Faculty of Arts School of Social and Environmental Enquiry

SSEE postgraduate research students

 

PhD

Caroline Andrews - A comparative study of social actors and climate change in four Western countries (Dr Peter Christoff, Assoc Prof Robyn Eckersley)

Nicholas Bainton - Social and political effects of mining projects on local communities in Papua New Guinea (Dr Martha Macintyre, Assoc Prof Mary Patterson)

Alecia Bassett - A normative perspective on non-compliance within the international fishing arena' (Dr Peter Christoff, Dr Monica Minnegal, Dr Anthony Marcus).

Marc Bellette - A biogeographical study of Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia (Prof Neal Enright, Dr Ruth Lawrence)

Simone Blair - Crossing boundaries: social and ecological interactivity in a Victorian fishery (Dr Monica Minnegal, Dr Peter Dwyer)

Alana Burley - Social, environmental and economic sustainability in the context of Melanesian mining projects (Prof Neal Enright, Dr Martha Macintyre, Assoc Prof Mary Patterson)

Jane Catford - Modification and restoration of river ecosystems and the role of aquatic and riparian vegetation (Dr Barbara Downes, Assoc Prof Ian Rutherfurd)

Minerva Chaloping-March - Managing the social impacts of mining in the Philippines (Dr Salim Lakha, Dr Martha Macintyre)

Holly Cole - Post-war reconstruction in Cambodia and East Timor: a comparison of sociopolitical environments and strategies (Prof Andy Dawson, Assoc Prof Mary Patterson)

Iwona Conlan - Investigating the effects of changing flow regimes on river bank erosion, hydraulic habitat and food security (Assoc Prof Ian Rutherfurd, Assoc Prof Brian Finlayson)

Simon Connor - A Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Pasinler Valley, Eastern Turkey (Dr Ian Thomas, Dr E Kvavadze)

Julienne Corboz - The new urban poor: downward social mobility and the maintenance of class and status in a Uruguayan shanty town (Prof Andy Dawson, Dr Anthony Marcus)

Leo Couacaud - Male prestige and the style of youth in Jamaica (Prof Andy Dawson, Dr Anthony Marcus)

Michael Crestani - Life Among the scientists: an ethnography of the Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute (Dr Monica Minnegal, Dr Peter Dwyer)

Jessica De Largy Healy - Webs of connections: Yolngu contemporary cultural resource management strategies (joint enrolment via a cotutelle or double-badged degree at Melbourne and the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

Yoko Demelius - Performing artists' vocational lives, identities and cosmology (Dr Tammy Kohn, Prof Andy Dawson)

Juan Dominguez - The ethnographic neurosemantics of kinship terminologies (Dr Douglas Lewis, Dr Thomas Reuter)

Danny Edgar - Wildlife 'ownership' and management in the Northern Territory (Prof Marcia Langton)

Michael Fletcher - Rainforest refugia in Tasmania (Dr Ian Thomas, Prof Marcia Langton)

Pamela Freeman - Human tectonics and the art of belonging - an exploration of immigration and the rituals and reality of becoming Australian (Prof Andy Dawson,Assoc Prof Mary Patterson)

Antonia Gamboa Rocha - Post-European impacts on overbank floodplain sedimentation of alluvial rivers in Australia(Dr Mike Stewardson, Assoc Prof Brian Finlayson, Assoc Prof Ian Rutherfurd)

Haydie Gooder – An unlikely bunch of suspects: non-indigenous sympathies for reconciliation in Victoria (Assoc Prof Mary Patterson, Dr Michelle Duffy)

Robin Hale - Variations in freshwater fish recruitment: larval settlement cues (Dr Barbara Downes, Dr Stephen Swearer)

Michelle Hannah - Seeking enlightenment and equality: an exploration of Buddhist women's rights (Assoc Prof Mary Patterson, Dr Thomas Reuter)

Hariz Halilovich - Human rights, reconciliation, communal narratives, popular memory and identity among Bosnians still living in Bosnia and their displaced compatriots worldwide (Prof Andy Dawson, Ron Adams from VUT)

Kelly Hunt - Mechanisms of co-existence of a high diversity heathland ecosystem (Prof Neal Enright, Prof Byron Lamont)

Natalie Jamieson - A socially just environment? Community participation and ecologically sustainable development

Andrea Johnston - Formulating trade policy in the Pacific Islands (Dr Jon Barnett, Prof Michael Webber)

Anja Kanngieser - Subversion in Berlin: art, identity and the avant-garde in the city (Dr Denise Varney, VCA, Dr Fraser MacDonald)

Ya-Ning Kao - The Han and Thai interface (Assoc Prof Mary Patterson, Prof David Holm)

George Keezhanyil - Gold, caste and globalisation in Kerala (Dr Douglas Lewis)

Elif Kendirli - Negotiating globalisation: contestation over the proposed Nam Theun II dam in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Christine Kenyon - Fine resolution pollen study of the Murray River Flood Plain (Dr Ian Thomas, Assoc Prof Brian Finlayson)

Veerapat Kiatfuengfoo - A framework for natural gas supply industry liberalisation and reform in Thailand (Prof Michael Webber, Dr Jon Barnett)

Ben Killingsworth - Being Australian: class, multiculturalism and marginalisation (Prof Andy Dawson, Dr Anthony Marcus)

Tania King - Something in the water - epistemological barriers to co-management in Bass Strait fisheries (Dr Monica Minnegal, Dr Peter Dwyer)

Peter Kinrade - Pursuing sustainable development in Australia - the role of markets, the state and the community, with reference to international trends and policy practices (Prof Michael Webber, Dr Peter Christoff)

