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Dr Borek Puza is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Applied Statistics in the College of Business and Economics at The Australian National University, Canberra. Dr Puza completed a BSc in Mathematics in 1985 and worked at the Australian Bureau of Statistics from 1986 to 1995 in the time series and methodology areas. In 1992 he completed a Graduate Diploma in Statistics, followed by a Masters in Statistics in 1994 and a PhD in Statistics in 2001, all at ANU. Dr Puza has written around 20 peer-reviewed journal articles on various statistical topics. His current research interests include biased sampling, confidence estimation, Bayesian statistics, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, and risk analysis.
Anthony Regan is a Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University, Canberra. His main field of research is the law and politics of constitutions, conflict and reconciliation, and he has worked in Papua New Guinea, Uganda, East Timor and Solomon Islands. He was an advisor to the Bougainville Parties in the Bougainville peace process, 1997 to 2005.
A Haroon Akram-Lodhi teaches rural development economics at the Institute of Social Studes, The Hague, The Netherlands and has written on and lived in Fiji.
Gavan Breen began his working life as a metallurgist, but switched to linguistics in his early thirties to become involved in the salvage of dying Australian languages. He has spent many years recording and analysing almost-extinct (now extinct) languages in western Queensland and adjacent parts of inland Australia. He has worked with the School of Australian Linguistics, training native speakers of Australian languages in vernacular literacy, basic linguistics and other skills relevant to teaching and literature production in bilingual education, translation and interpreting, lexicography and other language-related work. He has also done substantial work on Arrernte and other living languages of Central Australia, especially in phonology, the interrelationship of kinship and grammar, and compilation of dictionaries.
Philip Taylor is Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University (ANU), and Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. He has been conducting research in the Mekong Delta since the early 1990s. He has authored and edited numerous books and scholarly articles on history, religion, ethnicity, economy, and environment in Vietnam. His latest book, The Khmer Lands of Vietnam, was co-published in 2014 by NUS Press, NIAS Press, and University of Hawaii Press. At ANU, he supervises PhD students working on Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Along with ANU Vietnam studies colleagues, he has been involved with organising the Vietnam Update series since 2003.
Stephanie Lawson is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney; Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg; and Visiting Professor at the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at The Australian National University. Among her many publications is the award-winning The failure of democratic politics in Fiji.
Tamatoa Bambridge is a research director at the French CNRS. Trained as an anthopologist, he works on land and sea tenure in Eastern Polynesia. His major focus of interest is on the interaction between state law and local norms about resource management, traditional knowledge, and marine and land tenure.
Åsa Ferrier is an Australian archaeologist with a special interest in Aboriginal–European contact history and Aboriginal archaeology of north Queensland’s tropical rainforest and savannah regions. Her research typically integrates a diverse range of data sources: archaeological evidence recovered from Aboriginal occupation sites, historical documents, survey and vegetation maps of early ethnographers, settlers and explorers, complemented with Indigenous bio-cultural knowledge. Åsa is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, and currently a collaborator on several research projects in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Dr Kirstie Close-Barry has worked as a historian in Melbourne universities since 2006. Her research has taken her from the United States of America, to Far North Queensland and out into the Pacific. Along the way she earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts, and examined colonialism in her home country, Australia. Realising that her family’s history was tangled with colonialism in the Pacific, she then decided, in her doctorate, to confront the policies they adopted while working for the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia. She continues to draw attention to Australia’s colonial past in the Pacific through her teaching and research in Australia, and the Pacific Adventist University in Papua New Guinea. Dr Close‑Barry has accepted an invitation to join State, Society & Governance in Melanesia at The Australian National University as a visiting researcher.