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Leo Dobes »
Dr Leo Dobes is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at The Australian National University.
Following a DPhil (Oxford) in East European economics, he worked for almost 30 years in Australian Public Service positions, much of it as a Senior Executive Service officer. His experience includes the diplomatic service, the Office of National Assessments, Defence, the Australian Treasury, telecommunications reform, regional programs, and a secondment to Ernst & Young. In 1992 he established an Environment Branch within the Australian Bureau of Transport Economics, publishing a series of reports on the costs and benefits of mitigating greenhouse emissions in the transport sector. He was appointed to the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council just before retiring from the Public Service in 2007.
Dr Dobes’ key areas of expertise include cost-benefit analysis, transport economics, government procurement, and adaptation to climate to change.
His key current research interests lie primarily in the following areas:
the application of ‘real options’ to policy on adaptation to climate change
Sir Sidney Kidman as a climate pioneer
the funding of adaptation to climate change, especially in cases of slow onset coastal erosion
estimation of costs and benefits in adaptation to coastal cyclones (grant from National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility)
costs and benefits of standardising Australia’s railway gauges 1900 to 1950
J. L. Fisher »
Lucy Fisher was born and schooled in South Australia. In the early 1970s she earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Social Administration at Flinders University and subsequently found employment in various community mental health positions in Canberra. She also travelled extensively during this time. On her return from overseas, Lucy enrolled at The Australian National University where she gained a Bachelor of Letters in Anthropology. In 1981 Lucy moved with her husband to live in Nairobi, Kenya, where she worked with several NGOs. Once back in Canberra, Lucy completed a Master of Arts before relocating to Lilongwe, Malawi, and then Harare, Zimbabwe. Lucy spent the 1990s employed as a lecturer and later research associate attached to the Sociology Department of the University of Zimbabwe. Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles: the decolonisation of white identity in Zimbabwe draws on material collected in these years. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from ANU in 2003 and currently lives in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.
Tran Minh Hang »
Tran Minh Hang is a researcher of the Institute of Anthropology in Ha Noi. She is interested in studying health and reproductive health. She has 20 years of applied experience researching medical anthropology, reproductive health care and the health of women, the disabled, and ethnic minorities in Viet Nam. She obtained her Masters in International Health at the University of Copenhagen and PhD in Medical Anthropology at The Australian National University. The manuscript of this book is based on her PhD research on sex‑selective abortion in Viet Nam.
Judith Bovensiepen »
Judith Bovensiepen is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent. She has been conducting fieldwork in Timor-Leste since 2005 and is the author of The Land of Gold: Post-Conflict Recovery and Cultural Revival in Independent Timor-Leste (Cornell University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on the anthropology of oil, the history of natural resource extraction and the contradictory dynamics set in motion by large‑scale development initiatives.
Alexander Cameron-Smith »
Dr Alexander Cameron-Smith is a historian whose work has focused on the relationship between medical knowledge, health practices and government across national, colonial and international spaces. His early research traced relationships between public health and tropical hygiene in Britain and Calcutta. More recently, his published work has examined networks of knowledge, personnel and public health practice in the Pacific and Asia.
Michael Kelly »
Michael Kelly is a military historian at the Australian War Memorial. He also served as a rifleman in the 8th/9th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment.
Liam Brewin Higgins »
Liam Brewin Higgins is a research assistant at the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre at ANU.
Barry Ferguson »
Barry Ferguson received a bachelor’s and then a master’s degree in economics from the University of Melbourne, the latter while teaching within the economics department. A year then spent at the University of Warwick was followed by a business career, a long period working with successive Victorian governments, a brief foray into journalism and consulting, and a recent association with the School of Business and Economics at the University of Tasmania.
craft + design enquiry »
Please note: This journal ceased publishing in 2015. craft + design enquiry is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal promoting and disseminating research excellence generated by and about the craft and design sector. craft + design enquiry investigates the contribution that contemporary craft and
Medical Student Journal of Australia »
Please note: This journal ceased publishing in 2015. The Medical Student Journal of Australia provides the medical school of The Australian National University with a platform for medical students to publish their work in a peer-reviewed journal, communicating the results of medical and health