arts WA
Australian Folklore Research Unit (AFRU)
Association of Australasian Writing Programs (AAWP)
Black Swan Press
Ausdance WA
China-Australia Writing Centre, Curtin University
Australian Anthropological Society
Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University
Australian Committee for the Red Cross (WA)
Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT)
Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE)
Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research
Organisation (CSIRO)
Centre for International Health (CIH)
Australian Folklore Association
Centre for Research in Energy and Mineral Economics
(CREME)
Australian Historical Association (AHA)
Curtin Critical Disability Studies Network
Australian Policy Online
Centre for Sport and Recreation Research (CSRR)
Australian Political Studies Association
Curtin Academy
Australian Public Network
Curtin Department of Computing
Australian Red Cross
Curtin Graduate School of Business (CGSB)
Australian Society of Authors (ASA)
Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee
(HREC)
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
(ASSLH), WA
Curtin University Legal and Compliance Services
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP)
Australian Society of Authors
Faculty of Humanities Teaching and Learning
Committee, Curtin University
Australian Sociological Association
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University
Hub for Immersive Visualisation and eResearch (The
HIVE)
Australian Nursing Federation
Australian War Memorial (AWM)
Australian Writers Guild (AWG)
City of Perth
Human Research Ethics Committee, Curtin University
Committee for Perth
LGBTI Research Network
Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA)
John Curtin Institute of Public Policy (JCIPP)
Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (DICWC)
John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library (JCPML)
Department of Agriculture and Food, Western
Australia
Precaria.net (AAPI Critical and Cultural Stream)
Research Unit for the Study of Societies in Change
(RUSSIC)
Department of Culture and the Arts, Western Australia
Department of Education, Western Australia
School of Built Environment (SOBE)
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
The Writing Network (MCCA)
Department of Planning and Infrastructure, WA
Tourism Research Cluster (CBS)
Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA)
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Dirk Hartog 400-year Commemorations Committee,
Department of the Premier and Cabinet, WA
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Australia
Engineers Australia
Erasmus Foundation, Netherlands Australia Cultural
Society Inc
First Nations Australia Writers’ Network (FNAWN)
Red Cross Migration Support Program (WA)
Relationships Australia
Royal Australian Navy, Canberra
Royal Western Australian Historical Society (RWAHS)
School Curriculum and Standards Authority of
Western Australia
Sea Power Centre – Australia, (SPC–A)
Friends of the Battye Library Inc, State Library of
Western Australia (SLWA)
Southern Aboriginal Corporation, Bringing Them
Home Committee
Gwoonwardu Mia Gascoyne Aboriginal Heritage and
Cultural Centre
State Library of Western Australia (SLWA)
Indigenous Communities Education and Awareness
(ICEA) Foundation
Stolen Generations Alliance WA
Iranian Building Engineers Association
IREAD WA
Kinship Connections, WA
Langford Aboriginal Association
Legacy, Melbourne
Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Australia
Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre, WA
Museum of Australian Democracy
Museum Victoria
Music Industry and Careers Advisory Group, Music
Australia
Music Trust
National Archives of Australia
National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA Australia)
National Library of Australia (NLA)
National Museum of Australia (NMA)
National Trust of Australia, WA
State Records Office of Western Australia (SRO WA)
The Asian Creative Transformations Research Lab,
ACT
The Cultural Connection Code
The Friends of the Battye Library, WA
The Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU
The Returned & Services League of Australia, Western
Australia Branch
The Wirrpanda Foundation
Tracker Consulting
WA Committee of Refugee Health Network Australia
(RHeaNA)
Wadjuk Boodja Gateway Aboriginal Corporation
Western Australian History Foundation (WAHF)
Western Australian Museum
Western Australian Maritime Museum
Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC)
Western Australian Symphony Orchestra
Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Inc.
