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Humanities: Research and Graduate Studies

Australia-Asia-Pacific-Institute

Current Research Projects

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A

A Charity or a Right? Repatriation of disabled ex-servicemen in Western Australia, post WWI (Sue Summers: view profile)

A History of the National Country Party in Western Australia (Bobbie Oliver: view profile)

An examination of the rise and decline of twentieth century Australian trade unionism through the history of the Locomotive Engine Drivers', Firemen's and Cleaners' Union of Western Australia 1886-1999 (Bobbie Oliver: view profile).

Anzac Day at Home and Abroad (Graham Seal: view profile) 

Anzac Day Centennial History (Graham Seal: view profile)

ANZACS and the Aegean: Lemnos 1914-1918 (John Yiannakis)

Apprenticeships and Traineeships: the past, present and future (Bobbie Oliver: view profile and Llandis Barratt-Pugh [ECU])

Artist as Academic (Dawn Bennett: view profile)

At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour Theorize Terror (Suvendrini Perera - view profile)

AustESE: eResearch tools to support the collaborative authoring and management of electronic scholarly editions (Tim Dolin: view profile)

Australian Conscientious Objectors to Military Service 1940s to 1970s (Bobbie Oliver: view profile)

B

Bearing Witness: Researching the Detention of Asylum Seekers (Caroline Fleay : view profile)

Blackboy Hill Camp, Greenmount: Planning, health and social aspects (John Stephens: view profile)  

Blackface in Australia Today (Jon Stratton: view profile)

Black Music in Britain after World War 2 (Jon Stratton: view profile)

Bodies and State Violence: Combat Breathing (Suvendrini Perera: view profile)

Botanical and Cultural Regeneration in Bali (Ian Chalmers: view profile)

C

Celebration and Commemoration: The Australian Year (Graham Seal - view profile)

Collective Action and Resistance to Terrorism: Construction of the Bali Peace park as counter-terrorism (Anne Aly - view profile)

Communicating Strategically in Australian Border Control: the role of vagueness (Grace Zhang: view profile)

Creating Sustainable Practice: Understanding Australia's Creative Industries (Dawn Bennett: view profile)

D

Detention on Nauru: Deterrence or Despair (Caroline Fleay : view profile)

Developing Narratives from Language and Stories Indigenous to the South Coast of Western Australia (Kim Scott - view profile)

Dutch Australians at a Glance (Nonja Peters: view profile )

E

Elastic Language: How and why we stretch our words (Grace Zhang: view profile)

ePortfolios for Creative and Performing Arts students in Australian universities  (Dawn Bennett - view profile)

Enabling Science Uptake in Australia’s Coastal Zone (Bob Pokrant: view profile)

Engaging Possible Futures: Advancing the effectiveness of university learning (Dawn Bennett - view profile)

Enhancing Indigenous Content in Performing Arts Curricula through Service Learning with Indigenous Communities (Dawn Bennett - view profile)

Evaluation of the Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Grants Program in Western Australia (Dawn Bennett - view profile)

Evaluation of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts' Spark-Lab program (Dawn Bennett - view profile)

Evidencing Positive Impact and Strengthening the Capacity of the Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows to contribute to Australian Higher Education (Dawn Bennett - view profile)

Examining the Health of Australia's Northern Borders (Lucy Fiske: view profile)

Excellence in Research for Australia: Impacts and implications for creative and traditional research activities among artist academics (Dawn Bennett: view profile)

F

Faultlines: Music and race across borders (Jon Stratton: view profile)

Fly-in Fly-out Work Patterns: Implications for families and 'source' community primary health services (Robyn Mayes: view profile)

Footsteps of the Dutch in Australia 1606-2006 (Nonja Peters: view profile)

Forgetting the Wars: Australian war memorials and amnesia (John Stephens: view profile)  

Frieda River Feasibility Study: Inward Migration Plan (Gina Koczberski - view profile)

Fukushima and Beyond: Nuclear power in a low-carbon world (Chris Hubbard: view profile)

G

Growing future innovators? A review of the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art's Spark Lab program (Dawn Bennett - view profile)

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H

Hidden Men after Detention: Asylum Seekers in the Community (Caroline Fleay : view profile)

Hidden Men: Mandatory Detention at the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre (Caroline Fleay - view profile)

Historicising the 'Population Debate (Suvendrini Perera: view profile)

History and Culture of Australian Submariners since 1914 (Graham Seal: view profile 

History of Migration Experiences (Home) Resource Centre  (Nonja Peters: view profile)

Housing Security for Refugees in Western Australia (Lisa Hartley - view profile)

I

Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Western Australia (Nonja Peters: view profile)

Improving Livelihoods of Smallholder Families through Increased Productivity of Coffee-based Farming Systems in the Highlands of PNG (George Curry: view profile and Gina Koczberski: view profile).

