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I am a social anthropologist who investigates anthropological and social theory from its margins by paying attention to the experience of peasants and other groups of poor people in India. I employ anthropology’s traditional emphasis on a deep understanding of a place or people as a vantage point from which to critique and expand received ideas in a social theory. I have been conducting a rigorous ethnographic research in the Himalayan borderlands since 1994 where I have combined cultural and sociological analyses of institutions and social life to respond to questions raised by postcolonial theory. I am interested in the themes of cultural politics of development and the postcolonial state in the inclusive policy
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I am a transnational crime expert who specializes in environmental issues such as illegal fishing and food supply chain crimes.
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I work as a teacher-researcher at the University of Western Australia. My specialist area is the sociology/anthropology of education. I have particular interests in inclusive practices in schools and universities, school-family partnerships, active learning and research focused pedagogy. In my teaching I focus on social justice and inequality with particular reference to Australian society but also with due attention to global concerns and practices.
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I am a Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center and PhD candidate. My research interests and expertise include international law and policy on armed conflict, modelling violent political mobilisation, and behaviour of non-state armed actors. I have professional experience in policy-oriented research, legal implementation and conflict resolution in non-governmental organisations and indepedent bodies in the UK and Middle East.
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Craig Forrest is a Professor in the Law School, University of Queensland, teaching and undertaking research in the areas of maritime law and cultural heritage law, with a special interest in underwater cultural heritage. Professor Forrest was a member of the South African delegation to UNESCO to negotiate the 2001 Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention, and has acted as an advisor to UNESCO regional cultural meetings in 2009 (Solomon Islands), 2012 (Cambodia), 2013 (St.Kitts and Nevis) and 2017 (Indonesia). He helped to draft the Model Law for the implementation of the UCH Convention. He was recently engaged in a UNESCO project, with Dr Bill Jeffery (University of Guam) on the protection on underwater cultural heritage in Micronesia. Professor Forrest has held visiting research and teaching position at Cambridge University, National University of South Korea, City University of Hong Kong, Dalhousie University Canada and University of Nottingham (the latter as a Universitas 21 Fellow). Before turning to the law, Professor Forrest served as a naval officer in the South African Navy.
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Journalist | Economist | Author
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Dr Celestyna Galicki is the Research Lead in the New Zealand Retirement Commission (Commission for Financial Capability). She leads research on the effects of retirement income policies, evaluation of financial education initiatives, financial inclusion and consumer behaviour. She supports New Zealand's National Strategy for Financial Capability by providing research and insights to stakeholders. The Commission's research reports can be found at: https://cffc.govt.nz/reviews-and-reports/research-and-reports/
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Yvonne Su is an Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Refugee and Diaspora Studies in the Department of Equity Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. She is a member of the Centre for Refugee Studies and the York Centre for Asian Research.
Yvonne is a specialist on forced migration, climate change-induced displacement, migrant remittances, social capital, global migration governance, humanitarian assistance and post-disaster recovery. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Development from the University of Guelph and a Masters in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford.
Broadly, her research interests focus on migration and development, refugee protection and disaster risk reduction. Her current research examines South-South humanitarian responses in the context of forced migration using the case study of Venezuelan LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in Brazil. Previously, Yvonne spent 7 months in the Philippines researching the role of migrant remittances in post-disaster recovery after Typhoon Haiyan.
Yvonne’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Doctoral Research Award, Canadian Heritage, the Government of Ontario and the Mackenzie King Scholarship Trust. She is also the recipient of over 25 national and international awards and scholarships including the Young Woman of Distinction Award and the University of Guelph’s Young Alumni Award.
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Academic economist.
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I am a third year PhD student in Economics at Brown. My research interests include Public and Development Economics. I am interested in studying applications of collective action problems in Developing countries. My current research deals with the causes and effects of residential segregation in Indian cities. Prior to Brown, I completed my MA in Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, worked at the Center for Development Economics, and taught Quantitative Methods at the Institute of Economic growth, all in New Delhi, India.