Woodside Petroleum Ltd
National Foundation for Australian Women
National Library of Australia (NLA)
National Trust of Australia
National Trust of Western Australia
Netherlands Consulate, WA
Noongar Radio 100.9fm
Local and National Research
Centres, Societies, Councils,
Schools and Institutes
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Northam Army Heritage Camp
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions,
UWA
Nunda Community, Western Australia
Architects Institute of Australia (WA Chapter)
Nyoongar Tent Embassy
Archives Program, Australian National University
Public Health Association of Australia
Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)
Public Sector Network (PSN)
Associated Netherlands Societies of WA Inc (ANSWA)
Perth South Coastal Medicare Local (PCSML)
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Public Transport Authority WA
Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), ANU
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Australasian Council for Undergraduate Research
Australia-China Council (ACC)
Australia Council for the Arts
Australia India Business Council (AIBC)
Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne
Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH)
Australian Academy of Social Sciences
Australian Academy of Science
Australian Academy for the Humanities
Australian Academy of Social Sciences
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and
Engineering (ATSE) – Crawford Fund
Australian Centre for International Collaborative
Research (ACIAR)
Behavioural and Social Sciences in Health, University
of Sydney
Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies
(CAPSTRANS)
Centre for European Studies, Australian National
University
Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of
Australia
Centre for International Security Studies, University of
Sydney
Centre for Islam and the Modern World, Monash
University
Centre for Muslim States and Societies, UWA
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University
of Sydney
Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University
Australian Centre for Public History Committee,
Sydney University of Technology
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific,
Deakin University
Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and
Society (ACSACS)
College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian
National University
Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies,
University of Melbourne
Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC), the
University of Melbourne
Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research
Centres (ACHRC)
Council for Australian Arab Relations (Dept Foreign
Affairs & Trade)
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific
(Aus-CSCAP)
Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA)
Australian Dictionary of Biography, History Program,
ANU
Council of the Australian Academy of Humanities
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)
Australian Institute for Teaching and School
Leadership
Department of Anthropology and Sociology,
University of Western Australia
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
Department of Politics and International Studies,
University of Adelaide
Australian Institute of Architects
Division of Pacific and Asian History, Australian
National University
Australian Institute of International Affairs, WA
Australian Motherhood Initiative for Research and
Community Involvement (AMIRCI)
Australian National University Archives
Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Faculty of Arts and Education, Alfred Deakin Institute,
Deakin University
Australian Research Council (ARC)
Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of
Melbourne
Australian Society for Music Education (Inc.)
Faculty of Humanities, Griffith University
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University
of Adelaide
Australian Centre for International Agricultural
Research
Forced Migration Research Hub, Swinburne University
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
Future Directions International
Australian Teaching and Learning Council (ALTC)
Globalism Research Centre, Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology
Australian Women and Gender Studies Association
(AWGSA)
Australasian Association of Communist and PostCommunist Studies, ANU
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Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
Heritage Council, State Heritage Office, Western
Australia
HfE Australia Pacific Observatory – Environmental
Humanities, Sydney University
History and Australian Studies, Monash University
History Council of Western Australia
Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre, University
of Adelaide
Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University
Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG)
International Council of Museums, Australia (ICOM)
International Health SIG (Special Interest Group) –
Public Health Association of Australia
International Relations and Global Security Research
Unit
ITEE eResearch Group, The University of Queensland
Kaldor Centre Emerging Scholars Network on Refugee
and Migration Studies, UNSW
Melbourne Business School
Migration Institute of Australia (MIA)
Ministerial Council on Asylum Seekers and Detention
(MCASD)
Music Council of Australia
Music Program, School of Communication Arts,
University of Western Sydney
National Centre of Biography, Australian National
University
National Council of Tertiary Music Schools
(NACTMUS)
National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources
(NeCTAR)
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE
Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT)
One World Centre
Pacific Studies Association of Australia
Catholic University
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
School of Communication Arts, University of Western
Sydney
School of Computing and Communications, University
of Technology Sydney (UTS)
School of Education, University of Western Sydney
School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer
Engineering, UWA
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The
University of Melbourne
School of History, Australian National University
School of Marketing and Management, The University
of Melbourne
School of Politics and International Relations,
Australian National University
School of Politics, Philosophy and International
Relations (SPIRE), Keele University, UK
