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Dr Wills is Director International Alumni at the University of Canberra: he holds a Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies from CCAE, and a Masters Degree in Public Administration and PhD in Public Sector Management from UC.
Jules served 23 years in the Royal Australian Air Force and 13 years in the Australian Public Service before moving fulltime to UC in 2000.
During several years as a UC Senior Lecturer in business and government, he served as Director of the Center for Research in Public Sector Management and Academic Director of the National Institute for Governance. He was also Convenor of the Command, Leadership and Management and RAN MBA programs for the Australian Command and Staff Course, Australian Defence College at Weston, ACT, and Convenor of the Doctorate in Business Administration.
In 2003, he founded the China Management Studies Unit and became the Director, Professional Management Programs in 2004 where he revamped the PMP programs, expanded its APS operations and developed a comprehensive network of international training connections.
He was appointed Director of the newly combined Marketing and International group in November 2007 and up to March 2011 in this role was responsible for domestic and international marketing and recruiting, brand and publishing, centralised management of transnational education for UC and coordinating international training at UC and overseas.
Jules became Director International Alumni in 2011.
John Halligan is a Research Professor of Government and Public Administration, School of Business and Government, University of Canberra, Australia.
His research interests are comparative public management and governance, specifically public sector reform, performance management and government institutions. He specialises in the Anglophone countries of Australia and New Zealand, and for comparative purposes, Canada and the United Kingdom. Current studies are Corporate Governance in the Public Sector, Performance Management, and a comparative analysis of public management.
John Halligan’s recent co-authored books are Managing Performance: International Comparisons, Routledge, London, 2007; and Parliament in the 21st Century, Melbourne University Press, 2007.
Amanda Harris is Research Associate on the Project Intercultural inquiry in a trans-national context: Exploring the legacy of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Based at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, her research focuses on the intersections of gender, music and history, especially Australian cross-cultural history.
Dr Sinclair Dinnen was appointed as a Post Doctoral Fellow when SSGM commenced in 1996. He is currently a Senior Fellow. Sinclair has qualifications in law and criminology and has lectured at the Law Faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea and been a researcher at the Papua New Guinea National Research Institute. His doctoral research undertaken in Port Moresby and parts of the Highlands was published as Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea (2001). He has longstanding research interests in legal pluralism, crime, conflict and peacebuilding with particular reference to the Melanesian Pacific countries. Sinclair is a contributing author to Pillars and Shadows: Statebuilding as Peacebuilding in Solomon Islands (with John Braithwaite, Matthew Allen, Valerie Braithwaite and Hilary Charlesworth, 2010). His edited books include Reflections on Violence in Melanesia (with Alison Ley, 2000); A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands (with Anita Jowett and Tess Newton, 2003); Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands (with Stewart Firth, 2008) and Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea (with Vicki Luker, 2010). He recently co-authored (with Doug Porter and Caroline Sage) a background paper on Conflict in Melanesia: Themes and Lessons for the World Development Report 2011. His present research looks at issues of state-building and nation-building, aid policy, informal justice and policing in Melanesia. Sinclair has also engaged in extensive policy work in the areas of law and justice, policing and conflict analysis for a range of non-government, government and international organisations including AusAID, World Bank, UNDP and UNICEF.
Pascal is currently an Associated Professor at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. Pascal is a specialist in Integrative Social Simulation, using Multi-Agent Systems technologies to explore complex and adaptive systems.
Ann Curthoys is an ARC Professorial Fellow in the History Department at the University of Sydney. She has written on a wide variety of topics in Australian history, including Indigenous history, Chinese immigration, women and work, television and journalism. She also writes on questions of historical theory and method. In addition to the two edited collections she has published with ANU Press (with Marilyn Lake, Connected Worlds, 2006), and (with Frances Peters-Little and John Docker, Passionate Histories, 2010), she is the author of Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers (2002); (with John Docker) Is History Fiction? 2005, rev. ed. 2010); (with Ann Genovese and Alexander Reilly, Rights and Redemption: History, Law, and Indigenous People, 2008); and (with Ann McGrath), How to Write History that People Want to Read (2009). Her current project, entitled Taking Liberty, is a study of the relationship between the granting of responsible government on the one hand, and Indigenous governance and resistance on the other, in the Australian colonies.
Professor Marilyn Lake was awarded a Personal Chair in History at La Trobe University in 1994. Since that time she has also held Visiting Professorial Fellowships at Stockholm University, the University of Western Australia, The Australian National University and the University of Sydney. Between 2001 and 2002, she held the Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University. In 2004, she was awarded a five year ARC Professorial Research Fellowship and in 2008, a Research Fellowship at the Australian Prime Ministers Centre in Canberra.
She has published 12 books and numerous articles and book chapters in Australian and international anthologies, on subjects ranging from labour history to land settlement, sexuality and citizenship, gender and nationalism, feminism and the politics of anti-racism. She has a particular interest in the class, gender and racial dimensions of political history understood in both national and transnational frames of analysis. She has spoken on invitation to symposia and historical conferences in Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Professor Lake is a Fellow of both the Academies of Social Sciences and Humanities, of which she is also a member of Council and International Secretary. She is Vice-President of the Australian Historical Association, a member of the Board of the Victorian Women’s Trust and a Board member of the Sullivan’s Cove Waterfront Authority in Hobart, where she grew up.
Jan Oosthoek is an environmental historian based in Brisbane. For many years he has taught and researched at the Universities of Newcastle (UK) and Edinburgh. The research interests of Jan Oosthoek cover a wide range of topics within the field of Environmental history, including landscape history, the historical geography of forestry and land use and environmental globalization. In addition he is interested in the impact of environmental change on past human societies and how people responded to these changes. He has also served as vice president of the European Society for Environmental History (2005-2007) and is author of the leading environmental history website Environmental History Resources. Jan Oosthoek also produces a podcast entitled Exploring Environmental History.
Michelle Antoinette is a researcher of modern and contemporary Asian art, currently affiliated with the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at The Australian National University (ANU). She was recently an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow (2010–2013) and she has been convenor and lecturer at ANU for courses on Asian and Pacific art and museums. Her ARC project, ‘The Rise of New Cultural Networks in Asia in the Twenty-First Century’ (DP1096041), together with Caroline Turner, explored the emergence of new regional and international networks of contemporary Asian art and museums. Her ongoing research focuses on the contemporary art histories of South-East Asia on which she has published widely including her book, Reworlding Art History: Encounters with Contemporary Southeast Asian Art after 1990 (2014).
Will Sanders is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at The Australian National University.
Will joined CAEPR as a Research Fellow in 1993 and was appointed as Fellow in 1999 and Senior Fellow in 2007. His undergraduate training was in government, public administration, and political science, and his PhD was on the inclusion of Aboriginal people in the social security system. Will’s research interests cover the political and social aspects of Indigenous policy, as well the economic. He regularly works on Indigenous people’s participation in elections, on housing and social security policy issues, including the Community Development Employment Projects scheme, and on federal and intergovernmental aspects of Indigenous affairs policy.