Nicole Haley, BA (UQ), BA(Hons) (Macquarie University), PhD (ANU)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, RSPAS

Email: nicole.haley@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

I have extensive research and consultancy experience, having undertaken long-term and short-term ethnographic research, both academic and applied, in Melanesia over the past 15 years. This has involved over 44 months field based research in the troubled Southern Highlands and Enga Provinces, Port Moresby and most recently in the Solomon Islands. My research to date has focused on aspects of political and social conflict including social identity and contemporary land politics, social identity and electoral politics, conflict and armed violence, gender and HIV/AIDS and the links between these and service delivery failure. In addition to my academic research I have undertaken extensive applied social research - much of which has involved undertaking baseline and community survey work, as well as social mapping and program monitoring. This research has seen me engaged in various advisory and consultative capacities.

Publications under preparation include a monograph entitled Conflict, Resource Development and Contemporary Land Politics in the Southern Highlands, which is based on my PhD research and subsequent scholarship, and a series of papers concerning HIV/AIDS, violence and contemporary masculinity as well as a paper on electoral politics and local political cultures in PNG

Research Interests

Contemporary Land Politics; Elections and Electoral Politics in PNG; Social Identity; Governance; Conflict and Armed Violence; Peace Building; Small Arms; Human Security; Security and Development; Women and Conflict; Gender; HIV/AIDS; and Contemporary Masculinity in Melanesia.

Key Publications

• With R. May (eds). Forthcoming. Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
• With R. Muggah. 2006. "Jumping the Gun: armed violence in Papua New Guinea". In Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp164-187.
• With R. Muggah. 2006. "Jumping the Gun? Reflections on armed violence in Papua New Guinea". African Security Review 15(2):38-56.
• 2004. "A Failed Election: the Case of the Koroba-Lake Kopiago Open Electorate". In Politicking and Voting in the Highlands: The 2002 Papua New Guinea National Elections. P. Gibbs, N. Haley and A. McLeod, pp. 16-26. SSGM Discussion Paper 2004/1. Canberra: SSGM, The ANU.
• 2002. "Election Fraud on a Grand Scale: The Case of the Koroba-Kopiago Open Electorate". In Maintaining Democracy: The 1997 Elections in Papua New Guinea. R. May, ed. pp. 123-139. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press in conjunction with SSGM, The ANU.
• 2001. "Impact of the 1997 drought in the Hewa area of the Southern Highlands Province". In Food Security in Papua New Guinea. R.M. Bourke, M.G. Allen and J.G. Salisbury eds., pp. 168-189. Canberra: ACIAR.
• 1996. "Revisioning the Past, Remembering the Future: Duna Accounts of the World's End". Oceania, 60(4):278-285.

Career Highlights

I was awarded the 2002 ANU Crawford Prize for Academic Excellence for my doctoral thesis entitled Ipakana Yakaiya: Mapping Landscapes, Mapping Lives - Contemporary Land Politics among the Duna.