Somatechnics Research Centre, Macquarie University
South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (Wagyl
Kaip)
Swinburne Institute for Social Research
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of
Sydney
Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney
Tertiary Education for Asylum Seekers Working
Group, Western Australia
The Australia Pacific Observatory, Sydney University
The Pacific Centre, Australian National University
Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, La Trobe
University
Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA)
West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)
Planning and Transport Research Centre WA (PATREC)
Polaris, National Centre for Maritime Policy Research,
Pakistan
Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith
University
Refugee Council of Australia
Research School of Humanities, ANU College of Arts
and Social Sciences
Royal United Services Institute, WA
School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts,
UWA
School of Arts, University of New England
School of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian
International Research Centres,
Institutes, Societies and
Organisations
Asian Media Information and Communication Centre
(AMIC)
African Studies Association of Australasia and the
Pacific (AFSAAP)
Ancient History and Archaeology, Université Lumière
Lyon 2, France
Architectural Humanities Research Association
(AHRA)
Asia Research Institute, National University of
Singapore (ARI–NUS)
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Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and
New Zealand
Department of Politics, Philosophy, International
Relations and the Environment, Keele University, UK
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
(ASAO)
Department of Social Welfare, University of Indonesia
Australian and Asian Regional Nodes of the
Millennium Project
Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
Education of the Professional Musician Commission
(CEPROM)
English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS)
Building Construction Interchange (BCI) Asia
Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University, Bali,
Indonesia
Cambridge University Press Hardy Editorial Board
Faculty of Social Work, University of Guam
Canadian Social Sciences Research Council
Heritage of Malaysia Trust, Badan Warisan Malaysia
Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne, Somme
Battlefields, France
CARE International
Centre for Australian Studies, The University of
Barcelona
Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA)
Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, USA
Humanities and Social Studies Education, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
Centre for Cultural Policy Research, Glasgow
University
HUMlab, The Digital Humanities Centre, Umeå
University, Sweden
Centre for Disability Research (CeDR), Lancaster
University, UK
Huygens ING Institute, The Netherlands
Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE), The
Netherlands.
ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on
Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage
Sites (ICIP)
Centre for Maritime Research (MARE), The
Netherlands
Indian Ocean Research Group Inc (IORG)
Centre for Natural Resource Studies (CNRS),
Bangladesh
Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA)
Indian Ocean Rim Academic Group (IORAG)
Center for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities,
Simon Fraser University
Indian Prime Minister’s Global Advisory Council of
Overseas Indians
Centre for Rural Development, Research Centre for
Women’s Studies (RCWS) – SNDT Women’s University,
Mumbai, India
Institute of Urban and Regional Development,
University of California
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Cocoa & Coconut Research Institute of Papua New
Guinea
International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan
Coffee Industry Corporation, Papua New Guinea
International Association for Media and
Communication Research (IAMCR)
Coffee Research Institute, Papua New Guinea
College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Fudan
University, China
College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
Computer Sciences, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon,
France
CSIRO National Research Flagships – Climate
Adaptation
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)
Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster
University
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Sun
Yat-sen University, China
Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri
Lanka
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International Association of Australian Studies
(InASA)
International Auto/BiographyAssociation (IABA)
International Centre for Climate Change Adaptation
and Development (ICCCAD), Bangladesh
International Council of Museums (ICOM), UNESCO
International Cooperation Program, Erasmus
Mundus European Cooperation Program, Universitat
Internacional de Catalunya (UIC), Spain
International Council for Science (ICSU)
International Council on Monuments and Sites
(ICOMOS)
International Geographical Union (IGU)
International Federation of National Teaching Fellows
International Institute for Environment and
Development, London
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
London
International Organization for Migration (IOM),
Timor-Leste (East Timor) Mission
International Scientific Board, Italian Association of
Technology.
International Society for Music Education (ISME)
International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS)
International Geographical Union, Commission on the
Sustainability of Rural Systems (IGU–CSRS)
International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
Intersectional Research Centre for Inclusion & Social
Justice (INCISE), Canterbury Christ Church University,
UK
National Human Rights Commission of Korea
National Regulatory Authority, Laos
National Writers’ Union (USA)
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the
Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Amsterdam.
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NWO)
Mines Advisory Group (MAG)
Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University
of Toronto
Office of Human Rights Studies and Social
Development, Mahidol University, Thailand
Papua New Guinea National Agricultural Research
Unit (NARI)
Papua New Guinean Oil Palm Research Association
Inc.
