Academic staff
Development Studies staff are drawn from a range of disciplines. They bring with them practical experience in developing and managing development projects and programs as well as teaching and research on development related issues in Australia, the Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Europe.
At the postgraduate program level, NGOs, multilateral and bilateral aid agencies also provide experts on a course-by-course basis to develop modules and conduct these in consultation with potential participants and sponsoring institutions. Various staff have backgrounds in programs funded by AusAid, ADB, World Bank, UNDP; and key international NGOs.
Below is a list of the staff in Development Studies. As an interdisciplinary program Development Studies also draws on the expertise of many other academic staff within the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry.
Development Studies
Director
Professor Andrew Dawson - Social anthropology, postmodernism, community, identity, policy, migrancy, (especially former Yugoslavs in Europe and Australia).
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Dr Alan Thorold - Development studies and anthropology. Social anthropology of religion, governance, development, East and South Africa.
Program Coordinator / Postgraduate Coordinator
Dr Salim Lakha - Development Studies, Globalisation, Industrialisation, India.
Honours Coordinator
Dr Nadeem Malik - Development studies, anthropology of development, political anthropology, development and social theory, globalization, civil society, governance, political economy, gender, public policy, art and development, theatre and development, program and project management, monitoring and evaluation of development projects.
Program Administrator, Internship Coordinator
Dr Violeta Schubert - Security, protection and humanitarianism, Indigenous development, cross-sector partnerships, kinship, gender, ethnicity, national identity, Macedonia, Balkans.
Dr Hans Baer - Social anthropology of health and religion. Especially USA, Australia, Germany.
Dr Anthony Marcus - Development studies, urban anthropology, civil society, gender, political economy, public policy and 'race' and ethnicity in the Americas.
Faculty from other Schools
Dr Jon Barnett - Development studies, global environmental politics, climate change and human security, Oceania
Dr Simon Batterbury - Environmental and development studies, political ecology of resources, development evaluation and NGOs, environmental policy. Francophone West Africa (Burkina Faso, Niger), East Timor, New Caledonia, western cities.
Dr Lisa Palmer - Natural and cultural resource management, indigenous peoples, the politics of heritage, tourism and conservation in South-East Asia (East Timor, Thailand) and northern Australia.
Dr Fiona Miller (Future Generation Fellow) - Political ecology, water management, social vulnerability, natural hazards, and poverty. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Australia.
Associate Professor Mark Wang - Urban development and economic change in China and East Asia; rural-urban migration, urban environmental management, labour transitions, China-Australia economic linkages.
Chris Roche (Honorary Research Fellow in Geography and Resource Management, and Director of Development Effectiveness, Oxfam Australia) - Development effectiveness, development management, development evaluation, political economy of development.
Prof. Ken Good (Honorary Research Fellow) - African politics, mining and human rights, international development. Botswana, South Africa, Kenya, PNG.