International collaboration
- International research projects
- Links with overseas universities
- International teaching and consultancies
- Leadership of international organisations
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.
Links with overseas universities
The HRI holds a number of MOUs with international universities, including:
- University of Madras (Chennai, India)
- University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
- Umeå University (Sweden)
- Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany)
- Institute for Management Research/Institute for Social and Cultural Research, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
- University of Tampere (Finland)
These have resulted in collaborative research activities, in particular doctoral student and staff exchanges, joint international conference streams, edited book publications and journal articles.
- 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, Dr Marilyn Waring and Prof Martha Nussbaum.
- 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 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.
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.
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 the former Co-Chair of the International Critical Literacy
Committee, International Reading Association and the National Council of
Teachers of English, USA.