Development Studies Staff
Development Studies staff stem from a range of disciplines. They bring with them practical experience in developing and managing development projects and programs as well as teaching and researching on development related issues in Australia, the Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Europe.
At the postgraduate program level, NGOs, multilateral and bilateral aid agencies also provide experts on a course-by-course basis to develop modules and conduct these in consultation with potential participants and sponsoring institutions. Various staff have backgrounds in programs funded by AusAid, ADB, World Bank, UNDP; and key international NGOs.
Below is a list of the staff in Development Studies. As an interdisciplinary program Development Studies also draws on the expertise of many other academic staff within SSEE.
Prof Hans Baer - Social anthropology of health and religion. Especially USA, Australia, Germany
Dr Jon Barnett - Development studies, global environmental politics, climate change and human security, Oceania
Dr Simon Batterbury - Environmental studies, geography, development studies (especially political ecology and environmental policy). Francophone West Africa, Melanesia, western cities.
Professor Andrew Dawson - Director - Social anthropology, postmodernism, community, identity, policy, migrancy, (especially former Yugoslavs in Europe and Australia)
Associate Professor Brian Finlayson - Physical geography. Environmental hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, karst geomorphology.
Dr Salim Lakha - Program Coordinator / Postgraduate Coordinator - Development Studies, Globalisation, Industrialisation, India.
Dr Anthony Marcus - Development studies, urban anthropology, civil society, gender, political economy, public policy and 'race' and ethnicity in the Americas.
Dr Violeta Schubert - Program Administrator, Internship Coordinator - Social anthropology, kinship, family, gender, marriage, ethnicity, national identity, Macedonia, Balkans.
Dr Alan Thorold - Development studies and anthropology. Social anthropology of religion, governance, development, East and South Africa.
Professor Michael Webber - Economic Geography and development studies. Industrial restructuring and development, China, Australia, Canada