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Altman, Professor Jon: Economic development and economic policy issues, land rights and native title, the engagement of Indigenous Australians with the mining, tourism, and arts and crafts industries, economic anthropology

Athukorala, Professor Prema-chandra: Development macroeconomics - international capital mobility and financial crisis; structural adjustment and stabilisation reforms; and determinants of economics growth. Trade and development: trade policy reforms, multinational enterprises and international production, patterns and determinants of trade flows, and international labour migration.

Ballard, Dr Chris: Melanesia, Indonesia; human rights and violence; resource ownership, land rights and autonomy; cross-cultural encounters and concepts of 'race'; agricultural transformation; relations among history, anthropology, archaeology and geography

Baker, Dr Richard Baker: community participation in resource management and environmental policy. Viet Nam.

Bennett, Professor Jeff: Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics and Applied Micro-Economics.

Bessell, Dr. Sharon: Child labour Human Rights and Policy (especially the human rights of children) Gender Issues (especially gender and social policy; gender and governance) Social Policy for Vulnerable Children Politics and Social Policy in Asia, especially Indonesia and the Philippines

Brady, Dr Maggie: Indigenous Australia; health, diet and lifestyle, the role of primary health care services in alcohol interventions, and complementary healing strategies.

Chand, Satish, Dr: Economic growth International trade Development Effectiveness of aid. Labour mobility in the Pacific Islands, Accessing natural resources for development

Crouch, Professor Harold (political development in Southeast Asia; Indonesian and Malaysian politics)

Dinnen, Dr Sinclair (Papua New Guinea; Pacific Islands; politics of law and order; comparative criminology)

Drysdale, Peter, Professor Asia Pacific economic integration, International trade and economic policy, Japanese economy and economic policy, Foreign direct investment East Asia's, and China's trade and transformation.

Fealy, Dr Greg: Islamic movements and ideology; Indonesian politics.

Filer, Dr Colin: Papua New Guinea and Melanesia; environment and development; social impact of major resource projects; national and regional resource management policies.

Fry, Mr. Greg: international politics of the South Pacific.

Garnaut, Professor Ross: China's economic reforms and internationalisation; Asia-Pacific economies' development and international economic relations; Australia's economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region; domestic economic adjustment to Asia-Pacific economic development.

Guinness, Dr Patrick: Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia and Indonesia, urban cultures, theories and practices of development, religion.

Haley, Dr Nicole: Highland New Guinea; myth and its role in systems of land ownership, the emplacement of knowledge in landscape, the social impact of mining and other resource development.

Helliwell, Dr Christine: Southeast Asia, social theory, gender, personhood and its relationship to different forms of sociality and identity, discourses of 'development'.

Hill, Professor Hal: The economies of ASEAN, especially Indonesia and The Philippines; industrialisation and foreign investment in East Asia; and Australia's economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region.

Holcombe, Dr Sarah: Indigenous Australia; social change and the inter-cultural engagement, applied anthropology, land rights and development, Indigenous governance, land tenure and succession processes.

Jacka, Dr Tamara: Gender relations and social change in contemporary China; women in rural China; women in rural-to-urban migration; women and development; the politics and epistemologies of cross-cultural research; ethnography and narrative analysis.

Jha, Professor Raghbendra Macroeconomic problems of developing countries, optimal tax and price policy, fiscal federalism, Indian economic problems - in particular, poverty, undernutrition, functioning of agricultural markets and financial sector reforms.

Jolly, Professor Margaret: Feminist anthropology, illness and healing, Melanesian ethnography and the colonial history of the Pacific.

Keal, Dr. Paul: indigenous and minority rights in world politics, competing interpretations of sovereignty and self-determination in the Asia-Pacific region.

Kerkvliet, Professor Ben: agrarian politics; state-society relations; politics in Southeast Asia.

Kilby, Dr. Patrick: NGO networks in India; NGO accountability; measuring women's empowerment; microfinance through self-help groups; aid management and participatory development. South Asia, and East and Southern Africa.

Kong, Dr Tao (Sherry) Economic Growth; Institutions; Economics for Development; Political Economy; Asian-Pacific Economies, Migration and Poverty in East Asia (with a focus on China) and Southeast Asia (with a focus on Indonesia).