Svitlana Korchova-Tyurina - Conveying meaning through odour symbols (Dr Monica Minnegal, Prof Andy Dawson)

Thomas Kring - Child labour and the promotion of micro and small enterprises (Prof Michael Webber, Dr Salim Lakha)

Julian Lee - Dynamics of ethnicity and religion in Malaysian politics (Prof Andy Dawson, Dr Thomas Reuter)

Carmen Lindemann - Access to land and land reform in Brazil (Dr Mark Wang, Dr Violetta Schubert

Md Nadeem Malik - The impact of modernity on development in Pakistan (Dr Salim Lakha, Dr Anthony Marcus)

Godwin Masuka - The political economy of cotton in post-liberalisation Zimbabwe (Prof Michael Webber, Dr Jon Barnett)

Cassandra Mertono - Indigenous epistemologies in highland Bali (Dr Thomas Reuter, Assoc Prof Mary Patterson)

Tamara Mihalic - Peacebuilding in Croatia (Dr Jon Barnett, Prof Andy Dawson)

Jeremy Milsom - The Wa search for security and legitimacy: illicit drugs and agents of change in Myanmar's "Special Region Number Two" (Prof Michael Webber, Dr Mark Wang)

Arnaud Morvan - Indigenous strategies of communications on the international arts scene and in Australia: the Aboriginal contribution at the Quai Branly Museum (Prof Marcia Langton)

Natalie Myers - The intersection of environmental degradation with belonging to place (Dr Lisa Palmer, Prof Marcia Langton)

Daniel Ooi - Contesting national identity in popular culture in a Leon barrio: hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses in post-Sandanista Nicaragua (Dr Anthony Marcus, Prof Andy Dawson)

Trina Paevere - Anthropology and culture in Chiapas (Dr Martha Macintyre, Dr Anthony Marcus)

Hoang Pham Duc - Urban infrastructure management in Hanoi (Dr Mark Wang)

Joe Pickin - Waste, sustainability and materials efficiency (Prof Michael Webber, Dr Peter Christoff)

Muhammad Ahsan Rana - Biotechnology and food security (Dr Simon Batterbury, Dr Violeta Schubert)

Buck Rosenberg - The lifestylisation of home: privatisation, metropolitanisation and distinction (Prof Andy Dawson)

Libby Rumpff - The effects of fire on peat-soils: the southeast highlands of Australia (Dr Ian Thomas, Prof Neal Enright)

Smita Sabhlock - Participation and partnership in women's development in India (Dr Salim Lakha, Assoc Prof Mary Patterson)

Julia Sant-Mire - The function of art in the construction of a culturally viable self: how children use drawing to make sense of themselves (Assoc Prof Mary Patterson, Dr Monica Minnegal)

Emma Schooneveldt-Reid - Water and waste: a confluence of meanings (Dr Monica Minnegal, Dr Lisa Palmer)

Elena Spilia - Urban Aboriginal art 1980-2000 (Dr Charles Green, Prof Marcia Langton)

Gillian Tan - Participatory development in Tibet (Dr Anthony Marcus, Dr Mark Stevenson, Prof Andrew Dawson)

Melanie Thomson - Wild animinals in civilised places: transgressions and interventions (Dr Fraser MacDonald, Dr Monica Minnegal)

Karen Turner - (In)Visible Ontologies: exploring Australian women's experiences of conversion to Islam (Prof Andy Dawson, Assoc Prof Mary Patterson)

Terence Twomey - The Prometheus syndrome: investigating epistemological problems in explanations of human origins (Dr Douglas Lewis, Dr Neil Thomason)

Angus Tye - A Quaternary palaeoenvironmental analysis of island biogeography: southeast Queensland, Australia (Dr Ian Thomas, Dr Wayne Stephenson)

Danielle Ujvari - Sustainable human development: the benefits of integrating peace and human rights education into children's post-conflict psychosocial assistance programs (Dr Violeta Schubert, Dr Carolyn Evans, Law)

Andrew Van Hulten - Capital accounts liberalisation for small developing countries: global financial integration and the challenge of sustainable development (Prof Michael Webber)

Geoffrey Vietz - In-channel river benches: formative processing and hydrologic relationships

Grant Walton - Peace and violence in Papua New Guinea (Dr Jon Barnett, Dr Salim Lakha)

Lisa Watts - Indigenous perspectives on water (Assoc Prof Brian Finlayson, Dr Simon Batterbury)

Vanessa Westcott - The effects of frequent fire on high diversity, fire prone shrublands in south-western Australia (Prof Neal Enright)

Barbara Wigley - The culture and dynamics of international humanitarian and crisis organisations (Dr Anthony Marcus, Prof Andy Dawson)

Elisa Zavadil - Spatial patterns in the organisation of physical parameters and processes in streams: evaluating the existence and benefits of a scale hierarchy (Dr Mike Stewardson, Prof Rodger Grayson)

 

Masters theses

Anna Backstrom - The interaction of emus and fire in the recruitment of Epacridaceae in Victoria (Prof Neal Enright)

Lois Bedson - Social action and community building (Prof Andy Dawson)

Vincent Bouchenez - Subculture takes the street: Yogyakarta's street children redefine their culture (Dr Douglas Lewis)

 

Janina Gawler - From exclusion to participation and partnership in mining: indigenous mining workforce in the Pilbara 1990-2000 (Prof Marcia Langton)

Alicia Hooper - Education and good habits (Dr Peter Christoff)

 

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