International collaboration
International research projects
- Rhonda Sharp, Youth- and gender-sensitive public expenditure
management in the Pacific, Asian Development Bank in collaboration with
the governments of Samoa and the Marshall Islands.
- Gerry Bloustien, Margaret Peters and Sarah Baker, Playing for life:
the everyday music practices of marginalised youth as strategic pathways to
agency, employment and socio-economic inclusion, ARC Discovery–Project
with Dr Bruce Cohen and Professor Hartmut Haeussermann (Humboldt
University), Professor Henry Jenkins III (MIT), Assoc Prof Tommy DeFrantz
(MIT), Dr Andy Bennett (University of Surrey), Prof David Buckingham
(University of London), Professor Shirley Brice-Heath (Watson Institute,
Brown University/Stamford University, USA).
- Rob Hattam, Rethinking reconciliation and pedagogy in unsettling times,
ARC Discovery–Project with Professor Hilary Janks (University of
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) and Prof Pal Ahluwalia.
- Margaret Brown, Integrated end-of-life care: a Health Canada synthesis
research project, with a team of Canadian researchers led by Dr Donna
Wilson, University of Alberta.
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Links with overseas universities
- The Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies has signed Memoranda of Understanding with
University of Madras, Chennai, India; University of Jyväskylä, Finland; and Umeå University, Sweden.
- HRISS has conducted staff and postgraduate student
exchanges with Madras University, Chennai, India (HRISS participants have
been Alison Mackinnon, Adrian Vicary and Frank Tesoriero) and Umeå
University, Sweden.
- HRISS and its constituent groups have hosted many
senior international researchers including: Prof James Galbraith, Prof Mary
Margaret Fonow, Prof Michael Apple, Prof Erik Olin Wright and Prof Oliver
Clarke, Professor Meaghan Morris, Professor Claus Offe and Dr Marilyn
Waring.
- HRISS groups have hosted (and co-hosted) large
international conferences on a variety of themes – for example, the Asia
Pacific Mediation Forum on Reconciliation: Conversations Beyond Cultural
Boundaries (29 November–1 December 2001) and the conference Sonic
Synergies, Creative Cultures (17–22 July 2003) on the complex
interconnections of media, popular culture and identities in contemporary
societies.
- Pam Ryan is the founder and managing director of
Issues Deliberation Australia/Issues
Deliberation America, which works with UniSA, ANU and the University of
Texas to conduct deliberative polls and other public consultations. She
recently convened the International Assembly on Managing the Psychology of
Fear and Terror in Austin, Texas in August 2004.
- Alison Mackinnon was appointed by the Swedish Research Council to the
Kerstin Hesselgren Guest Professorship, Feb–July 2002. She was awarded an
honorary doctorate by the University of Umeå, Sweden on 18 November 2000.
She was invited to be the Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, British
Columbia for 2004.
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International teaching and consultancies
- The Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures has
offshore PhD and EdD programs in Canada.
- Prof Rhonda Sharp has been a consultant on gender-sensitive budgets and equity
in public expenditure management to the governments of Canada, Norway, Fiji, the
Basque region in Spain and South Australia, and UNDP, UNIFEM, Asian
Development Bank Institute, Commonwealth Secretariat and the Swedish
Institute for Development Aid.
- Assoc Prof Suzanne Franzway is a founding member of UNESCO's Women's
Studies and Gender Research Network. She also participated in UNESCO's
Roundtable on Women, Socioeconomic Rights and Trade Union Decision
Making in July 2006.
- Assoc Prof Dale Bagshaw has developed mediation and trained
mediators in Great Britain, the USA, Sweden, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Germany, Austria, South Africa, China, India and many Pacific Island
nations. She has provided mediation training for judges and
senior bureaucrats in Malaysia on several occasions.
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Leadership of international organisations
- Dale Bagshaw was the President of the World Mediation Forum, 2001–2003
and she has been the Vice-President since then. She is the founding President of the Asia-Pacific
Mediation Forum, 2001–.
- Rhonda Sharp was President, International Association for Feminist
Economics, 2001.
- Alison Mackinnon was President, Australian and New Zealand History of
Education Society, 1997–98
- Barbara Comber is Co-Chair of the International Critical Literacy
Committee, International Reading Association and the National Council of
Teachers of English, USA.
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