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 Research Associates
The following people are Associates of the Institute. These are people
not employed within the Institute but with whom we have research ties
and who contribute to the research culture of the Institute.
Peter Annear
Research Associate, Globalism Institute
Recent research: health policy and planning; health economics and financing
Eugenia Arvanitis
Researcher, Ionian island of Lefkada, Greece
Recent research: multicultural educational policy
and practice; ethnic community development, sustainability and identity;
community-building education; teachers' training.
Paul Battersby
www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=9sgdrdpvajsx
Program Manager, International Studies, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
Recent research:Australia-Asia relations; Thai studies, Thai village culture and development; community sustainability; global governance; regionalisation in the Asia Pacific.
Desmond Cahill
www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=4wp4obw7d7qo
Professor of Intercultural Studies, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
Recent research: immigrant, ethnic and intercultural
education; religion, cultural diversity and globalization; ethnic
communities in diasporic contexts; intercultural marriages; world,
population movements and crime; the Polish and Vietnamese communities
in Australia.
John Callinan
Community Researcher, Hamilton
Guosheng Chen
www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=pzsdirnkd7qo
Manager, Language and Global Culture Programs and Manager, Chinese-Australian
Studies and Contemporary Culture Forum, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
Recent research: internationalization of higher education;
East Asian studies, language teaching and research; the Chinese diaspora
and its development in the contemporary global context.
Esther Charlesworth
Research Associate, Globalism Institute
Recent research: post-war and post-disaster reconstruction;
urban design, social issues and sustainability; social responsibility
and architecture.
Bill Cope
Managing Director, Common Ground
Adjunct Professor, Globalism Institute
Recent research: pedagogy; instructional design; digital literacy;
multiliteracies; publishing; semantic web; histories and practices of
representation; cultural pluralism; globalisation.
Cicely Fenton
Community Research, Hamilton
John Fien
www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=7pmopchepf1fz
Innovation Professor of Sustainability
Recent research: sustainable consumption; education
for sustainability; sustainability in the workplace; the use of multimedia
in teacher education for sustainability.
Julie Foster-Smith
Researcher, Globalism Institute
Recent research: Aboriginal education in Australian
schools; community development strategies in Papua-New Guinea; indigenous
epistemologies; 'intercultural travel'.
Cathy Greenfield
www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=o3bi1fafe7qo
Associate Professor, School of Applied Communication
Recent research: the relations between media; politics
and the government of populations; current media rhetoric pertaining
to Howardism and neo-liberalism more generally; media populism; the
politics of finance journalism.
Elizabeth Grierson
www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=76npgp7dat2d1
Head of School, School of Art
Recent research:art as a site of knowledge; creative methodologies; globalisation and identity; cultural politics; art and the academy; poststructuralism and the philosophy of education; knowledge and subjectivity
Hariz Halilovich
Researcher Associate, Globalism Institute
Recent research: cultural hybridity; identity; displacement;
refugees; the politics of violence in former Yugoslavia; nationalism;
ethnocentrism; globalization.
John Handmer
www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=epckb2lyqmn4z
Innovation Professor, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
Recent research: public policy issues in risk and
community safety; emergency planning and management; community resilience;
the interface of spatial information science and risk and safety management;
sustainable development.
Mary Kalantzis
Chair of Education, Research Professor, Research and Innovation
Recent research: education, productive diversity,
pedagogy, e-learning and multiliteracies; multicultural Australia;
refugee and indigenous issues.
Jeff Lewis
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/jefflewis
Associate Dean, Research and Innovation
Recent research: media and cultural theory; transculturalism;
new communications technology; textual studies; globalization studies;
cultural democracy and the media; 9/11, terror and the mediation of
war; community responses to the Bali bombings.
Grant McBurnie
Office of International Development, Monash University
Recent research: the globalization of higher education,
including trade in education in the Asia-Pacific region; transnational
education; quality assurance in international education; international
education policy studies.
Jock McCulloch
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/mcculloch_j
Professor of History, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
Recent research: politics of development; colonial history of Southern Africa; post-colonial studies; medical sociology.
Peter Marden
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/marden_p
Senior Lecturer, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning (International Development)
Recent research: political philosophy; social theory;
democracy studies; international politics.
