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Academic profiles - Public Policy and International Affairs

 Professor Benjamin Reilly - Dean, Sir Walter Murdoch School

Professor Benjamin Reilly
Dean, Sir Walter Murdoch School

Professor Benjamin Reilly is a political scientist specializing in democratization, comparative politics and political development. Formerly Professor of Political Science, head of the Policy and Governance program and Director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU), Prof Reilly has also worked with the Australian government, the United Nations and other international organisations, and held visiting appointments at Harvard, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins universities. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the ANU.

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Associate Professor Michael Crozier - Vice Chancellor’s Senior Fellow

Associate Professor Michael Crozier
Vice Chancellor’s Senior Fellow

Professor Crozier comes to Murdoch after two decades at the University of Melbourne with extensive experience in university teaching and ground-breaking research on new governance and information dynamics of public policy and administration. He is an award-winning scholar for advanced graduate teaching on social science research design. He is currently completing a study of how shifts in democratic political systems are transforming the key governance and policy operations of these systems for Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Professor Ann Capling - Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic)

Professor Ann Capling
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic)

Professor Capling is a distinguished research scholar and academic leader. A renowned expert on international political economy and trade policy with a world-class publication record, Professor Capling has provided policy advice and professional training to a range of government, business and civil society organisations. In 2009 she was a Member of the Australian Delegation to the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Her most recent co-authored book, Negotiating Preferentially or Multilaterally? Governments, Non-State Actors and Trade Policy-Making was published in 2010.

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Professor Richard Higgott - Vice Chancellor

Professor Richard Higgott
Vice Chancellor, Murdoch University

Professor Higgott while the Vice Chancellor at Murdoch is also an internationally renowned political scientist. He has an impressive scholarly record in the fields of international political economy and international relations. His current research focuses on the contemporary challenges of global economic governance. Professor Higgott has provided expert advice to government, industry and international organizations such as the WTO and the UN Industrial Development Organization.

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Academic profiles - Master of Public Policy & Management

Diane Stone, Professor of Policy and Governance

Professor Diane Stone

Professor of Policy and Governance

Professor Stone has received significant recognition and professional accolades during her 25-year career.
In 2012 she was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2012. Previously a Professor at Warwick University, Professor Stone was also Foundation Professor of Public Policy at the Central European University in Hungary. She is currently researching global public policy and transnational administration, policy networks and international philanthropy and has published six books and more than 80 chapters and scholarly articles. Her latest book is Global Agora: Knowledge Actors and Transnational Networks.

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Senior Lecturer in Policy and Governance

Dr Yvonne Haigh
Senior Lecturer in Policy and Governance

Dr Haigh has expertise in public policy and public sector management. Her current research focuses on social policy issues. Her most recent publication is Public Policy in Australia (2012). An experienced university educator, Dr Haigh worked for many years in the Western Australia (WA) public service and has ongoing connections with the sector, providing expert advice to bodies such as the WA Corruption and Crime Commission.

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Dr Janice Dudley - Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Studies

Dr Janice Dudley
Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Studies

Dr Dudley is Academic Chair of Politics and International Studies. Her research interests include Australian politics, higher education policy, environmental politics, and the European Union. Dr Dudley has run the Parliamentary and Public Sector Internship program for many years and has developed strong links with a range of external agencies. She has been recognised for her excellence in teaching with prestigious university and national awards.

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Academic profiles - Master of International Affairs

Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics

Professor Mark Beeson
Professor of International Politics

Prominent researcher, educator and former Winthrop Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Western Australia, Professor Beeson has taught at Griffith University, University of Queensland, York University (UK), and University of Birmingham, where he was head of department. His research is centered on the politics, economics and security of the broadly conceived Asia-Pacific region. Author of more than 130 journal articles and book chapters, co-editor of Contemporary Politics, and founding editor of Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific, Professor Beeson currently has two book projects in progress, one on Chinese foreign policy with Fujian Li, and an extensively updated second edition of Regionalism and Globalisation in East Asia.

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Professor Andrew Webster - Dean, Dubai Campus/Senior Lecturer Modern History

Associate Professor Andrew Webster
Dean, Dubai Campus/Senior Lecturer Modern History

Professor Webster is a leading researcher on the history of the international disarmament process and the rise and fall of the League of Nations, with a number of major publications in the field. He studied and taught at Cambridge University before joining Murdoch University in 2006, where he is an award-winning teacher of modern European history.

