Asia Researchers

Academics are in alphabetical order according to surname.

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Name: Professor Nick Bisley

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: China, India, Japan, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea

Research Areas: Asia's international relations; Multilateral institutions in Asia; Australian defence and foreign policy

Name: Associate Professor Adam Bourne

School: Psychology and Public Health

Countries: Malaysia, Taiwan

Research Areas: Sexual health and behaviour; Health promotion; Health inequality; LGBTI health; HIV/AIDS

Name: Professor Phoebe Chen

School: Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Countries: China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam

Research Areas: Bioinformatics; Biomedical applications; Computational biology; Data mining and knowledge discovery; Emerging information technology; Multimedia and game technologies; Scientific visualisation

Name: Dr Bradley Christian

School: Rural Health

Countries: India, Timor-Leste

Research Areas: Children's oral health, particularly in orphanages (India) and schools (Timor-Leste)

Name: Dr Susan Chong

School: Psychology and Public Health

Countries: Malaysia

Research Areas: Community systems strengthening; HIV policy and advocacy; HIV treatment cascade; Treatment seeking behaviour of people living with HIV

Name: Dr Gary Clark

School: Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment

Countries: India, Myanmar/Burma

Research Areas: Soil structure and land use

Name: Dr Maria Elander

School: Law

Countries: Cambodia

Research Areas: International criminal justice; Victim representation; Gender and sex in relation to crimes; the Khmer Rouge; the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)

Name: Associate Professor Tracy Fortune

School: Allied Health, Human Services and Sport

Countries: Bangladesh, Vietnam

Research Areas: Education for global citizenship; Professional identity; Internationalisation of the curriculum; Occupational therapy

Name: Dr Ruth Gamble

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: Bhutan, China, India, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan

Research Areas: History, religion, culture, languages and environment of the Himalaya

Name: Dr Lauren Gawne

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: Nepal and the Himalayan region more generally

Research Areas: Linguistics; Tibeto-Burman languages; Critical approaches to language documentation

Name: Dr Sabrina Gupta

School: Psychology and Public Health

Countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Research Areas: Type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease in South Asian populations

Name: Dr Benjamin Habib

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: China, North Korea, South Korea

Research Areas: The intersections between grassroots sustainability and regeneration projects, environmental movements and international climate politics

Name: Dr Mofi Islam

School: Psychology and Public Health

Countries: Bangladesh

Research Areas: Substance use; Maternal and child health, Health services research

Name: Dr Jason Jiang

School: Psychology and Public Health

Countries: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

Research Areas: Public health policy and harm reduction; Alcohol and drug use and abuse in China; Health economics

Name: Associate Professor Emi Kashima

School: Psychology and Public Health

Countries: Japan

Research Areas: Cross-cultural studies on social psychology (especially East-West differences); Acculturation and cultural change

Name: Professor James Leibold

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Research Areas: Ethnicity, race and national identity in modern Chinese history and society; Ethnic policies and conflict in contemporary China (Uyghur and Tibetan communities in particular); China's frontier regions; Chinese politics; China's international relations; Australia-China relations

Name: Professor George Liu

School: Psychology and Public Health

Countries: China

Research Areas: Primary healthcare system development; Safety and quality of healthcare; Health information systems; Social support and equality in health services and health outcomes in China

Name: Professor Lisa McKenna

School: Nursing and Midwifery

Countries: Indonesia

Research Areas: Community health and wellbeing in rural Indonesia; Professional development needs of nurses and clinical supervision experiences of nursing students in Indonesia

Name: Dr Stephen Morey

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: India, Myanmar/Burma

Research Areas: Linguistics; Minority languages of the India-Myanmar border (Tai, Singpho and Tangsa); Traditional songs

Name: Dr Richard Peters

School: Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment

Countries: China

Research Areas: Animal behaviour; Behavioural ecology; Behavioural studies of lizards (genus Phrynocephalus - commonly known as toad head agamas) in China

Name: Dr Gerald Roche

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: China

Research Areas: The politics of language endangerment and revitalisation, with a regional focus on Tibet

Name: Associate Professor Kerstin Steiner

School: Law

Countries: Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore

Research Areas: Southeast Asian legal studies - particularly at the intersection of law, politics, economics and society (especially with regard to Islam)

Name: Associate Professor Bec Strating

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, South East Asia

Research Areas: Australian foreign policy; Southeast Asian politics and international relations; Maritime disputes in the Asia-Pacific

Name: Dr Keir Strickland

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries:  India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Research Areas: The transformation and collapse of complex societies in Asia, with a particular focus on early historic and classical South Asia; Archaeology of Buddhism; Archaeology of water management

Name: Paul Strickland

School: Business

Countries:  Bhutan

Research Areas: Hotel and tourism management education in Bhutan; Sustainable hospitality and tourism

Name: Dr Dirk Tomsa

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: Indonesia

Research Areas: Indonesian politics and society; Democratisation studies; Political Islam in Asia; Comparative Southeast Asian politics, especially elections and party politics

Name: Dr Jasmine Westendorf

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: Cambodia, Nepal, Timor-Leste

Research Areas:  Civil wars, Negotiated peace processes; International approaches to peacebuilding; The politics of international law and international organisations; The role of women in peace and war

Name: Dr Kayli Wild

School: Nursing and Midwifery

Countries: Timor-Leste

Research Areas: Reproductive health; Gender and social change, with a specific focus on Timor-Leste, the Pacific and with Australian Aboriginal communities

Name: Associate Professor Raelene Wilding

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries: China, India, Myanmar/Burma, Thailand

Research Areas: People's experiences at the intersections of migration, families, intimacies and new technologies - particularly of Chinese, Indian, Burmese and Thai diaspora populations residing in Australia

Name: Dr Brooke Wilmsen

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Countries:  China

Research Areas: Development-forced displacement and resettlement with a focus on the Three Gorges Dam in China