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International Development, Global Capital, and Local Realities: Women’s Agency in Rural Sri Lanka.
Using the case of Monaragala District, Sri Lanka, this study proposes to analyse how women's agency and resistance are exercised when faced with land dispossession and labour precarity. The study will interrogate the notions of development, agricultural modernity and women’s empowerment by unpacking the local realities that persisted for more than thirty years.
Policy mixes enabling sustainability transitions of small businesses in the urban environments.
Environmental sustainability is a grand challenge in the wake of global warming, depleting natural resources and pollution. Negative environmental externalities created by small businesses are often overlooked from both governance and academic research perspectives. In this light, the research investigates how the concept of policy mix create enabling environment for SMEs in the urban environments to transition towards sustainability.
A/Prof Megan Farrelly, A/Prof Wendy Stubbs, Dr. Benjamin Thompson
Dr Narelle Warren (Main), Ms Susie Siew Yuen Ho (Associate), A/Prof Megan Farrelly (Associate)
Party mandates in the world’s largest democracy: making and keeping campaign promises in India.
In representative democracies, parties are expected to fulfil their campaign promises, also known as ‘pledges’, after getting into office. My research extends the current comparative pledge study, the Comparative Party Pledges Project, to the largest representative democracy in the world by population size, India, and looks into the extent to which voters get meaningful choices between policy alternatives in election campaigns.
Prof Robert Thomson (Main), A/Prof Peter Lentini (Associate)
A/Prof Mark Davis (Main), Dr Narelle Warren (Associate)
Older people in coastal Bangladesh: extreme weather events, social protection and vulnerability.
The research will add new knowledge in the literature on the impacts of extreme weather events on the vulnerability and resilience of older people, and the role of social protection programs to address their vulnerability in coastal Bangladesh. Besides, the results will encourage potential researchers in this field to discover in-depth answers to the problem, and policymakers will come up with ideas to reform existing policies and programs.
A/Prof Dharmalingam Arunachalam (Main), Dr Helen Forbes-Mewett (Associate)
Disrupting masculinity: the therapeutic encounters of infertile Pakistani men.
Within the study of gender, this research project specifically analyzes the roles of institutions, cultures and individuals in constructing gender and disease. Also sheds light on our developing and limited understanding of men and masculinities particularly within the context of resource-constrained societies, and the ways preconceived gender notions inform critical life events such as reproductive health decision making.
Prof Alan Petersen (Main), Prof Andrea Whittaker (Associate)
Prof Andrea Whittaker (Main), Dr Birgit Braeuchler (Associate)
Negotiating Australia's racial and sexual contracts: Nepali migrant women and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified and exposed racial, gender and social inequalties worldwide. My research considers how migrant women of colour in Australia, specifically Nepali temporary migrant women, have managed this intensification of structural and historical inequality, with a focus on the operation of the racial and sexual contracts in Australia intersect with post-Fordist precarity to shape migrant women's experiences.
Dr Sara Niner (Main), Dr Narelle Warren (Associate)
Prof Jacqui True (Main), A/Prof Sara Davies (Associate)
Prof Jacqui True (Main), Dr Samanthi Gunawardana (Associate)
Exploring the role of Ngaruahine Elders as catalysts for revitalising lost culture, documenting their stories implementing Kaupapa Maori methodology.
The reported family violence statistics by Maori living in New Zealand are catastrophic. We urgently need to develop educational resources, by Maori for Maori, working collaboratively with the Elders to revitalise lost culture using tikanga and Kaupapa Maori to inform and shape government policies and framework because the current policies have failed.
Dr Rachel Standfield (Main), Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Associate)
The role of weight stigma and associated factors in the avoidance of physical activity and sport.
It is important to understand the role of external and internal weight stigma in avoiding exercise as physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality and weight stigmatisation is prolific in a variety of settings and causes physical and mental consequences. This research will assist to develop a better understanding of sociocultural and psychological factors associated with physical activity and sport avoidance.
A/Prof Kerry O'Brien (Main), Dr Ruth Jeanes (Associate)
Australia’s “missing assets”: highly skilled migrant women’s experiences of inclusion and belonging.
