Research

Linda Bartolomei

• Refugees and displacement
• Refugee women and sexual violence
• Refugee women at risk
• Ethics of research with refugee communities
• Human rights and community development

Duncan McDuie-Ra

• Urban development
• Vernacular urbanism
• Migration (domestic and international)
• Borderlands
• Race and ethnicity
• Ethnography of infrastructure
• Masculinity

Tanya Jakimow

• Development actors, practices and policies in India and Indonesia
• Governance and community driven development in urban locales
• Emotion and affect in the development ‘terrain’
• Local developers: volunteers, representatives and practitioners
• The political economy of personhood and development
• Livelihoods and agrarian change
• Small, local non-government organisations

Susanne Schmeidl

• Intersection of peace, security and development in Afghanistan, South Asia and the Horn of Africa
• Context-sensitive approaches to development and peacebuilding
• Development in situations of fragility
• Conflict/peace and development relationship
• Bottom-up and participatory approaches to peace/statebuilding
• Refugees and internally displaced persons
• Protection and rights-based approaches to development
• The role of civil society and non-state actors in peace/statebuilding

Krishna K. Shrestha

• Climate change adaptation and equity
• Environmental justice and sustainable development
• Political ecology of natural resource management
• Science-policy interface and food security
• Communicative planning, participation and development

Pichamon Yeophantong

• Environmental governance in China and Southeast Asia
• Transboundary water governance in the Mekong region
• Transnational activism in East and Southeast Asia
• Indigenous knowledge and environmental management in Myanmar
• Political economy of Chinese resource investment

Anthony Zwi

• Global health and development – politics, policy and agendas
• Conflict and peacebuilding – with an emphasis on the challenges of development and “post”-conflict
• Natural and man-made disasters, resilience, gender, and humanitarian response
• Social justice, human rights and gender equity in the development arena
• Towards evidence-informed policy - research, ethics, evidence, and engagement in humanitarian, development, and health policy arenas