Asia Researchers
Name: Dr Simon Barraclough
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Malaysia
Research Areas: The political economy of health systems in developing countries; Health management; International investment in health services; Health industry exports; International health relations and tobacco control policies in developing countries (Malaysia in particular)
Name: Professor Nick Bisley
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: China, India, Japan, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea
Research Areas: Asia's international relations; Multilateral institutions in Asia; Australian defence and foreign policy
Name: Associate Professor Adam Bourne
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Malaysia, Taiwan
Research Areas: Sexual health and behaviour; Health promotion; Health inequality; LGBTI health; HIV/AIDS
Name: Emeritus Professor David Bradley
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: China, Mainland Southeast Asia (particularly Thailand and Myanmar/Burma), South Asia
Research Areas: Language policy; Sociolinguistics; Phonetics/Phonology; Endangered languages
Name: Professor Phoebe Chen
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam
Research Areas: Bioinformatics; Biomedical applications; Computational biology; Data mining and knowledge discovery; Emerging information technology; Multimedia and game technologies; Scientific visualisation
Name: Dr Bradley Christian
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: India, Timor-Leste
Research Areas: Children's oral health, particularly in orphanages (India) and schools (Timor-Leste)
Name: Dr Susan Chong
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Malaysia
Research Areas: Community systems strengthening; HIV policy and advocacy; HIV treatment cascade; Treatment seeking behaviour of people living with HIV
Name: Dr Gary Clark
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: India, Myanmar/Burma
Research Areas: Soil structure and land use
Name: Dr Alex Davis
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Research Areas: Indian foreign policy and diplomatic history
Name: Dr Maria Elander
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Cambodia
Research Areas: International criminal justice; Victim representation; Gender and sex in relation to crimes; the Khmer Rouge; the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
Name: Dr Patricia Fenner
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Malaysia
Research Areas: Arts and health; Art therapy
Name: Associate Professor Tracy Fortune
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Bangladesh, Vietnam
Research Areas: Education for global citizenship; Professional identity; Internationalisation of the curriculum; Occupational therapy
Name: Dr Elise Foxworth
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Japan
Research Areas: Literature of Japan's Korean diaspora; Classroom dynamics and student motivation; Literary translation from Japanese into English
Name: Dr Ruth Gamble
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Bhutan, China, India, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan
Research Areas: History, religion, culture, languages and environment of the Himalaya
Name: Dr Lauren Gawne
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Nepal and the Himalayan region more generally
Research Areas: Linguistics; Tibeto-Burman languages; Critical approaches to language documentation
Name: Dr Euan Graham
Countries: China, Japan, the Philippines, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea
Research Areas: Asian security and international relations; Maritime security; Defence studies; Australian foreign policy; Defence policy; Australia's place in Asia
Name: Dr Sabrina Gupta
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Research Areas: Type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease in South Asian populations
Name: Dr Benjamin Habib
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: China, North Korea, South Korea
Research Areas: The intersections between grassroots sustainability and regeneration projects, environmental movements and international climate politics
Name: Dr Mofi Islam
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Bangladesh
Research Areas: Substance use; Maternal and child health, Health services research
Name: Dr Jason Jiang
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Research Areas: Public health policy and harm reduction; Alcohol and drug use and abuse in China; Health economics
Name: Associate Professor Emi Kashima
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Japan
Research Areas: Cross-cultural studies on social psychology (especially East-West differences); Acculturation and cultural change
Name: Professor Patrick Keyzer
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: China, Indonesia, Thailand
Research Areas: Intellectual property in the Chinese, Indonesian and Thai court systems; Access to justice; Human rights; Public law
Name: Associate Professor James Leibold
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: China, Hong Kong
Research Areas: Ethnicity, race and national identity in modern Chinese history and society; Ethnic policies and conflict in contemporary China (Uyghur and Tibetan communities in particular); China's frontier regions; Chinese politics; China's international relations; Australia-China relations
Name: Associate Professor George Liu
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: China
Research Areas: Primary healthcare system development; Safety and quality of healthcare; Health information systems; Social support and equality in health services and health outcomes in China
Name: Professor John Makeham
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: China,
Research Areas: Intellectual history of Chinese philosophy; Chinese culture and language; Chinese history; Chinese nationalism
Name: Dr Paul McInerney
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Cambodia
Research Areas: Invasive species ecology; Food webs; Freshwater ecosystems
Name: Professor Lisa McKenna
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Indonesia
Research Areas: Community health and wellbeing in rural Indonesia; Professional development needs of nurses and clinical supervision experiences of nursing students in Indonesia
Name: Dr Stephen Morey
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: India, Myanmar/Burma
Research Areas: Linguistics; Minority languages of the India-Myanmar border (Tai, Singpho and Tangsa); Traditional songs
Name: Professor John Moses
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: India
Research Areas: Synthetic chemistry and natural products
Name: Associate Professor Howard Nicholas
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam
Research Areas: Language and literacy learning and teaching; Language policy; Educational experiences of ethnic minorities, international students and migrants
Name: Dr Richard Peters
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: China
Research Areas: Animal behaviour; Behavioural ecology; Behavioural studies of lizards (genus Phrynocephalus - commonly known as toad head agamas) in China
Name: Dr Sonia Reisenhofer
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore
Research Areas: Women's health and gender based violence; Globalisation; Internationalisation and mobility; Scholarship of learning and teaching
Name: Dr Gerald Roche
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: China
Research Areas: The politics of language endangerment and revitalisation, with a regional focus on Tibet
Name: Associate Professor Donna Starks
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Vietnam
Research Areas: Communicative practices of Vietnamese; The interplay of first and second languages;
Name: Associate Professor Kerstin Steiner
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore
Research Areas: Southeast Asian legal studies - particularly at the intersection of law, politics, economics and society (especially with regard to Islam)
Name: Dr Bec Strating
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Timor-Leste
Research Areas: Australian foreign policy; Southeast Asian politics and international relations; Maritime disputes in the Asia-Pacific
Name: Dr Keir Strickland
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Research Areas: The transformation and collapse of complex societies in Asia, with a particular focus on early historic and classical South Asia; Archaeology of Buddhism; Archaeology of water management
Name: Paul Strickland
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Bhutan
Research Areas: Hotel and tourism management education in Bhutan; Sustainable hospitality and tourism
Name: Dr Dirk Tomsa
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Indonesia
Research Areas: Indonesian politics and society; Democratisation studies; Political Islam in Asia; Comparative Southeast Asian politics, especially elections and party politics
Name: Dr Jasmine Westendorf
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Cambodia, Nepal, Timor-Leste
Research Areas: Civil wars, Negotiated peace processes; International approaches to peacebuilding; The politics of international law and international organisations; The role of women in peace and war
Name: Dr Kayli Wild
College: Science, Health and Engineering
Countries: Timor-Leste
Research Areas: Reproductive health; Gender and social change, with a specific focus on Timor-Leste, the Pacific and with Australian Aboriginal communities
Name: Associate Professor Raelene Wilding
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: China, India, Myanmar/Burma, Thailand
Research Areas: People's experiences at the intersections of migration, families, intimacies and new technologies - particularly of Chinese, Indian, Burmese and Thai diaspora populations residing in Australia
Name: Dr Brooke Wilmsen
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: China
Research Areas: Development-forced displacement and resettlement with a focus on the Three Gorges Dam in China
Name: Dr Monika Winarnita
College: Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce
Countries: Indonesia
Research Areas: Migration, particularly women's migration experiences for work and family reasons as well as their intergenerational relationships; Diasporic communities and how they express various social, cultural and political identities