Lahiri-dutt, Dr. Kuntala: community initiatives and development in mining and water sectors, and the use of a ‘gender lens’ to look into the heterogeneities within the broad community. India, South Asia, and Indonesia.

Larmour, Dr. Peter: South Pacific politics; customary land tenure; governance for development.

Liu, Dr. Amy:. Child labour, Children's schooling, Gender wage disparities, Income inequalities and poverty, Vietnam.

MacIntyre, Professor Andrew: East Asian and Pacific political economy, Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics; political institutions and economic development.

Manning, Associate Professor Chris: Labour markets; regional development, poverty and economics development in East Asia with special reference to Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

Martin, Dr David: Indigenous Australia; policy implications of the engagement of Aboriginal social, political and economic systems with those of the dominant society.

McLeod, Associate Professor Ross: The economic crisis that began in Indonesia in mid-1997, with particular emphasis on analysing its causes, how it was handled (particularly the role of the IMF), and how similar occurrences might be prevented in the future. I also have a strong interest in monetary and exchange rate policy, financial sector policies, privatisation, corruption and public sector reform in Indonesia.

McWilliam, Dr Andrew: Eastern Indonesian comparative ethnography; Aboriginal land tenure and cultural heritage (northern Australia); natural resources; applied anthropology in rural development.

Merlan, Professor Francesca: Social transformation, indigeneity, nationalism, language and culture, theories of social action, organisation, and consciousness, places and place-worlds, modernity; Aboriginal Australia, Melanesia, Germany.

Morphy, Ms. Frances: Indigenous Australia: Northeastern Arnhem Land; land rights, the Indigenous art and craft industry, Australian Aboriginal languages, anthropological linguistics.

Morton, Dr. Kathy: the role of civil society in international relations, international environmental politics, international development and the influence of international norms on domestic political and socio-economic change.

Mulgan, Professor Richard: classical political theory, public sector management, accountability.

Perez, Dr. Pascal: Water management, cropping systems and evaluation of irrigation efficiency; crop water balance modelling; simulation of social/environmental interactions through a Multi Agent Systems approach. Western Africa, Middle East, South East Asia (Indonesia, Thailand).

Peterson, Professor Nicolas: Social organisation, economic anthropology, applied anthropology, territorial organisation, marine tenure, hunting and gathering societies, fourth world people and the state, social change and development, anthropology of photography.

Pollino, Dr. Carmel: development, application and adoption of models into natural research management with the the Mekong River Commission, Ok Tedi Mining Limited, irrigation bodies, and natural resource management agencies and organisations.

Reilly, Benjamin, Dr, Democracy and democratization, Elections and electoral systems, Australian foreign policy and regional security in the South Pacific, Ethnic conflict and conflict management, Governance and development in Asia-Pacific.

Robinson, Dr Kathryn: Indonesia and Southeast Asia; development; gender; traditional architecture; medical anthropology; technology and anxiety discourse; Australia-Asia relations.

Sanders, Dr. Will Indigenous affairs policy, including social security, housing, employment, local government and intergovernmental relations. Also Indigenous-specific elections and the role of Indigenous people and issues in general elections.

Schwab, Dr Jerry: Indigenous Australia, USA, Middle East; Indigenous education and training, education policy, literacy, applied anthropology

Skidmore, Dr Monique: Medical and Political Anthopology; Peace and onflict studies; Anthropology of Violence, Terror, and Human Rights; Burma (Myanmar); Anthropology of Southeast Asia; Cambodia

Smith, Dr Benjamin: Aboriginal Australia; systems of land tenure; Indigenous land claims; anthropology of the state; population mobility and decentralisation; transport; development; social change and intercultural articulation

Thomas, Dr. Pam: population , health, education all with a strong community focus. Asia and the Pacific.

Walker, Dr Andrew: Mainland Southeast Asia (especially Thailand and Laos); resource management; borders; space and place; trading and transport systems; regulation; globalisation.

Warr, Peter Professor: The economies of Thailand and Indonesia, especially as regards measurement of poverty incidence, analysis of its causes and the means by which economic policy may be used to reduce poverty incidence.