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Dr Jeffrey Wilson - Lecturer in Politics and International Studies

Dr Jeffrey Wilson
Lecturer in Politics and International Studies

Dr Wilson’s research and expertise focus on international political economy, the role of corporate actors in global economic governance, and international resource politics in the Asia-Pacific region. A Fellow of the Asia Research Centre, Dr Wilson has published widely on the political economy of resource security in Asia. Awarded the inaugural Boyer Prize in 2012 by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, his latest book is Governing Global Production: Resource Networks in the Asia-Pacific Steel Industry.

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Dr Ian Wilson - Lecturer in Asian Studies and Security, Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies

Dr Ian Wilson
Lecturer in Asian Studies and Security, Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies

Dr Ian Wilson ia a lecturer in Asian Studies and Security, Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies and a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Centre. His research interests focus upon Indonesian politics and society, in particular the political economy of gangs, organised crime, militias, corruption and political violence. Dr Ian Wilson also has an interest in the politics of the urban poor, the informal economy, ‘street cultures’ and the relationship between urbanisation and social and political change.

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Professor Vedi Hadiz - Professor of Asian Societies and Politics

Professor Vedi Hadiz
Professor of Asian Societies and Politics

Vedi Hadiz is Professor of Asian Societies and Politics and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.
He taught for ten years at the National University of Singapore. His current research is on State, Class and Islamic Populism and his broader research areas of expertise revolve around issues of social, economic and political change in Indonesia, South-East Asia and parts of the Middle East. Professor Hadiz’s most recent book is entitled, Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective (2010).

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Professor Dr Jurgen Brohmer - Professor of Law and Dean of the Law School

Professor Dr Jurgen Brohmer
Professor of Law and Dean of the Law School

Professor Brohmer is the Dean of Murdoch's School of Law. He has researched and published broadly in European Union law (especially the EU's common market), public international law (especially international human rights and the international law of state immunity), the European Convention on Human Rights, German constitutional and comparative law.

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Professor Garry Rodan - Professor of Politics & International Studies

Professor Garry Rodan
Professor of Politics & International Studies

Professor Rodan is an Australian Professorial Fellow (2010-2014) of the Australian Research Council and Professor of Politics and International Studies at Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre. Professor Rodan’s thematic research interest is in the relationship between capitalist development and political regime directions in South-East Asia. This includes publications on transparency and accountability reforms, and how political participation relates to public policy governance. Professor Rodan’s forthcoming book is entitled The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia.

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Academic profiles - Master of Development Studies

Kevin Hewison, Director of the Asia Rearch Centre

Professor Kevin Hewison
Director of the Asia Research Centre

After holding academic posts at universities around the globe including the Australian National University and the University of North Carolina (UNC), Professor Hewison has returned to Murdoch University. In 2012 the UNC recognised his outstanding research, creativity and teaching by awarding him the title of Weldon E. Thornton Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies. He has authored more than 190 publications on South-East Asia, democratisation, globalisation and more recently human rights. Professor Hewison is co-editor of the highly-regarded Journal of Contemporary Asia.

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Dr Jane Hutchison - Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies

Dr Jane Hutchison
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies

A political economist, Dr Hutchison has expertise in the politics of development and globalisation, and gender and development. She chairs the postgraduate program in Development Studies at Murdoch. She researches social and political change in the Philippines, specialising in labour, land and urban poverty issues. Dr Hutchison is co-authoring a book on the political economy of the aid industry in South-East Asia, due for release in 2014. She is Chair of the Oxfam Australia Board as well as a board member of Oxfam International.

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 Shahar Hameiri

Dr Shahar Hameiri
Senior Lecturer in International Politics

Dr Hameiri is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2013) and Senior Lecturer in International Politics. His research traverses the fields of security, governance, political geography and international relations. He is author of Regulating Statehood: State Building and the Transformation of the Global Order (2010), as well as of articles in leading scholarly journals including International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Studies, The Pacific Review and Political Studies.

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Dr Glenn Albrecht - Professor of Sustainability

Dr Glenn Albrecht
Professor of Sustainability

Dr Glenn Albrecht is an environmental philosopher, global pioneer of transdisciplinary thinking and creator or the concept of solastalgia. He teaches applied ethics and policy in the contexts of sustainability, climate change, animal/human relationships and regional resilience. He also incorporates into his teaching, his major research interest, the positive and negative psychological, emotional and cultural relationships people have to place and its transformation.

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Dr Rochelle Spencer - Lecturer in International Aid and Sustainable Development

Dr Rochelle Spencer
Lecturer in International Aid and Sustainable Development

My work deals broadly with issues pertaining to international development and tourism. I critically question concepts of civil society, participation, active citizenship, and capacity building. This contributes to our knowledge on assumptions about community, development, rights, and moral responsibility by exploring their importance for social change in an era of globalization.

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