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Staff
Program Convenors
| Professor Francesca Merlan | Prof. Francesca Merlan is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts. Her research interests include social transformation, indigeneity, nationalism, language and culture; theories of social action, organisation, and consciousness; places and place-worlds; modernity.
Email: francesca.merlan@anu.edu.au |
| Dr Andrew Walker | Director of Studies, Dr. Andrew Walker is an anthropologist working in the Resource Management in Asia Pacific Progam. His research interests are in the study of modernisation and development in rural areas of Thailand and Laos. He has undertaken extensive field research on the development of
cross-border trading systems in the upper-Mekong region and on agricultural transformation in upland villages in northern Thailand. He has undertaken applied anthopological research for the World Bank, Australian government agencies and private enterprise.
Email: andrew.walker@anu.edu.au
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| Professor Jon Altman |
Prof. Jon Altman is the Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. He has a disciplinary background in economics
and anthropology. In 1990, Jon was appointed the foundation director of CAEPR. His research interests include: Sustainable economic
development and associated policy issues for Indigenous Australia; the
economic engagement of Indigenous people with the Australian and global
economies; land rights, native title and Indigenous land and resource
management; the Indigenous 'hybrid' economy that includes the customary
or non market, and theoretical issues in economic and development
anthropology.
Email: jon.altman@anu.edu.au
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Program Coordinators
| Dr Patrick Kilby
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Dr Patrick Kilby is a political scientist with the School of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts. His research interests are NGOs in both developed and developing countries; empowerment and marginalisation; gender; and managing development activities. He has twenty years experience with development NGOs and his field research has been with NGOs working with poor women in India.
Email: patrick.kilby@anu.edu.au
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| Dr Sango Mahanty |
Sango Mahanty has a background in geography, and is working as a research and teaching fellow with the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. She has undertaken teaching, research and project work on community based resource management and development in Asia and the Pacific (particularly India, the Mekong region and Solomon Islands). Her current research interests include: equity and livelihood aspects of
resource governance systems in the Asia-Pacific (most recently in forestry, but previously in island and marine environments and protected areas), and social learning processes to strengthen resource governance and community development.
Email: sango.mahanty@anu.edu.au
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Lecturers
| Dr Sinclair Dinnen | Dr Sinclair Dinnen is a lawyer and sociologist with the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project and Department of Political and Social Change. He has undertaken extensive research and policy work in the Melanesian countries. His research interests include conflict and peacemaking; cultural criminology; legal pluralism; restorative justice; and the politics of development.
Email: sinclair.dinnen@anu.edu.au
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| Dr Colin Filer | Dr. Colin Filer, is an anthropologist with the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. His research interests are social context and impact of
resource management policies and resource conservation or development projects in Melanesia.
Email: colin.filer@anu.edu.au
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| Dr Pascal Perez | Dr Pascal Perez is with the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. His Research Interests are Water management specialist. Analyses of cropping systems and evaluation of irrigation efficiency. Crop water balance modelling. Simulation of social/environmental interactions through a Multi Agent Systems approach. Expertise in Western Africa, Middle East, South East Asia (Indonesia, Thailand).
Email: pascal@coombs.anu.edu.au
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| Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt | Dr. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt's interest is primarily on South Asia, but also
Indonesia, in the area of sustaining the livelihoods of poor people in the field of environment-development. She uses field-based methods that engage with rural communities and puts emphasis on their perceptions and choices in the use of local natural resources. She actively critiques conventional gender-blind approaches to natural resource use, preferring to adopt a 'gender lens' in looking at the society and community. Her special interest are in the fields of mining and water resource management.
Email: kuntala.lahiri-dutt@anu.edu.au
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| Dr John Taylor |
John’s disciplinary background is in geography and population studies. From 1976 to 1986 he held various research and teaching positions in Botswana and Nigeria before joining the ANU's North Australia Research Unit in Darwin. He was appointed to the CAEPR in 1991. His research has focused on the measurement of demographic change among Indigenous
peoples and assessment of economic status at varying scales of analysis from the local to the regional and national. Increasingly, this also incorporates international comparison with North America and New Zealand, particularly in terms of demographic analysis. A basic argument is the need to establish key parameters of population change as the
basis for evaluating policy impacts in areas such as employment, housing, education and health. He has published widely on these issues and has collaborated with government, industry and Indigenous organisations.
Email: j.taylor@anu.edu.au
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| Dr Will Sanders |
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.
Email: william.sanders@anu.edu.au
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