
Academic profiles - Public Policy and International Affairs
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Professor Benjamin Reilly |
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Associate Professor Michael Crozier |
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Professor Ann Capling 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 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. |
Academic profiles - Master of Public Policy & Management
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Professor Diane Stone Professor of Policy and Governance Professor Stone has received significant recognition and professional accolades during her 25-year career. |
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Dr Yvonne Haigh 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 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. |
Academic profiles - Master of International Affairs
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Professor Mark Beeson 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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Associate Professor Andrew Webster 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 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 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 Vedi Hadiz is Professor of Asian Societies and Politics and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. |
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Professor Dr Jurgen Brohmer 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 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. |
Academic profiles - Master of Development Studies
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Professor Kevin Hewison 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 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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Dr Shahar Hameiri 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 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 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. |


