Institute for International Peace-Building (IIPB),
Jakarta
Parsa Pasargadae Research Foundation (PPRF) Iran
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)
Pier Luigi Nervi Foundation
Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced
Study, University of London
PNG Cocoa and Coconut Research Institute Limited
Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, University of
Cologne, Germany
Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), Singapore
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), National
University of Singapore
Institute of Urban Designers, India (IUDI)
Iranian Building Engineers’ Association (Tehran)
International Society of Iranian Studies
Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism
Organization (ICHHTO, Shiraz Chapter)
Islamic Studies Faculty, University of Muhammadiyah,
Malang, East Java, Indonesia
Jesuit Refugee Services, Indonesia
People against Violent Extremism (PAVE)
Risk Intelligence, Denmark
Roosevelt Study Center (RSV) Middleburg, The
Netherlands
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and
Caribbean Studies KITLV
School of Architecture, Universitat International de
Catalunya, Spain
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University,
Canada
School of English Language, University of Leeds
School of English Studies, Dalian University of
Foreign Language Studies (DLUFL), China
King’s College London
Social and Behavioural Science Research Cluster,
University of Malaya
K J Somaiya Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai
India
Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image
(SCSMI)
Liberal Arts Faculty, McNally Smith College of Music,
Minnesota
Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and
New Zealand (SAHANZ)
Loyola University, Chicago
Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University
of Toronto
Lowy Institute for International Policy
Malaysian Environmental Non-Government
Organisations (Mengo)
Somatechnics Research Centre, Macquarie University
Museum of London
Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies,
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Museum Voor Hedendaagse Aboriginal Kunst /
Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht (AMU), Utrecht, NL
The African Studies Association of Australasia and the
Pacific
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The Indo Project, California USA
The Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona,
USA
The Folklore Society, UK
The Nationaal Archief, The Netherlands
The National Council of Tertiary Music Schools
(NACTMUS)
The Silk Road Think Tank Association (SRTA), China
The Society for Architectural Historians Australia and
New Zealand (SAHANZ)
United States Department of Homeland Security
University of Applied Science, Hamburg
University of Saskatchewan
University of Technology – Papua New Guinea
WOTRO Science for Global Development
Research Networks
ARC Asia Pacific Futures Research Network
ARC Cultural Research Network
Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN)
Association of American Geographers
Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific
Studies (AAAPS)
Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows Network
Publication credits
2016 AAPI Annual Report
Collated, designed and formatted by Dr Sue Summers,
Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute / Black Swan Press.
Editing, Dr Sue Summers and Professor Graham Seal.
Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research
Centres (ACHRC)
Front Cover Image
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI),
the University of British Columbia, Canada
Front cover image: Farmers in Kaubwaga village,
Misima Island, Papua New Guinea, assisting Gina
Koczberski to identify local yam varieties.
Creative Workforce Initiative
Future Directions International (FDI) Research
Network
Historical Justice and Memory Research Network,
Swinburne University
Indian Ocean Research Group Inc
International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Nagoya,
Japan
International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA)
Russia-NATO Experts Group, Brussels
Somatechnics Research Network, Macquarie
University
Social Sciences Historical Justice and Memory
Research Network, Swinburne University
Sources of Insecurity Research Network, Globalism
Research Centre, RMIT
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Photo credit: Jarrad Wemmal.
Gina’s research on the remote Island of Misima is
part of a four year project she is working on with
George Curry and PNG researchers that examines
food insecurity amongst smallholder households
producing export commodity tree crops.
While on Misima Island, work was carried out with
villagers mapping and surveying their food gardens to
assess land access and tenure security for household
food production, the range of staple food crops grown,
changes in garden management and cultivation
practices over time and stressors on the farming
systems.
The data will be combined with information collected
in four other provinces in PNG to generate a better
understanding of the sustainability of subsistence
and commodity crop farming systems, and to develop
policy interventions to relieve the pressures on
farming systems that make smallholders vulnerable to
food and income insecurity.
Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI)
Contact
Tel: + 61 8 9266 3234
Curtin University
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GPO Box U1987
Perth
Western Australia 6845
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