Centered on Bourdieu's conceptual tools of capital, habitus and field, this study examines the complexities of the relationships between non English speaking background immigrant women’s habitus and negotiation of multiple fields. It exemplifies the complexities that highly skilled NESB women experience in the process of finding employment and settling in a new country.
A/Prof Rebecca Wickes (Main), A/Prof Alan Gamlen (Associate)
Dr Lennon Yao-Chung Chang (Main), A/Prof Asher Flynn (Associate)
Evaluating family violence perpetrator interventions in Victoria.
This work is important because family violence is a critical, global issue where we are constantly seeking continuous improvement in the way that we hold perpetrators to account. Currently, we are failing to keep women and children safe in their homes. We need to find ways to successfully promote long term behaviour change in perpetrators.
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Main), Prof Jane-Maree Maher (Associate)
Terrorist recruiters and social media prosumers: the role of identity in ISIL recruitment and propaganda.
This research develops new understandings on the role of identity in ISIL recruitment and propaganda. A hybrid identity framework was developed and applied to the social media of ISIL-inspired Australian Muslim men. This research is novel in that it analysed radicalisation from the perspective of the recruited. This research also contributes to the literature on Australian Muslim identities and expands work on social media radicalisation.
A/Prof Peter Lentini (Main), Dr Luke Howie (Associate), Dr Andy Ruddock (Associate)
Souvik is researching on people’s movement in India with specific focus on the eastern state of Odisha.
The proposed PhD research seeks to provide new insights into social movements in India. This research will not only provide an in-depth analysis of a specific social movement in India but will also advance our academic understanding of similar issues of social movements against mining and natural resource extraction more broadly.
Dr Julian Yates (Main), A/Prof Wendy Stubbs (Associate)
Governance in China: the role of think tanks in defining policy agendas.
This research explores what role do Chinese think tanks play in the development of the policy agenda of the national government in China. It will add a new dimension to studies of Chinese politics and policymaking process. The study adapts and applies an established framework for the comparative study of policy agendas, which will enrich our understanding of China’s contemporary system of governance and complement and build the broader CAP.
Prof Robert Thomson (Main), Prof Michael Mintrom (Associate)
Irish female convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land; marriage and crime in times of crisis.
My research expands the knowledge about convicts who were transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 19th century. I use data collected by the Founders and survivors project (FAS) and the Female convict research center (FCRC). Using advanced statistical modelling I am able to study trends in marriage and crime within the Irish female convict population. Moreover, by using convict descriptions I can give life to numbers and percentages.
A/Prof Dharmalingam Arunachalam (Main), A/Prof Rebecca Kippen (Associate)
Informal social control in migrant communities: a case study of South Sudanese families in Melbourne.
This project will make theoretical contributions on the intersection of neighbourhood life, parenting, and unwanted youth behaviours for humanitarian migrant families. The project will also contribute to the advancement of the knowledge base on the socialisation and control of children and young people among migrant families who encounter adverse experiences before, during and after the settlement process.
A/Prof Rebecca Wickes (Main), Dr Jarrett Blaustein (Associate), Dr Kathryn Benier (Associate)
A/Prof Anna Eriksson (Main), Dr Lennon Yao-Chung Chang (Associate)
A/Prof Maria Rost Rublee (Main), A/Prof Andy Jackson (Associate)
A/Prof Victoria Peel (Main), Dr Meead Saberi (Associate)
Dr Briony Rogers (Main), A/Prof Annette Bos (Associate) , Prof Rebekah Brown (Associate)
A/Prof Megan Farrelly (Main), Dr Julian Yates (Associate)
Dr Michael Ure (Main), A/Prof Siby George (External)
A/Prof Asher Flynn (Main), Prof Liz Campbell (Associate), Bronwyn Naylor (External)
State induced structural violence and women’s security: the non-regulation of microfinance in post-war Sri Lanka.
Using a feminist political economy perspective, my research explores how state encouraged post-war economic development strategies affect the everyday lives of women.
Dr Samanthi Gunawardana (Main), Dr Sara Niner (Associate)
A/Prof Kerry O'Brien (Main), Dr Ruth Jeanes (Associate), Dr Nick Faulkner (Associate)