Improving Productivity and the Participation of Youth and Women in the PNG Cocoa, Coconut and Oil Palm Industries (George Curry and Gina Koczberski)

Informal Protection Space in Indonesia (Lucy Fiske: view profile)

J

Junction Zones: Multiethnicity in Australasia and the Pacific (Suvendrini Perera: view profile)

L

Lakhnu Village Community Development Project, India (Reena Tiwari: view profile)

Life Histories of Aboriginal People in the Performing Arts in Western Australia (Anna Haebich - view profile)

Life in the real world: Educating for sustainable working lives in music (Dawn Bennett: view profile)

Links Between Flying Australian Flags on Cars and Nationalist Attitudes (Lisa Hartley - view profile)

Living Through Terror: (Post) Trauma, (Post) Conflict and the South (Suvendrini Perera and Antonio Traverso)

Local Level of Participation in Japan's Foreign Aid and Cooperation (Yasuo Takao: view profile)

Luxury (Annette Condello – view profile)

M

Making Transitional Justice Work for Women: Rights, Resilience and Responses to Violence Against Women in Northern Uganda, Kenya and Democratic Republic of Congo (Lucy Fiske: view profile)

Maritime Terrorism as a Strategic Challenge (Alexey Muraviev: view profile)

Migration Experiences Resource Centre (Nonja Peters: view profile)

Muslim Communities Online (Anne Aly: view profile)

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O

Oceanic-Corpographies: Women who fight with the ocean and other contemporary sea tales (Suvendrini Perera - view profile)

One Hundred Women: Women’s contribution to the arts in Western Australia from colonial times to the present (Dawn Bennett: view profile)

P

Pre-1788 European Habitation of Australia (Graham Seal - view profile)

Print and Digital Scholarly Editing: Thomas Hardy (Tim Dolin: view profile)

R

Radicalisation and extremism in Muslim states in political transition (Anne Aly - view profile)

Remembering, Forgetting and Recording: Challenges of the forgotten Australians and former child migrants oral history project (Nonja Peters - view profile)

'Remembering the Wars': a database of Western Australian war memorials (John Stephens: view profile)

Rethinking sustainable communities in Japan: local governance and the advocacy coalition politics of climate change (Yasuo Takao: view profile)

Rough Justice: A report to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship on asylum seekers of interest to, or who have been charged by, the Australian Federal Police (Lisa Hartley - view profile)

Russian Sea Power in the 21st Century (Alexey Muraviev: view profile)

S

Scholarship, leadership and advocacy: Quality learning and teaching in Australian universities (Dawn Bennett - view profile)

Setting up the Nyoongar Tent Embassy (Thor Kerr: view profile)

St Cuthberts Anglican Church, Darlington - Heritage Consultancy (John Stephens - view profile)

Stemming Car Dependency and Improving Transport Options in Indian Cities (Reena Tiwari: view profile)

Strengthening the bonds between scientific literacy and human understanding: local area networks to help build cross-border solutions for disaster management in the Asian and Pacific Region (George Curry: view profile)

Sustaining Aboriginal culture and wellbeing through performance  (Anna Haebich - view profile)

T

Tamil Diasporic Futures in the Post-War Era (Suvendrini Perera: view profile)

The Anzac Way: a Landscape of Commemoration (John Stephens: view profile)

The Australian Common Reader Project (Tim Dolin: view profile)

The Border, the Asylum Seeker and the State of Exception (a special themed section of Continuum coedited by Suvendrini Perera and Jon Stratton)

The Burden of Anzac: Soldier Settlement in Western Australia (John Stephens: view profile)

The Cultural Consequences of Neoliberalism in Australia (Jon Stratton: view profile)

The Desert Mounted Corps Memorial (John Stephens: view profile)

The Dutch in Western Australia (Nonja Peters: view profile)

The Global Outlaw Hero (Graham Seal)

The Late Life and Works of Henry Lawson (Graham Seal - view profile)

The Life and Times of Thomas Wood (Graham Seal (CI) and Dawn Bennett)

The Making and Unmaking of Indonesian Jihadists: Individual Life Stories (Ian Chalmers: view profile)

The Soldier’s Press and Trench Culture in the Great War - trench journals of Britain, the Empire and America (Graham Seal: view profile)

Trafficking Vegetation: Homely and un-homely landscapes (John Stephens: view profile)

Transnational Activism and Human Rights in China (Caroline Fleay: view profile)

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U

Uranium Research and Education (Chris Hubbard: view profile)

V

Visual Economies of Terror and Transnational Digital Cultures (Suvendrini Perera - view profile)

W

War Memorials - Concepts of Sacrifice and Trauma (John Stephens: view profile)

Women and the Dawn Service (Robyn Mayes and Graham Seal)

Women and the Making of Anzac Day (Graham Seal: view profile. Robyn Mayes: view profile)

Working Together: Intercultural academic leadership for teaching and learning in Indigenous culture and health (Kim Scott - view profile)

For earlier research projects of AAPI members view Project Archives