Bill Martin
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/bill_martin
Director Research, School of Business IT
Recent research: knowledge in enterprises (in particular
the construction industry); knowledge cultures and strategies; knowledge
in business models and metrics for knowledge.
Dave Mercer
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/mercer_d
Co-ordinator International Urban Environment, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
Recent research: indigenous issues and citizenship;
indigenous welfare and the potential of tourism; energy and society,
with particular reference to climate change, technology choice and
the 'resource curse' in relation to Timor L'Este; natural hazard discourse,
with particular reference to climate change and the fire hazard in
Australia; demographic and labour market change in regional Australia.
Terri Nicholson
Community Researcher, Hamilton
Jane Perry
Post-Compulsory Education and Training Research Centre
Recent research: international post-compulsory education
and training policy.
Marjorie Quinn
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/quinnm
Program Leader Social Work, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
Recent research: community work and international
partnerships-particularly Zambia (following two and a half years working
there) and Bangladesh (around the teaching of the course 'International
Perspectives on Community Development' in Bangladesh).
Leanne Reinke
Research Associate, Globalism Institute
Recent research: changing communication technologies;
Indigenous politics and reconciliation; traditional knowledge systems;
theories of community formation and transformation under globalization;
cultural dimensions of online education.
Jacob Rumbiak
Senior Research Associate, Globalism Institute
Australian West Papua Association
Recent research: continuing to create awareness,
conditions, and relations for nationbuilding, peace-seeking dialogue
between West Papuans, West Papua and Indonesia, and between both nations
and the international community.
Christopher Scanlon
Researcher Associate, Globalism Institute
Recent research: links between cultural diversity
and bio-diversity; micro-finance and micro-credit; bio-piracy and
Indigenous knowledge; Third-Way politics; globalization and social
policy; theories of information society; social capital approaches
to governance.
Gyorgy Scrinis
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/scrinis_g
http://www.gyorgyscrinis.com
Research Associate, Globalism Institute
Recent research: genetically modified foods; theories
of technological and agricultural forms; globalization and corporatization
of the food system; food security; nutritionism, functional foods
and forms of food consumption.
Judith Shaw
Monash University
Recent research: microfinance, micro-enterprise development
and the impact of globalization on labour markets in developing countries.
Chris Shepherd
Research Associate, Globalism Institute
Recent research: postcolonial science studies and
anthropology; agricultural development at their sites of implementation
in the Third World; NGOs and indigenous peoples in Latin America.
Julian Silverman
www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=abhs3areg7qo
Co-ordinator of Diploma of Community Education, School of Education
Recent research: student skill development during
exposure to issues and activist practices of untouchable communities;
caste, gender and strategies of social change; VET-based learning
assessment programs in partnership with indigenous and other diverse
communities.
Joseph Siracusa
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/joesiracusa
Professor in Global Studies, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
Recent research: international diplomacy; ethical and humanitarian intervention; international security; Australia-United States security issues; United Nations reform; strategic responses to terrorism.
John Smithies
Director, Cultural Development Network, City of Melbourne
Ceridwen Spark
Research Associate, Globalism Institute
Recent research: issues of race, Indigeneity and
colonialism; the 'traditional-modern' encounter between Western and
traditional PNG cultures and medicines.
Recent research:
Deb Verhoeven
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/debverhoeven
Associate Professor, School of Applied Communications
Recent research: 'Communicating urban rivalries:
"first" and "second" cities' (with Brian Morris); rethinking Australian
national cinema; policy analysis of recent developments in the film
industry particularly box-office performance; critical appraisal of
current release movies; recipient of ARC support (2005-7) for 'Regional
Markets and Local Audiences: Case Studies in Australian Cinema Consumption,
1928-1980'; specialist interest in diasporic film audiences in Melbourne
1955-80.
Peter Williams
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/peterwilliams
Researcher, School of Applied Communication
Recent research: history of communication technologies,
especially radio; representations of Indigenous people and land; finance
journalism and the neoliberal culture of finance capitalism.
Nicola Yelland
Former Professor and Head of the Department of School and Early Childhood, FELCS
Recent research: learning technologies; mathematical
literacies; learning in the information age; education.
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